The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-07
Speaking With Great VigOr the Nebraskan Strikes At His
 Opponents
WHY ARE REPUBLICANS
 AFRAID OF PUBLICITY?
Bryan Declares That the Republican Party Cannot Escape From It's Rec ord and the Results of
 Financial Panic.

Cedar Rapids, October 6-"I present myself as an example of one who has outliyed the venomous attacks of his opponents. You heard me called a dem- agogue twelve years ago. You saw them bury me and you heard them chant their songs over my grave, and now they have to explain why it happened that was not dead"
 With all the fervor that he could mus ter, William J. Bryan, facing vast as- semblage in the Chautauqua Auditorium between Tama and Toledo, Ia., today de. livered himself of this utterance. At no time during the present campaign has he spoken so earnestly or with such vigor. His remark followed bitter denunciation of Mr. Taft for refusing to agree to a publication of campaign contributions be- fore election.
 "No honest man and no political party conducting an honest campaign he de- clared, need be afraid of the light"
 At Woodward he heaped ridicule on the republicans by charging them with taking credit for the growth of crops. the shining of the sun and the bring ing of rain. "In fact, he said, they seize upon anything that they think gives a plausible excuse for voting the repub- lican ticket'
 At Maxwell he compared the granting of special privileges to case of poison in the human system. There has been a poison at work in our lolitics,'' he declared, "and todayr its. manifestations are such that l believe the American +r.t fhA afaf7xr and that poison is the poison of privilege, the poison of favoritism. Our govern ment has been run too largely in the interest of the favored
 Speeches Full of Vim.
 Drawing large, cheering crowds all day in the course of his travels through the state. the democratic candidate never in better form, hurled defiance at his op- ponents and challenged them to meet his arguments. Fifteen speeches and hand shaking with thousands constituted his days work, the concluding speech being made here tonight in the auditorium, which was filled to overflowing. Previous to going to the hall he was serenaded at the hotel and he addressed an inn mense throng from the balcony The keynote of his remarks here tonight was that republican policies meant disaster while democratic policies meant prosper ity On this subject he said:
 ''The democratic party is necessary to insure prosperity. The republican party has had it's chance and it has failed. We are now in the midst of depression for which natural conditions furnish no ex- cuse. Artificial conditions are responsible for the present business prostration, and those artificial conditions originated Tn republican policies. The business failures for the nine months ending on September 90 were II ,943 in number and the liabilities amounted to $179O00,000 It means that if the assets are worth. in fact, the amount at which they are placed there will still be loss of s56,0OO,0oo to account for.
 Loss to Business Men.
 ssThs tremendous loss comes at a time when crops are reasonably good and when nature has not withheld her bounty. It comes when the republicans are in com- plete control They have President whom they eulogize in their platform, Senate completely in the hands of the re- publican party and republican House of Representatives dominated by despotic speaker. We can assume, therefore, that they have done everything they could do consistently under their policies to pre- vent panic. and yet the panic is here. It comes too, when we have tariH so high that even the republicans promise unequivocally to revise it immediately. and Mr. Taft has ventured the opinion that the revision will be probably down ward What does it promise to do for the protection of the public? What policies has it that look to a restoration of pros perty? In fact the failures of the last vii in ures of the corresponding nine months of 1S93 and the difference between assets and liabilities is greater this year than it was in 1895, although the total amount of the liabilities was greater in 1893 than this year. But it must be remembered that the Mckinley law was still in force in 1893 It was In force until the summer of 1894. The failures of that year We're not as great, either in number or in the amount of liabilities, as they are this year
 The failures in 1896 were not equal to the failures of this year in number or in amount of liabilities, and yet In 1896 the republicans were talking about a democratic panic and promising pros perity.
 Exports Decreased.
 "A member of the British cabinet said recently in speech that the ex- ports of cotton goods from Lancashire had increased II per cent over last year and he declared that the cotton ex- ports of the United States had fallen off 45 per cent in the same period. If this is true how will the protection fists explain it?'
 "The republican party cannot escape from it's record. It is important to pro- tect the public because it's policies have for their object not the advancement of tlie general welfare. but the enrich mcnt of q relatively small number of the people at the expense of the rest. of tho people If we are to have pros perity we must restore independence
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