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Show f ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN TALKS IN OGDEN I COfKHIS 1 i GREETED HERE BY BK CROWD I Says Mistake in Picking! Senator Must Endure for Six Years j FLAYS TARIFF ACT Bryan Declares G. 0. P.1 Lifted Tax Burden Only I Off Wealthy Speaking at the Alhambra theatre before 1500 people. William Jennings i Bryan told of why 1 he general public should vote for the Democratic candidates candi-dates at the coming election. the ' theme of his speech being whv a i perdener voted for him when he was a presidential candidate and why John D. Rockefeller voted for William How- ard Taft at the same election. MV Bryan said that .Mr Rockefeller' admitted that Taft was on his side and ! that the gerlener in talking to his em-ployer em-ployer told him that Mr. Bryanwas on his side. Seated on the stapc wore James H. ' Moyle, former assistant secretary of! the treasury; James Brennan, genera' manag-r of the Ogd.-n l' u king ,v ; Provision company ; James Lentz, R, A. Norrls, Hyrura Belnap, Frank iluband, Gilbert Thatcher and Thomas J. Maginnls ARRIVES TRIFLE LATE Mr Bryan arrived at 1:36 o'clock and was driven to tho Alhambra the-I the-I aire. He was Introduced In a few , brief remarks aa "That great American. Ameri-can. William Jennings Bryan." His appearanco on the stage of the j theatre brought the entire audience to i their feet with u roar of applause and lit was some moments before quiet i wras restored so that he. could begin sneakincr SPEECH LIMITED "I am told that I have but 30 minutes min-utes to speak to you. They also tell me that I am scheduled to deliver a string of speeches between hero and Provo. which accounts for the time limitation There is so much to say-on say-on tho Issues of this campaign, that) I dislike being limited to any definite length of time, but that is necessary under existing circumstances. 'I have to deliver speeches ln this campaign In eight states, and this Is one of them. You have as candidates men that should be sent to the senate and the house besides your other candidates. can-didates. CAN'T RECTIFY ERROR "It is essential that you be careful care-ful ln the selection of your senator, for you won't get a chance to rectify any mistake you mav make until six j years have passed. You may rectify jthe mistakes ln the house ln a shorter time, but you must also remember that, it takes men ln both the house land the b-nate to make your laws. ' People as a general rule are for or j against a man on account of the ser-I ser-I vice that he has rendered and not so j much on account of his personal acquaintance ac-quaintance though that of course plays i its 'part ln his election. It made some I difference during the last election, but that was not an ordinary election. BRYAN ;ETS LAI GH ' 1 sometimes blame my fi lends, the Republicans, for not telling the Democrats Demo-crats that there was an -lection p. ml ling so that they could have gone out j and voted for tho men on their ticket and not allowed the Republicans to do ! all of the voting " At this point in his speech, there was much laughter and applause after which he resumed. "1 am inclined to think, tlOWQV&r, as I view the things that have been done by the Republican party since that last election that there are a great many Republicans In the country coun-try that have procured sackcloth and ashes with which to bedeck themselves them-selves when they go to tho polla on November to vote the Democratic STORY OF GARDENER. "To my mind what has been done by either party for the masses of the people is the significant thing. A ' number of years ago I got an idea j You know the world is controlled by I Ideas 1 got this Idea from a gardeniff I and I want to tell you about it, "On one of my trips while ln tnt sleeper I was approached by a well-dressed well-dressed man who after telling me that he had not voted for me and that he was sorry he hadn't told me of his experience with his gardener Ho said that before the election his gardener came to hlai and when the question of politics came up asked him a great many questions. "The man then asked his gardener who he was going to vote for and the gardener replied that he was going to vote for Mr Bryan, and th nvm (Contlnnod on Page Two) I COMMONER OF GREETED HERE BY BIG CROWD (Continued From Page One.) asked why, when tho gardener replied, re-plied, 'Well, he's on my side.' " ROCKKFKLTjKR FOR TAFT. "It Is a significant fact that not ono of tho great corporation heads wero on my side. Mr. Rockefeller adm'.tt'd that ho wits golnK to vote and did vote for Mr. Taft. He said that In his opinion Mr Taft was temperamcn- tally better Lult.