UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 14 July 1908, Page 5

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

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MR BRYANS" PLATFORM

ASIATIC IMMIGRATION

UPPOSED

Received July 13, 8.25 a.m. NEW YORK, July 12. Mr Bryan's platform opposes Asiatic immigration, and favours popular election to the United States Senate.

Mr Wm. Jennings Bryan, humor ously styled the "Continuous Democratic Candidate," is a hard-working campaigner. He is very popular with the Democrats. At a meeting held just before the last mail left, he was received with boundless enthusiasm by 10,000 people. He called President Roosevelt a spasmodic reformer, and said that Mr Hughes was more concerned ever the iniquity of the Standard Oil fine than over the rights of the common people. He denounced Mr Taft as a protector of trusts and a sphinx on tariff revision. The issue in the coming campaign, he declared, was whether predatory wealth should continue to enslave 80,000,000 souls, or whether the 80,000,000 should control the great corporations. Incidentally he had the vast throng rocking with laughter and cheers, as lie pictured the modern American girl of large wealth "buying a Royal husband." In each of his whirlwind campaigns for the Presidency, Mr Bryan travelled moi-e than 42,000 miles. During his first campaign, which lasted four months, Mr Bryan made an average of twenty-five speeches daily. Un one day he made forty-one speeches in New York. In one way and another he makes an income of from £IO,OOO to £15,000 a year, largely by journalistic and lecturing work. He edits his own newspaper and supervises it even when he is campaigning. He is forty • eight years of age.