The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-16


leghenies and your presence here to-
day is evidence of a feeling of SYM
pathy with our platform and with our
cause, and | rejoice that conditions
are so much more favorable to an I'M
derstanding of our policies than they
were twelve years ago"
Change Since 1895.
Mr.. Bryan then compared the differ
ence between the conditions in 1896
and the present time. When 1 spoke
in the east in 1885, he said, ~ recog-
niZed that there was an intense oppo-
sition. l recognized that there were
people who feared that my election
would be injurious TO the country. and
they communicated fear to those who
worked for them. Today there is no
such fear. In 1896 there were people
so alarmed AZ what they thought was
a menace in my candidacy that when
the election was over honest and re-
ligious mex knelt down and thanked
God that the country had been saved"
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 We're the kind that do not
thank God for their safety" That diff
ference in the temper of the people. he
maintained, was apparent everywhere.
Continuing, he said:
What the Clerks Were Told.
"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 advised by their
employers as they were twelve years
ago. The clerks in the stores are
are learning that under Republican
rule their living expenses have in
creased more rapidly than their sala-
ries"
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.
They Know Better Now.
There were" he said. business men
who, in 1896. thought their business
was jeopardized. or would be, by
Democratic victory, but these business
men in the last twelve years have
learned enough about the trusts to
know that their business has been
jeopardized under Republican rule. and
that nothing but a Democratic victory
can save their business. There were
many small manufacturers who feared
Democratic victory in 1896. but the
smaller manufacturer knows today
that his business in insecure so long
as great trusts are permitted to stalk
abroad and drive into bankruptcy men
who refuse to sell out to them. In
1896 laboring men were threatened with
panic in case of my election, and
they have learned that the Democratic
party has no monopoly on panics. They
have learned that the Republican party
can bring on panic as well as the
Democratic party.
Nominated by the People.
so. my friends. no matter among
what people you go; no matter in what
section you are; no matter to whom
you address your remarks, you find
that today the people have better un-
derstandinng of what the Republican
party stands for and what its policies
mean than they had a few years ago.
And If you want to know why, after
two defeats, | have been renominated
with no president to help me with his
patronage, it is due to one thing
alone, and that is the growth of the
ideas for which / stand and the con-
viction among the people that l am
on their side.
Democracy Meets the Demands.
II want to call attention to some
evidences that the Democratic party
meets the demands of the present and
has the sympathetic support of large
majority of the people. My friends.
when | am talking out west / tell the
" "a hrf, hat
up one at time and put them on the
platform and question them 1 could
prove by their own testimony that
of them are Democrats
and don't know it, Now, don't know
the proportion is as large