Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-10
NOTHING BUT DENUNCIATiON.
1t Has Become Mania With the Oft
Democratic Candidate.

Galesburg III. oct. 9.-StandinG today
on the same platform from winch Mi.
Taft, his Republican opponent, only few
days ago delivered an address. w ].
Bryan denounced President Roosevelt
once again for participating in the cam
paign in behalf of Mr.. Taft. asserted
that MI. Taft could give no promise OF
real reform and attacked the Republican
party generally for what he called It's in
Justice To the labo1inG men and tine peo-
pie generally.
When tie special train bearing The
Presidential candidate reached the sta
tion = great crowd cheered him. bot uno,,
his arrival at Knox College. VIII re the
platform was erected. he faced o'.e of the
largest audiences that ever assembled
here He took fo, his theme ''Jusiice''
and hinged his preliminary remarks on Il
quotation from Piutarch, that "Mon en-
terrain three sentiments concerning the
gods They fear them for their power.
admire them for their wisdom and love
them for their justice.
Referring to MI. Taft's visit Mr.. Bryan
remarked:
"lt is no new thing for YOU to see next
President for having seen my opponent
Mr.. TAFT and now seeing me- you arc
certain that you have seen the next Pres
ident. although neither of us is as Ger
tain as would like to he which It is.
And here. too, you saw. those of YOU VIII"
lived at that time. two men VIII" pitt cd
against each other in ore of the most hi =
ter contests that has been known in the
history of the world. for I think | AIN
safe in saying that the records of time
give no parallel to the great series of
bates between Lincoln and Douglas"
Referring to the quotation from Ph-
tarch. Mr.. Bryan said that Justice" Lad
been his theme N years ago and Justice. "
was his theme today He said he would
try to show how on several different
questions the Democratic party was :,-
pealing for justice. He then spoke con-
corning publicity or campaign rontribu-
,ions before election and ridiculed Mr..
Taft for expressing Il personal inclina-
tior" toward the proposition and not cont
ing ont sguarely for it, Following a dc
fn,ncia,ion Of Speaker Cannon and Mr.
Sherman. the Republican Vice Presiden-
tial nominee. for, as he said, sitting in
the House of Representatives. legislation
that would benefit the people he took UP
the labor aNeft ION, The crowd vas moved
to rousi,$ cheers when he declared that
the Democratic party insisted upon Jus
tice to those who toll.
The Republican party" he said. "has
allowed tn" lobbyists of great corporate
interests to stihe labor legislation and
he informed his hearers that the Demo.
cratic party's remedy was to handle the
lahoring man as u human being and not
as a mere piece Of merchandise
I'VE are not willing" he said that a
man made in the image of his Creator.
with heart and brain and soul. shall Ia
degraded to the lcvcl of dollars and cents
That great statesman who was engaged
in debate in this place in 1855 Abraham
Lincoln, year after he spoke here wrote
letter to some people in Boston and IN
that letter he said that the Republican
party believed in the man and tho dollar
but that In case of conflict it believed In
tie man before the dollar" Mr. BRYAN
said that the Democrats believed that
that was the proper relation between
money and men. He then ct some length
argued for the proposition of granting
tempt.
Mr.. Bryan made fun Of the Republican
platform. hasinS his remarks principally
an 4 recent editorial in the Omaha Bee
which criticized n part of the RepDb,i-
can tariff plank under the idea that 1t