The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1908-08-13
bob }" TO BRYAN
Assures Majority of 30
900 in Tennessee.
FEELS COUNTRY'S PULSE.
National Democratic Clut
With Subsidiaries
Speech on Tariff.

Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. T.
AS the result of visit to William }.
Bryan of Senator Bob Taylor, of Ten
nessee, who is here to deliver Chau
tauqua lecture, the national committee
of the democratic party, with the con-
currence of Mr.. Bryan, will soon enter
upon most elaborate plan for ascer-
tanning the sentiment of the country
toward their standard bearers.
This plan contemplates the formation
of national democratic club, with state
and county clubs as subsidiaries, whose
duty it will be to report to the central
organization data favorable or unfavor-
able to the nat onal ticket 1t is pro-
posed also tb1t these clubs shall poll
the voters of the United States and ev-
cry section where the feeling is adverse
to the democratic candidates to send
literature and speakers.
The proposition regarding the nation
al club promptly appealed to Mr.. Bry-
an, who said that he would not wait for
his visit to Chicago in couple of weeks
where he is to confer with prominent
men of the party, but would at once
take steps to get the national club un-
der way.
Senator Taylor was accompanied to
Fairview by Mayor F. W. Brown, one
of Mr.. Bryan's staunchest friends and
advisors.
81 have been in Kansas, Missouri
and Indiana" said Senator Taylor.
"To my mind Bryan has better chance
for election than Cleveland did in 1899.
/ found many republicans in Kansas
who told me they would vote for Bryan
and as for Indiana, the prospects for
democratic success are good"
TENNEssEE's VOTE.
He predicted that Tennessee would
go democratic by 10000.
Aside from this, the most important
announcement from Fairview was the
decision of Mr. Bryan to make an ex-
tended speech on the tariff question at
Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 81, and to spend
the three following days in Chicago in
consultation with Chairman Mack and
Others of the party over the plan of
campaign.
When asked whether he had noticed
that many of the republican candidates
in Nebraska were coming out in favor
of the proposition for the guaranty OF
bank deposits, Mr.. Bryan replied that
he had been told so.
"It is one of the straws that show
which way the wind ia blowing, said
he.
Mr.. Bryan will discuss the subject
quite fully in his Forthcoming Topeks
speech.
Tonight Mr.. Bryan gave out for pub
lication his reply to a circular letter
sent to business men of the country BY
James W. Van Cleve, president of the
Manufacturers Association, urging
them to 20 to the polls in November
and "bury Bryan and Organism for
ever"
Mr.. Bryan accuses Mr.. Van Cleve O.
having narrow idea of what consti
tutes business man and enters into al
elaborate defense of his policies.
Mr., Bryan declares that the pamph
let of Mr.. Van Cleve raises two ques
tions. First, is there anything in The
labor plank of the democratic platform
to which business men can Justly take
exception and, second, is the labor
question so important to business mel
as to Justify them in ignoring all othel
issues?
FOR LABOR DEPARTMENT,
Mr.. Bryan declares that the provision
in the democratic platform for the crea
tion of labor department with cab
met officer at its head can not possibl!
offend business men. He then says;
"The platform draws h distinction
between associations of wage Garner
organized for the protection of wage
and the improvement of labor condi
tions and industrial corporations whicl
act in restraint of trade. The ditferenc
between labor organization and
trust is so apparent that no disinterest
ed person will deny that they shoul'
be treated separately, To class the tw'
kinds of organizations together ant
deal with them under one law is boun'
to do injustice to one or the other
Surely the business men can have Ii
vital concern in including the labor OF
carnations in the antitrust laws"
Mr.. Bryan then takes up the plan
providing for trial by jury in cases
indirect contempt. He insists that thi
can not raise a question of vital con
Germ to business men, because ever
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