The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-07
Democratic Candidate Pokss Little Quiet Fun At Taft's
 Latest Move
GREATEST SIN IS MADE
 VIRTUE BY IMITATION"
Bryan Speaks of Several Reforms Which He Has Advocated and Which Have Been Adopted
 By the Republicans.

Fairview, Lincoln, Neb. September G. William J. Bryan left here at 4 o'clock today over the Rock Island railroad for Chicago and thus began a three-weeks' campaign tour which will carry him into the middle west the eastern states and back through the west into South Dakota, before returning home
 Perhaps no recent news afforded the democratic candidate for President so much interest as the announcement that MT. Taft proposed making a campaign tour. Mir. Bryan regarded his opponents decision as a distinct vindication of his course in the present, as we'll as his two previous campaigns. when he tracked over the country and delivered political speeches. When asked if he had any com ment to make on the subject MT. Bryan said:
 Well. I am getting a great deal of consolation out of the way the President and MT. Taft have been doing. I used to be called hard names because I advocated an income tax, and now the income tax has been indorsed by the President and MT. Taft. I used to be bitterly denounced because I favored railroad regulation. Now the President and MT. Taft have brought that reform into popularity and am no longer considered dangerous. used to get a good deal of criticism be- cause I favored tariff reform, but now tariff reform has become so urgent that MT Taft is willing to have a special ses. sion called immediately after inaugura. tion to act on the subject It used to be that when I talked about independence for the Philippines I was told that the American flag never came down when it once went up. Now we have a repub- lcan candidate for President who believes that the Philippines must ultimately have independence.
 But I have reason to rejoice over the fact that some of the things I have done are now viewed in more favorable light. When I secured some photographic rec ords that might discuss political ques- tions before more people, the republican papers ridicued me, and called 1t undg- nified, but MT. Taft has lifted the phono- graph to an eminence by talking into it himself,
 And now my greatest sin is to be made a virtue by imitation. Surely imitation is the sincerest form of fattery. When went out campaigning in 1896 and 1900 they said it was demagogic to run around over the country hunting for votes. Now it is eminently proper since MT. Taft is going to do it, and I hope the republican papers will make due apologies. They said in 1896 and 1900 that I was scared when I made speeches from the rear end of a train, and I was, and the results showed that I had reason to be. l have been wondering where this explanation would be given when MT. Taft starts out, and whether the result will be the same with him that it was with me.
 '.It is hard for us to keep our patents from being infringed on this year. l am afraid they will try to raise campaign fund by popular contributions next
 Mr Bryan is due in Chicago in the morning at $40 o'clock, and he will pro- ceed at once to the Auditorium annex, where the democratic headquarters are located, and there confer with Chairman Mack and the others of his political man. agers.