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A i ■««m ii-.V.% CHEERING THOUSANDS HEAR BRYAN DELIVER SPEECH AT PONCE DE LEON “The Republican Party in Its Despair Has Taken the Planks of Our Platform. They Have Got Our Thunder But Will Not Produce the Effect” Lon* before the hour announced for the (peaking at Ponce DeLeon every teat In the big auditorium vat filled. At 1 o’clock every car to Ponce DeLeon was crowded with passengers and the ateep stair way leading to the rink was blocked with pushing and shoving people who f.rnght for entrance. Seats were pro vided for about 1,500 persons. All of these were filled before 1:30 o'clock. The chairs occupied only three-fourths of the auditorium, and the big space behind the chairs was rapidly filled. Three rows of wicker rocking chairs were provided for the ladles just In front of the stage. And these were soon filled, while a large percentage of the ladles was scattered through the crowd. Hallawell's band played trlotlc and popular airs. The auditorium was decorated with national flags, a number lining the siege, while two great banners were ,leaped at the rear of the stage. Among those on the platform were Congressman Charles, L. Bartlett, of Macon; the Justices of the state su preme court, J. W. Goldsmith, Colonel John Temple Graves, Major E. E. Pom eroy, Judge J. T. Pendleton, Dr. John K. White, State Treasurer R. E. Pgrk, E. F. Childress, Captain W. D. Ellis, Judge H. M. Reid, E. T. Williams, W. 8. Elkin, Jr, Rev. W. T. Hunnlcutt, Dr. W. W. Landrum, Hugh Dorsey, Judge Nash Broyles, and W. O. How ard. At 4:05 o’clock Mr. Bryan arrived In an automobile, driven by Mr. McDon ald, of the Franklin Company. In the car with him were Lamar Hill and J. J. Hastings. Mr. Bryan was dressed In a sack coat of dark material. Hoke Smith and H. H. Cabanlss ar rived at the name time fn another au tomobile. More than a thousand people were gathered outside the entrance to the Ponce DeLeon skating rink and these people were the first to raise the cheers which welcomed Mr. Bryan. The ova tion which was begun when the city’s guest first appeared was continued as he passed up the steps Into the hall and taken up with a will by the six thousand people on the Inside of the building. The cheering was tumultu ous und long continued and Mr. Bry an’s welcome eould hardly have been warmer. When Mr. Bryan and the party were seated President Lamar Hill took the Boor. President Hill said In Introducing Heuben R. Arnold that the Young Men’s Democratic League had for Its purpose not so much the Democratic campaign work as the duty of receiv ing and entertaining the leaders of the Democratic party. He referred to Mr. Bryan as the man who In 1505 would lead the Democratic party on to vie tory. In hls short Introductory speech Mr. Arnold said "Right now we scent vic tory for the pgrty in the next presi dential campaign. In the course of hla remarks he said: "The day has come when we demand sharp, clear- cut platforms and whan we demand In the candidate as In the plat form." He then spoke briefly of the Democratic platform, platforroe of the C and the issues on which the ocratlc party now reeti. Bryan 8tarts Speech. At 4tS5 Mr. Bryan etarted hie epeech. "Ladles and Gentlemen: 1 am vary glad to be with you again, and I ap preciate the kindly words that have been employed In pretenting me to you. I have great faith la the good tnten- Uena of these splendid young men, who ere at tho head of thla meeting, and bed I not had ao much experience with prophecy my heart would beat more tepidly than It dot* at hearing the fU' ture sat forth. (Applause). Prophecy !• half with and half environment, and I era eure that In this case tha prophecy Is In harmony with tha wishes and en vironments of thaea young men. (Ap plause). if that , rate bill had Jus* contained a clauee limiting the preal- dtnttal elections to Georgia, I would bsve no doubt of the fulfillment of the prophecy. (Applauta). And, my Winds, I am not sure but I am hap pier at a private citizen than I would ke as an olflce holder, and I have not let made up my mind what my fate or wture la to be, but I have made up my bund not to wait until you have elect- «d me to office to do what I can to “vence Democratic principle!. (Ap plause), Life la too short to waste *ny of its precious momenta. The op portunity fa too great to be neglected, and the questions at Issue too tremen- J ou * for me not to take part In them- >o the beat of my ability. I come to 5'iu, knowing that I come among blende; the only embarrassment that J hive In coming to Georgia le that ™y always Introduce me with such eloquence that I am ashamed to fol- 5* those who Introduce me. (Ap plause). You have a style down South !b»t we cannot Imitate. (Applause), armer blood, your Imagination. tour «n utuyui jruui 5“ f our speeches with flowers while In the North, hsvs such long wln- wt* that we must Just make cold, plain •tstements of facta. (Applause). Prslts for Georgia. '1 am glad to be here because It was °*’ r *!