The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-08
DIES SCORES BRYAN . AND COL. ROOSEVELT Berger Also Criticised by
 the Texan BRYAN A SOCIALIST Charges Commoner Is Upholding Roosevelt in Preference to Lead CTS of His Own Party-Are
 Three of Kind
BRYAN A SOCIALIST

Washington, March 7.-Former Pres ident Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan and Representative Victor Der ger of Wisconsin, socialist. were brand cd in a speech in the House today by Representative Dies of Texas, democrat, as being "among the foremost enemies of free government in America today Mr. Dies si1fsssted that borll. Ma Bness-. welt and MT. Bryan were socialists and he coupled their names. with those of Mr. Berger and the McNamara broth CTS.
 Berger is over there,' said MT Dies, pointing dramatically in the direction of the House office building, where the Lawrence, Mass, strike inquiry was pro- ceeding "as the great .riend of labor It is time that the House should know just what MT. Berger stands for. l am not appealing to any district, but to my colleag gues here to recognize the peril of socialism"
 Reviews Berger's Act
 The legislative activities of the Wis consin socialist member then were re- viewed by MT. Dies. These, he said, among other things, included abolition of the veto power of the President and both the supreme court and the Sen ate and two measures which, MT. D1es charged, were intended Ito save from the clutches of the law the McNamara brothers and others who might find themselves in the clutches of the law
 Space forbids to describe all the Ber- ger bill" he said but as Illustrating the socialistic interpretation of the doc Urine of the equal rights to all, special privileges to nome,' when applied to a socialist in office, I call attention to House bill 1882, introduced by MT. Berger June s, 1911. That measure, to use its own words, was "a bill to provide an automobile for the official use of the committee on the District of Columbia I need not say that MT Der ger was member of that committee at the time he introduced the bill.
 MT Berger. l may say. yields to no man. living or dead, in his desire to disrupt the constitution and destroy the liberties of the people under rep resentative democracy. In his desire for a re-enactment of chaos, MT. Berger is as earnest, if not as vociferous. as the lion tanner who roars from the peaks of Sagamore Hill"
 Roosevelt and Bryan
 Contrasting Colonel Roosevelt and Mir Bryan, the latter, said Mir Dies. openly advocated SOclallSt doctrines, while the former President professed to be opposed to socialism.
 Roosevelt seeks to walk in the path the czars trod.' he said MT Bryan will be content with a million new subscribers for his paper. Roosevelt wants to emulate the bad example of Daz of Mexico, and break down the constitutional barriers against presI- dential succession. MT. Bryan gives aid and encouragement to Roosevelt, as against the democratic party and for the principles of democracy as written in the constitution he offers no word of encoura cement
 Mir Dies charged that MT Bryan in- dorsed Colonel Roosevelt's policies, while condemning Speaker Clark Rep resentative Underwood. majority lead CT of the House. and Governor Har- ,r