The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-24
GREAT THEATRE
 PACKED ID HEAR <s<>pUBL|C ADDRESS 9. yan Defends States Rights and Says Doctrine Is Pop
 uIar In the North
GOV. COMER IN INTRODUCES :. DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
Suggestion That Harmon Be Running Mate For Bryan Greeted With Ire mendous Applause-Bryan's
 Speech Brilliant Effort.

William Jennings Bryan predicts a democratic victory.
 In his address at the Bijou theatre yes terday morning he based that prediction on two things-a reunited democratic party, a divided republican party
 Those democrats. who could not support us on other occasions" affirmed the great democratic leader, "are with us now. The republicans are fighting among them selves, there being two factions, the standpatters and the reformers."
 Towards the end of his address, MT. Bryan further qualified his prediction of democratic victory by referring to the possibility of democrats deserting the ranks proving themselves afraid of their own ideas which current history has vim dicated.
 The address of MT. Bryan was the proof that democratic principles, scored when first advanced. were good, as illustrated by their adoption by the republicans when troubulous times arrived.
 As an illustration of this idea, NIT. Bryan stated that If the democratic egg is matched by the republicans, the dem- ocrats should be entitled to some of the glory
 Mir. Bryan proved during the introduce ton of his address, which occupied nine tenths of the total time, that democratic principles were sound, and that democrat ic statesmen having been able to see far into the future, had suggested remedial measures. which, If adopted, would have prevented certain crises now current.
 Propounds Query.
 Then he came to his subject, and pro- pounded the query:
 "why have democrats been able to see further than republicans?"
 He gave the following answer:
 "On account of their different views of government, the aristocratic view and the democratic view the view of Hamilton, and the view of Jefferson. Jefferson trusted the people. and wanted them to have an expression in the government. Hamilton did not trust the people, and wanted the government far removed from
  titude.
 The feature of Mr Bryan's speech was his remarks concerning the republican charge that he was only dreamer of dreams, while Roosevelt did things"
 MT. Bryan told the story of Joseph. "He was dreamer, and his dreams maddened his brothers They took him into Egypt and put him into pit. They thought that this was the last of the dreamer.
 But To! there came famine. The false brothers went into Egypt to buy corn. There they found Joseph, the dreamer-and he had the corn!
 ''I am not worthy to be called one of the dreamers. It is said that the dreamer shall live, while the toler will die in a day. A dreamer dreams a magnificent building. The toilers are forgot, but peo- pie visiting this structure remember the man who dreamed it.
 Jefferson dreamed of this great country and dreamed of model government If am attributed the honor of attempting to cause the realization of the dreams of Jefferson it Is honor enough!'
 In further reference to Jefferson, MT. Bryan stated that If he, himself, was a luminary at all, it was not the sun, but the moon, ref1ecting the rays of that great statesman and President.
 Scores Republican Party.
 During his address Mir Bryan scored the republican party and the republican lead CTS mercilessly. He stated that the Pres a1 Taft tO he of the royal Roosevelt line not because Secretary Taft stood for anything, but because he came nearer standing for something than any other member of the cabinet" He also stated that there were not enough prominent republicans ad- vocatng reform to make up cabinet. He stated that the Senate was so full of corporation and railroad lawyers that every worthy remedial measure was stifled. He charged the President, while attempting to regulate the trusts, with having allowed a new one, the trust of newspaper pulp, to form itself under his very eyes. He also stated in further ref erence to the trusts that while the repub- licans had had control of every branch of the government for long term of years. no trust magnate had yet been sent to the penitentiary. He affirmed that the trust family was probably the only fam fly in the United States measuring up to the Roosevelt standard of size.
 He explained in his simple, masterly style the iniquitysof the private monopoly, which is allowed to set the price of ma terial which 1t alone can furnish. "Even Secretary Taft-even MT Taftr' he ex- claimed. now states that one or two trust magnates should be sent to the peniten- tiary in order that lesson might be taught" He scorned Secretary Taft's ar gument that the adjective 'unreasonable'' should be used in describing the methods of trusts before their heads could be pun ished.
 Should Be More Money.
 He defended the former democratic doctrine that there should be more money. and defended his "silver dollar" "They claimed that the silver dollar could not stand the melting test. I