The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-10-13

train PAID Tor by those accompanying
him.
Arlington was the first stop afte
leaving Memphis and several hundret
people pressed around the rear plat
form OF the candidate's. car to shak,
hands with him. Brownsville cam,
next and the crowd was large and ful
of enthusiasm.
A tremendous crowd was at Hum
bolt, 1t numbered 5000 or 1000, ant
was packed around q stand that hal
A pathway that had been kept for the
candidate from the train to the STAND
was lined with young girls wearing
Bryan and Sewall caps, white blouses
and white skirts, who waved flags and
shouted q shrill welcome. There was
wild cheering when Mr.. Bryan appear.
ed on the speakers stand, and he
spoke in part as follows:
Fellow citizens / was not expect
Ing SO large a proportion Of the voters
of this county assembled here when
our train pulled in. This is one of the
largest crowds that have found at sc
small town. ] am very much graft
fed to find the interest which Ia every
where manifest in this cause. 1t is an
evidence that the people are investi-
eating and well may they investigate.
can not but believe that when the
people understand what has been go
ing on under our present financial
policy, that they win arise in almost
unanimous protest agair st 1T. We have
been maintaining q gold standard, and
in order TO maintain that, they have is-
sued 1852, 600, 600 in bonds in tho last
three years to buy gold and maintain
the policy, and the end is not yet For
the present our financiers are furnish
ing gold, and why? Because they do
not want another bond issue before the
election. That is the only reason. And
yet, they are furnishing more gold in
such q way that under the present
policy they can go down the day after
election and draw out every dollar and
force another issue Of bonda. Zap
plause.)
Under our present policy the bonded
debt of this country does not depend
upon the will of the people. II is not
determined by what they think is best,
or by what they are willing to pay in
terest on, but is determined by those
tinanciers who. under the policy of the
treasury department are able to draw
out gold and force an issue of bonds,
apd then draw out the gold TO buy the
bonds with, and demand another issue
of bonds without limit--no end to it at
all, because, my friends, when they is
sued the first $50, 900, they drew out
5000, 600 of the gold to buy the bonds
with, and when they issued the second
SOC, 10000 they drew out larger pro.
portion than they had the first time.
Then they got what was called the
ment, was one of the most Infamous
contracts ever entered into by this
government with private citizens.
That contract, my friends, was bad,
not merely because it compelled the
people to pay large amount Of inter-
est which was necessary, not merely
because bonds which ought to have
been worth 119 at the time. were sold
at 104t. The contract was bad for
these reasons, say, but worse for an
other reason. That contract was worse
because it stipulated that few finan.
ciers were to take care of the treasury
Oi the United States in return for what
had been done for them.
believe that the people Of this coun-
try, acting through government
which respects their will and protects
their rights, are strong enough to carry
the aid of syndicates, but in spite of
that syndicates an do to
prevent it.
The Chicago platform does not pro-
pose to injure any, but 1t simply pro-
their fellow-men. We find growing
up over the country more trusts and
of wealth, and they are
together, and are able to
drive out the humber competitors,
and then, having destroyed competi-
tion they are able to prey upon society
and get back from helpless consumers
more than they have lost by competi-
tion. L understand that you have had
some experience in this State. What
was it that you had trust in, here
Cotton bagging?
My friends what can be done in one
thing, can be done in all things. 1t is
one of the things that we rejoice at in
this contest that we do not have the
support of any trust or combination of
5yndicates of this country. (Cheers.)
pie were at Milan and Mackenzie had
even larger crowd, when Mr.. Bryan
spoke to them as follows:
1t gives me u great deal of pleasure
to become acquainted with so many of
the American people. The only trouble
| find is that instead of showing any
coldness, they are apt to overcome me
with demonstrations and manifesto
tions of affection. / wish [ had time to
present to you the issues of this cam
paign, as [ look at them, and yet it
would be q waste of time down here.
find that in Tennessee it is like giving
to those who are already well.
[ can better save strength and employ
my time talking TO people In other
parts of the country than in talking to
you, my friends.
For the past twenty years or more,
our government. has been operated in
my judgment, in the interests of few
people and against the rights and well
fare of the great masses of the people
and now, when the people are assert
Ing their rights'sto proper cOnsidera-
tiOn, we find that those who arc in
trenched behind these bulwarks, which
have been their hope in the past gen.
Grafton, Call us anarchists and social
lists and disturbers Of public order. My
friends, as / look into the faces of these
people, / cannot believe that they are
anarchists. do not believe you find
anarchists out upon the farms and
plantations and In the workshops. II
you were to send me out to find an
archists, would find them at the head
Of the great syndicates and corpora
tions, which think they are greater
than the government and refuse to re-
spect the law.
Mr.. Bryan spoke from the rear plat
form of the train to quite a large au-
dience at Huntington. He was present
ed by Senator Harris and In the course