Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-03
G. 0. P. Candidates Parting
 Word on Labor.
IN SPEECH AT YOUNGSTOWN
Nebraskan's Address to His Fellow Townsmen Concludes With These Words, "I Will Swear In Your Pres ence That No One Who Votes For Me Will Ever Have Occasion to Be Ashamed of the Vote He Casts"

| Lincoln, Neb, Nov. 3.-Bryan's last
 words of the campaign were spoken to
 an enthusiastic crowd here and were
 as follows:
 "I am now forty eight years old. It
 is eighteen years since began my po- litical career as candidate for con-
 gress. l told the people of my district
 that if elected I would not try to get their hands into other. peoples pock- cts; that l would simply try to keep other peoples hands out of their pock- cts. For eighteen years this thought has run through every speech and act
 l have tried to apply to government the Jeffersonian maxim of Equal rights to all and special privileges to none l have tried to help make this government government of the peo- pie, by the people and for the people
 For eighteen years you have had chance to scan my every speech and act. While Republican leaders have disappeared as the result of investiga- tions, I have invited the scrutiny of my opponents and have outlived their criticisms and their misrepresentations. I know not what the future has for me. I know not whether it is the peo- ple's wish that shall be their spokes- man in the White House or continue to perform the work which I have tried to perform as a private citizen, but I have not lived in vain. 1 have given an impulse to honest politics, have helped to create a sentiment in favor of reform, and as candidate 1 have but one thing to rely upon as the confidence of the masses in my fidelity to their interests.
 My opponent has behind him all those forces which are considered po- tent in politics, but I would rather have the love of the people, the affec- tion of the multitude, in whose behalf have fought, than to hold any office.
 And, my friends, I simply want to say this-if you among whom l have lived. if you who have known my ev- cry word and thought and act, if you believe me worthy of that high office, l will swear in your presence that no one who votes for me will ever have occasion to be ashamed of the vote he 1 casts"
 Cincinnati. O.. Nov. 3-W. H. Taft l addressed the last words of his cam | paign to an audience at Youngstown. 1 O. He said:
 Vote the Republican ticket and | preserve prosperity, protection to l American industries. business integri | ty and the rights of labor.
 "I want to say that it does not | make any difference how much Mir. | Gompers may misrepresent my po- sition; it does not make any differ | ence how much he misrepresents | the position of the supreme court of the United States-I suppose I ought l not to feel hurt because I am running for office. If these same gentlemen | had had the patience and justice to | read my decisions when l was on the | bench and when had not the slightest | idea of ever yielding to weakness of running for the presidency they would have found that have not changed | from the principles I had then. have not turned an iota from the prin- ciples 1 there established. and those | principles alone are the basis upon which trades unionism can flourish in this country