-d to be president than I was. Mr Rockefeller did not like my temperament. He. realized that If I had been elected president I would have found somo way to; take his hand out of the pockets of 100. 000. ono of people. "Another significant thin Is the fact that since that election the stock represented by Mr Rockefeller has In-'U-eased In value until It Is at present worth three billions more than It was then. Why to keep the thin from, growing so rapidly they are contlnu- j erttsly declaring slock dividends ji - "Government is a matter of busi-i I n'ess In fart. It is the greatest busl-H busl-H !)pr.s there Is. with every citizen a I stockholder. If you will be as care-, i lit to protect your vote- as you would your business. 1 will not attempt to tell you how to vote I will, how- vcr, give you the issues. LJST8 PKO.Ml.VLX'l MEN. "It Isn't fair to say a man Is a frnundrel becauso he differs from another an-other man I can tell you who the prominent Republicans are at Washington, Wash-ington, there ar.: a number of them. Take President Harding I ha e known him for years, kn'w him before be-fore most of you Rood people ever heard of him I think ho Is a great, big, lovable man. trylnK ami will try to do tho best he knows how. I ' couldn't say better thlnga about my,i own party members. : "President Harding;, however, has surrounded! himseif with non-conduc-tors and he can't find out what the ' people think That seems to be his 1 trouble at this time. I I PACKARD S. FORD, "In short they have a rich man's Idea on how to run the country. If I were to purchase a new automobile and if I were to ask one of them which kind of a car he would recommend ho would Immediately inl" rui m- that the Packard would be the better car If I were to ask a farmer or l laborer labor-er the same question, he would inform me that as soon as the children aro educated, perhaps we will be able to purchase a Ford I "Profiteers have been relieved of $4f.0.000.000 in taxes annually. On the other hand this burden has bei cast on tho other people in anotlnr manner. A saving of $'i0.000,000 In Jnoomn taxes has also been made to the rich. ' Mr. Mellon prominent Republh an. and ono of the richest men In tho country, recommended that the income in-come faxes on big Incomes be t, -duced from 66 to 32 per cent He Is so rich that he believes that he is doing Justlco even If he has to reduce his annual taxes to the government "With reference to the hlRh tariff I $4,000,000,000 la being spread annual-l iy on the people of the country, av- "TTA1 ,20 per fa"' Just think, of It: WOMEN niTTTFjR FIGURERR I I am Inclined to believe that the women are better at figures than the, Jfien. TVhen a woman understands! tho tax problems nie WH sav to hi r husband. "If VO(J will just give me Jjrhat you have been sending east we Will be able to upend the winters at I Palm Beach, tho summer at Bar j Harbor and tho in-between vacations j In Europe, also MILITARI TRAINING BILL ' During tho last two years, tho Republicans Re-publicans tried to pass the military training law, which would have meant that every young man of America would have had to enter nillltary tralning, and learn the business of taking human liven j "But why did that law fall? Because tho house declared against It and they won ovor enough Republicans to their side to defoat the bin Those Democrats Demo-crats saved the nation $700 000. 000 and the moss of the people from ha -ing ono of the worst of all laws Infill In-fill ted upon them. EN oRIP OF WEAZTH "Tho nation has never been more firmly In the grip of wealth than It Is tod iy During tho last two years the government has been turned to big business and at the same time, thej could not find enough money to pay a soldiers' bonus. They bad enough, however, to p".y profiteers who bled the people, a total to-tal of $50 oyo.000. Our plan was to make the people who made big profits While the boys were In France pay them now they arc home. "I am here to plead the cause of Senator Klng; because ho Is on your side He Is for the masses and if the masses are not willing to vote for those who will protect them, how can they hope to be helped?" |