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Show COL. BRYAN SWATS THE PANIC BUG Bay City, Mich., Oct. 20. fcA threat tha( 1 have expected eor slnco tho openlug of the campaign baa been niado and now we arj forced to kill tho 'paulc bug,' " said William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan, speaking beforo a larso andienco bore yesterday aftornoon. "This bug," ho continued, "makos Its I II III I ! II llll Ill ! II II llllll !! Ill I llll I I llllll II I II III appearance overj four 5 oars We might call It the four-year locust." Qolonel Bryan expounded the Democratic Dem-ocratic party's" remedy for the extermination exter-mination of "tho Insect " j Referring (o President Taft. Colonel ' Bryan said the worst calamity that J could have befallen him was "the fact that ho was a pupil in the school of Theodore Roosevelt, where he had occasion oc-casion to assimilate a certain amount of crookedness." ' While In the midst of a criticism of Colonel Roosevelt, Mr. Bryan was Interrupted In-terrupted by a man In the audience who protested It was unfair to strike a man when he Is out of the fight. "Armies do not place their wounded wound-ed In the front rank; they remove them to tho row," was the retort |