The daily sentinel., 1908-07-10
GREAT SPEECH
NAMING BRYAN
Eloquent Remarks Of Typical Young American in Present
ing the Magic Name Of the Idol Of Democ-
racy to the National Convention
at Denver Today
IBy Associated Press. ]

IBy Associated Press.l
Denver, July 10.-In presenting the
name of william Jennings Bryan to
the national convention when nomina-
tions for a presidential candidate We're
called for. Hon. 1gnatius j. Dunn of
Omaha made the following speech.
which called forth an ovation for Bry-
ovation of Wednesday afternoon:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention:
Crises arise in the life of nations
which endanger their institutions
and, at times, imperil the advance of
civilization.
Every people that has left it's i'm
press upon history has faced such
crises.
In most instances, where grave
dangers have threatened the safety
of the state, some great character,
some master mind has been found
produced as it were by the conditions
themselves, with capacity to direct
Alright the energies of the people.
This was true of the ancient world
it has been true of the modern world !;
it is true of this republic. We have
such a crisis to meet today. The
favor seeking corporations have
gradually strengthened their hold
upon the government until they now
menace popular institutions.
The question is, whether this gov
ernment shall be restored to the con-
troll of the people and be administer
ed in the interests of all, or whether
it shall remain an instrument in the
hands of the few for levying tribute
upon all the rest.
In his special message to congress
last winter, President Roosevelt de-
clared, substantially, that certain
wealthy men who have become
enormously rich by depressing the
wage Garner, defrauding the public
and practicing all forms of iniquity,
have banded together, and by the
unlimited use of money, endeavored
to secure freedom from restraint and
to overthrow and iiscredit all who
honestly administer the law.
That the methods by which these
men have acquired their great for
tunes can only be justified by a sys-
tenn of morality. that would permit
every form of criminality, every form
of violence, corruption and fraud
For many years. and especially
during the last twelve years, these
very men have been in control of the
Republican party; they have financed
every campaign of that party for a
quarter of century. These exploit
ers of the people, whom the President
has so scathingly denounced. have
given their enthusiastic support to
the Republican candidates and poll
cies. They laid their hands upon the
trust funds of insurance companies
and other corporations and turned
the plunder over to the Republican
committee. The money thus filched
from the innocent and helpless, to
purchase republican victory. has not
been repaid.
And where do we find these men
today? Where are the swollen for
tunes of which we have heard so
much? Just where we would expect
to find them the Repub
lican ticket and furnishing the sinews
of war for the Republican committee
as usual.
The platform adopted by the late
convention shows what the Repub-
lican party in truth represents. In
framing the platform. every genuine
reform which the President has ad-
vocated was scorned and repudiated.
The Wisconsin delegation asked that
one or two reform planks be placed
in the platform, and for its pains was
denounced as Democratic. The con-
vention by vote of eight TO one re-
fused to approve those policies which
the President for four years has been
urging upon his party. The mask of
hypocrisy has been torn from the
face of those who pretend to favor
the reforms advocated by the Presi-
dent, and it is now apparent why the
system" admires Taft and hates the
senator from Wisconsin. When com
PEELED to choose between an appeal
to the conscience of the nation in de-
fense of its platform, and candidates,
on the one hand, and the millions
that the special interests may be de-
pendent upon to contribute on the
other that convention respected the
people and continued its alliance with