The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-19
SOVEREIGN ASTONISHES AUD.
iENCE WITH BURST OF ORA.
TORY AND CUTTING SAR-
CASM AT DEMOCRATIC
MEETING.

in burst of oratory by j. r
Sovereign at the w. J. Bryan club
meeting. Apparently old and some
what feeble of late, physically, Mr.
Sovereign's national fame as a
master of language evidently will
not suffer on his coming tour
against the republicans. Senti
ment, philosophy and argument
rolled from his tongue like liquid
Words of fire and wisdom, so elu.
sive to the average campaign ora
tor, still come as readily to Mr..
Sovereign's command as they do
to the famous leader of the demo-
cratic party.
And when Mr.. Sovereign was
done with the discussion of ma
tional issues, it wasn't one long
applause responded, but he was
encored and forced to bow his &C
knowledgement time and again
Mr. Sovereign was a stranger to
most of the gathering. Chairman
Schade introduced him as a man
in perfect control of the kings
English because his heart is so
thoroughly democratic that it
| would find expression of the deep
sentiment naturally, and then Mr.
Sovereign. hair unkempt, awkward
and slightly bent, arose. There
| was no contrast between his ap-
pearance and clever speech after
he started.
Here are a few of his senti-
ments which evoked more enthusi-
asm than any speaker of the cam
paign has yet evoked:
Three thousand years ago
there lived democrat, He en-
barked upon a ship and when the
tempests arose the sailors were
fearful and asked, Who is this
man.? They thought him powerful
enough to disturb the elements.
Then they cast him overheard.
The largest animal in the world
swallowed him. Jonah was the
mans name. But the whale
couldn't keep him down. You
can't keep a good man like Bryan
down, either.
There are three constituent
elements all sapping the demo-
cratic party this year-Debs; Tom
Watson, last remnant of the popu-
lists; William Randolph Hearst,
disappointed aspirant. We all
knew them when they were demo
Gratis. Each is PROSECUTING among
the democrats, and they are all
imposing on the party.
In '96 the republicans buried
Bryan in the democratic potters'
field; in 1900 they buried him
again and marched in doleful
Urge to the tomb. But the great
mass of the common people each
time rolled the stone away (The
most contemplate ghost is the
one that rises up in the middle of
the night and kicks the stone
away himself)
This is a Goodyear for the
democratic party.
The republicans say they will
correct abuses. We say to them
why didn't you correct them be-
fore-you had the power.
They have nothing to go be-
fore the people with but buster,
brag, bombast, busted banks and
Doodle.
There is nothing in the Roose
welt policies that were not stolen
from Bryan. He has filched and
distorted his principles and then
he comes up and says, See, these
are mine
1T is not the question of the
tariff that troubles the republicans
it is the question of the tear
off
Speaker Cannon changed his
cigar from one side of his face to
the other, waved the smoke away
from his enshrouded soul, dug
among the recesses of the files
and picked out a bill that he said
would right the peoples wrongs
all when it was too late for con
gress to have a chance to act
upon it.
People do not go to the polls
| to vote for something unless they
they can vote against something,
"The working people do not OBJ
| ject to injunction. but to injunc-
ton without limitations. The Taft
injunction once injuncted me off
| the earth. 1t read: You are here.
| by restrained from travelling upon
any highway leading to or from a
mine Here is how | violated it:
sent back to the Judge: The
author of that Injunction has nc
soul to dam That is the kind OF
injunction Judge Taft is the father
Of"
w. G. Jones. of wheat chart
fame, opened the meeting by grill
ing the editorial management OF
the Spokesman-Review. He re
ferred particularly to an editorla
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