Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-16
SOME BRYAN THRUSTS
SAYS PRESIDENT TURNED ON
LIGHT, BUT GAS WAS BAD.

LANSING. Mich. April 16.-William J.
Bryan. who spoke here last evening and
was the central figure Of a great demo-
cratic celebration. did not learn until
> o'clock this morning that the democratic
state central committee had yesterday
afternoon refused to ndorse his canGi-
dacy for the presidential nomination
When told of the committees action he
said il would have been we'll within the
province of the committee to have taken
such action. and he pointed out that the
Minnesota state central committee had
indorsed Gov. Johnson.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. April 16.-
William J. Bryan was greeted with en-
thusias SIN here yesterday by crowds along
the street that watched the progress OF
his carriage from the union depot 10 the
Morton House by a long line or repre-
sentative citizens that shook MS mana
during a reception at the hotel and py
large audiences that gathered "here MI.
Bryan made addresses.
In the opera house speech Mr.. bryan
said
Il do not blame President Roosevelt for
the financial depression. If ! had oeen
President I would have been blamed TOT
the trouble. Roosevelt says he oniy
turned on the light. l only blame MN
for having a gas fixture so PAD IL IDS
taken him five years to turn II on Inc
FeDuDNCan party Soiu tHe " 49,
street in 1896. and delivered the goods
When a gambler in Wall street gets coid
today the whole country has 10 shlNef.
Pleased Over Presidents Work.
mo one in the United States gets more
pleasure out of what the President mas
done than I do ] think I am his great
est beneficiary. He has made my ideas
respectable. And the people use me pet
ter, too. The papers speak more kindly
of me. The cartoons are not SO pau
They used to make such horrid pictures OF
me that l was afraid to nave the papers
come into my house
Mr. Bryan described cartoon showing
him as featherless bird sitting on
limb beside a nest on winch tne TIesi-
dent. depicted as a bird was sittlng Aiia
the Presidents nest was feathered with
feathers taken from the Bryan olru
Only one feather was left-tariff reform
and this the President had given warming
he would take after election.
We'll I'm willing to raise feathers II
the President will use them said Mr.
Bryan.
He said that the action of Gov. Hughes
in vetoing the two-cent fare law IN Ne"
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 corpora
lions.
Mr. Hughes has said that the individ-
ual vlOlatOrS or the law STOulu Dc given
iail sentences" said Mr.. Bryan, but we
don't see any of the trust leaders In jail.
Taft the Heir Apparent.
Mr.. Taft. he declared. TO be the heir
apparent to the Roosevelt monarchy. All
of the other cabinet officers had been
exposed to reform. he said. but it did
| not take, and in Taft's case he believes
it to be only varioloid. Taft had con-
demned Bryan as being in favor of trust
determination said Mr.. Bryan: whereas
Mr. Taft stood for trust regulation.
Destroy the trusts and you destroy the
Industrial system" says Mr.. Taft. We'll.
the republican party has been regulating
the trusts for eleven years and the trust
family has continued to grow. 1t is the
one family that measures up to the Presl-
dents measure of family. Mr.. Taft Is
either ignorant or lacking In candor when
he advocates trust regulation.
I'VE have a thousand more chances to-
day to bring democratic republicans into
the democratic party than We have to
keep an aristocratic democrat in the
party. because many of the republicans
are democrats at heart, although they
may not know it, and the others are not
democrats.
IF make a partisan speech today. he
said, 1.-The chances are 16 to l that In two
or three days the President will say the
same thing and it will then BECOME nom
,ortsS