Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — BRYAN HEARS OF HIS BOOM. [ARTICLE]

BRYAN HEARS OF HIS BOOM.

Nebrsikan Sava, “It’a Too Sadden,” When He Henri of Indorsements. In several States the Democrats il convention assembled have said tho word ot, indorsement for William J. Bryan*- but the most significant voice Is l tbat of the Democrats in Congress, a Washington correspondent suys. The members of the minority party, under the moving Impulse of the news from Arkansas, Indiana and elsewhere, have been uhabie to control themselves, and with foot on the loud pedal have struck the keynote of rejoicing. The Democratic leaders are declared to be for Bryan—John Sharp Williams, Champ Clark, Davhl A. Da Arrnond and the rest —and at a time distance of two Fears they are hailing him as leader »uce‘ again. In the Senate the staid »nes are showing symptoms of awaking enthusiasm. “This is too sudden,” jokingly said Mr. Bryan, who is now on a round-the-world tour, when he was told in Berlin of the adoption by recent conventions of resolutions favoring his nomination for the presidency of the United States in 1908. “This is the Brst announcement of this news to me,” Mr. Bryan continued. “I have been off the main caravan route for some time and have been absorbed in what I have been seeing and doing.” As to the possibility of his nomination he had little to say, declaring it was too early to speak of that question, but taking up the Bubject of the political requirements of the day he said : “In our fight for the absolute elimination of private monopolies and for the regulation of corporations In general It is necessary that the party shall be free from any suspicion of alliance with the corporate interests that have been dominating American politics. To this end campaign contributions must be limited to those who have the public interest to advance. I trust that public sentiment will require all parties to keep their books open, so that hereafter no party will be under private obligations to shield corporate offend»rs.”

Alluding to conditions In the meat Inlustry, Mr. Bryan said: “The beef trust is not different In character and methods from other trusts. The inevitable tendency of a private monopoly Is to increase the price of a product and to lower its quality. Why should anyone expect anything else from a trust than the lowering of quality when a monopoly Is established? Observe, I have used the words ‘private monopoly,’ aot ‘public.’ Is a private monopoly a private Interest Is set up against those jf the whole people. Quite a different principle comes into operation, when the Interest of all is alone in view. "