Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-17
BRYAN IN NORTH CAROLINA
The Mountains of East TenneS-
see Echoed His Welcome.
TAR BARRELS AS BEACONS
Democrats and PopuIists Fuse on Electors,
State and Congressional Tickets in Illinois,
BUT IN INDIANA THEY ARE SILL APART
The Democrats of Connecticut Indorss tn
Chicago Platform With Cheers-The
Republican Plurality in Maine
Will Stand at 10000.
TAR BARRELS AS BEAC0NS
BUT IN INDIANA THEY ARE SILL APART

Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 16.Yesterday
was what William j. Bryan called an
easy day. He was up at a. m., after
retiring at midnight to address several
hundred people, who had remained
awake to see him at Somerset, KY, when
his train reached there. Somerset is a
republican stronghold, but the democrats
in the gathering were sufficiently strong
to awake everybody on the train with
their yells. Mr.. Bryan said he thought
when people remained up until o'clock
In the morning it was an indication that
they were interested in the right of self
government. He advised them to get
up as early on election day.
Mr.. Bryan was arising at O'Clock
when reception committee of twenty
five Knoxville delegates boarded the
train at Oliver Springs. Hon. J. w.
Sneed headed the committee. Two hun
dred members of the Oliver Springs Sill
yer club also boarded the train and ac-
companed Mr.. Bryan to Knoxville.
At Clifton Mr.. Bryan had just told the
crowd that he never neglected the oppor-
tunity to let the people hear free speech
when his train started. And you won't
hear this one" he said as the rear car
drew rapidly away.
Knoxville is the seat of repubicanism
in east Tennessee, but its streets were
crowded with people this morning to see
the democratic nominee. The train on
which Mr.. Bryan made the journey
from Lexington, KY, reached the South
ern railway depot at $3.50 p m. Excur-
sion trains from all the surrounding dis
tricts had brought in car loads of farmers
to swell the crowds of Knoxville people
who thronged the streets. Escorted by
the reception committee, Mr.. Bryan was
conveyed to a stand erected in front of
the court house. Here he was introduced
by EX-Gov. Robert l.. Taylor who is a
candidate for the gubernatorial chair
this year. On the stand were Chief JUS
tice Snodgrass and Judges Beard, Cald-
well, McAlly and Wilkes of the supreme
court of Tennessee and Judge Clark of
the United States district court.
A crowd that approached in size the
great gathering assembled by Mr.. Bryan
yesterday at Lexington greeted the NOM
inee at the court house. Estimates of
the size of the concourse crowded into
Mr.. Bryan was loudly cheered, and his
speech was frequently applauded. Mr.
Bryan said:
Speech at Knoxville.
'It gives me great pleasure to meet
the people of east Tennessee, who have
assembled here in such great numbers
l am sure that when l speak for an in
dependent financial policy my words will
strike responsive chord in the hearts
of these mountain people, because the
mountain people of the world shave al
ways been friends of independence and
liberty. You can find among them those
who are confident in their strength, and
who, therefore, are not willing to bow the
head or bend the knee to the oppressor.
1 come to you as representative OF
principle paramount in this campaign.
1t is the right of 70000,0O0 of people to
h. itrpf ~ ind nf n ofnr
that they want. whether any other for
eign nations help us to have it or are
willing for us to have it, Great ap-
plause) In this campaign, as never be-
fore in this country, have the lines been
drawn between those who believe in the
possibilities of America and those who
believe in abject dependence upon for
eign nations, and If this nation Is not
great enough to have financial policy of
it's own it ought to annex itself to some
power that is great enough to take care
of our people.
Against the maintenance of a gold
standard for one year or forever the
democratic party has arrayed itself. We
are opposed to gold standard We have
declared an honorable opposition to it.
We have commenced a war of exter-
mination against it-a war that will not
cease while there is any party or any
considerable number of men who are at
tempting to fasten this foreign yoke upon
Ill iilueDcuueIl ptOpit. tApplduSe.J
Il seek no votes under false pretenses.
/ want no one to vote for me under this
understanding If there Is any one who
Lelieves that the gold standard is a. good
thing or that it should be maintained, 1
warn him not. to cast his vote for me-
because 1 promise him that it will not
be maintained in this country longer
than l am able to get rid of 1t. Cheers
and applause.)
MY friends, when you find a party
l. all BE-, t@Ilr
you how it is going to get it, and what, in
the judgment of those who advocate it,
the effect of that policy will be- you have
the right to conclude that they are hon
estly believing in the justice of the cause
which they represent and when you find
people who use the term sound money
without telling what sound money
means; when you find people talking
about an honest dollar, and then dealing
dishonesty with the people with whom
they come in contact, you have right
to believe that they are not entirely de-
voted to the cause of the people, whom
they are not willing to take into their
confidence We assert that when they
attempt to build financial system upon
money which they cannot produce that
they are building up an insecure struct-
ure upon an invisible foundation, and
are insulting the intelligence of those
who mean what they say and say what
they mean" (Applause.)
MI Bryan then explained what the
term 16 to meant and told why there
was no danger of flood of silver. He
also explained the way the money is put
into circulation, and while he was in the
midst of the explanation some yelled:
Mark Hanna is going to put 1t into cir
culation."
That is increasing the circulation"
answered Mr. Bryan. Just before cleo
ton in order to contract 1t after cleo
ton Great applause and cheers)
Mr.. Bryan, in this connection, asked
the people not to crowd him and repeat
ed what he had said yesterday about be-
Ing afraid of monopoly, and consequent
ly not wanting to shake hands with a
few to the exclusion of the many
MI. Bryan reached the Southern rail-