The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17

his stomach even the Taggarts and the Roger Sullivans of politics.
 He is the world renowned loose man, who can reverse himself in his own integument so that you can not tell whether he is coming or going.
 MT. Bryan has made public ac- cusation that I am trying to elect MT. Taft in this campaign.
 That is not true.
 With the enthusiasm built on the belief that l have found honest lead CTS at last, l am trying to elect Thomas L. Hisgen and John Temple Graves.
 I am working for these men with all my strength, harder than I ever worked for myself. as hard as l once worked for Mir. Bryan.
 Mr. Bryan alleges that l am angry at him because he did not support me for the presidency at St. Louis four years ago.
 That is not true.
 I have always said of MT. Bryan that he had as much right not to support me as I had to support him.
 Indeed, if Mir. Bryan sincerely thought that I was not the most fit
  was his duty te oppose me.
 MT. Bryan says that the independ- ence party is a party of pique and that it was created to destroy him. That is not true.
 That is so ridiculous and so absurdly false that it reminds me of an incl dent that occurred among the Apache Indians of New Mexico.
 Geronimo was their chief, and the Indians used to break from the res ervation and kill the settlers and an occasional government agent.
 Finally their arms were taken from them.
 Then, after period of peace, Geron- imo and a band of chiefs appeared before the agent
 Geronimo demanded the guns.
 He said the Indians wanted to go hunting.
 The agent said: Indians can have no gun Indians want gun to kill agent with"
 Geronimo scornfully replied: "Ihjun want gun for big game, kill agent with club'
 My friends, the independence party was formed for larger things. If we had been so small as to wish only to destroy MT. Bryan we could have done that with campaign club.
 The independence party was founded to restore true democratic government, true republican government, true American government.
 It was founded to take the govern ment out of the hands of political ma chimes and corrupt bosses, and the privileged interests that control the political machines and own the cor rupt bosses.
 It was founded to repose the power of government once more in the hands of the majority and to be exercised impartially for the benefit of the whole community.
 The first step toward the founda- ton of the independence party was taken when Jefferson wrote the Dec laration of Independence and held forth the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all.
 The second step was taken when Jefferson founded the original demo- cratic-republiean party, to insure equal rights to all and special privileges to none.
 The third step was taken when this party of Jefferson's had forgotten his principles and when Andrew Jackson laid the fouAdation of the democratic party proper by his fight against pred atory wealth and privilege.
 The fourth step was taken when this degenerate democratic party declared the self-evident truths of the Declara- ton of Independence to be self-evident lies and when Lincoln, following in Jefferson's footsteps and asserting that milton and axioms of free society,