Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-17
BEVERIDGE TOURS STATE
Winds Up with a Great Meeting at
Lincoln in the Evening.
BRYANITEs TRY TO RUSH HIM
Indiana Man BIdes Hts Time and Then
Turns the Denomination 20 Adj
vantage in Making His
own Points.


N@NNAh - 49,
LINCOLN. oct. 16.-(Special Telegram.)-
BY his ]eloquence and agurment tonight
Senator Albert J. Beveridge Of In
diana quieted an audience packed with a
yelling crowd OF Bryan sympathizers, II he
failed to convince. The Bryanites had
come in a bunch to cheer for their favorite;
they left at the conclusion of the address
either quiet or cheering for Taft. In this
respect the meeting was the most noted
ever held in Lincoln, and many times 1t
took on dramatics.
The meeting which Senator bevevidge ad-
dressed was held at the Auditorium under
the auspices Of the Young Mems Republi-
can club and it concluded a days speaking
in Nebraska for the Indiana man. The
Auditorium was packed to the doors, gal
lery and ground floor and hundreds stood.
Not a man left the hall until adjournment.
The Union Veterans Republican club was
there in a body and lis drum corps and its
singers furnished the music. Senator Bever-
idge was introduced by Senator Burkett
and within a few minutes after he began
his address he mentioned the name Of Mr..
Bryan. This was the signal for the packed
gallery to let loose and it did. Many on the
floor took up the cheering and for a time
it looked as though the Bryanites were in
the majority.
Patiently the Indiana man waited until
the cheering subsidized, then he asked the
people to listen to him as one American
talking to another. Personally he said,
he had great respect for Mr.. Bryan, but
he asked the opportunity to discuss the
things he stands for and compare these
theories with the deeds Of the republican
party and candidate.
Question for Bryan,
Senator Beveridge began by showing that
there were republican senator's who OPP
posed the Taft policies. He then asked
Mr.. Bryan five questions which he had
asked on previous occasions and which
had not been answered. In these inquiries
Mr.. Beveridge asked Mr.. Bryan II the
democratic senators would favor his poll
cies. He called the names of these sena-
tors. He asked If Mr.. Bryan would repeat
any of the progressive. legislation enacted
during the last seven years.
He asked IL the people were not entitled
to know where the democratic senator's
stood on the Bryan policies. The questions
were posers for the Bryanhte sympathizers
and after he had reeled off the names Of
Parker, Sullivan, Guffey, Taggart and a
few others who have Joined with Tillman
in support of Bryan and inquired the why
thereof, there was no more disturbance.
Then when the senator explained that a
tariff for revenue only meant a tariff
which would raise the most money, the
democrats sat up. When he explained that
coffee with a tariff upon It would bring
in the greatest revenue because used by
practically all the people, they took notice
and cheered for the tariff revision promised
by the republicans. The discussion of the
injunction plank in the democratic plat
form, which was brought forth by a ques-
ton from the audience, was greeted with
wild applause. If carried out as Mr.. Bryan
advocated it the injunction would be rend-
cred worthless, he explained. Then he
showed that where one Injunction ran
against a labor union 200 were against
organized capital. Should Mr.. Bryan's way
prevail, he said. corporations would violate
injunctions and then demand a jury trial
appeals would be taken from one court to
another until the original offense would be
forgotten.
Improves His Opportunities.
He told the crowd the republicans had
| enacted a temporary currency law and then
had appointed a commission to draft, after