The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-22
BRYAN JUMPS ON ROOSEVELT Has Failed to Enforce the Laws. HURLs DEFIANCE AT REPUBS Says He Is Running Against Two
 Candidates. Democraey's Leader Delivers The Most Aggressive speech of His Life.
 He Assails Platt and
 Depew.
HURLs DEFIANCE AT REPUBs

-candidate another endors sment. It seems that 1 am running against two Republicans instead of one, put our platform is so plain and the purpose or our party Is so well expressed III tna. platform that am prepared to meet the argument of one or both of them.
 Hurling defiance at his Republican, opponents, William J. Bryan, Demo- cratic candidate for President, speak ing here tonight before immense au- diences, so declared himself.
 pemocracys leader reached tnis ci.y at 7:30 o'clock tonight. following the hardest day of his campaign. Cheer ing crowds at the station and which lined inc streets, greeted him on the way to the hotel where he remained hut A few moments before ne was ,vhisked away to Humboldt Park In an automobile and where he spoke to vast throng. From the park ne went to Convention Hall, which was pacNeo by thousands, while outs,ae weie uuadruple the number, hecessi.@sAS brief overflow talk.
 From the moment he began speakins in this State at Brockport, early m the day. until he had concluded ms re- marks here, the Democratic canoiua.s took the bit in his teeth ana assatsu at every turn President Roosevelt. MT. Taft and the Republican leaders. ne
 
 istad between the President and the Rsnuhlican managers of Congress. rec nlied specifically to certain queries nropounded to him in an open letter in The Chicago Tribune, attacked tn" president for what he said was hls failure to enforce the anti-trust iaws. and from which he said the fIeslusns aa,,td not escape; denounced Senators pistt and Depew with having betrayed eha neople; charged the Republicans with turning the financial system over to- Wall Street and finally poured a voiley of denunciation into the Stano- ard oil Company.
 Bryan Is Aggressive. Whether.pr not, following so ~ eIosSss dav with Judge Parker and former senator David B. Hill. the vigor or hls snaect was due to the conclusions ran rl,ed is not known, but 1t was ad- mitted on all sides today ana tonikht that at no time daring the present campaign has Mir. Bryan been so ag- gressiye. He made a dozen speeches to large and entnustasHe
 along the line.
 Bands played. the people cheereo anu at Tonawanda there was an incessaht ain of locomotive and factory whlS' ties. ,... ,,., Depew were made at Medina, WheEe ne touched upon the Democratic issus o' shall the People Rule?
 "You have two Republican Senator's. ha said from this State. One has rep resented an express company, the otneF has represented the railroad companiea and both of them have acted together to betray the people.
 Reaching the climax or ms atu4ckH in this city tonight the Democratic ca ndtdate insisted that although the president, to whom he referred as ''the" President who picked the can didate for the Republican Party had called attention to certain things that had been accomplished in the way or reform. The Democrats in the House and the Senate had osen more ioyai ;" reforms that Republicans And. he said. the President Is ungratefut 10 the Democrats when he intimates that Denocratic victory would prove ca- lamity to the country.
 He charged the Standard oil Com. pany with being the most anciens of the offenders against the law ana morals and accused it of employinS avery form of oppression and haying been conspicuous corrupter both or officials and of public opinion.
 Telegram from Mack.
 While the meeting was at Its height n telegram from National Chairman Mack was read, expressing regret that he could not attend and concluding as follows:
 q know the Democracy of Western New York will rejoice with me to learn that the daily reports reaching Demo cratic headquarters unmistakably point to a great awakening of voters which bespeaks Democratic trfumphs. A..d with a United Democracy stand ing now as a solid phalanx and the laaNhina diSrnntHd from Maine to California. there can be little doubt that the electoral vote in Novem- Der will be cast for Bryan and Kern.
 MT. Bryan left at 11:5O o'clock for Detroit The Michigan visit provides tor but two speeches, one at Ann Ar bor tomorrow afternoon and the other at Detroit in the evening.
 Fight For Pacific States.
 New York, Sept, 21-Norman E. Mack, Chairman of the Democratic Ma tionaI Committee Is planning to fsrce the fighting in the Pacific States, and during the month of October. speak CTS of national prominence will be sent West to aid in swinging all debatable states into line for the Democrats.
 MT. Mack said tonight that the re- ports from California. oregon, Mon tana and Colorado were of such charac- ter as to lead him to the belief that with a strong tliOTN thtS "ouiu US captured for Bryan and Kern.
 T regard the middle states" said Chairman Mack tonight 'as safely Democratic. and all our efforts now will be to hold our advantage, which will be made easier by the rout of the Republicans.
 ''rhe national committee is receiv- ing the most glowing reports from the Pacific coast. and We will make added efforts to bring California, Oregon and other sta tes in line.
 We are going there soon and will likely meet the national committeeman of the states some time in October in some city in the far West though I may make flying trip through all the debatable states"
 Mrs. BragR's Condition.
 New Orleans. Sept. 2l.-The condition of Mrs Elise B. Bragg, widow of Mai. Gen. Braxton Bragg, of the Confed- han MrS