The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-09
Bryan Castigates Roosevelt and
 Candidate Taft
ADDRESS ID THE STUDENTS
Northwestern University Entertains MT. Bryan, Who Discusses Poli- tics Before Several Thou
 sand Students.

Chicago, October S.-Having temporarily bridged the political chasm which sep arated them and shaken hands with his republican opponent, William J. Bryan, democratic candidate for President, to- day again sallied forth and resumed his warfare. Not only MT. Taft, but Pres ident Roosevelt came in for q severe yer bal eastigation at his hands. This after noon he rode out to Evanston, q distance of b miles, in an automobile, and there addressed several thousand students of Northwestern university and citizens of the city, and tonight journeyed to Chi acago Heights, where he spoke to a gather ing of laboring men. He will leave in the morning for tour through Illinois and Missouri.
 Mr. Bryan's principal remarks today were made at Northwestern university. He first dwelt at some length on the de- sirability of good citizenship. Address ing himself especially to the students, he said he wished to get them started right lie referred to the fact that his father did not leave him much money, Il am rather glad that he did not he said, Tor l think fortunes have spoiled more boys than they ever have aided, and d fortune in execution has paralyzed ambi- ton more than it ever has stimulated it. .
 He then referred to the advice his father had given him. that he could afford to be in the minority, but that he could not afford to be wrong on any question:
 He said that if l was in the minority and right, declared the speaker, q would some day be in the majority; but that if l was in the majority and wrong I would some day be ill the minority. He taught me to believe that victory would finally come to every righteous cause, and that feeling is the only faith that can inspire one to fight earnestly and continuously for what he believes to be right.
 Quoting from Jefferson, MT. Bryan said country, and that wherever speech was free those two parties would manifest themselves. Jefferson, he said described those parties as democratic and aristu- cratic. The democratic party. he declared, was nearer the people and, therefore, it was only question of time when the peoples party would be the triumphant one in the United States.
 MT. Bryan charged that the republican leaders were not going in the direction that the people of the republican party wanted to go. In rejecting the publicity of campaign funds before election, he said, the republican leaders of the con vention had in June last betrayed the rank and file of their own party, and misrepresented the voters of the country. MT. Taft, he said, had repudiated that action, but had gone only half way, and favored publication of campaign contri- buttons after elections. He attacked MT Taft's position on the tariff, trusts and labor questions.
 once again he f1ayed President Roose- welt for interfering, as he said. in the campaign. The vigorousness with which lle spoke aroused the crowd to cheers. The President he charged, had violated both the spirit and the letter of every civil service law, by intimidating the sev- eral hundred thousand officeholders 'I have no corporation behind me-. he de- clared "I have had no rich relatives to furnish money for the campaign. l had but one thing to rely upon, and that was my advocacy of things that I believe and that my party believe have made my fight and I stand as the representative of millions of people. who believe as do. and I say to the President that he should stand aside and let his man and me fight 1t out before the American peo- ple.
 Continuing Mr. Bryan said that he be- lieved that "the Presidents interference violates a sense of justice that can be found in every human heart. and l have a right to criticise this use of the presi- dency."
 The democratic candidate declared that long before his hearers ever heard his name he was endeavoring to get an amendment to the constitution that would make tfe President ineligible for re-elec- ton. 'I have said in three campaigns" he continued that if elected l would not be a candidate for reelection. l be- lieve that when q man occupies that office and holds in his hand the peoples power. he ought not to be tempted to ,se it for his own ambition. If l am elected 1 want to tear from my heart every selfish ambition and for four years give to my country whatever ability have that l may work to make this again government in which the people rule and under which every citizen shall draw from society a reward proportionate to the service he renders his fellow man..