The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-22
MR.. BRYAN
ACCEPTS
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE RE
cEIvES FORMAL NOTlFICA-
TON OF DENOMINATION.
Largest Crowd in Lincoln's History
Gathers to Hear Speech Of Accept
anee-Aeeepts Challenge Made by
Taft in Accepting Republican Nom
nation.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug 12.-Amid the
cheering of thousands who filled all
available space about the stand, Will
liam ]. Bryan walked to the front Of
the platform in the capitol grounds
and lifted up his voice In acceptance
of the nomination of the democratic
party for the office of president.
The notification speech, delivered
by Congressman Henry D. Clayton,
who was chairman of the Denver con.
vention, was the cause for the first
cheering, which seemed enthusiastic,
the great burst of enthusiasm that
greeted the commoner.
Mr.. Bryan's Speech.
The notification speech delivered
by Henry D. Clayton of Alabama was
very brief. This was followed by the
reading of the formal letter of mott
fication. Mr.. Bryan then began the
delivery of his acceptance speech,
"Mr Clayton and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee: I cannot ac-
cept the nomination which you Off
cially tender without first acknowledge
ing my deep Indebtedness to the dem
Ocratic party for the extraordinary
honor which it has conferred upon me-
Having twice before been a candidate
for the presidency, in campaigns which
ended in defeat, third nomination,
H. 80 yo1r how
act of the voters Of the party, can
only be explained by substantial and
undisputed growth In the principles
and policies for which /, with a multi
tude of others, have contended. AS
these principles and policies have given
me whatever political strength I pos
sess, the action of the convention not
only. renews my faith in them, but
| strengthens my attachment to them.
Accepts Republican Challenge.
"The distinguished statesman who
received the republican nomination for
president said in his notification
| speech:
"'The strength of the republican
cause in the campaign at hand is the
| fact that we represent the policies es-
sential to the reform Of known abuses,
| to the continuance Of liberty and true
prosperity and that we are determined,
as our platform unequivocally de-
| clares to maintain them and carry
them on
I'm the name of the democratic
party I accept the challenge, and
| charge that the republican party is re-
sponsible for all the abuses which not
only exist in the federal government,
and that it is impotent to accomplish
the reforms which are imperatively
| needed.
Shall People Rule?
"Our platform declares that the
| overshadowing issue which manifests
| itself in all the questions now under
| discussion is, Shall the people rule?
No matter which way we turn; no
| matter to what subject we address
| ourselves, the same question confronts
| us: Shall the people control their own
government and use that government
| for the protection of their rights and
| for the protection Of their welfare, or
shall the representatives Of predatory
wealth prey upon defenseless public,
while the offenders secure immunity
from subservient officials whom they
raise to- power by INSCRIPTIONS meth
| DDS? This is the issue raised by the
known abuses to which Mr.. Taft re-
| fers.
RooseveIt's Indictment.
"In message sent to congress last
January President Roosevelt said:
| The attacks by these great corpora
tons on the administrations actions
have been given wide circulation
| throughout the country, in the news
papers and otherwise, by those writer's
| and speakers who, consciously or un-
consciously, act as the representatives
of predatory wealth-of wealth accum-
| ulated on giant scale by all forms of
| iniQuity, ranging from the oppression
| of wage earners to unfair and I'M
! wholesome methods of crushing out
| competition. and to defrauding the
| public by stock jobbing sand the ma
nipulation of securities. Certain
| wealthy men Of this stamp, whose con-
duct should be abhorrent to every man
of ordinarily decent conscience, and
who commit the hideous wrong of
teaching our young men that phenom-
email business success must ordinarily
be based on dishonesty, have. during
the last few months, made 1t appar-
ent that they have banded together
to work for a reaction. Their endeav-
or is to overthrow and dfscredit all
who honestly administer the law, to
prevent any additional legislation
| which would check and restrain them,
and to secure, If possible, freedom
from all restraint which will permit
what he wishes unchecked, provided
he has enough money.
Bryan Endorses Arrangement.
what an arraignment of the predG~
tory interests. Is the presidents in
dictment true?
"And IL true, against whom was the
Indictment directed?
"Not against the democratic party.
+Mr. Taft says that these evils have
| crept in during the last ten years. He
declares that during this time some
prominent and influential members of
the community, spurred by financial
success, and in their hurry for greater
wealth, became -unmindful Of the COM
mon rules of business honesty and
fidelity, and Of the limitations imposed
by law upon their actions and that
the revelations Of the breaches of
trusts, the disclosures as to rebates
and determinations by railroads, the
accommodating evidence of the viola
tons of the antitrust laws by a num-
Der of corporations, and the overissue
Of stocks and bonds Of interstate rail-
roads for unlawful enriching of direct
ors and for the purpose Of concentrate
ing the control OF the railroads under
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