The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-24
HARMON BRYAN'S
RUNNING MATE
Former Attorney General Intro
duced at Birmingham, Ala,
as Next Vice President.
APPLAUSE WAS DEAFENlNG
BANQUET ATTENDED BY PROM
INENT DEMOCRATS.

Birmingham Ala. Jan. 2S.-Birmingham
rendered to William J. Bryan and Judson
Harmon a remarkable welcome during
their visit To the city today. Mr.. Bryan
made a public address this morning to
a crowd which taxed the capacity OF the
Bi1ou theatre. and hundreds were turned
away. Mr. Harmon spoke very briefly
at the morning meeting, and when he
was introduced as the next vice pres
ident' there was one OF the greatest
demonstrations of the day.
Mr.. Bryan. Mr. Harmon and Governor
Is. b. Conner spoke at the banquet given
by the board of trade tonight in honor
of the visitors. -Four hundred covers were
laid for this affair.
In his speech this morning Mr.. Bryan
predicted Democratic victory this year,
and he based his prediction on a united
hcan party. The principles of the Demo-
cratic platforms of the past had been
vindicated by their adoption by the Re
publicans.
Credit Should Be Divided.
IF the Republican party matches the
Democratic eggs" he said, the Demo-
Gratis are entitled to some of the credit -
Mr.. Bryan also said that the doctrine
or states rights was as dear TO the
northern states as il was to the south
ern states. lie praised Governor Conner
Governor Glenn and Governor Smith for
the fight they have made for the right
of the states to regulate corporations do
ing business in their states, and added
10 set himself up as greater than the
state.
The banquet tonight was attended by
prominent Democrats from all parts of
Alabama.
Mr. Harmon spoke to the toast "A
"Reminiscences" He said:
MIR. Harmon's Address.
Alabama redeemed. doubled in pOpu-
lation, and more than doubled in wealth,
and her sons marching behind Joe Wheel,
er and Fftz Lee, under the fuli-Starfed
ensign of the Union-One thing. more
than any other. made this possible II
was the regaining at last OF the right
of the state to govern itself. So long
as the federal government held control
there was no hope. When once this was
withdrawn, the future was secure. Any
American community great enough to be
commonwealth VIII work its way up
ward. when left to itself, as surely as
the germ pushes toward the sunlight.
Mistakes may be made, but they will be
corrected. New difficulties may arise
where the way seems clear, but they
will be SurmOunted. And out of il all
will be evolved and developed the first
essential of a free peOple-patient self
reliance under the grace of God.
The southern states are the only ones
which have ever been denied the fun right
of self-government under the constitu-
ton. and have had to struggle to re-
gain it, The natural result of their de-
Feat in the contest for right which they
did not possess was disregard of rights
of the constitution had to be saved again
from an attack which was not the less
dangerous because il was masked behind
the forms of law.
States Rights Regained.
In these times. when many seem in
clined TO grow impatient at the restraints
imposed on official action and and re-
sentful of appeals to the tribunals to
which the enforcement of these restraints
is entrusted, the people of the south will
not forget that the chief agency which
enabled them to regain the right of self
government was the courts. Regardless
or abuse and even threats and of the
outcrles of those to whom a form OF
government is Of no consequence when
II stands in the way of their ideas the
supreme court of the United States re-
placed and upheld the barriers Of the
constitution against federal invasion OF
the rights reserved to the states
Close Watch Necessary.
Il know you are too clear-eyed to bf
misled by any proposal. even though
made tempting by the promise of present
convenience or advantage, to let fedora
authority again dispiace that of the state
The motives and objects may be differ.
ent. but the principle is Just the same as
that which oppressed you in the years OF
reconstruction Even if the appearance
of present benefit should prove real II
would come too high, like Esau's Dot.
tage, for one usurpaton would certainly
lead 10 others. whose results would moi
De pleasing. NO real good can ever como
from wrong act or a foolish one; and
II is always wrong for any public agency
to oversteP the limits of the authoritS
conferred. and always foolish for any
free people to permit it.
Two excuses are advanced for fedora
intrusion into state affairs One is tina
the states do too little, and the other j.
that some of them do too much. in thI
way of railroad and corporate regulation
and other corrective measures These ar,
not contradictory, as they might at frs
appear. because there may be both TOO
little and too much public interference,
with the conduct of business, and boil
are harmful though my inherited and &C
quired ideas both lead me TO fear the too
much more than ] fear the too little. Il
is often hard TO draw the line between