* that placed me In nomination « Chicago when I had asked my own •<»t‘ not to do so. (Applause). Geor- P* was one of the first states of the “nth that I visited, and It will be one 01 the last that I visit (applause), for, *Wt you get out an Injunction, I am 'nmlna here agatii and again (ap- Plauji'i, and I am going td do In the j r- what I have not been able to do * 'b* past—I am gofng to bring my J" "ti most occasions. Since we have r'" '"•tried her duties at home have It ho r there, and she has not been Wrmin„,| Rnd know th |„ R.mtq. tavl't a *. 1 , haT - been able to see It and In *«hoo| nnd we are grand and wtbei utore. that sha has had a chance today to learn something of the hospitality of this great city of the great South. The only trouble in coming to Georgia la that I feel that I am In one sense wast ing time; your Democracy la so true and undeflled that you need no one to come from abroad to speak of Dem ocracy to you. As f heard your Demo cratic platform restated here, I almost Imagined myself in Nebraska at a state convention, where the chairman of the committee on resolutions waa announc ing the party creed for the coining campaign (applause), and I am glad that I belong to a party that stands for things so fundamental that they can ba put Into a platform In every part of the United States. "Democracy Is ths hope of the na tion, because Its principles apply to all. Democracy Is not a rich man’s party, nor a poor man’s party, nor the party of the fanner or the laborer, merchant or the professional man, or the banker, but the Democratic party ts tha party which, In every state and every occu pation, want simply equal rights for all and special privileges to none. •(Con tinued applause). It Is the party of tha poor man, because It protects hie rights, and It Is the party of the rich man be cause It would leave to the rich man’s children a richer legacy than tha rich man can leave them—It would leave good government which would protect each citizen In the enjoyment of Ilf# and liberty, and tha pursuit of happi ness and guarantse to each one the proceeds or hls own toll. Dsmooraey Is Growing, "I am glad to And evidences of the growth of Democracy. Even the Re publicans are finding that Democracy la not only respectable, but even popu lar. Tha Republicans are today apolo gising, where they do not follow Dem ocratic doctrine, and rejoicing when they do follow Democratic doctrine. They are apologising on the tariff question, where they have thua far re fused to accept Democratic advice. I have Juet been In North Carolina, and I And that Secretary Shaw had been there, and had made a tariff tpeeoh, and I secured a copy of It, and I am going to stop for a moment and chow you how Secretary Shaw has come to our help and admitted In hls speech nearly alt that we have contended for. I feel a little hurt at one thing, to And that Secretary Shaw would came down to the South end attempt to claim as nsw the eecond-hand garment* that the Republicans of Iowa had donned, for, In hie epeech In North Carolina he presented arguments for Democrat* to accept that tha Republicans of hls own state have repudiated. ’’Secretary Shaw Is the prince of ’stand-patters.’ Ha represents one ele ment of the Republican party, and there are' two elements In the Republi can party today. YV have had two elements In our party In days past, and because our party was divided and becauae these two elements did not fully agree on some questlona, the Re publicans enjoyed a gain, and because our party was defeated we walked through the valley of the shadow of death, but, my friends, we have come out on the other aide, and the Demo cratic party today Is a united party. (Prolonged applause.) We had a con troversy In our party to see whether the people would govern It or whether It would be governed by the represen tatives of corporation Interee.ta, and that question has been settled, but the Republican party Is Juet entering the valley of tha shadow of death, and It has to go through exactly the same process that we went through. W* can pity It, wa can feel eorry for it, but we can not help It, for there la no other way by which a party can reform Itaelf except by struggle, and the Republican party la going to have a harder time than we had, for ten years ago the Republican party had moat of the rep resentatives of predatory wealth, and In 1505 they got nearly all the Republi cans we had, so, of course, It Is going to ba difficult for them to reform. (Ap plause.) Roosevelt Boss