The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-22
RESTS FROM HIS CAMPAIGN
CAPT. TOW MASON CLOSES TEN
PORARiLY AT WILLIAMSON.
Spoke Powerfully, and Mention or
George Hood Was Cheered---Mr.
Lannes Moore Substituted.

James Moore oupStRuteos
Williamson, N. c., Oct. 21.-(spe-
| cfaD-Capt. Thomas w. Mason has
been ito the east by way of the west, "
and at WILLIAMSON to-day closed one
| of the most powerful two months
campaigns that has ever been made IN
| the State. His clarion voice has
! echoed and re-echoed up and down
| the Nantahala. 1t has called to arms
| the silver patriots on both sides of the
| Catawba. and the Yadkin. 1t has in
| spired hope and awakened the enthusi-
asm and interest in the minds of the
women that dwell along the Roanoke
and the Chowan and with the plaudits
and unrestricted praise of many thou
sands, who have heard his earnest and
eloquent appeals for Democracy and
its principles he has to-day repaired to
his home for a few days needed rest
before making the final charges on
the camp of the enemy.
At williamson to-day Capt. Mason
was met by a large crowd of Martin
county people and to them he deliver
ed one of the most powerful and eff
fectiye speeches that has ever been
1t was probably his own greatest eff
fort in the campaign. 1t was his last
fulfllment of the gubernatorial APP
pointments in lieu of the peerless Wat
son, and the brilliant and matchless
speaker took the vast audience, lifted
it into almost a new realm of eloquence
and oratory and as he with perfect
diction and matchless power, re-
vealed the glorious history of the
Democracy of Jefferson and Jackson
in the past, pictured its everlasting
truths as they are rewritten on the
banner that was snatched from it's
traducers by that great new leader
that giant of the great West, that
princely knight of the crusade of the
masses against the classes, that grand
young general who fears none but God
and loves nothing but truth, VIM. j.
Bryan, the superb ggntleryln and
statesman, the enchanted audience
cheered and wept and smiled in turn.
Mckinley declares that we don't
need any more money" said Capt. Ma
son." all we want it to circulate what
we have"
Circulate it. yes, but how can we
circulate it by selling the products of
our farms? our factories and our mines
for less than it cost to produce them?
can we circulate it fby yielding our
already bowed necks to their CALLING
yoke of oppression, can you circulate
their gold by selling your valuable
untouched forest? you have tried that
in this favored section, and you hear
no more the enchanting whispers of
your majestic pines, but you listen in
vain for the clink of the gold. Cam you
circulate it by selling to these idlers
the privileges that God gave you up
and down these sounds that TEEN with
fish and game? You have tried this
until you have to appeal to your State
for the privilege of shooting a duck
on the waters that surround the
homes that your fathers gave you, can
you circulate it by selling yourselves
to combines and trusts and have
them-as they are attempting to do
all over this country, coerce the ballot
that was secured to you by the split
blood of those grand patriots who
fought British tyranny as we are
fighting it to-day, can you circulate
their gold by appealing to those
trusts and corporations that have mo
souls to pray for while living and
none to damn when dead?'
No my friends, you have tried to
circulate it by all these methods,
there is one way left by which you
| may circulate a few dollars more of it,
but in circulating it that
way, you will circulate your
selves into the almshouse you can
| sell your homes, the roof trees that
shelter your loved ones, you can sell
| the home and the land in which lies
| buried the remains of your departed
dead. You have this left, perhaps, and
you can sell it, thereby circulating a lit
| tie more of their gold, but when you
| do, you join bhat great army of hom-
| eless that is ever increasing through
| out the world, because of this terrible
heartless gold standard policy. plead
| for the homes Of the land. Not the
| palaces, but the humble cottage homes,
] resist This gigantic effort to enslave
| the people, and come veal or woe, come
ballots or bullets, link my hopes, my
| life my all, with the honest home own
| ers of this land, and for the freedom for
which our fathers fought
Captain Mason stirred himself, he
stirred his audience, he stirred the
town of WILLIAMSON, he stirred the
county of Martin with this great
speech.
How many men, white and black,
were there in Martin county five
months ago that favored this gold
standard p asked the speaker.
Hardly a Dozen replied a gentle
man in THE audience. "TJhey were all
for silver"
What has changed them? ?" queried
the Captain.
Fish bait" shouted another gentle
man.
Yes, my fellow citizens" said the
Captain.
six months ago they were all for sill
yer, Pribchard was preaching silver,
Pearson was preaching it, Russell was
bold advocate of silver. Where are
they now. Aye, and let's go back lit
tie, and we find Mckinley rasping
Cleveland because he (Cleveland) was