The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-06
Workers Turn Out To Hear Their
 Fellow Citizen
TAFT FALLAC|ES REFUTED
Bryan Speaks to Workmen From kall- road Shops and Pays His Re- spects to Speaker Cannon,
 as We'll as Taft.

Havelock, Neb., October civilian J. Bryan was received here tonight in a delirium of enthusiasm. His arrival from Lincoln shortly before o'clock in D special trolley car accompanied by loo members of the Lincoln Homo Guards was the signal for the great demonstra- ton. The carriage in which he rode to the City park where he spoke to a large audience composed mostly of workmen in the railroad shops ran gauntlet Of red fire and Roman candles, while the throngs on the sidewalks voclferously cheered him.
 His remarks dwelt mainly on the sub iect of campaign publicity election Of senators by direct vote of the people and the labor blanks in the Denver plat form. He was unsparing in his attacks on Speaker Cannon, MT. Sherman, the republican vice presidential candidate, and MT. Taft. First referring to the crit icsm that heretofore had been heaped upon him for travelling over the coun- try delivering political speeches, MT. Bryan declared that he always had be- lieved it was perfectly proper to speak to those who are to vote. He spoke of the fact that 12 years ago he had said that the president was only hired man employed by the people to do what they wanted a president to do and that although he was critieised by New York papers for bringing the high office of president down to the level of a hired man he had decided not to talse the state ment back. In his opinion every public official is a hired man
 United States senators are hired men," he declared, amid applause, although they don't seem to think so, many of them"
 Discussing the question of campaign contributions MT. Bryan declared that his republican opponent had repudiated the action of those who had nominated him. The democrats he said, had been trying to find out why the republicans had opposed publicity before election but that MT. Taft had told them why.
 Now what is MT. Taft's objection? Why. his objection is that if you publish the contributions before the election, political opponents will take advantage of the publication and will draw wrong inferences and false impressions that will prejudice the people against the candi- dates of the republican party.
 Now, do you know what it means to say that? Why, it means that MT. Taft is conscious that his committee is re- ceiving contributions which if they were known would excite criticism by the peo- pie. Now, that is the admission that he makes
 MT. Bryan charged that the republicans were opposed to publicity because, he said, there were contributions being made to the republican campaign fund, which, if known, would make one feel that they were for the purpose of mortgaging the party in advance to special interests. and that, he declared, had been the trouble with 1egislat tion. The people had been unable to get good legislation because the great corporations had contributed the money to put into office those obliga- tions to them.
 ''Yes, they had Cannon of Illinois there' said a man in the crowd. He is only one of them" quickly re- piled Mir. Bryan. There are many others there that are just as bad and one of them was nominated flor vice president on the republican ticket, for MT Sherman is just as bad as Mir. Cannon on all matters of legislation"
 Taking up the labor question, Mir. Bryan denounced the speaker as an enemy of legislation favorable to labor, and said that so long as he was in the speakers chair, nothing in the way of reform could be secured. Even if Mr. Taft were elected and favored labor legislation, which he said the republican candidate did not, the speaker and MT. Taft would be in complete agreement The demo- cratic party, he insisted, was pledged to the legislation for which labor had been pleading.
 MT. Bryan left Lincoln at midnight for days campaigning in Iowa.