The Washington herald., 1908-05-08
ALL TALK FOR BRYAN
DistrictD DemOcratsSpeak Out
for Instructions.
COMMONER IS MUCH LAUDED
Sam De Nedrey Promises Labor Vote
fer Democracy-A. 4. LipscOmb
Tells of Organization Republican
Party Has Built Up and which Is a
Force for Continuance in Power.


Force for Continuance in Power.
Bryan enthusiasm and a prep0nderance
of opinion that the Democratic delegation
TO Denver should go instructed to vote
for the nomination OF the Commoner for
President Of the United States was again
manifested by the speakers before the
District Of Columbia Democratic Associa-
ton at its meeting last night IA the Nun
sey Building.
President Edwin A Newman urged in
structions. and his eulogy of Bryan was
echoed in the utterances Of James Hugh
Steeley. T. 7. Mahoney, ". O. Brink, A.
A. Lipseomb. Sam De Nedrey, and 9TH
ers. Mr.. De Nedrey promised the labor
vote for the Democratic nominee.
Newman Urges Instruction.
The meeting was called to order by
President Newman, who said in part:
Yesterday the great State Of Ohio.
a State in which the Republicans are
raeked and torn with facuonal dissen-
sions, instructed its forty-six delegates
for William Jennings Bryan. This is but
the beginning of the end.
Tomorrow Massachusetts will act,
and I am assured its delegation will like
wise be instructed. South Carolina pri-
maries already held have selected a
State convention solid for Bryan, Penn
MIC .fo
three out of sixty-four district delegates
for Mr. Bryan and are fighting to compel
the State convention to instruct the dele
gates-at-large.
This I say TO this audience Of loyal
Democrats in order TO show that II we
In the District fail to instruct We will
be tagging behind our neighbors and
friends The District Democrats have
no electoral vote 70 deliver. All they can
offer is moral support-the aid that comes
from loyal enthusiasm rightly directed.
IF they desire-to extend this aid to
he cause for which Mr.. Bryan stands
this year they can do IL best by sending
a delegation 10 Denver Instructed 10 vote
for him first, last and all the time. The
day that delegation Is chosen and those
instructions imposed the press OF the
whole nation will announce that the
Democracy Of the National Capital has
spoken, and spoken in no uncertain
terms
Attests Bryan's Popularity.
James Hugh Steeley was the next
speaker He said. in part:
There is not a statesman, not even
Samuel J. Tilden OF the last generation,
that is any better known than Mr..
Bryan. Even Blaine was not as well
known as Mr.. Bryant mean as well
known in most emphatic sense
"AIr. Bryan has been over this country
and looked into the eyes and shaken the
hand OF more men, I believe, than any
other man that is before the country To-
day They know him; they know him
personally.
He is not magic, II he is magnetic.
They can see in him what he SAYS he is
a Democrat. a peoples man. a man from
the ground 10 the heavens. He is not
afraid Of anything-certainly not of the
good God above US and in us. because
of his rectitude because OF his nobility
OF soul: and nobody has ever thought he
was afraid OF the devil or all the devils
that you could bring against him."
PIutocrats' Time Come.
F. T. Mahoney was introduced and
spoke. in part. as follows:
The time has come for the Democratic
party to drive out the plutocratic element.
It is an element that never was part OF
the real party; it has ever been STUN
bling block They profess to believe in
the fundamental principles of Democracy.
They participate in all our conventions.
in all our deliberations; but when the
ticket is formed and It does not suit
them, they are out ready TO knife US.
There are more hungry men and hun
cry women in this land tonight than
there have ever been in the last fifty
years. There are pitiaole conditions.
Now, If these are the fruits OF twelve
years OF plutocracy. on what in the world
can this administration and on what rea-
son can the Republican party go TO the
people and ask for an extension Of power
after twelve years that have produced
one OF the greatest financial panics, one
of the most profound Industrial depres-
sions, that has ever visited this country
No Gambling with Treasury Funds.
William G. Brink, of Pennsylvania,
said:
I'VE are going to put a man in the
White House-and ii will be William Jen-
nings Bryan-who will appoint a Secre-
tary Of the Treasury who will not loan
the peoples money TO the Wall street
gamblers to save them from bankruptcy.
He win be man that stands against spe-
eial privileges and for the rights of the
people"
Andrew A. Lipscomb, Of Washington,
said in part:
Il believe the masses of the Republican
party are as patriotic In their own opin-
ion and belief as the masses Of the Dem
ocratic party are. They are both patriots.
striving to do one thing: To attain good
government
To do that party must have d1SCi-
pline. or else it decays TO an un0rganized
mob. The Republican party has had the
advantage of its organization and its dis
cipline by possessing all the offices, and
it has had more than that to its advan-
tage.
1t possesses every railroad in the
OHitto States II pOaScSSeS every beifih III
the United States-I know of none which
has ever advocated Mr.. Bryan or Demo-
racy; it possesses every plutocrat in the
United States; it possesses in its ranks
every muitimilliOnaire in the United
States.
Therefore, when We go into that fight
we will find it arrayed against us with
that discipline powerful and wealthy
organization per Sc"
Labor Vote Assured.