The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-10
NOMINATING SPEECHES IN DENVER CONVENTION

ple to higher ground than any other American. He is the intellectual giant of the United States He Is less ms. thsn any other statesman in our his- tory. So frank and fair and fearless that he cannot be misunderstood-so true is he and e,cs, s9 onnonsnts ans the great trust-contrellsd dailies dare moi piay fair or fight him in the open. Statesmen, world diplomats and Kings
 Al tne International Peace Confer ence in London 500 representatives from twenty -six of the greatest nations on the globe in council assembled re9ues.- - his wisdom concerning arbitration, and his words upon that occasion ana on that subject have become interna- na''0hAi 1 Genius of Bryan.
 If could speak a thousand tongues and could command the the eloQuence of the worlds best l could not express ss power of his genius-the charm of his eloquence is his sincerity.lts strengtn is his moral courage. He Is the Tnom- declaration of independence from the tyranny of combines and trusts. He is the Patrick Henry of new revolution "a revolution in civic ~ ~anairs tnas d the restoration of the ark of our civic covenant to the friends of constitu- tionaI government. He Is the George eous cause to victory in November.
 linen the advocates of strong cen- trailzed government will be driven fr0m place anS ssfty q odR 5he of ses ereignty that was once the constitu- tional pride of every American citizen. The political atmosphere will be purer and healthier and the welfare of the citizen will again become the highest concern of the government, and to all men alike will be brought home the doctrine of Jefferson that The whole of being honest
 who Is this man of the people. For twelve years he. has been conspicuous changing scenes of that trying period he has grown steadily in the confi- dence and In the love of the American failed utterly to find one blot or bIem- ish on his public or private character.
 MT. Chairman, there is mountain peak In the Himalayas that towers be- yond the reach of rains and snows and scientists tell us that an open book there might remain unsoiled by dust through passing centuries: Democ- the miasma of time-servers and cor ruptionIsts has purified the political atmosphere through which he passed interests he has come pure as light and stainless as a star. Tarin barons and trust kings for the purpose of inju- sriously affecting him with the people have from time to time misrepresented him. Subsidized newspapers have from time to time preached his political fu- neral and consigned him to the tomb of political oblivion. But the. masses persistently refused the tomb that plu- tocracy had so generously offered him.
 Permit me to quote little poem in this connections
 He has no enemies. you say,
 My friend, your boast is poor.
 He who hath mingled in the fray Must have made foes.
 He has hit no traitor on the hip,
 He has removed no cup from perjured He has never turned the wrong to He has been coward in the light
 Those who look upon society as a n sia fhe cor sSps %ho gard the rights of others as useless obstacles in the way of their greed de- sgise him. and those privileged ,,hssg a classes hate and denounce him; but every man who is trying to do his duty as citi- ssn every nslS man who Is' is elpgaged in iegits. mate business applauds his courage and his honesty.
 Jackson and Bryan
 Jackson was loved by the great mass of the people because he was their firm and fearless friend. The crafty and avaricious men of his day them as enemies to the government in which they lived. The purse-proud plutocrats hated him because he drove them from place and power. exclaiming; By the eternal gods. the people shall ruler
 Today, under the reign of the Re- publican party, trusts flourish as never before in the history of the country. The protected few grow enormously rich at the expense of the many In the wake of tho robber stariff, and graft, the latest offspring of Republican con ditions, is rampant in the republic. The measure of material prosperity that we have enjoyed was not the
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