Reformer. "The president represents the reform element. He Is not, to my mind, the most advanced Republican, but hit po sition makes of him the most conspicu ous and the most Influential Republican reformer. Secretary Shaw has been aeeoclated with him for eeveral year*. He has been exposed to reform, but It did not take, and today he represents rather those Republicans who believe that tha Republican party has done everything that It ought to have done, end has done nothing that It ought not to have done, and there le no necessity for reforming anything. Why he comes and Insists that there Is no necessity for tariff reform, and then attempts to explain the charge that at last has to be considered that our protected Inter est* are selling abroad cheaper than at home. For a while Republican* denied It, but Anally they had to admit It, and the burden of Secretary Shaw’s speech at Salisbury, N. C„ the other day was that we only sold abroad cheaper than at home when a rebate had been given by the government to compensate for a tax paid on raw material. "I read thla epeech with Interest, and this speech admits, as I said, almost everv contention of our party. One Illustration admits three of our con tentions. He says that last year a steel company in Lebanon, Pa., exported 575.000 worth of spike bolts, and be cause It had Imported steel billets as raw material, had received a draw back of 110,000; therefore, It could sell 573.000 worth of products at 505,000 abroad, and yet make as much as when It sold the same In this country for 575 000. Now, as he Is the secretary of the treasury, I will take It for granted that this Illustration accurately held what did occur, and I remind you that In the first place the Illustration ad mits that they had sold abroad cheaper than at home. In the second place. It admits that the tariff Is a tax on the consumer, for a Republican adminis tration paid the tax. , not to the for- elener but to the steel company, and the Interest that had consumed the product paid the tariff on It. (Ap- P, "Nmv. when you object to the tariff, or object to any of these taxes they tell you that the foreigner paya It. but when this steel company Imports steel hillpt* and uses them In tne manu facture of spikes nnd bolt*. the Repub- llran party ‘ hat r , . h * 1 know for the last quarter of a Century Republican speakers have stood before their audiences and denied that tha consumer pqld the tariff; they have de clared that the foreigner paid It, and here Is an Illustration given by the secretary of the treasury, a high-class Republican, who admlte that the con sumer pays the tariff. What else doe* it admit? It admits that when this manufacturer has aecured raw mate rial, he can export and compete with the pauper Ubor of the world, not withstanding the price we pay In wages to the American working man. This Illustration proves. If It proves anything, that labor needs no protec tion. that all that manufacturers need Is free raw material to compete with the world, without protection In this country. The 510,000 given to that manufacturing concern was not given to pay for labor; It waa given simply to give them free raw material, and If that proves anything It proves, not withstanding tha fact that our wages are higher, our post of labor, because nt greater efficiency. Is so much lower than the cost of labor abroad that our manufacturers can produce with Amer ican labor and pay ocean freights, and then compete In any of their goods In the open market without any advan tage whatever. Fallacious Figures. “But, In another part of the speech, he Insists that we only sold 54.000,000 worth cf products abroad at a lower price than at home. He butt It upon tha statement of Senator Galllnger. of New Hampshire, and says Senator Gal llnger baud It upon eighteen volumet of testimony taken by a commission that extended over three years, and after stating the estimate of Senator Galllnger that we only exported 54,- 000,000 at a lower price than at home, Secretary Shaw then proceed* to tell us that about 25 per cent of the manu factures that were sent abroad amounted altogether to 5120,000,000. That on this sum of 5120,000,000 we paid a rebate of 5 per cent, so that these people could sell 5120,000,000 abroad 5 per cent lower than at home, and yet make as much as It they hal told at the full price at home. Now, •ay, we only told 14,000,000 cheaper than at home, and then say that we :eve a rebate on 5120,000,000 that could iave baeiT sold cheaper. I uk you what they did with this difference? Did we pay that 5 per cent oft to sell 5120,000,000 abroad and yet they only sold 54,000,000? It hie first statement le true, then they have paid them to sell abroad .cheaper than at home, u It le suggested they sold It, If they