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Show BRYAN ADDRESSES A BIG AUDIENCE Famous Democrat Is Well Received and He Wins Applause by Denouncing De-nouncing Roosevelt and Taft Distinguished Orator Appears Ap-pears Worn by His Constant Campaigning Special Train Carries Him to Logan. William Jennings Bryan, the able exponent of the Democratic party principles, arrived In Ogden yesterday yester-day afternoon at 6:35 and was taken to the Ogden thoater In Mrs. D. H, Peery's automobile. There woro but few cheers whon ho Btepped off the train and his trip up Twonty-flfth stroet was a qulot one When ho stepped upon the stage be-foro be-foro the packed house, he was greeted bv cheers and hand clapping, and tho ovation was a most complimentary one. Chairman S. S. Smith introduced Mr. Bryan in a few sentences and. after the applause had subsided, tho groat commoner began his speech. The audience listened with attontlon and applause was frequent, but not long sustained Whon Bryan said that he believed that even he would have made a better presldont than Taft, his admlrors cheered loudly This was the noaro3t approach to a demonstration during the address, except ex-cept when tho mention of La Toilette's Toi-lette's name caused much applause. For 50 minutes Mr Bryan talked to the audience, criticizing the opinions and acts of Taft and BooHevolt, but von' rarely mentioning the name of Woodrow Wilson. Tho constant campaigning and speaking Is telling on Bryan. He looks tired and worn. His voice is not so clear as in the past and he drank water frequently to keep his voice from becoming husky. Directly after his address, ho was hurried to the depot where he board-1 ed a special train for Logan. Chairman Chair-man Smith and about 100 other Democrats Dem-ocrats accompanied him on the trip, and the train was 'made up of fivo cars. At Brigham City, Bryan spoko ten minutes to a crowd of about 300 at the depot. A tremendous throng gathered at Logan. Twenty-five hundred crowded Into the stake tabernaclo, where the meeting was held, while hundreds were massed outside. Suito Senator J. W. Funk presided at the meeting J F. Tolton and T. D Johnson of Ogden Og-den nddressed the gathering during the long wait, Bryan reached Ivagan at about 9.30 o'clock and before entering en-tering the hall v:u6 compelled to speak to the large throng outside tho building. Ho said he was strongest In Utah and he therefore conflnod his reinnrks almost exclusively to the attitude of tho president on public quostions. Ho asserted the prosident was not In sympathy sym-pathy with the common people and contended that reforms had come in splto of him rather than with his aid There was a big demonstration at tho close of tho address. Mr Bryan left on his return to Ogden Og-den at U'30 o'clock, accompanied by Judge Powers, State Chairman Thur-man, Thur-man, L. R. Martineau of Salt Lake, and tho many Ogdenltes who wont north with him and tho special arrived arriv-ed in Ogden at a little after 1 o'clock this morning. Bryan's Speech, Bryan's speech in Ogden was as follows: "Ladles and Gentlemen: I have. 1 find by my watch, just about fifty minutes in which to speak to you and tako the train and I want to Improve the time as well as I can by calling your attention to the Issues of the campaign, that is. to the more important im-portant ones and to the candidates who are before no. My conceptl6n of the duty of a public speaker is to present pre-sent the Issues as clearly as posBlr ble, that those who aro to oto may have as largo an amount of information informa-tion as can bo brought before them, that they may then decide as to their dutv In "the casting of their vote. "I have no deslio whatever to press my own opinions upon those who bear. While I have my convictions, and "while I expect to follow them, and while I have very definite views on these Issues and regard to tho men, 1 recognize that all of us are Hablo to mistakes and I haven't such confidence con-fidence in my judgment as to ask anybody any-body to accept It without first examining ex-amining the reasons upon which It re3ts, and I have such faith in tho good intent and in the patriotic desire of all citizens to give to their country the benefit of their Judgment and their conscience that I give my vlewa, with the reasons in support of them, with the assurance that if my reasons convince you, then, regardless of whatever weight you might give to my opinion you would give weight to cny reasons. "In the beginning let me say that whllo 1 am anxious that Utah shall cast her electoral vote for the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket, my Interest In the election elec-tion In this state and in the other states which I havo visited Is not confined to tho oloctoral ticket. I am very anxious that wo shall elect congre38raen who aro pledged to the Baltimore platform, for this Is no sham battle, we aro not out on dress parade, we are engaged in a real fight, and our desiro is not to distribute postofflces or to command the patronage, patron-age, but