The Washington herald., 1908-01-17
DAVIS LAUDS BRYAN
Senator Speaks Strongly at
Cooper Union.
MODEL OF RIGHT THINKING
Resolution Adopted by Great New
York Audience Demanding the
Nomination Of the. NcbrasISan for
the Presidency-SenatO Gore, Of
oklahoma, Also Pays High Tribute.

New York Jan. Ex-senator JEFF Davis
of Arkansas. took the unbowed spirit Of
William Jennings Bryan by the hand and
led it up 10 the heights of the temple Of the
gods before an audience gathered in mass
meeting under the auspices Of the Pro
gressive Democratic League. at Cooper
Union tonight. OF Mr.. Bryan he made
this eulogy:
God bless that man. In his arduous
labors Of campaigning / am now con-
vinced that he has been upheld by the
arm OF God and supported by His spirit
AR Bryan may never be President but
he viii ever stand as a model of right
thinking and stern endeavor for the youth
of this glorious country to proht by
Cooper Union Crowded.
The Progressive Democratic League,
that league of which Augustus Thomas.
the playwright, is president, opened up
its campaign in the interests or the Ne
braskan-one with two hot ones from
the Southland, as Chairman Harry w
Walker put it in his opening address.
third "hot one from Cleveland was
expected 10 be present I'm the person of
Mayor Tom i. Johnson. but a letter from
almost daily meetings Of the city council
in Cleveland. in the matter of the re-
duced fare business, made hts absence
from the Western city at this present
time little less than dangerous. Senator
Thomas d. Gore, the representative in
the Senate from the new State of Okla
homa. was the third offered by the Pro-
gressive Democratic League.
Cooper Union Crowded.
Cooper Union auditorium was crowded
to fun capacity when the speakers and
invited guest came upon the platform
Harry w WalkerA the chairman. led OF
with a brief regume OF the merits OF VII
liam Jennings Bryan as the only apostle
of light and truth in the Democratic
ranks, and quoted an eminent Democratic
writer, who said that when the Commoner
came home from his encircling of the
globe, IL was as the guardian angel who
should roll the rock away from the tomb
where Democracy lay dead.
The audience liked the metaphor and
CheeTed.
After Mayor Tom Johnson's letter OF
regret had been read, a telegram Of like
nature was read from Charles y. Bulger
of Oswego. Manton NJ Wyvell read a set
of resolutions. The meat in these resolu-
tions was that the rank and file Of New
York state Democracy unanimously de-
msnded the nomination Of Bryan; that he
had been cheated out Of the election once
by enormous corruption funds contributed
by special privileged characters. and that
anyway the bill now introduced in Con-
gress compelling the publication OF con
tributions and expenditures was good
thing. The resolution went through with
one stentorlous dissenting vote from the
back of the room. Then Senator Jen
Davis stepped 20 the front.
The new force in the Senatorial cham
Der cast an eye down the row of news
paper men. sitting before the platform,
and began his euIogy. He ended thus.
During Cleveland's administration
siXty-fve banks closed. and people called
it A panic. In RoosevefUs administra-
ton most of the banks closed. and IN
some places it was declared a holiday. I
want the Senate TO investigate and de-
termlne the names of those financial
pirates who cons1ired TO wreck confidence
and shake credit. I believe that the panic
was the result Of financial cannibalism-
the big 'uus swallowed the little 'uns"
Bryan or Hearstf
The relations between William J. Bryan
and William r. Hearst, il was developed
tonight, are a matter for speculation be-
tween their intimate friends in New York
City. In fact, there is more than specula-
tion on this subject there is something
approaching anxiety as the common
grouTtd is taken that neither can get
along without the other" It came out
tonight from those who said they knew
the facts that Bryan believes that he is
to be nominated without the slightest
shadow Of a doubt
1t was also asserted by the same au-
thority, that Mr. Hearst believed, through
the influence OF his Independence
League. which has penetrated all of the
States, that he would be better vote
getter than Mr.. Bryan for the Democrats
TO nominate at Denver.
What's become Of William l. Douglas.
Of Massachusetts" an intimate friend of
Bryan's was asked
'Oh, he's still being considered" was
the reply, "but the dreadful mess and pre-
dicament in which the Massachusetts
Democracy finds itself after the recent
Bartlett fracas viii go a long
way toward eliminating Douglas as a can
dldate for vice president,