New-York tribune., 1908-01-17
BRYAN BOOMERS HEARD
JEFF" D4VIS IN THE LEAD
Senator Gore Close Second-SmdH
FRI Pack Cooper Union.

Tho Progressive Democratic Club started it's
campaign for William Jennings Bryan in this state
last night at Cooper Union. Jefferson DAVIS OF
Arkansas. whose outburst In the United states
Senate against trusts brought him much notoriety
was billed as the chief attraction OF what le"
conservative Democrats who attended the heeuIls
saw fit to cali ''this vaudeville performance N.Y.
Davis was supported by Mr.. Gore. the blind United
States Senator from Oklahoma The posters aiso
announced Tom L. Johnson, Mayor Of Clevelan l.
as a leading attraction, but Mr. johnson did not
appear.
Cooper Union was packed. but despite this the
mass meeting was regarded by Bryaniies as a dls-
tinct failure, for not single Democrat OF polti-
cal prominence in this state graced the meeting
with his presence. The cheers which at hrst greet
cd the mention of Bryan's name gradually oieu
away and toward the close of the meeting any
enthusiasm that there had been seemed with many
OF the spectators to have disappeared
Jefferson Davis was introduced to the
audience who after npplaudng him Vigorously
settled back in its seat to hear what new out
bursts this stormy petreI' had in store he dla
not disappont the sensation seekers, ana, as o''e
of the old line Democrats remarked, considering
the expectations of his hearers, that was goins
some.'
Mr.. Davis possesses round face, Whlch Is
also red. and he beamed delightedly at the ap-
pIause which greeted him. His voice he had Wen
under control, and varied its tone from a trernu-
lous and dramatic whisper when recounting the
iniqutes' of the Republican party. tc reverberat-
ing thunder when predicting the ruin and daInna-
tion of that party and the ultimate triumph OF
W. J. B.
From point to point Mr. Davis Ieaped IN his dis
cusson of national issues without deignIng to re-
gard any such thing as connectedness, and ever
the theme of his discourse that everything the
Republican administration had done was vlle' ana
that everything W. j. b. would DO were
the people but to awake to their senses and
elect him President would be angelic At the
conclusion of his address an old Confederate vet
eran who had brought his Family with him. fer
vently remarked: His is Jefferson Davis
but God grant that he is relation to the Presi-
dent of the Southern Confederacy"'
Senator Gore the next speaker He urged
tariff revision, and said that in Mr.. Bryan was
crystazed every element of JehersOnian Den1oc-
racy Democracy" said he. stands for less taxes.
more money for the people. and monopoly"
Senator Gore denounced the trusts, and said that
the Republican party held that riches could do no
wrong. He urged government control of railroads
THE Republican party he cried. believes in a
gold standard for the government and bankers and
clearing house certificates for the people. In Cleve-
lands time .sixty-ive banks failed. and RepUbl-
cans called il a panic. In Roosevelts time all the
banks failed and they called it holiday L want
Congress investigate this ordered panic and tell
this country the names of those financial pirates
who have aggravated it
Hes the dandy kid" said one of his auditors
as the speaker sat down; hes got more sense than
Jeff Davis
'Aw, cut it out; JEFF is the guy for me- replied
his companion; ''he is of those Jeffersonian
guys"
Augustus Thomas. president of the progress
ives" was the next speaker. He was introduced
the greatest living Jeffersonian scholar, and
promptly said that he for Bryan because ''all
those scheming rascally Democrats were against
him"
The next speaker introduced as Judge
Moore. from the state which produces the most
beautiful women and the most eloquent men-Old
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stand by the Constitution, which, he said. Presi-
dent Roosevelt had utterly disregarded. He said
that the country had had too much of Roosevelt
railroad regulators, of his compound corporation
CAPSULES and his other universal remedies, and
. ..thanked God that his administration drawing
a close"
Harry Walker acted chairman, and IN open
ing the meeting said that there would not be a
SIM gle vote cast against Bryan at the Denver con-
vention, despite 'alI the Doodle and trckery used