to carry out the plans for remedial re-medial legislation. It would be a very Incomplete victory it we elected a Democratic president and then found his hands tied by a Republican houBe or senate. I feel quite sure that wo are going to make enough gains In the aenato to give ub control of that body, and I feel quite confident that we are going to havo a Democratic house, but I would not be over-confident, and I fight on tho theory that we need overy voto, and if you are persuaded per-suaded that you ought to give us the benefit of your vote In the electing of the national ticket I hope you will not fall'to show that Interest In voting for tbo Democratic candidates for con- sress, and while tho state ticket has nothing to do ordinarily with tho national na-tional campaign, yet when these men make the sacrifices that they do, and whu they give their time and their means to the carrying on of the campaign, cam-paign, wo must help the national ticket tick-et whllo it helps the state ticket. I think this should be considered In addition ad-dition to the arguments that might be mado In favor of Ihos candidates on the ground of individual worth and merit. I, therefore in presenting the arguments on national questions, a6k you to consldor the claims not only of our candidates for president and vice president, but tbo claims of our candidates for congress and the candidates can-didates on the Democratic etato ticket. tick-et. "Now, before commencing to speak of tho candidates and the Issues, 1 think I ought to say Just a word in regard to the conventions Kot that I can enlor Into detail in discussing them, but I belicvo you will understand under-stand the national situation better whon you understand what was dono at Chicago and at Baltimore, and in tolling you what was done I can also show you that an attempt has been made to misrepresent onr convention and I can also show you tvhat uso the Democratic party makes of tho object lesBons that are furnished from time to time. The Chicago Convention. "Now, the great difficulty at Chicago Chi-cago was that an old committer organized or-ganized a new convention, that is, that tho committee that was elected four years ago and not in harmony with the sentiment of the party today, held over and on that committee were a number of men who had already been repudiated In their states, and whoso successors were there ready to act, "Take, for Instance, Nebraska. Nebraska's Ne-braska's member of tho national committee. com-mittee. Mr. Rosewater, was the acting act-ing chairman of the committee. Ho had been a candidate in our state, and had been defeated, and a man of opposite views In his party was selected, se-lected, and yet Mrs. Rosowator, according accord-ing to custom, held over and was there all the time during the temporary tempo-rary organization acting contrary to tho expressed wishes of tho delegates from that state and that was true in Borao other states. Now. that has been the custom In our parties, so far as I know, for those old commltteos to hold one and sorve through the temporary organization, but this It the abuse that may grow out of It, At Chicago tho old committee was a Taft committee, and It seated the Tafe degelatos who were contesting with Roosevelt delegates, and by seating seat-ing thoso Taft contestants It gave to Mr. Taft control of that convention, and by giving Mr Taft control of the temporary organization It put thoso men admitted to the temporary organization or-ganization In position to keep them- t selves in and thus give Mr. Taft control con-trol of the permanont organization. "Now, If this old committee had been a RooBevelt committee, it might havo seated the Roosevelt contestants, contest-ants, and that would have given Mr. Roosevelt the convention. 8o you sco by this custom. If the right Is abused, a committee selected four years ago may determine the character char-acter of this year's convention, in spite of what the electors do. Now, that is the old plan, and that Is tho plan that was used at Chicago. And the strange thing to my mind Is that after such an obvious abuse of this power, aftor such an outrageous abuse of the power, if I may say so, the Taft convention did not propose any remedy, and what Is even stranger Is, that the Roosevelt convention, with all Its denunciation of what was dono by the Taft men, did not propose any remedy, and four years from now the present Taft committee will be ready and In position to do then just what It did now, and In the Roosevelt Roose-velt party the committee of this year will be then In position to control that (Continued on Pago Fifteen.) Lbryan addresses i a big audience Bf; (Continued From Page Tour.) convention and, if St wants to do so.' (stifle the sentiment of the party at I Isthat time, four years from new. I m' "Now, that is what happened all Chicago, and that is what can happen again in the Republican party, but at IJBaltlmore we changed the custom, :and we declared In our platform that ,the committeemen should commenco ;Ito serve as soon as