PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
MR. BRYAN SPEAKS FIERCELY. "FAGIN'S SCHOOL." Cy Teicuriiph.— l'ross Association. — Copyright NEW YORK, 6th February. Mr. William J. Bryan, a candidate for tho Democratic nomination for tho Presidency, in 0 speech in New York last night, eulogisod President Roosevelt's crusade of jjonesty. Mr. Bryan then -^fra^edded lo deliver, in a speech of great fierceness, an assault on stock gambling and predatory methods of gathering immense wealth. He declared that the New York Stock Exchange had graduated more embezzlers than Fagin's school (as pourtrayed by the novelist Dickens) did thieves. Regarding the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, it was freely stated in December that the Denver convention would probably reject Mr. Bryan, and nominate one of the "two Johnsons" — Tom Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and John A. Johnson, Governor of Minnesota.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 7
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