Show BRYAN RAKES REPUBLICANS fORE S AND AFT i Greeted By One of the Largest Audiences Ever Assembled at Galesburg PROSPERITY DEPENDS UPON THE DEMOCRATS FOUR YEARS MORE OF REPUBLICAN REPUBLICAN LICAN RULE WOULD MEAN CONTINUED DEPRESSION I i I 4 4 4 9 4 H 4 f 44 1 Hannibal Mo Oct 9 Closing up 4 In this city tonight the biggest day da dalot of his campaign William J Bryan B an Democratic candidate for president I t lot was the center of the greatest Dem Democratic H demonstration In the history 4 4 of this city His train was w an hour f 4 late in arriving but the enormous normous t H 4 crowd was as kept In good humor by 41 f eakers of ot state prominence IncludIng 4 Ing in representatives of ot the various arlous 4 4 factions of ot the Democratic party in 4 4 Missouri A mighty crowd greeted 4 the Bryan special as it pulled into the station and the police were 4 compelled to resort to force to make 4 4 way vay to the automobile which was In Int 4 t readiness to carry the candidate to 4 City park where the meeting was in f progress 4 4 f M M M f M H M t t Galesburg Gal Ill Oct 9 Standing on the same platform from which Mr Taft his Republican opponent only a afew afew few days das ago delivered an ai address W WJ Wr Wj J r Bryan ryan today denounced President Roosevelt once again for participating in the tho campaign In behalf of Mr Taft asserted that Mr Taft could give no promise of real reform and attacked the Republican party part generally for its Injustice to the tho laboring man and the people generally When the train bearing the presidential candidate pulled into the station a great crowd cheered him vo vociferously 0 and upon his arrival arnal at Knox college where the platform was erected he faced one of the largest audiences that ever assembled here He took for his theme Justice and hinged his preliminary remarks on a quotation from Plutarch that men en entertain entertain enA A three sentiments concerning the gods godA They fear them for their power admire them for their wisdom and love them for their justice Next President Sure Enough Referring to Mr lIr Tafts visit Mr i Bryan B an remarked It Is no now n w thing for you to th see next presidents for having seen my Mr Taft and now noc seeing me m you ou are certain that you have hae seen the next president although neither of oC ofus oCus ofus us is as certain as he would like to be he which one it Is And here too you saw those of you ou who liv 1 at that time two men who were pitted against each other in one of the most bitter contests that has been known In the history of the world for I think I am safe iafe In saying saing that the records of time give no parallel to the great series of debates between Lincoln and Douglas Justice His Theme Referring to the quotation from Plu Plutarch Plutarch tarch tarth Mr Ir Bryan said that Justice had been his theme years ago and Justice was his theme today toda He said Raid he would try to show how on sev several se eral different questions the Democratic party part was appealing for justice He 1 then spoke concerning publicity of campaign contributions before election and ridiculed Mr Taft for expressing a personal inclination toward that proposition and not hot coming out square squarely ly IJ for it Following a denunciation of Speaker Speak r Cannon and Mr Sherman the Republican vice presidential nominee for tor as he said stifling in the house of representatives legislation that would benefit the people he took up the labor question The crowd was waG moved to rousing cheers when he declared that the Democratic party Insisted upon Justice to those who toll toil Laboring Man a Human Being The Republican party part he said has allowed the lobbyists of great cor corporation corporation corporation Interests to stifle labor legis legislation legislation lation And ho he Informed his hearers that the Democratic remedy was to handle the laboring man as a 7 human being and not as a mere piece of o merchandise We are not willing he said that a man made in the Im Image Image Image age of his Creator with heart and brain and soul shall be degraded to the level leel of dollars and an cents That great statesman who was engaged In debate In this place in 1858 1853 Abraham Lincoln a year ear after he spoke here wrote a letter to some people In Boston and In that letter he said that the Re ItO Republican R publican party believed in the man and dollar but In case of conflict it believed In the man before the dol dollar Jar lar Mr Bryan said that the tho Democrats believed that that was the proper re relation relation lation between money and men Ho then dwelt at some Mme length In support of the proposition to grant trials by b Jury in cases of indirect contempt Mr Ir Bryan Bran made fun of the Republican lican lIean platform basing his remarks principally on the recent editorial In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Omaha Bee which criticised a part of the Republican tariff plank un under under Under der the supposition that it was an ex extract extract extract I tract from some speech of his Why ThY my friends he said I r used fi to buy bu books on humor whenever when eyer I wanted to ta t read something funny but now I read the Republican platform