elected, and thus '.in our party we will have a now com-mittee com-mittee that will represent a new contention con-tention nnd in harmony with the sentiment of the people at that lime. '. "Now that is progrcsslveness put In faction, and I want the Republicans Khore, regardless of party, to understand under-stand that whatever criticism they ''may have against the Democratic parity, par-ity, they will have to admit this, that ,lt has done better than either of the , other parties to so shape the organization organ-ization and so make its rules as to give 'assurance that the majority of the ', members will control the party, write .Its platform and nominate Its candidates. candi-dates. ' South Rules. K'The other difficulty at Chicago, and the two I am telling you about, jare the real ones, and but for these thcre would not have been any trouble trou-ble there the other difficulty is that i the Republican party down south, : where there Is really no Republican party to speak of, no such Republican 'party as there Is In the north, there ' are a fow people who call themselves Eopubllcans on national Issues, but they are Insignificant In number and . In influence, and they do not look at these questions from the standpoint of tho northern Republicans, and those mon have representation In Re- I publican conventions in far different proportions to their rights or their merits. Let mo Illustrate. At tho ' Chicago convention Mississippi had . twenty delegates and yet Mississippi : only cast 4,500 votes four years ago for the Ropubllcan ticket Now the First district of NobarBka, In which I I live, cast 18,000 votoB, or four times ; as many as the entire state of Mis-, i ; ,8lBelppi, and yet my district in No- i braska had less than three delegates I ! ; at Chicago, while Mississippi had j f twenty delegates. My district had two : dolegates from the district and there I ! were four delegates at large, nnd my i district being one of six helped to : i elect four, and that would make my district's proportion of tho dolegates a little less than threo. So 1S.000 Ne braska Republicans had less than .three degelates to speak for them, while 4,600 Mississippi Republicans had twenty delegates to speak for i them. That means that a Mississippi) Republican had twenty-five times as much influence In the Chicago cou-j I ventlon in the nominating of a Republican Re-publican president as the Nebraska. Republican had. Now, It touches my' . Btate's prido to have a Mississippi Republican Re-publican so much mora important! fjl than a Nebraska Republican. 1 might r conccdo some difference, but I think ' the ratio of twcnty-flvo to one Is too . much. I would not be willing to con-; con-; cedo on present opinion more than ' sixteen to one in favor of Mississippi. V Attacks Roosevelt. I "Now I have used an illustration nnd have used a hit of humor alBo ;l that I might impress upon your minds tho fact that hero Is a scandal that I has gone on year after year, and year tf. after year in tho Ropubllcan party, , and that they havo used those south-j south-j orn delegates, with patwnngo, and In t other ways, to control Republican jjjf conventions and determine Ropub-. Ropub-. llca nominations. Now you can't feel ' r ' very proud of the Republican president presi-dent who Is nominated bv the moans that were employed there, by having an old committee made up partly of discarded and repudiated men determine deter-mine the character of the convention, and then aided by men from those southern states, who represent an imaginary im-aginary constituency, and yet that is what was deno at Chicago, and while Roosevelt has denounced It, there Is no plan in his party Tor changing the condition or the syotem ' So here wo have the two difficulties I or the Republican party, both of thom i in tlme6 past using both those out-1 worn methods, and yet neither of I them today taking odantage of the i information to correct this abuse and jput their party organizations on an j h'ou3t. sound and reasonable founda. , tlon. I think it is worth while for vou to consider what was done at Chicago, and the fact that nolther Taft nor Roosovelt Is trying to rcmo-dy rcmo-dy this condition, for Roosovelt's action ac-tion with the colored man does not lielp the situation. Why, If you take the colored men out of the Republican Repub-lican vote of the south you simply lessen it, and if they continue with t their representation as it is now, thon jthe representation is still more disproportionate dis-proportionate than It Is now. Taft'c Convention, "Now just a word in answer to Mr. Roosevelt'B charge that the convention conven-tion at Baltlmoro was like the one at Chicago, and that is a verv seccro slander on our convention, to say It was anything like the one in Chicago; It would bo a slander to put us In the same class with the Republican convention con-vention that nominated Mr. Taft, or with tho monologue Mi. Roosovolt held that nominated him. But I nm especially anxious to call your attention atten-tion to tho difference between tho Taft