The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-03
Democratic Leader Reviews His Political Career and Makes
 Final Appeal
CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED
 THAT HE WILL BE VICTOR
In the Final Tour Through Kansas Mir. Bryan Receives Greater ovations Than Were Ever Paid Him
 In Previous Campaigns.

Marysville Kas., November 2.-Wil- liam J. Bryan concluded his campaign of the state of Kansas and of the United States before an enthusiastic audience here tonight It was the last political speech his address to be given at Lin coin to be non-partisan, simply talk from a neighbor to his neighbors MT Bryan realized it was the concluding po- litical speech of the campaign and his last words were given with more than ordinary feeling. His peroration was de- livered with all the earnestness at his command and as he declared that he had given an impulse to honest politics and helped to create a sentiment in favor of reform, he was wildly applauded by the large audience. The following is the con- clusion of the last campaign speech or 1908, made by MT. Bryan
 Ladies and Gentlemen:-I am now 4s years old It is IS years since I began my political career as candidate for Congress. I told the people of my dis trict that if elected would not try to get their hands into other peoples pock- cts; that would simply try to keep other peoples hands out of their pockets. For IS years this thought has run through every speech and act. I have tried to apply to government the Jeffersonian maxim of equal rights to all and special privileges to none l have tried to help make this government government of the people. by the people for the people.
 tong Political Career.
 For IS years you have had q chance to scan my every speech and act. While republican leaders have disappeared as the result of investigations, have in vited the scrutiny of my opponents' and have outlived their criticisms and their 1nisrepresentations. I know not what the future has for me, I know not whether it is the peoples wish that l shall be their spokesman in the White House or continue to perform the work which I have tried to perform as a private cit izen. hut I have not lived in vain. I have given an impulse to honest politics. l have helped to create a sentiment in favor of reform, and as a candidate I have one thing to rely upon-the conf eence of the masses in my fidelity to their interests. My opponent has behind him all those forces which are considered potent in politics; but I would rather have the love of the people. the affection of the multitude, in whose behalf l have fought than to hold any office. If en- ter the White House I shall enter it free to keep the pledges I have made; free to serve with singleness of purpose. If am elected I shall for four years de- vote whatever energy 1 have and what ever ability I possess to the one object of making this government again a gov ernment in which the people rule and under which every citien shall draw from society reward proportionate to the service which he renders to his fel- low men.
 Fight Is Won.
 "Our fight is won and we await the verdict with confidence. The people will not be deceived by the padded straw votes published by the partisan newspapers. by the shambles of Wall street gamblers, or the boastings of the panic-stricken republican leaders.
 ''The republican candidate has be- hind him an army of offce-holders, trust magnates, most of the leading newspapers and an enormous campaign fund so tainted that he dare not let the people know where it comes from until after they have voted, and that part of 1t that Is contributed to the republican congressional committee will t be known even then.
 q have behind me the awakened conscience of the country and the senti- ment in favor of popular government which demands the election of United States senators by direct vote.
 q have behind me the victims of the trusts who are pleading for relief, the 1aboring men whose petitions have been rejected by the republican party, the depositors whose savings are jeopar-' dized by the cerelessness of bank of- ficials and Y Consumers who have been expI by the beneficiaries of the high, Alfs
 Hope of Relief.
 "All of these people see in demo- cratic victory their only hope of re- lief and they know that with the cleo tion of a democratic President and Q democratic Congress backed by popu- lar verdict in behalf of democratic poli- cies the way is open for remedial leg islation.
 "The republican. leaders have been weighed in the balance and have been found wanting; they have betrayed the rank and file of their own party and have left the democratic party to voice the honest sentiment of the honest citi- zenship of the country republican and democratic. And may add we expect In this campaign the votes of all re- formers. for the democratic party is the only party that can bring at once the reforms which the people need and 1 am sure that the reformers cannot be deceived by the leaders who, pretending to represent labor, are now trying to assist the republican party which is the open foe of labor and havin- posed as enemies of the trusts, now join hands with Rockefeller Hartman and Carnegie in supporting the republican party which is today the champion and bulwark of all the trusts.
 What a spectacle the republican campaign presents at the close the re- publican candidate trying to repudiate