The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-10
Speech on Justice.

Galesburg. Ills, October 9.-Standing on the same platform from which MT. Taft, his republican opponent, only few days ago delivered an address, w. J. Bryan to- day denounced President Roosevelt once again for participating in the campaign in behalf of MT. Taft; asserted that MT. Taft could give no promise of real reform, and attacked the republican party gen. orally, for as he charged, its injustice to the laboring man and the people gen. orally.
 When the special train bearing the pres idential candidate arrived a great crowd cheered him vociferously and at Knox college, where the platform was erected, he faced one of the largest audiences that ever assembled here. He took for his theme "Justice," and hinged his prelin- mary remarks on a quotation from Plu- tarch that .men entertain three senti- ments concerning the gods; they fear them for their power, admire them for their wisdom and love them for their ' justice.'
 Referring to MT. Taft, MT. Bryan re- marked:
 ''It is no new thing for you to see the next President, for having seen my oppo- nent. MT Taft, and now seeing me, you are certain you have seen the next Presi- dent, although neither of us is as certain as we would like to be which one it is.
 
 lived at that time, two men who were pitted against each other in one of the most bitter contests that has been known in the history of the world, for I think | am safe in saying that the records of time give no parallel to the great series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas"
 Justice the Theme.
 MT. Bryan said that justice had been his theme 2S years ago, and justice was his theme today.
 He said he would try to show how on several different questions the democrats were appealing for justice. He then spoke concerning publicity of campaign contributions before election, and ridi- culed MT. Taft for expressing personal inclination toward that proposition, and not coming out squarely for it. The crowd was moved to cheers when he declared that the democratic party insisted upon justice to those who toi
 ''The republican party" he said, ''has allowed the lobbyists of great corporate interests to stifie labor Legislation and he informed his hearers that the demo- cratic party's remedy was to handle the laboring man as human being and not as a mere piece of merchandise.
 We are not willing he said, that Il man made in the image of his creator. with heart and brain and soul, shall be 
 That great statesman who was engaged in debate in this place in 1S58 Abraham Lincoln, a year after he spoke here, wrote letter to some people in Boston, and in that letter he said that the republican, party believed in the man and the dol lar, but that in case of conflict is believed in man before the dollar
 MT. Bryan said that the democrats be- lieved that that was the proper relation between money and men.
 Trials by Jury.
 He then dwelt at some length in sup port of the proposition to grant trials by jury in cases of direct contempt. MT. Bryan made fun of the republican plat form, basng his remarks principally upon the recent editorial In the Omaha Bee, which criticised part of the republican tariff plank, under the suppostion that If was an extract from some speech of Is. "Why, my friends" he said, T used buy. books on humor whenever wanted