The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-05

people of this country had absolutely
| nothing to do with enacting into law
and to-day" declared the brilliant
speaker, "a syndicate of bankers are
called upon to uphold, with their gold
wrung from YOU by vicious class legis-
| lation. the credit of your government,
and they are now placing in your treas
ury this gold, receiving in return
| greenbacks and coin certificates with
which to wreck again your treasury
| lust as soon as the election is over.
They know that if they force another
| bond issue now that all their money
and all their syndicates and all their
combines could not prevent the elec-
ton of VIM. ]. Bryan President of the
United States. So they have concluded
to wait two short months, keep the
reserve intact until they can buy the
election of VIM. Mckinley, and then
have everything their own way
Mr.. Watson discussed the tariff and
showed that the great panic came
while the Mckinley high tariff was in
operation, and that Mr.. Cleveland's
election in 1892 was a rebuke to the
| misunderstanding, strike-breeding and
tiust-breeding law. Ine Democratic
| party he said, had never touched a
tariff bill since 1860 until 1894, and
| under all the Republican protection
laws since the gold standard had been
fastened upon the country and silver
struck down, the farming classes and
| the laboring classes had been getting
poorer while the corporationist, the
speculatOr. the money changer, the
bond snapper, the trust manipulation
had been growing richer and richer.
He then discussed the money ques-
ton at length and declared that inter
| national agreement for free coinage of
| silver was not only impossible but un-
| necessary. America can establish its
own financial basis and it is going to
| do it." declared the speaker amid great
applause.
| lie touched upon trusts and COM
/ bines, discussed the income tax, and
| his time having expired he closed and
the crowd gave him cheer after cheer.
| MAJOR GUTHRIE's SPEECH.
Mr.. Albert Morgan arose and intro
|. duced Major Guthrie, declaring that
| he would be elected Governor of North
| Carolina next November by majori-
ty of 16 to /.
Mai. Guthrie began by saying that
| it had been time-honored custom for
| the candidates for Governor to come
| before the people and in a joint dis
| cussion present their claims.
'SMr. Watson and myself are here, "
| said the Major, "and we have done all
we could to get Judge Russell, the Re-
| publican candidate, here, but without
| success"
He then proceeded to call out the
| Judpe as related above to the great
| amusement of the Dmocrats and Pop
ulists and the chagrin of the Republi-
4 cans.
Il have started out in this cam
paign,' said Maj. Guthrie, "to do my
| duty fully and fearlessly. / am going
| to present the platform and principles
| of my party earnestly and honestly and
| it shall not be my fault if, after this
campaign is over, my distinguished
| competitor and myself are not as
/ good friends personally as we are at
| the beginning. / may have to say
/ things in upholding the principles of
| my party and in criticism of other
| parties that would probably rather
not have to say. I shall ask questions
| that my competitor viii have to an
| swer and he may ask some that / will
| have to answer. But the campaign on
| my part shall be free from personal
| feeling or unnecessary rancor."
/ Alluding to himself personally, he
| said that when he came to the polls in
/ iS6s he cast Republican vote and
voted and worked for that party until
| he saw it drifting from safe and sound
| political moorings. He had voted for
| Hancock in 1880, he said, but in 1884
| he had stumped his district as
/ an eleetor for that grandest
and greatest of all Republicans, James
/ q. Blaine. He then saw the white peo-
pie on one side and the colored people
on the other, neither in the humor to
| listen or pay heed to the discussion of
| great political issues and he made up
| his mind to have nothing more to do
with politics until such time as the
| people could listen and study great
political questions.
| 81 followed the Republican party and
was proud of it, said the Major, tbut
when / see my old party fall in be-
| hind Mark Hanna and march through
a wilderness to Worship the golden
calf, ] beg to be excused"
| Here the Major was literally APP
plauded, many Republicans joining in
| the applause. He read the resolutions
Ol CSBdbOI SoLdIlG3 N1dlbACNS tl11p pass
ed both Houses of Congress making
the governments obligations payable
in gold or silver at the governments
| option, and declared that that resolu-
ton was law to-day and yet,by per-
version of authority of the Secretaries
of the Treasury, one a Republican, the
other Democrat, that great law had
been nullified and the governments
| option sold out to the gold gamblers
| and spectators.
81 have not left the party, it has left
| me-" declared the Major.
He read the Populist National plat
form of 1892 and declared that they
were the pioneers in the demand for
reform and, but for the Populist party
to-day the two old parties would be
| thrashing over the same old
tariff straw they had been thrashing
for 80 years, and the gold bugs would
be standing off smiling.
He alluded to Vance's declaration
| 4la+ - 4I,o na,,,f arm II 4,arfv followed