made the money from the treasury they then might buy from the foreign ers besldts and make a double profit. (Applause.) “Thesa are the figure* In hls own speech, and why does he Insist that we must now pay a tariff? Why, he Is afraid we may be made the dumping ground of other countries; all the fig ures wa have examined make a dis count of as much as 15 per cent when they export goods to the United States, and sell the same goods as much a« 15 per cent lower than they sell them at home. My friends, If that were true, and If every manufacturer abroad wa* willing to cut down the price 15 per cent when he sold over here, a tariff of 15 par cent would protect us from that unloading, according to the figures giv en by Secretary Shaw himself, and yet w* have a tariff three times that, and when the Democratic party attempted to reduce the tariff it left It more than twice as much as Secretary Shaw eald we needed to protect ut from the un loading of the foreign manufacture, and yat he would have you believe that you can not reduce the tariff without open ing our doors up to foreign goods that will be sold to ue at a lower price than at home, to (he rufn of all our Indus tries. And then, In another place, he proceeds to say. Instead of selling abroad cheaper than at home, we ac tually sell things for a higher price abroad than we sell at homo, but there la one beauty about our poaltlon, and that Is we can let the Republicans state their side any way they please, and whenever they state a further po sition, show a negative answer without arguments. Helping Infant Industries. T do not deny you can help raise an Industry by operation of law. I have never denied that the law Is a potent factor, and that those who can secure the law can small great fortunes In a short time and with but little work. When I was a boy and lived on a farm we used to have rail fences and my father woijld tend me out with the men who were to fix the fences and I was not large enough to do much except to handle the ground chunks, and when they would find a fence corner down In the ground they would put one end of driven down the streets where these houses were built and shown how proa, parous you were and the men who lived In the houses would all sign an af fidavit that yon had the beet city coun cil that any city In the nation had. But what about the people who paid the taxes? Why, on Sunday they could walk up and look at the houses they had helped to build. (Applause.) And In that respect you would have the ad vantage over the people who have been taxed through a protective tariff, for they have been sending their money so far away that they can not walk down and look at the houeet that they have helped to build. If the doctrine I* good I had rather apply It at home than to apply It a thousand miles away. Republicans 8eelng Light. “The Republicans on this subject, even are beginning to see tight. Out In Iowa they have refused to Helen to the arguments of men like Secretary Shaw. And In New England they are beginning to demand that the tariff •hall be reduced because they recognise that the burden placed upon the raw material it a burden upon their Indus trie*; but, my friende, the tariff ques tion Is the question upon which the Republicans are most backward In fol lowing the Democratic line, and I want today to show you what Is going on In this country. When the election re turns come in we get our encourage ment from you. I want to give you some encouragement, to tell you people that you are not always going to be so lonesome after the election at you have been In the campaigns past. (Ap plause.) "We have a strange altuatlon In this country; something that we have never known before. Ten years ago the Re publican party came Into power, com plete power, and for ten year* It has hud the presidency, the senate and the house, and during that ten years It has not been able to do anything It went to do. It could do anything In law It liked. It could repeal any law upon the statute book*. It hes had things Its own way, and yat, for all that, the Lord, has been kind to us. When the Republicans refused to give up more money by coining silver, the Good Father took pity on us and opened the gold mines so that we got more money In spite of the Republicans, and then knowing the Republicans and knowing how they throw all blame on Him If times are bad, and crop* are bad; He has given us good crops so that the Republican party atands out In the open and bears the responsibility for Its own deeds, and what do you And? Ten years of Republican ruls, ten years of bountiful crops, ten year* In whlct the money has been Increased In vol ume, and with It prosperity, end yet In spite of all the advantages that have come to the Republican party. Its