The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-08
LABOR DAY,
 BRYAN DAY Remarkable Ovation to
 Candidate. W0RKINGMEN ENTHUSIASTIC Democratic Leader Speaks Three
 Times in Chicago. rhousands of Threats Cheer for Our sNext President.-Ceiebration of
 the Occasion h the other

Chicago, Sept 7.-organized Labor Day today paid tribute to W. J. Bryan. Although 1t was Labor Day 1t soon became manifest that the workers had surrendered their privilege and made 1t Bryan Day.
 Within an hour after his arrival In the city the Democratic candidate for President. standing on the balcony of the Auditorium Hotel. received the plaudits of thousands of toilers as they marched by in the monstor labor parade. The air was rent with cheers and the enthusiasm was unbounded. Not infrequently the workers halted before the Presidential candidate, doff- ed their caps and gave three cheers ''For our next President" Many oth- CTS more familiarity addressed him as "Bill. and William" A mighty shout went up when he reached out his hand and caught a cigar makers union badge which one of that body threw to him from the street.
 The pleasure which the ovation af- forded Mir. Bryan was undisguised. He smiled continually, bowed and clapped his hands always giving the women in the parade an equal share of ap- piauee.
 So insistent for a speech was the crowd in front of the hotel that Mir. Bryan yielded
 Tn the course of brief address he paid tribute to labor and. said he believed in the observance of Labor Day because he thought Eve all ought to strive to assist in dignifying in every possible way the-honest totl upon which our nation properly. rests"
 But this was only one feature of the visit of the Democratic candidate. Fol- lowing the parade he was whisked away in an automobile to the Iroquois Club in company with and followed by many labor leaders- There luncheon was served and he made a short speech.
 Speaks. tp, Thousands. ..e z Luncheon concluded. MT. Bryan was conducted 10 Forest Park, several miles away, where he was schedli1ed to de- liver Labor Day address. There a multitude awaited his coming. As he neared the park. word was passed around and he got another ovation as lie came In sight. So eager was the crowd to catch a glimpse of and to hear him that they got beyond the con trol of the police who were fairly swept off their feet. MT. Bryan him. self had to struggle to make headway to the pavilion.
 Without any preliminaries. President John Fitzpatrick, of the Chicago Fed-
  who. because of the cheers he received stood for several minutes at the front of the pavilion before he began his speech on the abuse of the injunction sn labor disputes.
 The speech was practically dupli- eated at Brands Park an hour after ward, where the electrical workers we're holding forth.
 From the moment the Presidential candidate arrived here until he retired for the night he was in charge of the labor leaders
 The first cheers he received were at the railroad station where he was met by Colonel John L Martin, ser- geant at arms, members of the Ma tional Democratic Committee and rep resentatives of labor organizationsA
 Every move of Mir. Bryan from Nhe station until he entered the hotel sSV- eral blocks distant was recorded by&a moving picture machine carried by Nh automobile, which preceded the BryAla carriage. The picture, it is understoo4 will be used in the campaign in con- nection with the photographic records of Mir. Bryan's speeches.
 Following a dinner at the home of Frank Buchanan. President of the Iron Workers Union. Mir. Bryan pro- ceeded to Kings Restaurant. where, at 10 o'clock tonight. he attended an in- formal luncheon given by the Injunc> tion Reform League.
 The luncheon furnished the oppor- tuntty for MT. Bryan and Samuel ~Gompers President of the American Federation of Labor to meet. MT. Com pers having arrived on a late train from Danville. III.
 Hearst Makes Speech.
 Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 7.-willtam R. Hearst delivered an address fin this city at Labor Day celebration. MT. Hearst said in part:
 'T intend to talk politics. because we are all thinking politics at this time. but l do not intend to make a political or a partisan speech.
 When I first urged labor unions to go into politics. Mfr. Gompers disagreed with me and declared that labor unions ought to keep out of politics.
 Now Mir. Gompers agrees with me that labor unions ought to go into politics, but don't agree with him on the way labor unions ought to go Into politics, and inasmuch as he was wrong and I was right before. may be he Is wrong now and I am right now. MT. Gompers thinks that the right way is for all labor unions to lay their votes in his basket like a lot of good. dutiful political hens. and then for him to take his basket to market and peddle the contents to the Repub-- lican party or to the Democratic party.
 ''The objections to this plan are many and they are convincing and conclusive.
 First you can not afford to repose so much power with any man or set of men. There is a distinct danger that the contents of the basket would be peddled more for the benefit of the owner of the basket than for the ad- vantage of the honest. trustfuI layers of the votes. There would be compe- tition for the contents of the basket of a kind that would debauch and de- stroy your organization without bene- fitting the humber members.
 second. You would never be har- monious in your ideas of how votes should be delivered You would be di- vided by differences of opinion. You would be disrupted by dispensions.
 Third You would get little or no result from such a system. for the men elected would be primarily Demo- crats or Republicans. They would be your friends before election. but would forget all about you after election.