convention and tho Baltimore convention, for they were really conventions con-ventions in which there were contests and in which the delegates were there I representing different opinions, but Mr. RoobovcU's convention was more In the nature of a mass mottlng of those holding one Idea and giving expression ex-pression to it. but when he says that the Democratic convention was like the Chicago convention he olther bc-traps bc-traps a very inexcusable ignorance or else Is guilty of what is worse than 1 Ignorance, willful deception, and I I prefer always to accept where I can tho excuse "that reflects loaBt on tho I man, and thorefore r shall assume that ho was gazing so intently at tnc head of a stuffed bull moo3e that ho hadn't time to read the report of that convention. Now he says they wore alike, hut I call vour attontion to this difference: Wall street controlled at Chicago Now if you want to vote for Mr. Taft you are at liberty to do so, but you also ought to know that I Mr. Taft's convention was absolutely controlled at Chcago by predatory In-I In-I tereBts, I do not mean to Bay that all tho delegates there were consciously con-sciously advocates of tho predatory interests, but I mean to pay that the Influences that controlled at Chicago wore tho Influences that have dominated domi-nated thlB country for aomo fifteen or twenty years, They are the men who organized the great syndicates and combinations and mergers, the3r are the people who issued watered Btock, thoy are the people who compel com-pel a nBtlon to pay tribute and pay dividends on money never Invested thov aro tho men who havo corrupted politics for a generation, they aro tho mon who havo sent on hunch of attorneys at-torneys to thr! Democratio convention and another bunch to the Ropubllcan convention, and have no politics; they are in tho market, to purchase the government at public auction, and then they foreclose the mortgage ae soon as the election Is over. That Is tho crowd that nominated Mr. Taft; but, my friends, It was pot the crowd that nominated Mr Wilson. The bosses, as Roosovolt says, control both parties. Well, I recognize that on the subject of bosses there Is no Letter authority than Mr. Roosevelt. For there Isn't a boss In the Republican Repub-lican party whom he doesn't know personally and Intimately, and there isn't a boss in the Republican party of any standing who has not helped Mr. Roosevelt to get an offlco of high Importance and great authority. So when he says that tho bosses controlled con-trolled at Chicago 1 am not disposed to dispute him, when ho speaks upon a subject with which he Is so thoroughly thor-oughly familiar. But whon ho says that the bosses controlled at Baltimore Balti-more I know better; I know what we did at Baltlmoro, not what thev wanted want-ed but just what they didn't want. Do you think the bosses would havo suggested a Morgan resolution thero, that the only boss in New York, Mr. Belmont, should admit that ho put up a quarter of a million dollars to elect a man whom ho wanted to elect for president, and that Mr. Ryan, another boss in another dolcgatlcn. do ou think that either one of thom wo'uld have suggested tho Morgan resolution7 resolu-tion7 An to Mr. Murphy, another boos, do you think that Mr. Murphy would habc put It Into anybody's head to offer a resolution opposing anv of these men? And vet that convention that Mr. Rcosevolt savs was controlled con-trolled by bosses actual'.v passed bv a vote of 8SG to 194, about four and a half to one, passed a resolution, bulletining bulle-tining the names of Morgan, Ryan and Belmont In cory capital of the old world as corrupters of polities, who should not be permitted to name a president of the United States Does that lool. llko the bosses were controlllnc that convention? And remember re-member that tho New York crowd in the Republican convention went down after a president and got him, and they went down to Baltimore after a president, and they ewnl home like whipped curs, finding that oven their support of a man wa a millstone about his nock nnd not an assistance Now that is tho difference between the two conventions, and the Baltimore Balti-more convention nominotcd the one man that the bosses nnd Wall street didn't want. Roocevolt and Taft Alike. Now Mr, Roosovelt ought to know tho difference betweon the Chicago convention and tho Baltimore convention, con-vention, because he doesn't seem to. I can tell you the difference, because I nm as much an export on Baltlmoro Baltl-moro as ho Is on Chicago. Even more so, for he was on tho outside at Chicago and I was on the Inside nt Baltimore. "Now lot me speak for a moment of those throe men and of tho things thoy stand for, and I assure you it Is much more to my regret than it can be to yours that I must do this so hurriedly. In the caso of Mr. Taft I will speak of him first. I want to repeat what 1 have said at other places. I want to repeat It because 1 want no Taft mau to think that my objection to Mr. Taft is based upon any luck of confidence In tho man'B good