The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-31
NEBRASKAN TOUCHES UPON
STANDARD OIL HEADS EN-
DORSEMENT OF TAFT, ALSO
THAT BY CARNEGIE.
STRIKES AT ROOSEVELT.
Again Asks the President to Keep
His Hands Of the Present Cam.
paign as Action Disgraces His High
Office.

Making a personal appeal to his
hearers for their votes on the ground
he is poor man, who has had to fight
his way in the world, and his opponent
is a man backed by immense wealth,
William Jennings Bryan, democratic
candidate for the presidency. address
ed a crowd that packed the coliseum
this morning. Previous to his arrival
at the coliseum he spoke before a
crowd of about 1000 from platform
at Eighth and North e streets. The
crowds at both places were enthusiastic
and the speaker was interrupted re-
peatedly by cheering.
The Bryan train was about twenty
five minutes late. When it arrived 1t
was greeted by cheering. The bust
ness men of the vicinity decorated
their places with bunting Even re-
publicans removed the pictures of Taft
and the republican candidates from
their windows and substituted those
of Bryan and Kern for the occasion.
This act of courtesy was apparent to
the observer. At neither place was Mr..
Bryan interrupted by cheers or shouts
for an opposing candidate. He and the
members of his. party were taken from
the train to the coliseum in carriages
decorated in bunting. Stokes Jackson,
of Greenfield, a number of other lead
ers of democracy in the state and a
few newspaper men accompanied the
candidate. Accompanying "the Com
moner.' to the city, also, were Chair
man Charles Beck. Mayor R. S. Schil-
linger, Henry U. Johnson and Joseph
Brinley, members of the reception
committee.
Speaks on Labor
At the Eighth and North E street
gathering. Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen am only
here for few minutes. | have two
meetings to address in a short time.
Down here | want to talk to you on the
labor question. l see here among you
many men who are laborers. / want
to talk to you as wage earners We
now have got to the end of the masque
ball The Mosques are being taken off
and we begin to see who the men really
are. They are coming out one by one
Only yesterday Rockefeller took his
of Governor Francis took the mask
of of Hartman. Carnegie lit from
his ship just back from Scotland. We
found then where he stands. He said
my election would be a tragedy. He
came from Scotland and that is the
land of the celebrated poet Burns, who
says man will talk of what runs in
his head. There is a tragedy he never
will forget-that of Homestead. He is
using word he can never forget, They
need not think my election will be a
tragedy. these men who have had their
hands in the peoples pockets for so
long.
The laboring men are confronting
before. These men may have defied
them, but they never have had the
mass of the people decide against the
laboring man. If the republican party
wins this year, it will be counted a
popular Reputation of everything
labor demands. We want to create a
department of labor. We want repre-
sentation such as we demanded in our
platform eight years ago. | want a
laboring man in the cabinet to help
decide upon questions effecting the
laboring man. The republican party
Is opposed. l want limitation of the
power of injunction. The republican
party is opposed. | want an amend
ment of the antitrust law. The re-
publican party insists this law be
made to apply to the individual man.
/ don't want to reduce the value OF the
laboring man to dollars and cents. |
believe in a trial by jury in cases OF
Adarect contempt OF court Even ha-