The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-18
Made Two Speeches in Indian
apoIis Last Night Which
Bore on Political Topics
Confronting People.
DEMOCRACY GETS CREDIT
FOR MORAL AWAKENING.
Says That the Party Has
Brought 1t All About-EIo-
quent Plea for Harmony Is
Registered.

Indianapolis Ind. Feb. lS.-William
jennings Bryan was last night the
guest of honor al a banquet given in
his honor at the Claypool hotel by the
Indiana Democratic club. There were
politicians about him who had bolted
the ticket both times he headed it,
There were others who had been luke
warm toward him. and there we're
many who had sworn they never would
break the bread at his table There
were hundreds OF mis- radical and faith
mi followers. who were always ready
to brave almost anything in his be-
half
1t was a new era for Hoosier Demo
cratic hosts. Fractional lines were
wiped out, At the head OF the host
Bryan sat and smiled: he was more
serene than ever before. some one
whispered to him just before the feast
was spread that the banqueters moro
than likely would nominate him for the
presidency. That broad smile spread
over his expansive face.
I'm not like the school girl who
said that this is so sudden As Bry-
an marched into the banquet room.
with John Worth Kern. who was tout
ed as his probable running mate in the
national campaign. he came near seat
ing himself in a chair before which
there was a card bearing an ominous
''13 ="
The TOO guests included party lead
ers from every county. making ii the
most notable gathering in the recent
history of the democratic party in In
diana
Bryan made two speeches during
the evening. The first was Masonic
Hall. where he talked for an hour To
nearly 700. Hugh Dougherty presid.
cd at the meeting. The principal adj
dress was at the banquet. Bryan
there proceeded 10 elaborate his we'll
known views. His subject was. The
Point of View" He carried his audi.
ence in characteristic Bryan fashion.
He was cheered until there were hun
dreds OF sore political throats. He en-
deavOred to prove that President
Roosevelt had taken up with the issues
he had created
In his first speech he dwelt at length
on what he was pleased to term the
vindication of the democratic party
platform in the last Il years. He
concluded h-s first speech with brief
I tn ha
ocrats can claim priority 10 remedial
legislation that has been suggested dur
! ing the last few years.
In his banquet speech he dwelt brief
/ ly on the vindication of his policies
and he elaborated on The point Of
/ view
The Great Awakening.
! He spoke of the great moral awaken
| ing that has taken place, and claimed
that the democrats were largely re-
! spOnsible for it,
II was apparent that the great COM
moner regarded the tariff trust and
railroad regulations questions as vital
/ issues of the campaign. He discussed
! these issues from his weIl-known point
Of view. He did not attempt TO make
ither more important than the other.
In fact. he did not seem inclined to
eclare for anything as permanent it,
-ue. He discussed the labor question
along lines he has been following. He
adva ced his former ideas about impe-
rialism. One of the most interesting
| chapters of his speech was relative to
! the recent financial crisis. He called
| it a plain panic" and laid it To Wall
street gambling. He declared that
| there has been too much gambling
there during the last II years in water
! ed stock He did not accuse President
Roosevelt Of being responsible for ths
panic.
| All Harmony Now.
| Bryan declared that he never had
seen the democratic party united as .t
is now or the republicans divided as
they are. He asserted thae President
Roosevelt had made his radical ideas
| respectable He declared that the
| president has been especially helpful
| to him. He ridicuied the efforts Of
| the republicans TO keep from revising
| the tariff before the election. He sug-
| gested that In as much as George Ade
has been elected a delegate 10 the na-
tional convention that he ought TO be
! chosen to write the tariff plank. as II
would require humorist to write Il
| for the republicans He said the dem
| ocrats stood for an investigation Of
railroads tbat would prove what they
| were worth minus their watered stock
Then they would pass legislation 10
! regulate them.
/ Mr., Holle1t introduced Mr. Kern rs
& +g,..c- ma - a~ ~ tho Far1,-o. n, -