The San Francisco call., 1908-08-07
TO FORM NATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Bryan Adopts Suggestion OF
Senator Bob Taylor of Ten
nessee to Count Voters
Nebraskan Issues Reply to Lett
ter From President of Manu-
facturers' Association

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug e.--As the re-
suit Of a visit to William j. Bryan
today of Senator Bob" Taylor OF Ten
nessee, who is here to deliver Chau-
tauqua lecture, the national commit
tee or the democratic party, with the
concurrence of Bryan, will soon enter
upon an elaborate plan for ascertain
ing the sentiment of the country toward
their standard bearers. This plan con-
templates the formation of national
democratic club, with state and county
clubs as subsidiaries, whose duty 1t
Will be to report to the central or
ganization data favorable or unfavor-
able to the national ticket. It is pro-
posed also that these clubs shall poll
the voters of the United States, and
to every section where the feeling Is
adverse to the democratic candidates
the leaders will send literature and
speakers
The proposition appealed to Bryan,
who said that he would at once take
steps to get the national club under
way.
Senator Taylor was accompanied to
FairYiew by Mayor F. w. Brown of
Lincoln, one of Bryan's stanchest
friends and advisers.
Il have been in Kansas, Missouri and
Indiana" said Senator Taylor. TO
my mind Bryan has better chance
for election than Cleveland had in 1892.
found many republicans In Kansas
who told me they would vote for
Bryan, and as for Indiana, the pros
poets for democratic success are good"
He predicted that Tennessee would go
democratic by 10000.
WILL DISCUSS TARIFF
Bryan has decided to make an ex-
dad o,, IA riff onAGtfnr q
Des Moines. iowa, October 21. and to
spend the three following days in Chi
cago in consultation with Chairman
Mack and other party leaders over the
plan of campaign.
When asked whether he had noticed
that many of the republican candidates
in Nebraska were coming out in favor
of the proposition for the guaranty
of bank deposits, Bryan replied that
he had been told SO, adding: 1T is
one of the straws that show which
way the wind is blowing" Bryan will
discuss the subject fully in his forth
coming Topeka speech.
Among the other visitors to Fairview
! today was Alexander Corkey of Ire
land He left the Bryan home with q
souvenir from the democratic nominee
in the shape of small stone from the
sea of Galilee picked up by Bryan on
/
caller was DR.. A. E. Stewart of Cedar
Bluffs. Neb., who was member of the
convention which nominated Bryan fo1
! his first term in congress. They had
not met for several years.
REPLIES TO VAN CLEAvE
Bryan gave out tonight his reply tc
a circular letter sent to the business
men Of the country by James w. Van
| Cleave, president of the Manufacturers
| association, urging them to go to the
polls in November and bury Bryan and
Organism forever" Bryan accused Van
Cleave of having a narrow idea of wha,
constituted a businessman and enters
into an elaborate defense of the demo-
cratic platform, saying in part:
The platform draws distinction be-
tween associations of wage earners or
ganized for the purpose of wages and
the improvement of labor conditions
and industrial corporations which act
in restraint of trade. The difference
between. a labor organization and a
trust is so apparent that no disinter-
ested person will deny that they should
be treated separately. To class the
two kinds of organizations together
and deal with them under one law is
bound to do injustice to one or the
other. Surely the businessmen can
have no vital concern including the
labor organizations in the antitrust
laws"
Bryan in conclusion declares that
Van Cleave does the businessman an
injustice in assuming that his waking
hours are filled with fears of the wage
earners and that his nights rest is
broken by imaginary disputes with
those who toll.