The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-17
FINAL RALLY
 FOR JOHNSON Speakers Plead Again
 For Sanity. JOHNSON HERALDED A VICTOR Enthusiasm Runs High at End of
 Campaign. Speakers Miller, Brown and stromme Made Stirring Talks at The Grand, Urging All to Break From
 Charm of Bryan's
 

The wtnd-up of the John A. Johnson last nlsht in The Grand Theatre. As 1 more than a week before the speakers 1 warned against the nomination or Bryan for the Democratic Presidential candidate. so the speakers last night urged against this course. Instead or Bryan as the party standard bearer. Governor Johnson. of Minnesota. was 1 placed before the hearers in emphatic ] tones, @
 The speaking marked the close of the Johnson campaign in this. city. s.a.evly a- fortnight old, yet-the enthu- siasm has increased with remarkable speed and the friends of the Minnesota man are making all sorts Of predict ! ions about what the Democracy of Ala bama will record at the polls tomorrow. One of these predictions Is that the 'doer of things" from Minnesota. and the winner of victories" will carry l the State tomorrow against Bryan. l Another forecast is that Johnson will be nominated at Denver, and finally there Is a strong belief in che breasts or many old line Democrats that the next | President of the United states will hall from the great Northwest.
 And one hearing the earnest discus | sIons of last evening. the unlmpa ssion- 1 ed statement of facts, free from attacks on the Nebraskan and likewise from fulsome praise of Johnson, could not l separate the predictions just mentioned | from the sentiment of these oralors and that of the audience.
 The refreshing part of the evening | was again the address of Hon.. P. O l Stromme, of Minnesota, who has been l close to Governor Johnson and Is . Min nesota Democrat Mir. Stromme was not made hit here over a week ago by | his unique talents At intervals through his speech, as yves as in the 1 opening. Mir. Stromme professed to be tired. Those who have kept up with his whirlwind campaign of the past I few days, were prepared to take him at his word, but Mr. Stronime did not show that fatigue one would expect | of less ardent supporter of John A. 1 Johnson.
 Besides MT. stromme. there were J. roMn of Mho s4a known for their loyalty to the party they represented, injected new ardor in- words rang with intensity for the nomination of the man, who.' they claimed. would surpass Bryan as leader of the Democratic hosts next stromme EntertaininR.
 | Not disparaging the able addresses be fde said. however, @ tSat the MontEomery ~sl l audience insists on the good leavening effect of MT. stromme's rostrum work. He was again full of anecdotes and his jokes was to tho point and carried home the intended meaning.
 MT Stromme said he had met with wonderful response over the State from the people on the Johnson nomination idea This, he said. is true notwith- standing the handicap of a misguid- ther vote for Bryan and lose than to win with some other Democrat" The | speaker, without sarcasm or ridicule tore in pieces such an ideal of party
 q have some admiration for Bryan myself. said MT. Stromme. and have voted for him, but will never agree with such talk as that, I honestly be- lieve that any man who would make such a statement Is not a good Demo- crat, and, whats more. Is not pa strikes me that every good Democrat would want success instead of icing led to repeated defeat for the love of one man.
 T am not one of those. either. who believes that we are under any ever lasting gratitude to Bryan for. having down hill. I think he owes us some thanks for having given him the nom ination. We should not. I think. be so eternally interested in the political fortunes of one single Democrat"
 Movement Not Too Late.
 The speaker humorously referred to the charge that the Johnson move ment. is lost because 1t has come too late Besides reiterating with visi- though late is not too late Mr. IT, roI stromme declared that 'it is better to conT,seS tSS lat late than too often" This Again referring to, Bryan abroad. MT. Stromme told of the fact that the Europeans had the idea. and the papers didate. They thought Bryan's title was candidate. not knowing the ex- act meaning of the word but content there was some exalted office on this shore which is known known as can didate. Also in Germany, where Elm where and ali the time. Bryan, when consortinR with that distinguished Elm peror. was caricatured in the papers as windy. In the same caricature Bryan and Wilhelm were denominated The Two Gas Bills"
 The visiting speaker took another shot at Bryan of a humorous nature by the analogy of the poker game.
 They say that Bryan has been al. ways playing losing game in all his if he does play losng game he has come out of 1t with $2o0,o00 to the
 This was an allusion to Bryap's lee. turing and other means of money. making. In a more serious vein. MT. stromme asked his audience to contrast tho ability of Bryan and that of the Minne sotan as vote getters. After all. he said 1t is the real ambition of every Demo & crat to win a victory. He told of how Bryan had fallen short in the last cleo tion of his first poll of votes how ht had lost Nebraska. his own county. tn, . city of Lincoln and even his own WarC in which he votes.
 Turn a minute to the record of Mir Johnson, if you please" eXhorted the speaker Here you will find a mar who has faced a tremendously Repub. lican State and carried it twice, the last time by nearly s0.000 majority ma tortty in 1904. did MT. Johnson. but he swept his own county almost clean and set all counties of the great State of Minnesota in the Democratic col. umn except two.
 And all this he has done I say with out any pretenses or shiftiness but al- ways he has proclaimed himself a Dem ocrat and he hay tagged himself a Democrat. He is one of the nemocrats of the Southern type just as you are
 The speaker was given continued ap. plause a the end of his speech.
 Mir. Miller SpeakS.
 Mir. Miller's speech touched on the availability of Johnson. He believed it was a day when Democrats have a better chance to win the Presidency than they have had in many years Johnson, he believed. is the man who can best unite the party in the gruel- ling battle that awaits the Issues this Eve want to trim for this epoch making race a horse that has won races before. Bryan, we fear. could not win because he has been crippled by the defeats of the past IL Is a time when stout runner IS wanted and none more suited to the emergen- cy can be found than the distinguished