The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-10-28
BRYAN CALLS TAFT
ENEMY OF LABOR
Nebraskan Begins Days CAM
paign With Speech to Night
Workers in Park
Democratic Candidate Makes Is
Speeches With Only Two
Hours Sleep in SO

NEW YORK, Oct 27.-Winding UP
his remarkable campaign in and about
Greater New York William ]. Bryan
was whirled 115 miles by automobile IN
Manhattan and Brooklyn during the
day and night and made eight speeches
between the hours of and 2 o'clock
tonight. In New York he was ac-
companied by Tammany Leader Charles
F. Murphy. Arriving at Brooklyn bridge
he was met by Senator Patrick II. Nc
Carren, the democratic leader of Kings
county
Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyve-
SAINT Chambers campaign for governor
coincided with Bryan's itinerary both
in Manhattan and Brooklyn and while
he in one place was pleading for loyal
support OF the national ticket Bryan
at another was urging votes for the
state candidates from governor down,
and for the democratic nominees for
congress.
Bryan made Is speeches during the
day and everywhere he went-plow-
ing at times through mud and rain in
rush to keep his many engagements
he was greeted by some of the largest
and most enthusiastic audiences of his
tour.
ADDRESS TO NIGHT WORKERS
The democratic candidates eventful
day began at a. m. when he addressed
the night workers from the steps of
the city hail. Then followed Broad
way meeting at 10 o'clock and a fore
noon trip to Brooklyn to address an
audience of laboringmen in and about
Market square. From Brooklyn Bryan
hurried across to Long Island City, then
to Jersey City, where three speeches
ended the New Jersey campaign. Back
in New York again Bryan was the
guest of the Collegemen's democratic
clubs and then with Murphy was hur-
ried up town, for two Harlem meetings.
Six meetings in Brooklyn-the princi-
pal one at Claremont avenue rink
brought the days work to close. AL
though he had only two hours sleep
out of So Bryan spoke with all his
characteristic vigor and good humor.
In all of his speeches today Bryan
warned the workingmen against the
traitors among them He asserted that
every laboringman who voted the re-
publican ticket would vote to repudiate
the things that labor demanded in the
Denver platform. He held up Taft as
the enemy of labor and assailed him
at every opportunity.
His references to the guarantee of
bank deposits brought shouts of ap--
proval at all of his meetings.
CHAMBER SHARES WELCOME
Chanler shared everywhere in the
welcome that was accorded Bryan.
In his principal Brooklyn speech, de-
livered at the rink, Bryan first dis
cussed the publicity of campaign con-
tributions. The people have been
cheated" he said, because the republi-
can organization has given the promise
in advance that the people shall pay
back through legislation the money
contributed"
The democrats, he declared, wanted to
inaugurate new era in politics and
he said he was proud to be connected
with that movement. With democratic
applause, he added:
My friends, you may vote me down
or held me up, you may elect or you
may defeat me, but the time will come
when this country will enjoy the relief
that we are now trying to bring, and
when that time comes, and politics are
purified and elections and canvasses
made honest, whether l am living or
dead. the country will give me credit
for the part l took in this campaign for
good politics."
GoMPERs AND KNOX COMPARED
Taking up the labor question he re-
ferred to the presidents attack on Sam
uel Gompers. Mr.. Gompers," he de-
clared, thinks with the laboringman,
while Mr. Knox, whom the president
appointed in MIR. Gompers' stead, would
think for the laboringnan."
1t would be matter of Indifference
| to Mr.. Knox, he said, whether what he
thought for them agreed with them or
not.
I'm fact, my friends" he said, "the
difference between an aristocrat and
democrat is that the aristocrat feels in
duty bound to keep the people from
hurting themselves, even if to do SO he
has to prevent the people from con-
trolling their own government, while
democrat says not that the people
will make any mistakes, but that the
people have right to make their own
mistakes and that nobody has right
to make their mistakes for them"
He closed with another denunciation
of the president for interfering n the
campaign.