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who stood behind his nominating.
and | assume that no friend OF
Judge Parker will contend that he
was satisfied in 1908 with all the can
didates or all the plans and pur-
poses of our platform. This is no
time for a campaign of pleasant words
and smooth phrases.
I'VE are writing history today"
continued Mr. Bryan, land this con-
vention is to announce to the country
whether this convention is to take up
the challenge thrown down al Chi
cago by convention controlled by
predatory wealth, and whether we
shall ourselves submit to predatory
wealth
I'VE need not deceive ourselves
that what is done in a national con-
yention is done in secresy. We are
under TIE eyes OF he gentlemen Of
the press. who know what We do and
who told us to do it.
And the delegates to this conven-
/ ton must not presume upon the 1g-
noranee of the people who did not
come because they had not influence
enough to be elected delegates or
money enough to pay their expenses.
And these people know that the
influence which dominated the Chi
cago convention and made 1t a farce
are here and more bazenly at work
than they were at Chicago.
II appeal to you, Let the COM
mencement of this convention be
such that Democrats can raise up
their heads among their fellows and
say. The Democratic party is TN
afraid You can't brighten it with
your Ryans or buy it with your Bel
monts
MY friends, if the candidate of the
committee were an unknown man we
would Judge him by the forces that
are back of him. We know who the
candidate is. We know he is the
man, chosen eight years ago, when
the party, beaten for eight years,
thought it might be we'll to try to win
with those who had defeated in the
two previous campaigns"
Again came interrupting cries of
Parker Parker"
The country" he said. has not
forgotten that the convention was in
fluenced in its action by promises Of
large campaign funds from Wall
street. and they have not forgotten
the fact that after a corporation man.
agemert of the campaign had alien
ated the rank and file OF the party
Wall street threw the party down and
elected a Republican.
They have not forgotten that
when the vote was counted we had a
million and a quarter less votes than
in the two campaigns before and a
million and a quarter less than in the
next campaign.
They have not forgotten that it is
fuences. who is to be forced on a
progressive party to open a progress
i've campaign.
You ask me why that speech would
not be satisfactory when ! have not
read it," Mr.. Bryan said. Il tell you
it is the man, not the words, that
make the speech.
we have been passing through a
great educational age and the Demo,
cratic movement has been sweeping
all before it around the world" he
continued
And" he said, while the outside
world has been marching double
quick toward greater freedom our
beloved nation has been keeping step
and popular government has grown
and grown.
The man whom | present has been
the leader OF the progressive cause
in his state and once Joint leader in
the nation. challenge you to show
where anywhere in his history the
man presented by the committee has
gone out to aid the party before a
convention. Now this is the situa
ton. The Democratic party has been
the leader
THE Democratic party has led this
fight until it has stimulated the Re
publican hosts to go and do likewise
and at least appear willing to trust
the people with their own govern
ment
Il repeat we have been travelling
in the wilderness. We now come In
sight of the promised land. During
all the many hours of darkness pro
gressive Democracy has been the
peoples pillar of fire by night.
81 nrau vpn 1pIQpataS pnu, hot
dawn has come, do not rob the PEG
pie of the right to have our party as
their pillar of cloud by
This brought the Bryan sympa
thizers to their feet, and Mr.. Bryan
let 1t stand as his concluding words
Has knowledge Of History.
Baltimore. While talking with
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