policies have been so bad <h»t whereas ten years ago the party had any num ber of men who would run for presi dent, that party of victory, today It has fallen so low that It has only one man, according to Its leading paper, who would have a chance of election If he were a candidate today. Roosevelt Their Only Hope. “I* It strange, that after ten yean' control, a party that waa *o full of popularity that Its hopes are hanging on just one man? And why la Pres! and leave the effect alone? (Applause.) "We want arbitration that difference* may be settled without the necessity for strikes. I have sometimes been ac cused of arraying class against class. I deny that J have ever made a speech that could be so considered. I have tried to bring the claseea together upon the basis of Justice, and I favor arbi tration, not merely because the Inboring man need* It; I favor It because I want the employer and the employee to be friends and not enemies (applause), and If you have a prolonged strike and the laboring man starves hls wife and children while he Is trying to get Jus tice, no matter which way the strike goes, there la not the friendship be tween the employer and the employee that there ought to be. "What else has the president don* that Is DamocratleT He he* taken our views on ths trust question, so far as he hae gone on that subject, and when I tell you that he has borrowed'our Ideas, I am not saying It for the Aret time. A year ago today, as I waa leav ing home, tpeaking to the Democrat* T>f that etata In convention assembled, I pointed out what the president had tuaen from our platform, and expressed the fear that If I waa gone a year he would take the rest of my platform before I got back. (Applause.) “That was not the first time I had referred to It. A year ago last Jan uary I attended a banquet In Wash ington where the president was a guest of honor. It was 4 banquet given by the Gridiron Club, and they always have good banquet*. They ere a bright lot of fellow*, and from the beginning of the banquet to the end they were Joking the president about what he had taken from the Democratic plat form, and when it came my time to speak I'told tham that I had not fait >od In Waehlngton In many year* did then, to tee thlnge that I had advocated and been called an anar chist for advocating, mad* respectable by being advocated In high places, and I enumerated some of the things that had been taken from our platform, and told them that I felt like the old col ored woman who was sick and sent for a colored physician. When ehe grew worse she sent for a white physician. He examined her pulae, and then he said to her; ‘Did the other doctor take your temperature?' and ahe said: ‘I don't know; 1 ain't missed nothing but my watch yet.' (Laughter and applause.) And I think the president enjoyed the story as well as any one at the table. I assert that tha president has not dune one thing toward destroying truste or Interfering with them except according to Democratic advice and contrary to Republican advice. (Ap- B lauee.) They have Insisted that the herman law ought to be enforced, end after a while a feeble attempt was made; at flrst they said we wilt enjoin them, and then If a trust got ao bad that everybody knew about It, they would go In the court with a petition and uek the court to please tell the trust not to do so any more. (Laughter and applause.) "The trouble Is that the Republican party will not declare agalnet the principle of private monopoly. It wants to regulate and control the trust, but the trust controls the regulator, and how are you going to control the trust when they control the party In power? (Applause.) If they furnish the cam- dent Roosevelt the one popular nmnpalgn funds, of course, Just now they then thsy would cal . ground chunk and I would get as good large ground chunk as’I could And and then I would put It under the rail and they would bear down on the end of the rail and up would come the fence. Now, I never claimed to be a precocious child; I never Insisted that I learned thing/ earlier than other people, and yet I ran not remember a time when I did not have sense enough to know that It waa pressure on the ground chunk that made the fence corner rise. hnve never denied that you can lift an industry by law. ••I affirm now that you can raise an Industry by means of a protective tar iff; you can put one end of the tariff law under the Industry, and what do you use for a ground chunk? Why, you get some good farmer and you lay him down, and then you bear down on your law and up goes the tariff pro tected Industry and down goes the farmer. (Continued applause.) Now, I can understand how the Industries like that thing, but I can not under stand how the ground chunk likes It. (Applause.) f can understand how a ■nan under compulsion would submit to It, hut what I can not understand Is how a man who has been used as a ground chunk for a quarter of a cen tury will crawl under the rail himself and say ’Press down once more; I think I can stand It again.’ (Applause.) "Of course you can raise Industrie* If you are willing to tax the people to raise them, but, my friends. If that is all you want to do, to help some at the expense nt others, why, disguise It . a- tnwIM leu> rlrtri'f VAII through tariff law. Why don’t you do It In a plain and open way? If the doctrine la good let me ahow you how you can carry It out; Juat get your city council to tax the people on# hun dred thousand dollars a year and glte the one hundred thousand to ten per sons to be selected by the council; the condition being that each one will put the ten thousand Into a tine house. It you want to give employment to labor, what a demand there will be for car penters nnd for brick masons snd for plasterers and for painters. Why. In ten years’ time you would>nvS a hun- • ( len.ihititcantl.ilrillflT hnitiFg nnd In the Republican party? He la not the only man with brains; they have many Republicans of great Intelligence. He Is not the, only Republican who la known; many Republicans are known- some of them too well known for their own popularity. (Laughter and ap plause). But why Is It that only one Republican I# available? Why, It Is becauae that one man ha* had the courage to depart from Republican platform* and to take planks from the Democratic platform. This Is a strange poaltlon; never before In the history of our nation has a great party gone down hill so rapidly In the same length of time. "Btlll In power, the only time any great party hung for Its hope* of vic tory on one man, and upon him only because he had adopted the views of the opposing party: and yet that Is what you have today. You cannot And an element of popularity In President Roosevelt which Is not traceable to the adoption of a Democratic Idea Instead of a Republican one. “Let me give you some Illustrations of It, for the statement that I make might seem ao strange to one who had not studied the situation that ha might attempt to question my veracity, but I will give you Illustrations that I think will convince you. Two years ago ex- Govemor Black, of New York, pluced President Roosevelt In nomination be fore the Republican convention, and In hls speech ha delivered a eulogy of war; the only eulogy of war that I ever read; a declaration that all this talk about coming peace was mere child’s play: that men might preach, and women pray, hut that those ques tions had to be settled upon the battte- fleld, and having dallvered this eulogy of war, having challenged Christian civilisation, he presented President Roosevelt as the man of blood and Iron, to At his eulogy, and presented hint as a modern Mars; and yet. strange to say, thla man, nominated with a eulogy of war, now Ands hi* greatest fame In being the peacemaker to bring peace between two warring nation*. Peso* Replaces War, "The Democrats denounced the spirit of war that the president had shown, and In the last campaign the moat ne ver* arraignment that It mad* of Presi dent Roosevelt we* became of the eplr- It of war that seemed to run through hls life and hls public utterances, and yet within two year* after the election of this modern Mars w# And him known the world around not as a war rior, but aa the peacemaker. Whet els* has he done to win popularity? He brought a strike to a happy conclusion by means of arbitration after 599,000.- 000 had been lost by the public, the employers and employees. He ap pointed a board of arbitration and that board settled the strike. "I approved of what he did. t com mended him for It. I am glad he did but where did he get the Inspira tion? In the Republican platform? No; he found It In that hated and de- splsed Chicago platform. That wa* the place where arbitration was presented feel a little Indignant with the party they have helped to put In power to talk about enforcing the criminal law against these very useful members of society. Useful when the campaigns come around, but, my friends, when the light Is turned these men who talk about regulation only will be walking side by side with the trust magnates, and the people wilt be on the other aide of the line and demand not regu lation and restraint, hut ownership of every private monopoly. (Applause.) That Is where the line will be drawn, and there Is no future vote against the principle chat recognises a private monopoly as a good thing. A* to Socialism. "Boms hare exp/eased s tsar of Social ism in the United .Stales. It Socialism ha« grown, on whst bos It grown? It has grown under the Republican adminis