The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-19
Bryan and Kern Club Is
 Formed With Enthusiasm

great party as "one, famous for his genius famous for his uncommon pa- triotlsrn. and remarkable for his won- derful grasp of the principles of gov ernment. refer to none other than William Jennings Bryan" whereupon fine crowd cheered enthusiastically.
 General Sanford declared. that MT. Sanford said no man had even ques- and study prepared himself and gave himself an equipment for the Presi- dency that was never equalled by any man in the history of the country with the exception of Jefferson Davis. It. the twelve years in which he had Sanford said no man had ever ques- tioned either his htcesty or the purity ot his private sn1 public life.
 General Sanford announced that hc had received letter from Hon. H. s. p- Mallory saying that because of pre- vious engagements he had regretfully to decline the invitation sent him.
 Previous engagements prevented Senator Joseph F. Johnston from att tending but letter from him was read In which he said:
 T would like to be there. I would like to stir the Democrats up to their duty; We have a good chance to win. In the campaign Mir. Bryan has been brilliant. prudent and courageous"
 Tn presenting Congressman Henry D. Clayton General Sanford spoke of the eastern and southeastern counties of the State. He called him Colonel Clayton" Mir. Clayton after the cheer ing had subsided put aside the prof ferred title saying that he was not old never belonged to the Alabama Na- tional Guard and he had never lived in Georgia
 Montgomery Demeerats.
 This invitation to come to Mont. goplery gratifiGi me. but as said to my friend Tom Clark tonight Whats the use of talking to the Democracy use. after all? Only this. from being among you I can get inspira- tion to last me in the tour I am about to make in the Western States in the interest of the National Demo- cratic ticket. Only one man has high CT admiration for the Democracy of Montgomery county and that man is my former fellow townsman, Hugh Dent" At this the crowd appiauded.
 In the brief time he allowed himself Mir. Clayton said that he would dwell upon some of the fundamental prIn- ciples of Democracy, because he was afraid the older Democrats were prone to allow the younger men to come of age and become voters without a due
 
 party to which they belonged. The Democratic Party he said was found- ed soon after the United States as a government came into the world. It was founded on the needs of the pao- pie and throughout It's long and splen- did history 1t had stood for the rule of the people by the people. Party af- ter party had sprung ur nourished for awhile and then died away but the Democratic Party founded on the peo- pies interest had gone on and on thf ugh the years
 Tas e idinal principle of the party was local self-government and 1t stood toi preserving the sovereignty of the State except when that sovereignty trespassed upon the expressed proyIs- ion of the rights of each and every in- dtvidual under our dual systems cfNl government The Democratic Pa -ty believed that the States should eo ye n as far as they possibly could govern and that the Federal Government snouid govern as little as 1t possibly
 The founders of our government determined that the States should do ninety-nine per cent of the governing and the Democratic Party adheres to the original conception of our fore l fathers government" said Mir. Clayton. Fundamentally the Democratic Par e publican Party is wrong. For the Re- publican Party is not a party of prin- cipiesl but party of exepdiency."
 The TarfR Question.
 He reviewed the tariff legisIation oS the country, when it was first put on \ tsmporary measure for the protection or infant industries" and when If waa later perpetuated as a war measure.
 But after the wal the tarifY was steadily raised until tho CIey sland ao lhinistration came Into power. prtxi- oent ClevelInd and his assoc iates ss the first Democratic admtnistr ation since the war reduced the tariff, but | liam Mckinley as a member of Con sress had passed 8 tariff bill which | was higher than had ever been Known before. But even that was over topped by the Republicans when the Dingley bill. with it's high schedules, l was placed on the statute books.
 He charged that the Cutlery Trust of New York. had written and brought to | Washington the tariff schedule and | that Congressman Dingley and his ns- sociates. beca.lJe tlis trust had irade | to she Republican Party. | had embodied tha. ready made sched- | lle into the bill. Mr IJinRIey. on ,he | floor of the H'use. admitted fhat some of the schedules had been made ex- | pressly prohibittve to prevent compe- tttion. He declared that the tariff | schedule of that bill was so high that ! even the Republicans were ashamed of | 1t and put in a clause providing for | reciprocity treaties" An agent was | named and sent to foreign countries | to arrange reciprocity treaties and he | secured a number of them. but those treaties were put in a | pigeon hole by q Republican Senate | and to this Hay they are kept :here.
 Lobby ct Put Ins:t,.
 He said that when he went to Con Rress twelve years aRo the farmers Of | the South were interested In the fight | against the baREing trust. He found l