The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-10-14
BRYAN RENEWS ATTACKS.
AGAIN DENOUNCES ROOSEVELTS
PARTICIPATION IN CAM.
PAiGN.

DemOcratc Party Stands for Fair
Treatment OF Working People
Ridicules Taft.
Galesburg, ILL.,, Oct. 9.-Standing
on the same platform from which
Mr.. Taft, his Republican opponent,
only few days ago delivered an ad-
dress, w. J. Bryan today denounced
President Roosevelt once again for
participating in the campaign in be-
half Of Mr.. Taft, asserted that Mr..
Taft could give no promise Of real
reform and attacked the Republican
party generally for, as he charged, it's
injustice to the laboring man and the
people generally.
When the special 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, Jus
tice," and hinged His preliminary re-
marks on quotation from Plutarch
that Men entertain three sentiments
concerning the gods-they fear them
for their power admire them for their
wisdom and love them for their JUS
tice."
Referring to Mr.. Taft's visit, Mr..
Eryan remarked.
1T is no new thing for you to see
the next president, for having seen
my opponent, Mr.. Taft and now see
ing me. you are certain that you have
seen the next president, although
Leither of us is as certain as we
would like to be which one it is.
And here, too, you saw, those of you
who 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 saving
that the records of time give no par
allel to the great series of debates be-
tween Lincoln and Douglas"
Mr. Bryan said that Justice had
been his theme 2S years ago, and ius-
tice was his theme today. He said he
would try to show how, on several
diherent questions. the Democratic
party was appealing for justice. He
then spoke concerning publicity Of
campaign contributions before elec-
ton and ridiculed Mr.. Taft for ex-
pressing personal inclination" to-
ward that proposition and not COM
ing out squarely for it. The crowd
was moved to cheers when he declar-
ed that the Democratic party insisted
Upon justice to those who toll.
Workman Not a Machine. a
THE Republican party" he said.
has allowed the lobbyists of great
corporations to stife labor legxsla.
tion," and he informed his hearers
that "the Democratic party was to
handle the laboring man as human
being and not as mere piece of mer-
chandise."
I'VE are not willing" he said, "thas
man made in the irnage Of his Crea-
tor, with heart ard brain and soul.
shall be degraded 20 the level OF dol
lars and cents That great statesman
who engaged in debate in this place
in 1858, Abraham Lincoln, a year/af
ter he spoke here, wrote a letter 10
some people in Boston and in that let
ter he said that the Republicans be-
lieved in the man and the dollar. but
that in case Of conflict il believed In
the man before the dollar" Mr.. BRYAN
an said that the Democrats believed
that that was the proper relation be-
tween money and men.
He then dwelt at some length in
support Of the proposition to grant
trials by jury in cases of direct con-
tempt. Mr. Bryan made fun of tho
Republican platform. basing his re-
marks principally on the recent edi.
torial In the Omaha Bee, which cr;ri-.
cised a part Of the Republican ,tarifr
plank under the supposition that IL
was an extract from some speech of
his. "Why, my friends" he said ct
used to buy books on humor when
ever wanted to read something fun-
ny, but now I read the Republican
platforms and save money. The fun-
niest platform 1 ever read was the
one adopted at Chicago and the nm
NEST plank In it is the tariff plank"
AS he had done several times he.
fore today, Mr.. Bryan announced him
seir as "the advance agent of pros.
perity' and bitterly assailed the pres.
ident and Mr.. Taft, as a member of
ms CABINET for the panic OF 1907 He