tration. It has grown under Republican laws, and upon what does Hoclallsm rest for Its sdvsnce and Its progress? It rests upon two thlugs— the existence of abuses that ought to be corrected and upon the Republican argument that a trust le an eco- mimic outgrowth and a thing that you can not afford to iteatraj. First, the Re- publican party has permitted abuses lo grow up uuder Individualism. It has uni destroyed them liecause It has permitted them to grow. It Is respomdhle for tbs strength of gooiallem so (nr as Hoclallsm derives strength from the continuance of abuses that ought to lie remedied, ami then the. Socialist rests bis rase upon the theory that s trust Is an economic mira tion. and every Republican who dares de fend a trust from an economic standpoint la defending the principle upon which the Socialist lays the greatest stress. I waul to combat this principle that the Repub lican .party la not prepared to meet (be Socialist argument on thla anhlect. The Horlellst says the trust has rams to stay, therefore, let the government own It and get the lieneffie. "What makes our workmen gres day? It I* beesuso he has In hie heart the ho|ie of ludepeudenco He looks for ward to promotion. He tell. hla wife it Ise s little more and . —,—I. he can some dny have * plant of hit own hlmaclf. Instead of working for somebody else. That Is pos sible when you hnve not nnv irusts, but when yon have just one great trust. It le too far to the top. He can not see It. snd when hope Is gone hls labor cease* in he what It waa You hnve no reason to do whnt the trust needs to do. John !>. Rockefeller’s son Illustrated the tru*t most beautifully when he said that you could not make nor bring the Amerlrnn f rose to Its perfection without pluchl ninety-nine buds, that the strength ‘ »li might go Into the other hud, he said It was Impossible to bring up great Industrial corporation to perfec tion without tho I,reeking off and T HE calm confidence of the man who knows he’s correctly shod, plus the luxury of complete foot-comfort, make a sum of satisfac tion you can’t express in dol lars. But you can buy it with dollars—say five or six—in Flor- sheim shoes. For the man who cares. Florsheim Styles $5.00 and $6.pO Worthmore Styles $3.50 and $4.00 Ward Shoe Company 101 Peachtree Street the Idea? Prom the Republicans? No! In the Republican platform? No! Where did he Gr * —-* „ man drove __ _. w carriage, came In, Introduced himself; said he waa * __ a proof < J platform that waa under considers tloi ■howed him a ji a plank on this subject, he read. It and aald It waa aatlafnc- tory, put hla own plank In hla pocket and wait away. He had fallad to secure inch a plank in tha Republican platform, but It waa In oar platform before The naked for It. (Anptanao., And when the prasl dent wanted aditce ou »hla subject, be had to come to onr platform to get It. Not only that, bat when the bill got Into the remit* they had to put It Into tha hands of the Democratic mb* tor, Senator Tillman, who managed |t for tpeui. (Applanaa.) ««t only waa It InarlrMl Hp the Democrat hr platform and managed by a Democratic senator, but It was Improved by amend ments offered by Democrats. Othar Industrie*. •The Rlkln law a faw year* ago had taken out of the Interstate commerce law tha pun ishment of officials. Sabator Stone, a Dem ocrat from Missouri, Introduced an amend ment to this law, putting It back Into tha law. After a while the Ilepubllraus Intro duced a similar amendment, hut when they came to vote on the amendment tha amend- Atent of Nona for Htonr was fount) 90 much better than tha Republican amendment that they accepted hla, and then Renator Cnlher- •on, of Tejtna. introduced an antl-paas amendment, and that also Is an Important part of the bill. ••The Democrat! voted with LaFolletta to give to thla commission tha power to deter mine the present value of the railroads, but the Republican* voted It down, and tha Democrat* triad to get a better law In re- f :urd to limited review: but the Republicans nslated on ii _ nnd weakened the law. That Is you have It. and yat tha Ilepubl of what thf •Tha flrat It took nine years to find out that It did not mean anything. It than took tan yaara be fore the amendment could be passed through Ute hone* and the senate, and when the amendment finally came It waa Democrats had had their way. Now. tb< Republicans say vote the Republican ticket because of the rate bill that we are firing you. ••I shall apeak tonight of another branch of tha railway question, rather than thla afternoon, because I hare another subject B to which I want to Invlta your attention. I tre shown you these thing*, where the (•publican party has followed In the Demo- cratlc footsteps. Sly year* ago we donounc- ed colonialism, and told you