The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-28
MAKES SPEECH FROM A TRUCK Bryan Talks to Des
 Moines Citizens. REFORMS OF IOWA STATE Points Out Planks in Democratic
 Platform as a Relief. Several Hundred Person. Were Cath cred in the Railroad Yard to
 Hear the speech and Cheered
 Every Utterance.
REFORMS OF IOWA STATE

Des Moines, Iowa, July 27.-Standing on a truck in the railroad yard and surrounded by several hundred per- sons who cheered his almost every utterance, ". J. Bryan on his arrival here to-day on his way to Omaha, de- hvered a speech in which he once again upheld the Denver platform and declared that the reforms for which Iowa was contending. were specificai- ly set forth in that instrument. He said:
 T hope I may be able to get to Des Moines during the campaign and speak to you at length. am not sure just how many speeches will make but I wouldn't have the cam paign so through without having a chance to talk to the people of this city who I believe are vitally inter ested in the reforms which have been outlined in our platform. Iowa IS somewhat Of a pioneer in the matter of reforms and there Is no reform for which the people of Iowa have been contending that is not specifically and emphatically set forth in the Denver platform. Iowa has been welded 10 the doctrine of electing Senators by the direct vote of the people.
 "Your Governor has taken an active part in the promulgation of that idea
  on that subject must have been mor- tified when the proposition was turn ed down in the Republican convention by a majority of more than to l and they must have been delighted when 1t was turned up in tho Denver convention by a unanimous vote Your Republicans as we'll as the Demo- crats in Iowa. have been reaching the conclusion that the tarin is too high and they will not get much satlsfac- ton out Of the Republican platform which spends more time and employs more words cautiontng you against going too far on the tarif reform, than it does in urging the party to act at all in that direction. remember visiting Iowa sixteen years ago and heard a Republican make speech in favor of a Republican tarifE That was before the Republicans Of Iowa began tu study thc subiect and I can recall the impression made upon me not merely by the speech but by its reception by the Republicans present when the speaker declared that the Republican party put the tarin on wool for the benefit of the Republi- can farmer in order to raise the price of wool and those Republican farmers raised their cornstalk canes and hur- rahed for the tariff on wool to raise its price, and when a little later the speaker explained that the Republican party had put the tarir on woolen goods in order to lower the price of woolen goods, the same Republican farmers raised the same cornstalk canes and gave the same yell in favor of the tariff on the manufactures product to lower its price. They thought they had found tariff that could be put on the raw material and raise the price of material and they could put the same tariff on the woolen goods and lower the price Of those woolen goods.
 "I wish I had the time to go over the platform but there are so many good Democrats in the State of Iowa who are able to explain and defend that platform that 1t is not necessary for me to speak at length and am glad that you have a man like Fred White to so forcibly give expression to all the Democratic aspirations or the Democratic heart"