Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-16
.EP|GRAMS BY BRYAN
Nebraskan Pays His Respects to
Political Opponents.
ROOSEVELT PLUME HUNTER.
Only One Bryan Feather Left, and
President Is After That-Trusts a
Good Example Of Antiraes Suicide
Theory.

President Is After That-Trusts a
Good Example of Antiraes Suicide
Theory.
Grand Rapids, Mich, April 16.-Wil.
liam ]. Bryan was greeted with enthu-
siasm here by crowds along the street
that watched the progress of his car
riage from the Union station to the
Morton House, by long line of citi
zens that shook his hand during a re.
ception in the hotel and by large au,
diences that gathered in Campau
square and crowded Powers Opera
House, where Mr. Bryan made ad.
dresses.
In his speech Mr.. Bryan said:
Il do not blame President Roosevelt
for the financial depression. II l had
been president l would have been
blamed for the trouble. Roosevelt says
he only turned on the light. l only
blame him for having a gas fixture SO
bad it has taken him five years to turn
it on. The Republican party sold the
country TO Wall street in 1896 and de-
livered the goods. When a gambler
in Wall street gets cold today the
whole country has to SILVER
Bryan Indebted to Roosevelt.
"No one in the United States gets
more pleasure out Of what the presi-
dent has done than l do. think
sm his greatest beneficiary. He has
made my ideas respectable. And the
people use me better too. The papers
speak more kindly of me. The car
toons are not so bad. They used to
make such horrid pictures of me that
/ was afraid TO have the papers come
into the house.
Mr. Bryan described cartoon show
ing him as featherless bird sitting on
a limb beside a nest on which the
president. depictured as bird, was
sitting, and the presidents nest was
feathered with feathers taken from the
Bryan bird.
Only one feather was left-tariff re-
form-and this the president had given
warning he would take after election.
"Well, I'm willing to raise feathers
IL the president win use them" said
Mr.. Bryan.
He said the action of Governor
Hughes in vetoing the two cent fare
law in New York and his expressed
opinion that the levying OF great fines
on corporations works an injustice TO
stockholders showed his sympathies to
be with the corporations.
No Trust Leaders Behind Bars.
"Mr. Hughes has said that the indi-
vidual violators of the law should be
given jail sentences" said Mr.. Bryan,
but we don't see any Of the trust
leaders In jail
Mr.. Taft he pronounced the heir APP
parent to the Roosevelt monarchy. All
Of the other cabinet officers had been
exposed to reform, but it did not take.
and In Taft's case he believed IL to be
only varioloid. Taft had condemned
Bryan as being in favor of trust ex-
termination. whereas Mr.. Taft stood
for trust regulation.
Destroy the trusts and you destroy
the industrial system says Mr.. Taft.
Well. the Republican party has been
regulating the trusts for eleven years,
and the trust family has continued to
grow. II is one family that measures
up TO the presidents measure Of a
family. Mr.. Taft is either ignorant or
lacking in esndor when he advocates
trust regulation"
Mr.. Bryan condemned the admins
fration's Philippine policy and CRITICS
ed the rapidly increasing army and
navy budget