The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-23
Bryan and Harmon at Nashville Declare That Republican Ascendency is Due
 to Chance.
NOT RESULT OF POLICIES
Make Much of Internal Dissension Over Roosevelt Methods, and Maintain Democracy is
 Undivided.

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 22,--William ]. Bryan and Judson Harmon to- night addressed a large audience at the Ryman auditorium, MT. Bryan said that the idea that prosperity was an inevitable result of republican as cendancy and administration had been rudely exploded in the last few months and contrasted the ridicule heaped upon his advocacy of the sil- yer dollar with the prayerful anxiety with which capitalists had so recently grabbed for clearing house certi1- cates. He scored imperialism. the cost of it and the wrong MT. Bryan did not blame President Roosevelt for the panic, but scored the laws and their executors who would compel the people to stand and shiver every time a Wall street gambler got cold"
 He said the democrats everywhere were united while the republicans were divided, so, that railroad regula- tors, tariff reformers, advocators of arbitation between capital and labor and trust busters were in an over whelming majority
 Judson Harmon in his speech said in part
 The result of elections does not de- pend always on the ideas advanced by
 the contending parties, but one of them sometimes holds advantages
 over the other which helped to turn the scale The republicans have dur
 ing the last twelve years had two such advantages over the democrats.
 The first is a false pretense which 1 circumstances have enabled them to
 use with effect
 Just fifteen years ago the wolf was
 at the door of a republican adminis- i tration The times were bad and get 1 ting worse. The public funds were i rapidly disappearing. A large amount
 of bonds were engraved and on the
 point of being issued, but 1t was final ! ly managed to skimp along through the few remaining weeks.
 1 Then the demUcrats took charge. ] They found the bottom of the treasury i staring at them and this pile of nice | I the troubles increased, and the crops I failed, and the income tax was over I thrown, the democrats had finally to father those bonds in order to main I tain the credit of the country Straight
 way, with the assurance which only republican politicians can carry off, { they laid everything to the democrats hard times. bond issue and all
 Then, when conditions were rapidly improving. the republicans came bask again and at once set up the claim that they had monopoly of good times i and were kindly letting the country in on them
 T MT. Taft has reasons plenty as black berries and of course, speaks for the
 administration, but it does not now it
 in the mouth of his party to deny res possibility afer all these years of brag The secretary ought at least to thave admitted in fairness that 1t was moi
 the democrats who brought on the trouble. But then there was no need
 to say so because everybody knows : that no democrat has so much as push ed broom in government office fol almost eleven years.
 And issuing bonds in time of peace The democrats had to issue bonds {, N discharge duty imposed hy law an' here are the Republicans issuing inter est bearing bonds without@Authority . not to meet the needs of the govern . ment. but just to raise more money t :. deposit in banks without interest
 They are quarreling about their pres
 ident and his ways Some declare h : goes gunning too much for trusts an , other big game which grows in tn republican preserves. Others say h does not go gunnlng for them enough , While more declare he keeps the whol i. neighborhood disturbed because he vii
 not use smokeless powder but likes lot of noise and smoke and smell. $
 everywhere they have gone from whis z pering to shouting anG from eallln
 names to blows. ID in Ohio they hay
 pulled their razors I know that rhgh things may be done in wrong wa, Q When I was boy I once got goo c licking because. when set to weed
 long neglected strawDerry bed. 1 wer e about if with such reckless force ths n the vines mostly came up with tn n weeds.