Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-19
BRYAN BERATES B0LTERS
Insists that the Only Choice is Between
Himself and Mckinley.
IN THE CAPITAL OF THE OLD DOMINION
silver Nominee Tells Southern Demo-
Gratis TINT supporters of Palmer
and nuckncr Lack the COur-
age of Their Convictions.

passed the night in his private car on a
sidetrack near Goldsborough n. c. At 9
o'clock this morning he spoke to a large
crowd. which had been in waiting for him
at that place for several hours. He was
escorted by the Goldsborough Rifles. In his
| speech he said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: In this. campaign
we are lighting together instead OF hsht-
ing among ourselves l remember = IeW
years ago a populist in congress sald thai
down in South America there ran WIG 10
time of danger, when attacked by Wliu
animals, would get together putting their
heads together and their feet on the out
side so they formed n circle. with their
heels and kicked the enemy, but he SAID
1t was often the case that the advocates
on the outside and Kick each other.
Q.aughter) 1t has been often the case
that those who were fighting for reform
because they could not agree entirely
would interfere with each other and each
age of silver have Joined together regard
BsnoorotS esS OF SpiiboS wbo believe in tariff reform
and republicans who believe in protection
are able to get together when both recos-
to the simple support of the tariff ques-
tion. ApplauseD a populist leader in this
state well expressed the Idea Whcn ne sald
that while he believed in populist doc.
trires, yet he was willing to lay some OF
them aside until he could get gnS otnSrI r. fSr tSr
government ownership of railroads he did
not want the government to own the ran,
the government. Great applausc) II is
this willingness to lay aside minor differ
ICES our people and gives the surest proof
that they are able to rise to the require
ments of any emergency.
NOT y SECTIONAL ISSUE.
Sometimes they accuse us of raising a
sectional issue. one of the best evidences
that the platform adopted at Chicago does pes
language of the platform adopted yoster-
day in New York Let me explain to you.
and the candidates Of the Chicago conyen-
ton, the platform declares as It's deliber-
ate judgment that never in the history
OF the democratic party has platform
been written which embodies more com
pletely the interests of the whole people
as distinguished from those, who seek leg
islation for private benefits than that given
to the country by the national convention
Of 1879: CA,PP2IIaiss2 There within the
combined opposition of those once leading
democrats OF New York who have left
to the republicans or stopped for a moment
ut the halfway house, the democracy of
at Chicago is the most democratic plat
form ever put before the country by
democratic convention. ., IAppiause2 ~, In tn the
dorsed our platform and likewise in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey. In these and
other eastern states the democracy is begin
ming to realize that the Chicago platform
presents to the American people these
must cluster If they are going to retain
a government Of by and for the people.
The Chicago platform contained plank
expressing n desire for an income, tax, not
saying that we are going to ignore the
decision of the supreme court, but that an
so far as the decision of the court would
permit. and that would abide by the
PRINCIPLES til future court exercising the
given that the present exercised in over
throwing the precedent of a hundred years
should go back TO the doctrine we used to
have and declare that under the consttu
tion 1t is possible to make those who have
large incomes pay their share of the ex-
pcnSeS of the government. tApplauseD In
my judgment the income tax is just. 1t is
not war uoon property, but 1t Is demand
mand the protection of the property by
federal laws should be willing to support
protection and not seek to use the instru-
mentalties of government for their own
benefit and then throw the burden of sup.
porting that government on the backs of
those not able to support It. (AppauseD
MONEY QUESTION PARAMOUNT
The three parties which have Joined in
my nomination agree that while there are are
the money question, yet the money question
rises paramount to them all and must be
settled first Other questions can walt, the
money question cannot. 1t has been forced
upon public attention. 1t has been brought
before the people and we have to decide
financial system wherein n few men have
undertaken to run the government or shall
people in the hands of the American peo-
pie to be framed by them and for them
from now on. SApplauseJ ne never I lose an an
Importance of this question to every citi-
zen. The republican platform declares that
we must maintain our present financial
policy. not until we get tired. but until
for US to abandon it. To my mind no more
int "a
by any party and | cannot believe as ]
look into the faces of tens Of thousands of
that they are willing to trust the destnies
of the people in the hands Of foreigners
whom we ri can only reach by petition. ZAP,
opportunity before It, Here was demo
cratic administration which was being op-
party and it is a much more difficult thing
for a man TO oppose wrong IN ms own
5srS thsn wne if mis- mrf m
opposition to the policy OF the president,
not because they loved the president less,
more. (Applause) When the republicans
assembled in ST Louis If they had opposed
of the constitution and the democratic
party had endorsed the administration, the
democratic party out of existence. But
what did they do? When they met they
were controlled in their deliberations by
financial policy of this administration and
they wrote a platform which would per-
petuate the same financial policy from
which we are suffering These same in
huences, after dominating the St. Louis
convention, attempted to dominate the Chi
cago convention and write platform so
much like the republican platform on the
money question that if the two had been
read to you, you could not have picked
which was which. But at last we got an
issue. The democratic party, by beginning
at the ground and working up, instead of
commencing at the ton and working down,
by commencing with the voters, instead of
commencing with the bosses, secured a
platform which breathes the spirit of the
Declaration of Independence and gives in
spiration to the toiling millions of the
United States.
HIS PLATFORM REPUBLICAN,.
1t is not strange that tens and hundreds |
of thousands have deserted the republican
party. Not day passes but / meet repub- |
licans who tell me they voted for Abra- |
ham Lincoln and voted the republican |
ticket ever since but that they find more |
of the republicanism of early days in the |
democratic platform than they can find
They say there is more there 10 give them |
hope of the. maintenance OF free institu |
tions than they can find in the republican
platform. They are not willing TO trust
foreign nations to do for the American peo- |
pie what the republican party refuses to
do. (Applause)
We are sometimes accused of using ex-
traVagant language, but we do not have
to use eXtrayagant language. Whenever
to the utterances of men like Carlisle, who |