The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-11
A Massachusetts, Preacher De-
tends Bryan.
AND DENOUNCEs HANNA
Says Mckinley is Mortgaged
Can lidate.
THE MONEY POWER OWNS HIM
To- DAY Shakespeare Has Been Re-
vised and Shylcck Has Been
Made the Hero of the


Boston, Oct. 1o.-(SpeciaD-In com
pany with several hundred other Bos-
tonians last Sunday [ went to the IA
nous shoe manufacturing city of Lynn,
Massachusetts, to hear Rev. Herbert n.
Cason preach on the subject, who is
the Anarchist, Bryan or Hanna" The
largest crowd ever assembled at Sun
day service in Lynn, were present at
the Labor church. The vast auditor
ium was thronged. People of all poll
teal inclinations crowded the availa-
BILE space, until it would hold no more.
Prominent officials of the city, includ-
ing Democrats, Republicans and Popu-
lists, labor leaders and a delegation
from the Bryan, Sewall and Williams
club of Boston We're conspicuous. The
minister's fame is not confined to New
England alone, for he is well known
throughout the United States as gift
ed pulpit orator. For two hours he
spoke and held his audience spell
bound.
After announcing that as his sermon
would be political one, he would omit
the reading of a scripture lesson, he
announced his theme. When he came
to the sentence Nebraska never had a
better loved son than Bryan" the au-
dience for the moment forgot they
were in a church and gave vent to APP
plause.
Mr.. Cason said in part:
The laws of prosperity are to be dis
covered, not constructed. The real leg
islator for whom this nation waits is
he who shall find and dare to proclaim
the perfect social order fore-ordained
by Justice from the beginning of the
world The real anarchist is he who
seeks to violate the laws of nature for
tn exclusive benefit of a small frac-
ton of the community.
During the present campaign the
epithet anarchist" has been hurled at
the heads of some of the noblest and
most capable men that this generation
has produced The fierce searchlight
of publicity has blazed upon these
men for years and not a single corrupt
official act has ever been discovered.
Bryan is caricatured, just as Lincoln
was, as highwayman, as pirate, even
as the devil, and in many similar ways.
Whether Bryan's political views are
entirely correct or not, who can deny
that he is a citizen of whom any ma
ton in the world might boast?
! Whether we consider the sustained
ability of his addresses, his gentleman
~ endurance of SANDER misrepresenta-
ton, his unsullied public career or the
magnetism of his unaffected cordially
to the sweat stained masses that greet
him at every depot, we cannot avoid
admiring him as a sturdy specimen OF
our American manhood.
Compare him with the gagged indi'
vidual who trembles in his mOrtgaged
house lest Hanna may foreclose-com.
mare him with that unfortunate Napo-
/ leon who has already met his Yelling
1 ton and surrendered his convictions
and it is plain to see which best repre-
sents the principles of the Declaration
of Independence.
Bryan is the spokesman of the hall
awakened producers, who form nine
/ tenths of the population. He and his
4 associates have revived the apostolic
power of casting out devils" in the
Democratic party and of raising the
dead to life among the Republican rank
and file.
They have given us at last a real is
sue instead of a sham one, and though
their remedy may seem inadequate t.
progressive thinkers it is in the RICH
direction and in accordance with the
peoples will.
During the last few years we hav,