The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-10
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braskan Leader in Strong
Nominating Speech.
SAYS CRISIS is AT HAND.
DECLARES THAT NATION FACES
DEEP TROUBLE IN DEALING
WITH CORPORATIONS AND
GREAT WEALTH.

liam jennings Bryan in nomination at
the Democratic national convention,
fred the audience with his eloquent
address. The speech was as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the
convention:
Crises arise in the life of nations,
which endanger their institutions and,
at times, imperil the advance of CIV
ilization.
Every people that has left its i'm
press upon history has faced such cri-
ses.
In most instances where grave dan
gers have threatened the safety OF the
state, some great character, some mas
ter mind, has been found, produced, as
1t were by the conditions themselves,
with capacity to direct Alright the ener-
giles of the people.
This was true of the ancient world;
1t has been true of the modern world;
it is true of this republic.
We have such crisis to meet today.
The favor-seeking corporations have
gradually strengthened their hold up
on the government until they now
menace popular institutions.
The question is whether this govern
ment shall be restored to the control
of the people and be administered In
the interest Of all, or whether 1t shall
remain an instrument in the hands of
the few for levying tribute upon all
the rest.
In his special message to congress
last winter, President Roosevelt de-
clared, substantially, that certain
wealthy men who have become enor-
mously rich by depressing the wage
Garner, defrauding the public and prac-
Using all forms of iniquity. have band
ed together, and by the unlimited use
Of money endeavor to secure freedom
from restraint and to overthrow and
discredit all who honestly administer
the law.
That the methods by which these
men have acquired their great fortunes
can only be justified by a system of
morality that would permit every form
of criminality every form OF violence,
, corruption and fraud.
For many years, and especially dur
men have been in contror OF the repub-
lican party: they have financed every
campaign of that party for a quarter
= of century.
These exploiters of the people whom
the president has so scathingly de-
nounced, have given their enthusiast
tic support to the republican candi-
dates and policies. They laid their
i hands upon the trust funds Of insur-
ance companies and other corporations
and turned the plumber over to the re-
publican committee. The money thus
filched from the innocent and helpless
to purchase republican victory, has not
been repaid.
And where do we find these men to-
day? Where are the swollen for
tunes" of which we have heard so
much? Just where we would expect
to find them-supporting the republi-
can ticket and furnishing the sinews
of war for the republican committee as
usual.
THE platform adopted by the state
convention shows what the republican
party In truth represents. In framing
the platform, every genuine reform
which the president has advocated
was scorned and repudiated. The
Wisconsin delegation asked that one
or two reform planks be placed in the
platform, and for its pains was de-
nounced as democratic. The conven-
ton by vote of eight to one refuse d
to approve those policies which the
president, for four years, has been urg-
ing upon his party. The mask of
hypocrisy has been torn from the face
of those who pretend to favor the re.
forms advocated by the president
and it is now apparent why the 'sys.
tenn admires Taft and hates the sena-
tor from Wisconsin.
When compelled to choose between
an appeal to the conscience of the ma
ton in defense of it's platform and
candidates. on the one hand. and the
millions that the special interests may
be depended upon to contribute. on
the other hand. that convention re-
jected and continued it's alliance with
Mammon.
II the charges made by the president
ic tluS-duu lHeS are tTu6-We are,
indeed, face to face with situation is
grave as any in our history How
shall it be met? The good sense. pa
triotism and united action of the peo-
pie alone can remedy present evils.
To wage successful fight we must
have leader The republican party
dominated by the seekers of special
privileges can not furnish him. Repub
licans who really desire reform are
powerless; the efforts of the president
have been futile.
The democratic party must furnish
the leader which present conditions
demand. and he must be man known
to be free from the influences that
control the republican party He must
be man of superior intellect, sound
judgment, positive convictions and
moral courage-one who will meet the
forces of plutocracy with the naked
sword of truth-one who knows no sur
render. He must have a genius fol
statecraft: he must be a man of wide
experience IN public affairs; he must
have ability to formulate policies anc
courage to defend them.
But ahove nil ha vnusf hava faith A.