The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-25
Monster Demonstrations Are Met
 With In New York
VOTE OF STATE IMPORTANT
Bryan Makes Reply to Roosevelt In One of His Speeches and Takes Thrust at Governor Hughes
 on Insurance Question.

Elmira, N Y. October 24-Ciosing to- night with a monster demonstration In this city, William J. Bryans advent into the Empire state was an suspicious one. Tt has been a red letter day" remarked the candidate while resting in the state room of his private car. He was greeted all the way through the southern tier by enormous crowds, his audiences at Port Jervis, Binghampton and at this city being made up largely of working men who gave the democratic candidate an especially hearty greeting. oswego and Waverly also turned out great throngs. MT. Bryan frequently thanked the people along the line of travel for the cordiaIity of their reception. At Binghampton he took the occasion to reply more specifical- ly to President Roosevelts attack on Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. "The trouble with President Roosevelt is," he declared. that he does not recognize the possibili- ty of an error in his own Judgment and will not admit that any one opposed to him can possibly be right
 Todays journey was begun at Jersey City. where Just before leaving early this morning the candidate delivered a short address iu thy railway station. Fly
 special courtesy of the New York state
 democratic committee the train was stopped at Paterson, N. J. for ten min utes, where another brief talk was given, in which after reading a speech by MT. Taft yesterday in which Mir. Taft ad- mtted that the panic of 1907 was repub- lican panic and ascribed it to over-pros- perity, MT. Bryan told the big crowd as- sembled that at last the people were en- abled to pass intelligent judgment in that regard. From that time on he used this as his weapon in arguing for the support of the democratic ticket.
 Every person who feels that he has had too much prosperity and deserved the punishment of panic" he said, should vote the republican ticket The rest can vote for us.'
 The importance of the electoral vote of New York was dwelt upon by the candi-
 date at several points, because, he said,
 in New York the responsibility of the
 voter was greater than anywhere in the udtlou, tuS NOle Ol one NOtef utfe
 may elect 39 electoral votes"
 Mir Bryan lost no opportunity to plead for the election of Lewis S. Chanler as governor, well as the entiret state ticket In his speech at Goshen he gave Governor Hughes thrust, when he spoke
 of the New York law limiting the amount of insurance an insurance company can
 write. The law, he said, had been en-
 acted at the suggestion of the same Gov
 ernor Hughes. who criticised the dem- ocratic plan for controlling the trusts. If it is proper to fix an arbitrary limita- ton upon an insurance company at 71a
 pre- cent" he continued, Tit would not be
 cruel to limit trust or corporation to 50
 per cent of the total product in which it is | engaged"
 At Hancock, N. Y., a man who said he was a stonecutter out of work, climbed on the railing of MT. Bryahs car while it was well under way and made frantic appeal to talk to the candidate. He was
 hauled onto the platform and led to the stateroom of the candidate, who willingly consented to receive him.
 MT Bryans car was attached to the midnight Erie train for New York city,
 where it is due tomorrow morning. Tomorrow will be spent in resting. The campaign will be resumed Monday at Patterson, where MT. Bryan promised to- day he would return before resumlng his New York engagements, which will keep him in the state for four days longer.