The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-18

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ample of the man who in trying 10
seek employment in Southern limos
stated that he never became tired, nun
CRY sor sleepy. After he had oeen at
work a little while the farmer VINO
hired him went out to see how he
Was getting along and found him SIT
ting down under a tree resting anu
when he reminded him of what ne sald,
the man explained that the way ne
kept from getting tired was that he
rested before he got tired, and the way
he kept from getting hungry was that
he ate before he got hungry, and he
always slept before he got sleepy.
(Applause.) / have been following
that plan for the last few days and by
resting every spare moment / nave to
some extent prevented myself from
getting tired.
at has been a great pleasure to note
the interest which the people of this
State are taking in this campaign, and
while sometimes their demonstrations
of affection and interest come very
near keeping me from getting into the
place of speaking or out of it, yet |
feel as your own great statesman
Vance once said about it. Great APP
plause.) Some one asked him if it
didn't nearly kill him to have the peo-
pie pulling him around a.d shaking
hands with him, etc, and he said, yes,
ii did nearly kill me, but if hey did not
do it, it would have ent rely killed
me- (Applause.) So while It is rather
hard sometimes to bear up under all
the affection that is bestowed upon a
candidate it is a great deal easier to
get along with it than it would be to
travel through this State and get along
without it, (Applause.) / am glad to
talk to you little while tonight. We
have a cause which we believe is just,
one which we are willing to present to
the people, one which we believe the
people will accept and adopt, because
we believe that the triumph Of the
principles upon which this campaign
is being fought will be for the best
interests of all concerned. I am in
formed that the Republican National
committee has sent out circulars to
various religious papers and organi-
cations calling attention to a danger
which they say threatens these reli-
gious organiza tons if we have the
free coinage of silver. / want you to
remember that the Republican party,
and the Republican speakers, and the
Republican candidates, most of all
these have denounced the Democrats
for trying to array class against class.
| want to say to you that the Republi-
| can party is doing more in this coun-
try to-day to array class against class
| than any party that ever existed in the
United States. (Applause.) The Re-
publican party is appealing to every
| class or nearly every class and attempt
| ing to array that class against others.
| They appeal to the laboring man and
| tell him that the gold standard gives
| him higher priced dollar for his
wages, without telling him that it
| also makes it impossible for a very
| large number of men who want to
| labor to get a chance to earn one of
| those high priced dollars. (Applause.)
Out in our State the Republican com
mittee of one of the counties appealed
| to the school teachers trying to show
| them that a gold standard was good
| thing for them, thereby trying to get
| the school teachers against the rest
| of the people, and now they have APP
| pealed to the church organizations
| and church papers and are now trying
| to array them against the free coinage
| of silver. Well, / could stand an APP
| peal made by the advocates of the gold
| standard to almost any class better
| an an appeal made to the preachers
and teachers of religion. If there is
| one thing that the church people of
this country could afford to array
themselves against it is the gold stand
| ard as it is being advocated to the
American people at this time Zap
| plause) And yet the Republican Earty
| is appealing to church people to take
| their place upon the side of the gold
standard. How things have changed
| in the last eighteen hundred years.
| Look at the people who are at the head
| of the gold standard propaganda in
| the United States. Look at the bond
| holding class and the money changing
| classes, the brokerage classes of New
York, who are trying to fasten a gold
standard upon the people of this
| country, not openly but secretly and
| in disguise and then turn back IS hun
| dred years when the meek and lowly
| Saviour threw the same kind of people
out of his temple because they had
made his house a den of thieves (great
1 applause) and then think that these
people come and appeal to the minis
| ters OF the gospel and the church pa
| pers to save them from the wrath to
| come. daughter and applause.) My
| friends, when certain ministers of the
| gospel denounce the great mass of the
| people who stand behind free coinage,
| when these ministers have denounced
| these advocates of free Coinage and
have taken their places upon the side
| of these great aggregations of wealth,
/ remind them that when the Saviour
was here it was the common people
| who heard him gladly, the very
| people whom these ministers to-day
call anarchists and socialists. Great
applause.) My friends, when | find
there are not many of them, but they
| are quite conspicuous / find
these men casting their lot upon that
side and exhausting abusive language
in their description of the great masses
| of the people of this country, / feel
like saying to them that if they will
take their chances with Dives, / will