Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-04-02
CHEER BRY-
AN and HARMON
pEmocRArIc LEADERS OUTLINE
POLICIES AT KANSAS CITY
DOLLAR DINNER.
Campaign Keynote for 1908 is 70
Be "RefOrm"-SynOpsis Of
Their Speeches.

Kansas City, No. March %-lns
greatest audience that ever gaInelsu
under one roof, to use the NeDfakAn
own language, greeted w. J. Bryan
and Judge Judson Harmon ~ was
Attorney General in the Caolnes OF
President Cleveland, in Convention
Hall here tonight.
The occasion for the appearance Oh
the two distinguished Democrats was
their response TO the invitation Of the
Young Mems Democratic Club OF
Missouri TO attend q dollar banquet
and the opening Of the Democratic
national campaign In Missouri
Twenty thousand is a conservative
estimate Of the number OF people,
largely men and voters, who crowded
Into Convention Hall 70 hear Bryan
and Harmon. They flled every seat
occupied every inch OF standing room
In toe aisles and on the stairwsys ana
overflowed into the banquet hoor,
dividing space With the 1000 diners
representing every county and citF
In the State.
Bryan was late 10 reaching the con-
vention hall. Every seat was taken
and the banquet was we'll under way
when the Nebraskan was seen to enter
the great Enclosure.
CHEERS DROWN ORGAN
Twenty thousand people, fully four
ffths OF whom we're men, rose In a
mass and the cheers that followed
we're tremendous. The applause con-
tinued for ten minutes after Bryan
had taken his seat 1t the speakers
table, drowning even the martial
~greetlng of the band. Governor Folk
sat at his right and Senator +. Nj.
McDavid, of Springfield. president OF
the Young Mems Democratic Club OF
Missouri sat at bis left.
The entrance OF Judge Harmon In
advance OF Bryan, accompanied by a
dozen or more Democrats, was the sig
nal for an outbuTst by the thousands
seated at the threescore banquet
tables.
FoRcEFUL PARAGRAPHS TAKEN FROM
BRyANs SPEECH
There is a Democratic element In
the Republican party to which q sue
cessful appeal can be made.
The Roosevelt sentiment is not SC
much attachment to q person as devo.
tion to an idea be stands for.
The President is praised by the
masses In proportion as be assails the
predatory corporations and pleads re-
forms that look to the restoration
OF equity and fairness.
Without the support OF the admins
tration, Secretary Taft would have
scarcely a State In the Convention.
With the Presidents support he is
having an uphill fight.
What chance for reform is there at
the hands OF Republican leaders who
take the side Of the corporations
against the people and act on the
theory that inducements must be held
out to capital, no matter how great
the burdens imposed on the producers
OF wealth?
There is no doubt that the masses
of the people, Republican and Demo
cratic, are In favor Of reform. II we
can only convince the voters that the
Democratic party will be true to re-
form, victory Is assured.
FROM HARMoNs SPEECH
The Republican emblem should
have been changed long ago to a
strutting turkey cock.
Careful estimates show that for
every dollar the Government gets on
goods imported, the men favored by
the Dingley tariff gets nineteen dol
lars in swollen profits.
The amounts taken from the people
for established and successful manu-
facturers by virtue Of these excessive
tariffs are simply graft. Protection
has become a false pretense. 1t is q
cunning scheme OF enriching the few
at the expense Of the many.
The Democrats had almost unbrok.
en- control of the government for the
first seventy years, while the dopula-
tion and wealth Of the country In
creased tenfold. Did anyone during
ali that time hear Of swollen fortunes,
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