The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-29
.BOYDEMAGOGUE:'
As Well as a "Boy Orator" is
William j, Bryan.
ASSERTIONS NOT ARGUMENTS
lie Take. Tour Into the Country TO
G,atiry the Curiosity OF the People TO
See Presidential candidate--speshs to
4 Farmer. and Tsii, Then, that He Is
Happy TO Have the sonnd Money, Demo-
Gratis do Ont OF ftils Patty.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 2s,--.
In his syracpse speech William J. Bryan
explained his campagning tour by re-
marking that because few OF the peo-
pie had enough money this year to visit
u presidential candidate, II seemed only
fair that the candidate should go 70 see
the eople. In pursuance OF this policy
Mr.. Bryan left Buffalo by trolley this
morning to begin a two days campaign
among the smaller cities Of Northern
New York.
/, At Tonawanda there were gathered
200 or 800 people when the car stopped
In the center OF the town, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryan, standing on the platform.
shook hands with typical country
crowd. Mr.. Bryan spoke to them briefly,
his voice in Its husklncss showing the
wear and tear OF the weeks work, and
when the trolley moved OF It was fol-
lowed by three cheers "for the next
President" as the proposer OF them
shouted.
The speech follows:
Ladies' and gentlemen. The Chicago
platformi while 1t was written and
adopted by the Democrats OF the ives.
and south, does not raise any sectional
question: II simply reasserts the De-
mocracy first taught by Thomas Jeffer-
son. and afterwards defended by Andrew
Jackson (applause). and the Democracy
upon which the Democratic party must
always stand, unless 1t decides to aban-
don the principles which have been Its
principles from the beginning and sub
stitutes the plutocracy that some have
called modern Democracy. (Applause.)
The Chicago platform simply reiter-
ates those fundamental principles upon
which our form OF governments must
rest. The keynote OF the Chicago plat
form Is found In the declaration OF in
dependence, that all men are created
equal and that. therefore. no citizens
have the right to appropriate to them
selves the blessings that the Creator In
tended for all the people OF this coun-
try. Applausc.) Laws should, not be
made so that the many will toll and the
few enjoy the fruits OF the toll OF the
many. That platform means that every
man shall be defended In the enjoyment
of that which he earns. but that no man
shall be permitted to enjoy what some
body else has earned and which Is taken
from him by vicious legislation. The
reason they use abusive epithets and
apply hard names to those who support
that platform Is because they know that
the platform is a menace to the wrong
doer, not the smaller wrong-doer only,
but also to the larger transgressor who
attempts TO use the government as his
instrument to wrong others. (Applause.)
What Ia He Talking For ThenI
Z. 7 do not think 1t is going to require n
c,reat deaf of talk in this camDaigD, We
are not going TO have any, difficulty to
find speakers. We can 20 out into any
Of the stores, the machine shops, the
farm, or to the men who work along the
read, and find there men who know
enough about the principles OF this gov
ernmcnt to be able TO discuss these ques-
tlons and apply, them to themselves.
The great common people do not need
any particular class to tell them what
they shall do. They can think for
themselves, and l trust that when No
vember comes they will act. for them
selves. (Great applause.) IT