The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-19

advance in the cost of living. combina- tions have put up prices and these con- ditions win turn the tide against Re- publicanfsm, Tarin reform is the ques- ton we have been fighting about. the thing Democracy insists on, and the thing we will get. By reason of the trusts Republican rule Is possible. Levies on trusts and corporations buy the elections. I know this. for I am director in several corporations my self. When corporation contributions are stopped. the Republican strength will be gone. for business men are 10th to contribute from their personal pock- cts. no matter how willingly they give out corporation money. The Republic cans voted down campaign contribu- tion publicity because they knew the investigations that are to be made will place corporation directors in too pre- carious a position, They fear prose- cution, they will not give because they know that when the Democratic party comes into power the sweeping inves- tigations that will be made will throw the penftentiary doors In full view and they do not like the prospect. They defy the public who wish to know these things, they defy the people. they do not represent the people. and under such conditions they are doomed to
 aThe campaign today Is not one of effervescent enthusiasm on the part of the Democrats as 1t has been In pre- vious years. 1t Is deep rooted will. the will of the people. ponderous, cer- tain sure. The clubs that are formed daily through the central points at Denver, Chicago. New York and Port land. and many other cities. are the mairsprings of organization, that team work that will sweep all opposition away.
 .aToday If we had an election Bryan and Democracy would win. If we can hold the party together through the formation of clubs, just as surely VIII we win in November. Organization Is the secret of our strength. and 1t Is growing more thoroughly organized in all parts of the country every day.
 Mir. Price Caustic.
 K. B. Price of Pike County, said ne wanted one of two things, liberty or death. He said Senator Lodge sits up in the New England States and asks what Democracy has done and can do To begin with Mir. Price cited few former pro oninent Democrats. saying Jefferson, Henry. Hancock and Monroe were all Democrats. He said Jefferson gave the country declaration of tnde- pendence. Henry talked the matter up. Hancock financed the situation and the three of them made the United States possibility. and In his opinion that was going some. He said Polk got Texas in the Union and Texas was a better piece of real estate than all the New England States put together. He said somebody else managed to get hold of what are now the States of California. oregon. Washington and the other woody and smooth ones. but in the noise of applause 1t was impossible to hear what Democratic real estate agent pulled off the deal.
 In contradistinction he said the Lodge gang had tried to put uiggers in control of the South; hiched the election from Tilden In '7s and tied the Philippines to the pnfted States like an asafoetida can to the caudaI ap- bondage of canine He also called the Philippines a.lot of ugly names
 He got so sore on Lodge while he was talking that he said Lodge either didn't know history or he was liar.
 The question today Is: Shall the people rule or shall plutocarcy stay in control? sherman. the Vice President ial nominee of the Republican Party. says the people rule. He also Is 8 liar. for l know that in the last Congress Sherman. Dalzell and Payne used to SD or to a private room and make Con. gress all by themselves.
 
 in New York of l7.000 working men. of all kinds of industry. marching along Broadway with banners calling for four more years of the full dinner pail and each carrying an empty can to illustrate what he meant. shiny new cans, bought for them by Republican boss.
 The Southern negroes have a higher ambition than that, for some of them want educations, but the Northern workman has been so down trodden. and made to come to heel. that his whole ambition now centers in his bell ly, and he has had that only half att tended to for the last eight Iaonths.
 Mr. Price concluded with a strong appeal for Democracy and a prediction that Bryan w1 lli be elected
 Hon. S. H. Dent, Jr., was introduced as being too well known to need an in- troduction. He said there was no ar- Kument needed at the meeting for Bryan or Kern. or the Democratic Party, but all the same Democratic Clubs were a good thing. and the for nation of the one he was addressing was a good thing. There always are and always have been more Demo crats in the country than any other party and the only reason they have lost before is because they were not united. When they are united no party in existence can pe~t bheh' Aho wv ords verify the fact.
 ,'The main issue today is a question of special interests versus the peo- ple; the interests being represented by the Republicans and the people by ths Democracy stands for the people, for the individual rights of the States, while Republicanism mtanA. and is meaning, destrueeion ct popular The Democratic Party was born in TIT. 1t made these United States, and though for while 1t hes been defeated by not being organized today it is a solid force. sound from center to every extremity, physically perfect, and there can be hut one rs- suit for it--Victory.
 A. the conclusion of the meeting It was announced that J. W. Smith would serve as assistant secretary of the Il club.