Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-13
BRYAN FIT FOR PULPIT
New Jersey Congressman Lauds
 kebraSkan In House.
cRITICISES HIS COLLEAGUE.
Representative Hamill Takes Leake to Task For Making Some Remarks perosatory to Bryan, Who, He Says, ls Qualified For White House.

Washington, Feb. 13.-For the sec ond time this week politics cropped out during the discussion of the h. dian appropriation bill in the house of representatives. MT. Hamill Dem., N. J.) got the floor for five minutes, presumably to talk on the bill.
 My colleague, Mir. Leake, last Mon- day made some remarks derogatOry of the conduct of William Jennings Bry- an." he said, and before he could con : tinue Mir. sherman (N. Y.l rose and said amid general laughter, T must take the point of order that this sec tion of the bill does not appropriate for William Jennings Bryan" There were demands that Mir. Hamill be al- lowed to proceed. On condition that Mir. Leake should be permitted five minutes to reply the permission was accorded. r Resuming his remarks, MT. Hamill said that the sentiments as expressed by Mir. Leake "are not the sentiments I entertain or the sentiments that pre- vail in Hudson county. which we both represent; prevail, for that matter, throughout the state of New Jersey" Mir. Bryan had been criticised be- cause of his knowledge of the Deca- logue. In his opinion, it was amaz- ing that Mir. Bryan should be openly opposed on the floor of the house be- cause he showed an acquaintance with the Ten Commandments, but who throughout the entire course of his public career has consistently put the precepts of the Commandments into practice"
 Shouts of Democratic approval greet cd Mir. Hamills announcement that. while he agreed with the statement that Mir. Bryan's knowledge of the Commandments would fit him to occu- py pulpit with pre-eminence, Il can also assure the house, refiecting at the same time their own conviction, that that same acquaintance will en- able him to occupy with eclat the post of president of the United States" The principles Mir Bryan espoused were so undeniably sound that his victorious opponents have appropriate ed many of them and made them the popular features of their policies"
 If. said Hamill. 1t was true, as charg- ed by his colleague, that Mir. Bryan was engaged in the practice of cor. railing delegates to the Denver con- vention, it was the very same prac- tice indulged in "by the illustrious gentleman whom my friends on the other side of the chamber boast of as their political chieftain."
 All eyes turned toward Leake Dem, \. JJ. who amid Republican applause said that he had been misunderstood and that the Congressional Record would bear him out that he had cast no aspersions on the peerless one" His tone in referring to Mir. Bryan was SO sarcastic that he was again 1 applauded by the Republicans. MT. | Leake said that it was his honest opin- 1 ion that his views reflected the senti- i ment of his district. his state and the | country. There were certain principles l of the Democratic party which had been departed from since 1896 'and that in this year. when we see an op- portunity of victory, we are still trust ing our fortunes to the distinguished gentleman from Nebraska
 Leake spoke of the doctrines Of Thomas Jefferso1 and. revertinz to Mr Bryan. provoked vociferous Republic an applause and general laughter when | be said:
 ~I believe that Mir. Bryan is sin .cere and honest. and I belIeve he Is truthful. and I believe. further. that be cannot represent the principles of Democracy before the American peo be. I believe that he cannot preach he doctrine of home rule In the states
 do net beiieve hs can preach tssl