The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-08
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH CAROLINA DAAY

erected in the center of big lot and
Mr.. Bryan spoke briefly At the con
clusion of his speech he was presented
with large bouquet of roses from the
mothers and wives in Upton.
Kokomo, the next stop is a Repub
lican stronghold and it was shown on
Mr.. Bryan's arrival there to-day. AS
the train pulled into the town the can
didate stood on the rear platform and
was greeted with cheers for his oppo-
nent from people wearing yellow
badges. AT the junction where he
took carriage there were many more
adherents of the Republican faith and
they evidently wanted the nominee to
know what their convictions were. On
his trip from the depot to the open lot,
where he spoke Bryan and Mckinley
were cheered alternately, but when he
arrived on the platform he found him
self with his own people again. He was
wildly eheered there by thousands of
people, crowded together about the
stand and his short speech was liber-
ally applauded.
was the next stop after Logansport.
4 stand had been erected near the
railroad track, and a large crowd en-
Enthusiastically cheered Mr.. Bryan's
speech. Short stops were also made at
North Judson and Crown Point where
cheering crowds greeted the candidate,
and at Hammond, where the principal
speech of the day was made, a great
crowd greeted him. In the course of
his speech, Mr.. Bryan said his atten
t,on had been called to an editorial in
an Omaha paper which he said was
being circulated by the Republicans in
this vicinity. TO correct the impres.
sion which the editorial was intended
to leave, he told his auditors it had
been printed two years before he (Mr.
Bryant, took editorial charge of the
paper. He added:
THE Republicans who are circulat-
ing it know now that / am not re-
sponsibIe for that editorial. / speak Of
this, my friends, because / want you
to know to what desperation our OPP
ponents are driven. / want you to un-
derstand that having become dis
couraged in their efforts to make a
fight before the people they resort to
Misrepresentation because they
have lost their arguments and their
standing.
/ served four years in Congress, and
anybody who desires to know my po-
sition in regard to the soldier and his
pension can find it from the records
OF Congress, and from the platform on
which l stood, for | never ran ON
platform but what that platform con-
tanned a declaration in favor of liberal
pensions for soldiers.
Speaking of the right of employees
to vote as their consciences dictated,
Mr.. Bryan said:
Instead of resorting to argument
some of the employers have resorted
to coercion That is. they have at
tempted to make their employees think
as they want them to think. / saw
sign down in Nashville, Tenn, and /
wish YOU would remember the sign
stretched over the door OF a store, con-
tanning these words: IF our en-
ployees don't vote as they please we
will discharge 1nem." Ny friends,
that is the right kind of sign to have;
instead of saying that if their en-
ployees do not vote as the managers
want they will discharge them, these
employers ought to put up the sign
LndB IueY ndd In tennessee, UIldG II
you do not vote as you please then you
win be discharged.
''I saw over a bridge not far from
here these words: "No driving al
lowed on this bridge" My friends,
think we can take that motto in this
campaign, but leave off the last part
of it and say: No driving allowed in
this campaign" 1T is bad enough at
any time for the employer to attempt
to vote his employees, but, my friends,
the danger becomes infinitely greater
when the employer is a corporation,
the stock OF which is owned in foreign
lands so that instead of corporation
attempting to use the votes of EN-
ployees it is foreigners seeking to run
our elections and control our insti-
tutions.
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. THE stay Of Mr..
Bryan in this city tonight was an
hour all told. He arrived in the Union
depot at 9:30 over the Pennsylvania
road. and did not leave the depot as
he was to leave the city inside of an
hour for Burlington.