that this na tion could not be half republican and half empire We Insisted that a promise of in- danandance should be given to the Filipino*, but the Republicans refused, and for eight years they have conducted n government there that they dare not defend. We paid promise to treat them as you treated the Cubans; and. my friend*, today if you talk with Republican* ulne out of ten will tell you that ultimately the Filipino* must have their Independence. “Juet now a few people are aaylng that because they have some trouble In Cuba that It Is evident that they are uot fitted for self-government. Well, my frieuda, every time I hoar that argument my mem ory run* back to about forty-five year* ago, snd t *** this country with tho grmtrat civil war of all history; nnd yet I deny thnt that civil war was evidence that we are unfitted for aelf-government. Before I went to the Philippine Islands I defended their right* to self-government upon theory consistent without declaration of ludepemf. ence; but I have been there and now I de fend It on observation ns well as theory. The Duty of America. *T have returned Impressed with the re sponsibility of our nation. There Is no na tion on earth like ours, no other natlou that compares with ours In all that goes to make a nation great. There Is not n nation on earth thnt has not felt the stimulus of our exanyduj and I have coine back feeling nent Ja the law aa It. and yet the Republican* boaet they have done. rat law passed nineteen years ago. •snonidl <oit to i grci has and 1 would lie enough to tusplro * “ ‘ * ‘ that the ties- •sts upon the yet n larger . - . e world must for bnt)t*r9hit> In all that goei# the race, and I anner of our na- overflowed, until there la not a spot dark places of the earth hut what we hnve hlc*4cd them with our generosity. rise* upon another, and I come back more convinced than «-cer before thnt th» f lm of thla natlou ought to be, not to make ta flag feared, but to make Its flag loved by every human Mag. Dura la the most lieautlful flag In the world, nnd tin- a«-ntl- ment that Is Infolded In It Is more beautiful than the flag ttaalf. I want It to extend aloft, nnd then by the side of it I want to nut the emblem of a party whoso prin ciples are consistent with the prlm-Iples of the fathers, and wheu the world see* the flag of our republic representing a govern- — the consent of the gov- ,-inru, ii win iit-w the emblem of n party that believes In the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to Done.'* lustration. I aa the means of settling disputes be tween labor and capital, but, my friends, while he brought one strike to u close after a loan of $90,000,000, hla party has refused to carry out that plank and create a board of arbitra tion before which all disputes of a national character could be brought and tbeae difficulties adjusted without the necessity of a strike. They Taka tha Noiaa and Leave Effact. “I am glad he did what he did, but why does not hls party go further? Why, they say the Republicans steal our thunder. I am glad to let tham have It, but why don't they steal the homes, than lo have Juat one American Beauty In one home. (Applause.) I would rather have a few hundred, aye. a few thousand Independent Industries giving hope nnd ambition to tens of thousands of workmen than to hnve Just a few giant i-orporatlons, transmitting unearned wealth from generation to generation, while the masses would go down deeper and deeper In hopelessness and despair. (Applause.) Democratic Planks Lifted. “I repeat that where the president * baa won popularity, he haa won it by follow ing Itemocratlc doctrine, hut the trouble I*, he does not follow Democratic doc trine far enough. He doee not walk fast enough In the pathway of reform. They any now you mast stand by the presi dent and elect It#publicans who win en courage him. I say to you that the Demo crats Have stood by tho president l9etter than the Republicans have wherever lie has taken a step In advance, nnd that If you want to encourage him In reform elect Democrat*, and when you elect Dem ocrat* yon will find them right lN-hliid him In each m*e. And if be atops back. •‘Whnt else baa Ue done to win popu larity? Why, lie has s#** nreil the passage of the rate law. Yea, we are grateful school nnd wc are grand- sumer pay^ t J ie rhi!i tired ten-tnou*anci-aoiiar nowes ano nave u, uui mi; ««•» ••■•*/ -«« *.•• or toe rate »sw. »*-», we m* imimii wo nre going to travel to- money back to thethis ^ co|n|nf |nto your c |tyTould be lightning, and not Juat take the noise for it, hot, aiy frieuda, where did be get !. (Applause). 1 am glad country—not to me > v J ^ Do You Want to Save Money? If so, Read This Ad. It's a Short Story. 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