Continued on Page 6 BRYAN RAKES REPUBLICANS FORE AND AFT Continued from Page 1 and save my money The funniest plat platform platform platform form I ever read was the one adopted at Chicago and the funniest plank in it itIs itIs itis Is the tariff plank He read the editorial referred to and said The man who edits the paper is n a member of the executive committee of tl Ute the e Republican committee and so well posted that he Is at the herd of the publicity bureau He says he did not write it and I am willing to take his word for it It was written to shed light on public questions for the We bene benefit benefit fit of the readers of the paper and it only shows how ridiculous the Republican lican Hcan platform looks to a Republican when the Republican can look at it without bias or prejudice As Ac he ho had hal done several everal times before during the day Mr Bryan announced himself as the advance agent of pros prosperity prosperity and bitterly assailed the pres president presIdent president ident and Mr Taft as a member of or his cabinet for the Panic of 1907 iRe gHe de declared declared e that t at thero there never was a worse time than now for the Republicans to predict a panic should he be elected They could scare the people In 1896 he said mid but not now The Republicans he insisted Insist d were being compelled to tu take some of their own medicine no matter whether they liked it or not nott He closed his speech with a severe ar arraignment arraignment arraignment of the president for as he charged interfering Int In a fair fight be between between between tween himself and his Republican op opponent opponent opponent Mr r Roosevelt he said has had seven years and now he Is trying to control another term Justice he declared demanded that the president cease rease ea e neglecting his duties to further tha th candidacy of his bs appointee William J Bryan today toda in hs speeches in this state en route to Hannibal Mo Mois Mois is seeking to batter down the arguments of oC his opponents that business depression and panics will follow his election His party part left Chicago this morning in special special special cial cars furnished by the Illinois State Democratic committee and from ToIlet Joliet his first stopping place the cars traveled as a special train At Joliet Jollet before an Immense audience Mr Bryan an presented pr arguments tending to show that a Democratic victory meant a return to prosperity while a Republican victory means business disturbances for four years The Republican Panic At Coal City he spoke briefly to a big crowd and at Streator where he was greeted by b another throng he spoke for half an hour In both of these addresses he kept up his attacks upon the Republican can party and ridiculed It for pretending to promise prosperity when it already has a panic panl on its hands In his speech here he quoted recent data showing the number of business failures during the past few years and declared that the number of such failures In the nine months of the present year was greater great r than the failures for the same period In 1893 Prosperity and Democracy He again held up Speaker Cannon and Mr rc rr Sherman as tariff if It the Republicans win WiD he said Mr Can non will preside over the house and Mr Sherman over the senate and there will be no reduction that will wilt satisfy public demand And then what A betrayed betra ed and disappointed people will begin a four years agitation to take the hand of the tariff beneficiary from the throat of the American people and my friends during the four years business uncertainty will continue He maintained that the Republicans have no promise or prospect or plan that means a restoration of confidence of peace and prosperity Whereas the Democratic party was pledged to tariff reductions s and with reductions busi ness can build up on a natural tion and prosperity can come back to the American people to Blame Now Nowen when en I 1 ran in 1896 1596 he said they blamed me for everything they thought that the administration blamed for and yet I 1 was not a member of that administration I was not In President cabinet at that time If It It U was faJr fall fair to charge hint with the responsibility for what the president then did how he Inquired can Mr Taft escape responsibility for tor what has hap under Mr Roosevelt when he was not only In Mr cabinet but was the th one ohe appointed by Mr Roosevelt to continue the Republican policy I have a right to demand that he give bond that his election will Ill not bring a panic If It he attempt to give give bond whom will he be seek as an Indorser The Standard Oil company comp ny a man shouted Recollecting said Mr Bryan that that company gave to the nw fund four years ago it would be natural to have haveth them m turn to it uv Taking Taking up the thread of his argument li h he e said that thet Mr Roosevelt as asan asian an in dorser would not be any ulY good because as regards panics the president was Wall bank rupt He cited the attitude of ot the president president president dent and the administration on the trust question as another illustration of at the Inability of the Republican R party to re restore restore restore store prosperity I eo |