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Show KIDNAPED BY! BULL MOOSE; Bryan Is Taken to Progressive Pro-gressive Convention in Sacramento Sacramento, Cal . Sept. 25 Ushered Ush-ered into the Democratic state convention con-vention hall to the tune of ' Dixie" lato yesterday, William Jennings Bryan addressed a gathering that has Just chosen as its temporary chairman former Congressman A. Cnmlnetti, a man pledged to tho policies of Bryan. Colonel Bryan arrived but a moment mo-ment after tho rout of the forces of Theodoro A. Bell, who had opposed him at Baltimore CaminottI won by a large majority over Mayor Owens of Richmond, supported by Mr. Bell for the temporary chairmanship. In his address to the convention Mr. Bryan declared that Governor Johnson's John-son's speech at the Republican national na-tional convention in Chicago had heen the "gem of the convention" and that in his opinion the claim of the contested con-tested Roosevelt delegates from San Francisco (disallowed by tho national committee) was Just. "I though the Progressive delegates had a clear case," he said. "Tho preponderance pre-ponderance of right was on thoir side; and yet 1 thought there was some right "in the position of their opponents, oppo-nents, in that California had changed tho national system of representation, aud, as it seemed lo me, changod it to disadvantage." Colonel Bryan devoted most of his address to recommendations as to tho platform the California Democrats wero to adopt. He declared for the New Zealand postal vote, bv which travoling men and other absentees might retain their votes while away from homo, modification of tho utatc primary law; more stringent trust laws; Btrict supervision of campaign expenditures and contributions, and supervision of public monoys at interest. inter-est. Ho arraigned Mr. Roosevelt's attitude at-titude toward the trusts, which he said was 1ob8 logical than that of tho Socialists. So-cialists. To the amusement of the Democrats Colonel Bryan was captured by Pro-grossivo Pro-grossivo Republican-.! and addressed their stale convention before entering tho Democratic convention hall He confined his remarks to an expression of appreciation at being asked to speak before a Republican convention. "In the long run," he said, "the party with the highest ideals will dominate dom-inate the nation and write its hlsr tory." |