Show BRYAN AND ANU HARMON WARMS WARM THE HEAR HEARTS IS Of 15 DEMOCRATS Great Enthusiasm Manifested in Convention Hall at Kansas City for the Distinguished Guests Kansas City Cit March SO Democrats from Crom Cromall all parti of o 0 Missouri to the number of o 2000 attended a banquet in Convention hall haul In this city tonight under the aus auspices auspices of the Young Men Democratic club of Missouri at which William J Bryan B an and Judson Harmon were the guests of honor and principal speakers and the recipients of repeated ovations from the persons who thronged the great hall ball hallEach hallEach Each banqueter paid Jl Si for the privilege privilege privilege lege of aJ ending even the distinguished guests insisting upon the democratic pre prerogative prerogative prerogative of oC paying for tor their plates and the affair was probably the most elaborate elaborate elaborate rate political feast ever attempted att In the tho state Democratic clubs in St Louis St Jo Joseph Joseph seph and other cities of ot the state sent representative delegations to the dinner r Among the guests were four of Missouri T T Crittenden Crittend n David R i Francis Senator William J Stone and arid I Alexander M 11 Dockery Docken together with w Ith the present governor Joseph W Y Folk All of oC the candidates for state offices were present 0 Intense I Enthusiasm The meeting was essentially a Bryan BIan af at affair fair Calr spontaneous enthusiasm marking et eV eVery eten ery en mention of ot his candidacy for the presidency The reception accorded Mr Ir Harmon wa wano was no less cordial and suggestions promising him high honors from his party were en received Mr Bryans opening statement that we have hae met to begin b gln the campaign of iC and to present those principles and poll poli des cies i which ought to appeal to Republicans as well as to traditional Democrats Democrat was the keynote of his speech and showed shoved the Important Imp significance he ho and his follow ers attached to the meeting tonight A feature of Mr Bryans speech was his approval of oC Senator La Follette as the tIl Republican candidate for present He said If the president had picked out Sena tor La Follette a real reformer if the tho th Republican party had hind rallied mIlled to tb Senator La Ia support It could have ha e con coni com tho th confidence of reform Senator La Follette has a rec ord as a reformer he lie has hag fought cor car domination in his own state stale for tor a decade The speaker said that without the sup S port of the administration Secretary Taft Tact would scarcely have a state in the con and with the presidents support he is having an uphill fight Tafts Only Recommendation Mr tr lr Bryan said that Mr Tart may be the best man the president could find among his cabinet officers but that Sec See Tafts superiority over his Col leagues Is due not to his positive views but to the tact fact that none of oC the rest of them has any reform tendencies whatever er Mr Ir Bryan Bryl said that the Roosevelt senti ment Is strong In the Mississippi and Mis lIs valleys and argued ar that the Demp cratic ticket is entitled to the support of oC this sentiment in the coming cant cam Mr Harmon was greeted with I Ido dous do us applause when he lie arose to speak I |