Intentions. I believe, as I have uaid before, that Mr. Taft is an honest hon-est man and I bollove he Is a woll-meanlng woll-meanlng man. I bollove some friend of Mr. Roosevelt's has asked me to explain how some things could have been done by Mr. Taft, if ho Is honest hon-est and well meaning. It is not a safo question for a friend of Mr. RooBevelt'B to afik, because I would have just as much difficulty in explaining ex-plaining some of Mr. Roosovelt's conduct con-duct as I would have in explaining Mr. Taft's conduct When I say that Mr. Taft 1b houest and well meaning. I do not mean tha the has never made mIstakoB I think he has made many. I do not moan that he has not yielded yield-ed to temptation 1 think ho has, but I Bay Mr. Roosovelt Is honoBt and well moaning, and I think Mio has made mistakes and I think ho hna yielded to temptation, and I put thom both in the same class and I discard thom both on the same groundB.' I think that their faults uro not always al-ways the same and yet, my frlondo. if you will take Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt, you will find that really the groatont dlfforonce between thein Is that they cannot ngreo on tho other, oth-er, nelthor can agreo on tho other for tho prcoldoncy, and the greatest difference dif-ference between those two men is their ambition for tho presidency; thoro la no difference betweon thorn on the tariff question; there is no difference betweon thom on imperialism: imperial-ism: thoro la no dlfforence betweon them In emphasizing the national an against the state government on fundamental questions they stand much the same. Mr. Taft advocates some progrcsslvo things that Mr. Roosovolt doeB not advocate . But the great difference between them is that we only have one presidency, and both want it. and when they went out to fight each other, there was no difference between them at all, for one carried as large a bucket of mud as tho other, and they disgraced American politics by the manner In which they throw mud at each other. j But I believe the chief fault with Mr. Taft Is that he doesn't trust the people, peo-ple, that Is tho secret of his failure to satisfy public expectation ,and Mr. Roosovelt has not shown very much trust in the people until very recently, recent-ly, and the only really pronounced application ho has yet made of tho doctrine that the people shall rule Is that they shall havo the right to l have a president for the third term, j If they want him. I "I say .Mr. Taft does not trust the .people and now let me urioiiy gio you cadence of it. Ho Is opposed to the initiative and referendum. Why? Because he Is afraid that the people ' will not use these Instrumentalities of government intelligently. He Is not helping ub to tho election of senators sena-tors by the people. Why? Because he doesn't realize, as the people do, their need of tho direct-voice In the election of senators. And yet he haj been down there whore ho can -non f the senate, and yet ho has kept still I while the people made their fight to secure a senate elected directly by tho people. He has not helped us In the purifying of politics. Four years ago he even objected to lotting tho people know before the election where the money camo from. And why? Because they wouldn't make n good ,use of the information. He didn't hut enough faith in the intelligence of I the people to let them know where the money came from until after they had oted and Mr. Roosevelt agreed with him four years ago and indorse i the position that he took". Mr. Taft has not helped us on the income tax. j for although be recommended the passage pas-sage of the resolution submitting the j amendment, he did it In order to ,ire- . vont tho passage of a statutory in-como in-como tax. so that It wan his opposition opposi-tion to nn Income tnx that led him to use this form as a means of dofeatlng the plan that was thon before congress. con-gress. He has not helped us In tho reduction of the tariff, ho has not helped ub on the trust question, hia sympathies arc not with tho people. 1 think It Ih partly a matter of Inheritance In-heritance that ho was born In aristocratic aris-tocratic surroundings. I think the environment en-vironment of hlB youth and boyhood and manhood hus been aristocratic, 1 and that the Interests that have gathered gath-ered about him and havo Influenced him have been aristocratic, and that it Is not entirely his fault. The fact I that he dees not take the people's olde makes him an lmpropor man to elect her Unit thlB is a progressive age. If Mr. Taft had beon born a hundred years ago they might have called him a progressive, but ho was not born that long ago and he Is living out oi his tlmo. This Is a progressive age. You can go anywhere In tho world and you will find progress. Until recently re-cently Russia has been a despotic government gov-ernment and yet tho people of Russia Rus-sia have secured a voice In their government. gov-ernment. I had the pleasure of visiting vis-iting Russia Just aftoi that first duma waa electod and