Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-19
GREATEST DEMONSTRATION.
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erected beneath spreading tree.
He was presented to 100 people by Hon.
F. a. Woodard with whom he served
in congress, and spoke briefly.
The Bryan special reached Rocky
Mount shortly before 1 o'clock. Here the
special was abandoned and Colonel Ju-
liam Carr of Durham and the other men,
bers of the state escort committee said
goodbye to the candidate. Mr.. Bryan
expressed himself as greatly pleased
with the manner in which he had been
treated by his North Carolina enter
tainers, who had looked for his COM
fort in every way. The special train ar
rangemnt was great improvement
over the manner of Mr.. Bryan's progress
heretofore. The candidate remained
here an hour and quarter, leaving at
2:17 for Richmond via the Coast Line
railway. The Rocky Mount meeting took
place in the fair grounds and was at
tended by great crowd. Excursions
came from Fayetteville and other points
and helped swell the number Of the
Rocky Mount people Mr.. Bryan was in
troduced by Ex-Congressman Bum. He
made speech to the large gathering.
In Virginia.
Richmond, Va, Sept. 1S.-Mr Bryan
made the journey from Rocky Mount to
Richmond in parlor car chartered by
the Rocky Mount, Richmond and Peters
burg committees, attached to a regular
accommodation train of the Southern
railway.
He was accompanied from Rocky
Mount by the members of the Peters
burg reception committee, headed by
Mayor Charles f. Collier f. r. Lassiter,
chairman of the Fourth Virginia district
democratic congressional committee; Jo-
sephus Daniels, national committeeman
srom North Carolina; Congressman
Woodland of North Carolina, Col. Ben
Cameron of Hillsboro, N. c., and others.
The first stop after leaving Rocky
Mount and the last in North Carolina
was at Weldon. Several hundred people
were in the railway station waiting for
the nominee. and they cheered him when
he appeared. Mr.. Bryan made little
farewell speech to the Old North State.
The Virginia line was crossed soon
after leaving Weldon, and Mr.. Bryan
made his first speech to a Virginia audi
ence at Emporia, which was called Bel
field until the postoffice department
changed it six months ago. 1t was re-
served to Petersburg, twenty-five miles
from Richmond to give the democratic
candidate his first hearty Virginia well
come. Fully 5000 people were assembled
at the Washington street station. and
when the train came to standstll at
5:25 o'clock opposite a platform erected
for Mr.. Bryan they cheered with strong
lunged fervor Maj. Francis r. Lasster,
United States district attorney, intro
duStu NIl' DIy an, lie HttIlDB was re-
newed as the nominee came forward and
enthusiasm was rampant for some time
Speech at Petersburg.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: The demo-
cratic party at Chicago adopted plat
form. That platform has driven from
the party few who formerly acted with
the party. "a voice, Let them go.'O 1
am not going to say a word to try and
prevent any democrat from voting as he
pleases. / have never heretofore asked
any democrat to violate his conscience or
to act contrary to his best Judgment, and,
young as l am, ] am too old to commence
now. (Applause) The democratic party
has spoken. The democratic party has
written it's platform. The democratic
voters, in convention assembled. had q
right to write the pla tform, and any man
who did not like the platform could get
out of the party and call himself some
thing else. (Applause) What / mean Is
this: That man who objects to what
the democratic party did has right to
object, but he has no right to try to call
himself a democrat Applause) Either
the name democrat belongs to majority
of the party or to the minority. l have
always said that the name belonged to
the majority, and the majority had a
right to determine what the policy of
the party should be. (Applause.)
Il simply want to say this, that If there
is democrat who is going to vote for
MCIAlllty lulS year walt MIN 10 no 1t
knowing what it means ! don't want
him to say it is merely temporary de-
parture from the democratic party. l
want him to know that when the demo-
cratic party Is engaged in the struggle
as 1t is now that any man who deserts
1t in the face of the enemy will never
get back unless he comes in sack cloth
and ashes. Great applause)
1--WE ask no quarter from those who
are ashamed to say they are going to vote
hn 1lAli pnfa tt.lrn tod
vote the Republican ticket Great APP
plause) / say we ask no quarter of
them. And we expect to give them no
quarter, either"
On the conclusion of his remarks Mr.
Bryan was overwhelmed by the rush of
people anxious to shake hands with him.
BY dint of much pushing the police
forced way to the carriage in waiting,
and when the almost exhausted candi-
date, all adrip with perspiratlon, reached
that haven of safety the horses were
whipped up and he was taken to the
union depot, to which his special had
been shifted.
Quite crowd was waiting there, and
Mr. Bryan was again surrounded, this
time by many women, young and old,
and by more men, all camoring for
flower from a boquet which he held in his
hand For few minutes there was a
lively scene. When the last bud had been
distributed Mr.. Bryan went aboard his
car and waited there until 6:29 o'clock,
when regular train came along. The
car was attached and the candidate
starte; For Richmond
Manchester across the river from Rich
mond, turned out about 5000 people, to
whom Mr.. Bryan made short speech
Internal Revenue Collections.
Washington. Sept. 1S.-The collections
of internal revenue for the first two
months of the fiscal year aggregate $685.
7S3756, gu Increase over the correspond
ing period last year of $43, PA. Spirits
show an inci ease of $685.. 1855, tobacco
decrease of $56247S, fermented liquors an
Increase of $685. miscellaneous de-
crease az 81 175, and oleomargarine
decrease of Sol 1893
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