Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-16

no such fear. In 1895 there were
people so alarmed at what they
thought was menace in my candi-
dacy that when the election was over
honest and religious men knelt down
and thanked God that the country had
been saved" go
He declared that no such feeling
could be found today. 'There are" he
said, mo people who are fearful OF
danger in case of my election" The
only people, he said, who would feel
that they had been saved in case of
his defeat were "the kind that do not
thank God for their safety" That
difference in the temper of the peo-
pie, he maintained was apparent
everywhere Continuing, he said:
"In 1896 the clerks in the stores
were in many, If not most, cases, given
to understand that if | won there
might be no business doing in the
country for four years. Today the
clerks in the stores are not being CO.
creed by their employers as they were
twelve years ago. The clerks in the
stores are learning that under repuh-
llcan rule their living expenses have
increased more rapidly than their sal
aries"
He created shouts Of laughter and
applause when he remarked that If
there was any clerk In the audience
who did not know that, he could ask
his wife.
"There were" he said. business
men who in 1896 thought their busi-
ness was jeopardized, or would be, by
democratic victory, but these busi-
ness men in the last twelve years have
learned enough about the trusts 10
know that their business has been
Iieopardized under republican rule and
that nothing but a democratic victory
can save their business There were
many small Manufacturers who view
ed with alarm democratic victory in
1896, but the smaller manufactures
knows today that his business Is inse-
cure as long as great trusts are per-
mitted to stalk abroad and drive into
bankruptcy men who refuse to sell
Tout to them. In 1896 laboring men
were threatened with a panic in case
of my election, and they have learned
that the democratic party has no mo-
nopoly on panics. They have learned
that the republican party can bring on
panic as well as the democratic
party.
$50, my friends. no matter among
what people you go; no matter In Wha'
'seetion you are; no matter to whom
you address your remarks, you find
that today the people have better
understanding of what the republican
party stands for and what Its policies
mean than they had a few years ago
/ And IL YOU want to know why, after
F, two defeats, | have been renomin3ted
with no president to help me with hi
! patronage, It Is due to one thing alone
! and that Is the growth Of the ideas fo'
which | stand and the convicuol
! among the people that | am on thei
! side.
2 Il want 10 call attention to some o
c the evidence that the democratic par
: ty meets the demands Of the presen
r and has the sympathetic support OF
s large majority of the people. NJ.
: friends. when ! am talking out west
Y tell the republicans that II | coul'
bring them up one at a time and pre-
: sent them on the platform and quea
6 tion them, could prove by their ow
e testimony that nine-tcnths OF ther
: are democrats, and don't know 1t. NOV
i I don't know whether the proportio
G Is as large down here or not. but cal
n prove to you that many, very many
d who call themselves republicans, az
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