I oay to you I never looked down upon a body that Impressed mo more than that duma did. There were lawyers there from tho great cities and professors from the universities, and thero were peasants there with their belted blouses and with their pants In their boots, and as thoy passed through tho building that was once a palaco you could sec In Uiclr faces the story of a nntlon's suffering. Russia has a duma, Persia has a constitution, and Turkey not only has a constitution but a rop-rcsonta'tlvo rop-rcsonta'tlvo body, and over In Groat Drltaln the spirit of democracy, speaking speak-ing through the house of commons, haB compelled the house of lords to surrender tho veto power. In China 400.000,000 of human beings under tho heel of deapotlem for centuries have rlaon In their might and they havo driven tho Manchu rulers from their throne. Thoy have establiBhod a republic re-public and thoy have taken tho constitution con-stitution of Oklahoma as tho basis o: tho constitution of their several Btato3 and yet Mr. Taft Htands still; the world moves on He hasn't oven told China that wo are glad that she Ih a republic and calls her chief executive president of the United States of China out of compliment to ub. "Now, Mr Taft haB boen president for four years. Ho haB given us a chance to ceo what ho thinks and how ho acts. Four yeara ago the populace took him on faith. Mr. Roosovelt said h l Sh aQd tho people didn't know any bettor until they got him, but now thoy know better and there Is no reason why they should take him on anybody's Bay-so. He Pleases Everybody, "New I repeat that I believe Mr. Taft is an honest and well meaning man, but ho is not fitted for the day, I and I can't understand how there can be any likelihood of his being again made president, or why anybody should desire to have him made president presi-dent again. It Is no reflection on a man to Bay that he ought not to be president, i have got to maintain that position, because bo many have said It In regard to me. And surely If 75,. 000.000 peoplo say that I ought not to be president, I ought to bo allowed I to sav that two or three other follows i that I know ought not to be president. .1 hope you won't think I am boasting when I say that I believe I could have made a bettor president than Mr.Taft has made. wen. my menus, i uave now (stated briefly all I have time, to Bav j about Mr. Taft, and now I want to tell i you that I am not moro eager to havo Mr Roosovelt president than I am to have Mr. Taft president. In fact, I am probably In the best position I over was, and I don't suppose I will over be in such a good position as I am now. I am ablo to please more peoplo with my speeches now than I over did before. Heretofore I have been able to please tho Democrats, most of them, but tho Republicans haven't liked ray speeches, but now I am very popular with the Republicans Republic-ans and I never make a speech now wlthput pleasing everybody In the audience. au-dience. It Is a rare experience for a public man to be able to do that, but you see whon I mako a spoech I first toll the people why Taft ought not to bo re-elected nnd every Roosovolt Republican Re-publican applauds everything 1 sny, and then I toll why Roosevelt ought not to bo presidont, and every Taft Republican rejoices In every word I utter. And the Democrats, why, they are hapnv all the time. Taft Distrusts People. "Now. Mr. Taffs chief fault. I think, is that ho is constitutionally distrustful distrust-ful of the peoplo, while Mr. Roose-vellr'B Roose-vellr'B fault is that ho Is constitutionally constitution-ally ovortriislful of himself, and surely sure-ly no man has ovor had better reason to distrust his jndirment In picking out presidents than Mr. Roosevelt has. For there are fow mon In tho history of this country who have failed so mlBerablv in picking out a president. Mr. Roosevelt picked out Mr. Taft. That Is his star performance In public pub-lic life, nnd ho hadn't any doubt about him cither; It wjib not" a hesitating sort of commendation; it was not like one fellow's recommendation, 'I don't know any harm in this man.' Why, no. Ho says. 'Hero is a man who Ib the best prepared man who over walked. Some of vour proBldents hnv heon nassablv Rood, but nono of them have beon prepared for It like Mr. Taft. Take this man.' Now this Is the first case that I havo been ablo to find In the political or Judicial history his-tory of tho world I mako It strong, nnd If any of you can find another caso I wish you would bring It 'to my attention this Is tho first I have found in all history where a guarantor has to be recommended because his principal has failed. It now lookB as If ho intended his recommendation to bo understood In a dlfferont way from that In which we understood It. It looks now as if his guaranty was Intended llko this: 'Tako this man, and If he doesn't moasuro up to my I recommendation, then come to mo, I nnd as u punishment I will not only take his place, but T will servo as ! president the rest of m' Hfo to show I how sorry I am ' I He HaB Kept Books. "Now, Mr. Roosevelt b running his 'own roform, but I have been keeping books; I have had nothing elso to do. If I had been president I might have been busy and overlooked some of tboac things, but I have not beon busy being president, so I have been busy wlUi tho president and ox-presldcnt; 1 know whore theso men havo been all this time. Mr Roosovelt thinks that ho ought to be elected now be-causo be-causo he has taken some plonks out of our platform. Woll, I know what he was doing. I watched that platform. plat-form. Ho never took a plank at night but what I found It out before morning morn-ing nnd gavo tho alarm at sundae. I have noticed some place where somo vory conscientious men have taken tho troublo to write on each egg tho date when It wns laid, so tHat tho buyor could toll how fresh the egg was. Now, If Mr. Roosovolt will do that on his plank, If he will tako the planks in tho platform dealing with national roforms nnd will write on each plank tho date whon he flret advocated ad-vocated tho doctrine and then abovo it the dato when the Democrats ad- jTOcated It, and thn nhow tSw ntun- ber of years between the two, ho won't discuss national issues any more In this campaign. But as he won't do It, I will I will tell you when he camo In, for I have been at the door watching for him and waiting wait-ing for him all theso years, and very patiently. "Take the election of sonators by the people. That Is tho greatest thing that ho advocates today, It Is tha greatest reform In n hundred years, and he commenced advocating It two years ago; the Democrats began fighting fight-ing for It twenty ycare ago. They puseed it through the house of representatives repre-sentatives at Washington in 1S92, and I had the pleasure of voting for It when I was a member of congress at that time. Twenty years ago we commenced; two years ago he commenced. com-menced. We put it In three national plntformB. It was never in Republican Repub-lican national platforms. It passed five houses of congress before Mr. Roosovolt spoke for It. It had been Indorsed by nearly two-thirds of tho statoB of the union heforo he ever advocated ad-vocated it. As late as four years ago tno convention that nominnted Mr. Taft turned It down by a vote of three to one. when Mr. La Follette tried to got indorsed by that convention. Even Mr. Taft apoke on this subject two years before Mr. Roosovolt did. Ha comes In now, when the victory is won and throws his hat and shouts with the crowd. He Is now advocating tho Incomo tax. When did he commence? !We commenced eighteen jenrs ago. We pabsed that bill through congress In 1S94. We put it in the fight in three national elections and now wo have thirty-four states to ratify It, but-he hasn't helped to do. But yet. he wants to bo called a pioneer. Ho Is for the initiative and referendum. Since when? Two years ago. Only five years ago ho sent a man away down to Oklahoma to tell the people that they ought not to have It. that Uiev should delay statehood until they got" It out of their constitution. Ho Is with railroad regulation. We had it in our platform three times before ho ever mentioned It In a speech. He isnys tho peoplo ought to rule. When did ho think of It? Where did ho get tho Idea? Who told him the peoplo ought to rule It wns In our platform four years ago in that very language: 'Shall the people rulo?" Wo declared that to bo tho overwhelming issue four years ago. He couldn't sec It then. Now he tnkos it out of our platform without putting quotation markr. around It and then says 'Thou shalt not steal!' "Now this is his record on soma Of those things Tor which he Btnndd, tho things that we havo been fighting for, tho things that the people have boen setting. I told you on the question ques-tion of purifying politics that four years ago ho Indorsed Mr. Taft's position, posi-tion, when Taft said we shouldn't know until after the election where the money came from. Now we have a law making It before tho olectlon. "Now, my friends, I am glad to have Roosevelt come over, but I want you 'to know that this man has not been over long, that when we made our fight some years ago and first called on him to take this government out of Wall street ho was on Wall street's side; In 1900 we fought again aud Wall street was against us and made him vice presidont, whore the accident of death could mako him president, and In 1904 Wall street made him president and four years ago Wall street holpod to elect as president a man thnt ho had picked out and indorsed. in-dorsed. That Is the record of sixteen six-teen yearB that he has been on tho oUier 3lde. "Even two years ago, after he had come back from Africa, after he had had a chance to be qulot, with nobody around him shouting for him and no band playing, ho camo back aud got upon his progressive automobllo and rode around tho country, observing tho speed InwB of the dlfferont sections. sec-tions. Whon he got out west he waa a Joy rider, but when ho got to .ow York and slowed down and presided there as temporary