New-York tribune., 1908-04-23
MURPHY BACKS BRYAN
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Kerr hopes to succeed Colonel Guffey member
of the Democratic National Committee for Penn
| sylvania
| Are you in favor of any mention of sixteen
to government ownership of railroads in
the Denver PLATFORM Mr.. Bryan asked
| Il have said positively in The CommOner' and
! on the platform that 1 opposed to having
| planks on either of those points said Mr.
| Bryan.
rs it a fact that you not going to the
| Denver conventiOn?'
AT the present time 1 do not expect TO be
| there" said Mr. Bryan, apparently desiring 10
| refrain from committing himself definitely
Despite the fact that the labor union people
! have acquired the habit of voting independently
| and the further fact that Samuel Gompers Is
advising them to organize national party
John b A. Mutually heading delegation from
| the International Bricklayers' Union. told MI
Bryan yesterday at the Hoffman House tnat the
| forty thousand members OF the union were going
to vote for him. and he added afterward that
the ironworkers. stonecutters and plasterers
relatively as numerous the bricklayers, were
all going to vote for Mr.. Bryan. Mr. Mutually
presented a set of resolutions. passed recently
bv the executive committee OF the bricklayers
| organization eulogizing Mr.. Bryan and pledginS
support.
| THINKS LABOR'S SHARE TOO SMALL
IT have in the course of the last twelve
wears" replied Mr.. Bryan, received connuni-
cations from different bodies OF voters but
have not received from any body comnuhl-
cation that 1 appreciate more highly than TINS
YOU have brought to-day. L have done
what T thought to be right in whatever nave
done in the interest of labor, and 1 would not
| be entirely frank with you If did not say that
I did it out of consideration for the people az d
/ of iS interested the vel
| fare Of a part of society. The things that the
! Iaborfng men are asking to my mind so just
that the men who not wage earners ought
| to be anxious to have the demands granted
! II can say without fear Of contradiction that
! never have attempted to array class against
/ class I have la bored to bring all classes into
/ friendly cooperation. I know Of no way or
securing industrial peace except by granting
justice to all
! "I know that there is latent ability in men
! known as executive ability. The captain OF in
dustry is entitled to his reward out Of industry
NV objection is that the captain OF industry mas
/ had a larger share than he was entitled 10 and
| the Ia borer a smaller share than he was en-
titled to-
| Government is not everything. but II "a a
! good deal The instrurnentality Of government
ought to insure to every one revenue equal 10
| his services
| "-rhe kind words that | have received from
| tho people in the last twelve years [ value 2
| thousand times more than any office | DO NOT
| nersonaIIy know the members Of your oTgdn'-
| za+ior but T wish YOU would say TO them thst
| I recognize them as part OF our great citizen
! shin on whose welfare happiness depends
! Emily o. per cent Of our people belong 10 What
| va sometimes call the common people Ihe
| common people can be relied on to add 10 the
nations wealth in times of peace and 70 fight
| the country's battles In times OF war IhsF
! have no way of securing to themselves more
| than they are entitled to. Organized LABOR To-
| dax is fighting the battle of all labor
Asked about the revelations contained IN the
zcacia1 grand Jury minutes concerning the ex-
| nenditure of funds by the Metropolitan interests
in the campaign, Mr.. Bryan said 1t was not
| news him He said;
81 have known of it for years. but the exact
details were not obtainable until now me
S5OO0sl contributed tn the campaign pV one
| cornoration in this city more than we were
! ah1e ,o raise in either of the campaigns When
was candidate from more than six million
voters II illustrates the tremendous power OF
| a corporation in an election. This money heiPed
| to corrupt both parties
Mr. BRYAN and his family will leave town TINS
| morning at $50 O'Clock for Harrisburg. Vnere
! the candidate will make a speech from tHe rear
/ Of a Pullman on his way to Nebraska
Among the callers Mr.. Bryan met yesterday
vas. ex-Mavor Josiah Quincy Of Boston
! ,,.,, ooncrnED To BRYAN