The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-07
Tennessee Senator Declares Democracy Has a Better
 Chance Than In 1882
KANSAS REPUBLICANS
 FAVOR BANK GUARANTY
Bryan Issues Statement In Answer To J, w. Van CIeave's Circular Let ter In Reference To Labor
 PIan!ss and Platforms.

Fairview, Lincoln, Neh., August 6.--As the result of a visit to W. J. Bryan to- day of Senator Bob" Taylor of Tennes- see, who Is here to deliver a Chautauqua lecture, the national committee of the democratic party, with the concurrence of MT. Bryan, will soon enter upon most elaborate plan for ascertaining the sentiment of the country toward their standard bearers This plan contemplates the formation of a national democratic club, with state and county clubs as subsidiaries, whose duty 1t will be to re- port to the central organization data favorable or unfavorable to the national ticket. It is proposed also that these clubs shall poll the voters of the United States and every section where the feel ing is adverse to the democratic candi- dates to send literature and speakers. The proposition regarding the national club promptly appealed to MT. Bryan, who says that he would not wait for his visit to Chicago in couple of weeks, where he Is to confer with prominent men of the party, but would at once take steps to get the national club under
 
 way.
 Senator Taylor was accompanied to Fairview by Mayor F. W. Brown, one of MT. Bryans staunchest friends and advisers 'T have been in Kansas. Mis- souri and Indiana said Senator Taylor .gro my mind Bryan has better chance for election than Cleveland did in 1892. I found many republicans in Kansas who told me they would vote for Bryan, and as for Indiana the prospects for democratic success are good"
 He predicted that Tennessee would go democratic by 30,000.
 Speech To Be Made.
 Aside from this, the most important announcement from Fairview today was the decision of MT. Bryan to make an extended speech on the tariff question at Des Moines, Iowa. August 21 and to spend the three following days in Chi cago in conference with Chairman Mack and others of the party over the plan of campaign.
 When asked whether he had noticed that many of the republican candidates in Nebraska were coming out In favor of the government guaranty of bank de- posits, MT. Bryan replied that he had been told so 'It is one of the straws that show which way this wind Is blow. ing said he. MT. Bryan will discuss the subject quite fully in his forthcom- ing Topeka speech.
 Tonight MT Bryan gave out for publi- cation his reply to circular letter sent to business men of the country by James W. Van Cleave, president of the Manu- lecturers association, urging them to go to the polls in November and bury Bryan and Bryanism for ever"
 MT. Bryan accuses MT. Van Cleave of having a narrow idea of what consti- tutes a business man and enters into an elaborate defense of his policies
 Two Questions.
 MT. Bryan declares that the pamphlet of MT. Van Cleave raises two questions First, is there anything in the labor plank of the democratic platform to which business men can justly take ex- ception; and second, Is the labor ques- ton so important to business men as to justify them in ignoring all other issues? MT Bryan declares that the provision in the democratic platform for the cre- ation of a labor department with cabinet officer at its head cannot possibly offend business men, He then says:
 The platform draws a distinction be- tween associations of wage earners or ganized for the protection of wages and the improvement of labor conditions and industrial corporations which act in re- straint of trade. The difference between a labor organization and. trust is so apparent that no disinterested person will deny that they should be treated sep- arately- To class the two kinds of or ganzauons together and deal with them under ,ne law Is bound to do injustice to one br the other. Surely the business mar, na ha va m ifo1 fv. ing the labor organizations in the anti trust lays"
 Trial By Jury.
 MT. Bryan then takes up the plank pro- viding fT trial by jury in cases of in- direct c'htempt. He insists that this cannot rase a question of vital concern to busines men, because every man has a right tda jury trial. He then says:
 'An attmpt has been made to raise a false isse in regard to the courts and to make itappear that the demand for trial by juy is an assault upon the in- tegrity of he courts. Those who make this argumpt might as we'll insist on the abolitioA of the jury in all cases, for the jury ystem itself Is just as much reflection upb the bench as Is this de- mand for triaby jury in these particular eases.
 But there ] another labor plank that MT. Van Cleae probably has in mind. This is the plak that declares that par ties to all judial proceedings should be treated with rtd impartiality and that an injunction sluld not be issued in any case in which h injunction would not lie If no indust1l dispute were involved. Do the busines men insist upon par tlality in judicia proceedings? Do they insist that the gre fact that there Is an industrial dilute should justify an injunction? Thatlank does not attempt to interfere with\e issue of an ntunc- ton where otbeeonditions justify it, ! but 1t does oppo, the issue of an in-