chnlrman In tho convnnUon that indorsed Taft's administration, ad-ministration, and he novor said a word against it, and that convention Indorsed the Payne-Aldrlch bill and ho never protested against the indorsement. in-dorsement. Ho went clear to Massachusetts Massa-chusetts nnd helped elect Lodge to tho aennte, and Lodge was so elected. Says Roosovelt Fa?tei-ed. "Loss than a year ago, when Lu Follette Btarted out as a candidute ! against Taft Roosevelt would not M itake sides and wanted it distinctly H understood that bo was not taking M part as between Mr, La Follette and H Mr. Taft, and yet La Follette was the H pioneer reformer in tho Republican IH 1 party. He was the man that stood H I alone In the Republican nenate, defy- H Ing all those reactionaries and puc- H ting chalk marks on their bucks and H driving them out of the senate by M reading their records, and Roosevelt H did not repudiate the work that La B Follette did. 1 am willing that Roose- jH velt should come along now and turn H state's evidence and testify against H his pals, but I am not willing to make jl him prosecuting attorney Just yet. H "My friends, since I was in Utah H the other day I have been in California 1 and Nevada, and In Nevada yesterday jl I visited Virginia City, and there I H saw what remains of that once flour- jH Ishlng place, and they told me about H the Comstock lode that It was tho H richest mineral vein that had ever H 'been found in this country and with H one exception in the world, and that H 700 millions of money had been taken H out of that Comstock lode, but It tooic H fifty-one years to do It, and can you H tell the number of freight teams and IH stage coaches, can you tell how many H men went down In tho bowels of thu H earth down 2,500 feet they are now H below the surface can you tell how ll many mon have toiled, how many have B hoped, how many have been dlsa.i- pointed? But vet as a result of all this they got out $700,000,000. I How Trust Gets Rich. H "When the steel trust was organ- HBJ ized a handful of men went into a HBb little room and sat around a little HBb table and with pen and Ink and paper IHH they wrote out and put into their pockets what represented $700,000,000 and that Is the way they can do when fH they have the Republican party to permit thom to reach their larccnoUB hands Into the pockets of 90,000,000 people. H The old pioneers crossed uie plains, hhb and many of them died of the expo- HBV sure, for those men had to work for HBb the little that they got out of tho IHJ earth, but under those systems where Ba lies their power to extract money from BBV tho peoole? They do not have to HBJ mnko any sacrifices, they do not have IJJ to endure any hardships; all they havo HBv to, do Is to olect presidents who aro BJ friendly to them and senators and HBa members of congress who will lot BBV them do as they please. Now, this BVJ has gone on and tho Republicans did HBV not stop It. And Mr. Roosevelt was ! presidont for seven years and a half Bl during that time and he never said a BBI word against the steel trust, ho never BBI tried to squeeze the water out of that BBa great corporation's stock. B 'If ho would Just squeeze the water BBb out of tho stock of this trust he would BH have enough to Irrigate all the arid BBJ lands of the west, 'but he lets theso BBa people go on and plunder the public, BBh and then he starts out a new party BKV to make the trusts permanent and to BBV glvo you assurance that they will not BBa be disturbed he makes a director of BBJ Uio steel trust and the manager of BBJ tho harvester trust, Mr. Porklns, his BBV chief financial backer, his chief pollt- IBB ical adviser. BBJ Pleads for Wilson. H "I find my time is up. I told you Bl whon I started how short It was. I BBa have talked rupidlj nnd I havo only BBb been able Just to say a fow things that BB I would like to havo said, and now in BB conclusion let mo say that as against BB this man who hn3 been weighed in the BB balnncc and found wanting, and BB nguinst this man who has been preBl- BBJ dent twice and wonts to be again, and BBa who hus planned the establishment of BBv trusts as a permauont InslltuUon, BBJ against this belated reformer, for he BB Is a roformer, and this man who men- BB aces our Industrial independence on BBB the trust question. I present to you a jBB man on tho best platform that was BVB presented to tho peoplo after Uie Bal- BBB Umoro platform, who gives you the BB progresslvcnoss for which you are BBB rcudv in national politics, a man who BBB bns the intelligence to fill that office, BBB whose sympathies aro with tho people BBB and whose moral courage has boen HVB tested and found to bo of tho highest BBB typo. I appeal to yon now to corao BB and help elect a man pledged to a sin- BBB gle term, who if he Is electod will BB have nothing to think about oxcept tho pHJ peoplo and their Interests, who will HHJ uot havo to spend tlmo working for BBJ renomination and ro-olcctlon. I pre- BB sent to you our candidate, Woodrow BJ Wilson, as the man- H BKSW 'BBBBb |