The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-15
Nebraskan Creates Enthusiasm
 In Baltimore
THOUSANDS HEAR SPEECH
Bryan Presents the Issues of the Cam paign to His Hearers and His Words Are Received With
 Tremendous Applause.

Baltimore Md, September 14-William J. Bryan, democratic candidate for pres ident today for second time. claimed the attention of the voters of Maryland. He spoke twice, the first time at An napolis, where he discussed the issues of the campaign, and tonight in this city in the Fifth Regiment Armory, before an audience, which, 1t is conservatively estimated, exceeded 25,OO0 people. MT. Bryan received an ovation. The crowd cheered vociferously and displayed impa- tience over the preliminaries, which in- cluded an address of introduction by Gov ernor Brothers, who attacked President Roosevelt and charged him with being the most extravagant executive the coun- try ever has known.
 When Mir. Bryan stepped to the front, pandemonium reigned. The crowd rose en masse, cheered and waved flags, the band all the while playing Dixie" MT. Bryan devoted most of his time to a discussion of the same issues that he has presented elsewhere but he added a little local color by explaining that in some of the cities of the east the dem ocratic party was at a disadvantage be- cause 1t not only lacked the means of getting democratic policies before the voters, but was subject to misrepresen- tatlon as to such policies. He stated with emphasis that there was nothing in the democratic platform that need alarm any legitimate interest. Among other things, he said:
 ,5; the republican platform in that our party distinctly declares what 1t opposes and what 1t favors. When you read the dem ocratic platform you know exactly what to expect, for the two candidates are pledged to the platform. You not only know what the platfrom includes, but you know that 1t excludes everything else: The repu j. an platfoi.s, Is am- , biguous and uncertain When you get through reading it you are in the dark as to what the president will do.p
 Mr.. Taft, he said, had already amend ed his platform in several particulars, but no one knew what other amend ments he might add before the cleo tion, and what additions he might make to it after election. When any one came to construe the republican plat form, he said, a guessing contest was entered into and no one could tell whose guess was nearest the truth. President Roosevelt, he declared, was elected upon @ similar platform.
 And as his platform promised noth- ing in particular, he felt at liberty to recommend a number of things the republican leaders objected to-" The result was, he said a constant con fiict between the executive and Con gress.
 Speaking of the policy of the demo- cratic party, MT. Bryan said that demo- crats believed that popular questions sh hould be submitted to the public. and that the decision of the public was binding on officials. AS the republic ans do not present specific proposi- tions," he asserted, a republican vic tory could not be construed as declar~ alton in favor of any particular re- form or against any existing abuse.
 He said that Maryland by right was democratic state and that no demo- crat could find in the Denver platform an excuse for voting the republican ticket. But" he said, republicans who recognize the abuses that have find reason for joining with the democrats to restore the government to it's own foundation for the demo- cratic sentiment in the country is far larger than any party, and the demo- cratic sentiment demands that the laws shall be made in the interests of the whole people, and that the government shall be administered in such a way that the rights of all shall be protected, and that special privileges shall be nc longer granted to the few"