The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-10-11
BRYAN PRAISES WILSON.
SECRETARY OF STATE TELLS OF
PRESIDENTS GOOD
POINTS,.
Wilson Always Takes the View OF the
People, Distinguishing Feature OF
Executive, Says COmmOner.

Spartanburg, Oct. 7.-W. J. Bryan,
secretary of State, addressed an au-
dience of 1900 people here tonight in
Converse college auditorium and af-
terwards he and Mrs. Bryan held a
reception and shook hands with prac-
tically every person in the audience.
He was introduced by Former Gov.
John Gary Evans. Mr.. Bryan took
as his subject President Woodrow
Wilson'S Point of View" He paid an
eloquent tribute to the president
showing how upon every issue he
takes the peoples view. His address
was said by many to have been the
greatest they had ever heard him de-
liver. He touched upon the four great
issues that the present administration
has had to deal with--the tariff-he
said the bill just passed was a better
bill than he had ever hoped, for par
ticularly commenting the income tax
feature-the currency question, the
attitude of the administration toward
the Philippines, as just announced by
Francis Burton Harrison, the newly
appointed governor general of the is7
lands, and the administration peaq
programme, contemplating investiga-
tiOn and report upon all questions of
difference arising between the ma
tions of the world.
Upon each of these questions Mr..
Bryan spoke at length, making par
ticularly clear the provision of the
currency bill now before congress and
advocating it's passage. Answering the
demand of certain banking interests
Of the country that they be allowed to
have the naming of members of the
commission or board, that is, to have
supervision of the banking business,
under the provision of the bill as ii
now stands, he asked why the bank
ers should be more entitled to name
such 6. commission than the railroads
to elect the members of the inter-
state commerce commission. He said
the peoplestrusted the government In
everything else and would have to
trust 1t in handling their fiscal affairs.
Mr.. Bryan closed with an account
Of administrations efforts in further
ing the cause of worldwide peace,
saying that four-fifths Of the nations
Of the world have indorsed the policy
advanced by the United States. He re-
CARDS this as a great step toward
making wars improbable.
Mr. Bryan, accompanied by Mrs.
Bryan. arrived in Spartanburg this
afternoon at $50 o'clock from Kings
Mountain, N. c., making the As mile
trip in, an automobile. Tonight he and
Mrs. Bryan are the guests of Former
Gov. John Gary Evans. They will
leave tomorrow morning for Asheville
where they will spend a DAY or so.
A delegation from Spartanburg met
Mr.. Bryan in Kings Mountain with
cars. Mrs. Bryan was especially pleas
ed with the plan TO make the trip
through the country and she express
ed herself as delighted with the jour-
ney. IN the car with Mr.. Bryan were
Mr.. al Mrs. Elwood Bell and John
f. Floyd, mayor-elect, of this city. Be-
fore leaving Kings Mountain it was
understood that there was to be no
exceeding the speed limit. Mr.. Bryan
asked that the speeding not exceed
20 miles an hour and his wishes were
respected. At Converse the car in
which he was riding had a blowout,
but the second car, taken along for
just such an emergency, picked up the
party and brought them into the city
Many persons along the road recog-
nized Mr.. Bryan and cheered him.