The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-20
Hes a southerner and a Dem ocrat, Too, But Believes Bryan as President
 Impossible,
IS A SHALLOW THINKER
Believes Acbrask0n Orator mvincibly CihniOnatCd and IcmpCramcnlalN Incapable of Changing
 Ills Mind.

Sew York. oct. l9,-Scldom has William Jennings Bgyan, the demo- cratic candidate for president been so severely arraigncd during the present campaign as he was here to-night by General Luke E Wright, secretary of war who addressed q large mass |meeting at Terrace Garden
 General Wright, who was introduce ed as "a democrat having the honor of holding a cabinet position under a |rcpubican administration" was greet ed with enthusiastic cheering as soon as he appeared on the platform and his speech was repeatedly interrupted | by cheering and applause
 The speaker entered vigorously in- to the personal issues of the campaign |condemning Mir, Bryan in sharp terms for the lattor's reference in recent speech to President Roosevelt as the | hired man General Wright said |that such statements "ticklod the |groundlings, but made the ludicious Igricyo He then outlined the DOW l |crs of the president in an endcayor to show that the president is not n hired man but the chief ruler or | the people,
 Secretary Wright in from Tcnncs- sec and at one time governor general |of the Philippines, was the principal Speaker Unusual interest attached to his remarks. By training and cduca- | .tlon q democrat, he boltcd the first |nomination of Mir Bryan in 1896. TU- .nisht he reiterated his opposition 10 .him and advocated tho election of Mr. Taft. He asserted that even the most friendly judge must admit that n the elevation of William Jennings Bryan the people are making a most
 hazardous experiment." and predict fd that in the election of Mr. Taft Rll tho great interests of the country will be assured of a square deal and NIll resume their march of pro- Ercss
 He then made some comparison of he material points of the platforms bf the two great parties in those par lcuar parts in which they arc in con |lict.
 The omission of the democratic party platform to declare for revenue 'nly Secretary Wright said, was not occidental, but was intended to pre- ent q plank upon which democratic rec traders and protcctionlsts alike ould stand He took mp Bryan and ketehed his free silver record, the point being to show as the secretary aid that Mr. Bryan is mentally so onstituted that he has never vet be-
 eved himself wrong and uotwith- Banding that every prophecy he made to the disastrous results which |ccrllc from maintaining the gold
 andard was ralsircd and shown to without the slightest foundation. lr, Bryan neither confessed nor saw
 is error, and only consented to put Fdc his remedy when he found that obodN would take 1t"
 He seems to think as lo some other
 1aloW thinkers. that better results 7n be obtained by referring every
 lostIon of Importance directly to the copEc than by having the people sc-
 let their agents, supposedly because
 thrir fitness for legislative work 10 T for them after investigation, dc- beraton and discussion
 ''ln referring, as l have done, tu Mr..
 ryau's crude and dangerous Gnan-
 al heresies, to his economic and so-
 al fallacies, it Is not for the purpose
 attacking his honesty or imputlng
 him insincerity. As a man and cit-
 en he is entitled to the highest TO- beet, and l chcerlully accord to him
 tcgrity and personal worth My idgrnent is that in all the wild and angcrous measures he has proposed
 the public, 1t was in the belief that
 was acting for the general good. l
 so believe from my studies of his ut-
 rances and career, that he Is q man
 intense convictions, inyincibly opu-
 hated and tetnporamcntallv mcap- ple of changing his mind.