The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-04
Cy. Watson Open the Cam
paign at Charlotte.
DELIVERED A GREAT SPEECH
Nearly 5000 People Heard
Our Next Governor"
FOR BRYAN AND FREE SILVER
Mr.. Watson Will To-Day Speak TO a
Very Large Crowd of People
at 3iver Bend in Gas
ton County.

Charlotte, \. c., Aug. 3.-(SpeciaI.)
Cyrus b. Watson and party arrived
| to-day on the noon train. and was
escorted from the station to the Cen
tral Hotel by a deputation of citizens,
| including Mayor Wedding'don, Chair
| man Brevard, Editor Joseph +. .Cald-
| well, Heriot Clarkson, who had the
| arrangements in hand, and Others IN
| the procession. Ushered by a brass
| band, as it moved up Trade street the
| party took carriages at once, getting
| through the crowd with difficulty at
| the station.
| In the afternoon ithe gubernatorial
| party were taken over the clty IN
| carriages.
Mr.. Watson. at the warm invitation
of Charlotte, had promised TO siop
over here only on his way TO River
Bend. twelve miles from here, where
it is said ten thousand people from
five counties are to gather tomorrow
to give him one of the most rouslng
receptions ever given any man in this
State.
Tonight, after eight o'clock, several
hundred people ga0hered in front of
the Central Hotel, when the party
started to Vance Square, just behind
the old United States Mint, from the
steps of which Vance made 1t so hot
for Settle years ago.
Vance Square, an ample and shady
park. was gay with the fair women
and men of the town, and all classes
were represented. Every seat was
filled. as well as the spacious platform
that had been constructed in the
center. and on which, surrounding
the speaker, sat, among others, Mayor
Weddington, DR.. II. j. Brevard, char
man of the county committee; Heriot
Clarkson, Frank L. Osborne, John H.
Morehead, S. J. Pemberton, c. Dowd,
IL. p. Caldwell, Representative j. ID.
Mccall. Editor w. {. i. Bryant, and
Alex. Graham.
Mr. Mccall introduced the speaker
| of the evening in a rafting short
speech.
| MIR. Watson was received with a
| cheer from the audience, estimated nj
| twenty-five hundred, that was heard
| for blocks He came very quietly to
| the stand. beautifully decorated with
| flowers, after a bracing Introductory
| by the band, and after expressing his
/ great satisfaction at being among the
| true and tried Mecklenburgers
he struck the key note OF the Demo
cratic campaign by laying the main
stress upon the fight the old party is
making now for the rights of the in
| dividual.
To show how the individual had
/ beeen wronged Mr.. Watson took a
| period of ten years in which New York
| State had accumulated eleven hundred
1 e lCIl inc nJ1IU f.
| ty millions accumulated by the agri-
| cultural State of Illinois during the
| same term and that including the city
of Chicago.
| He reviewed the administration OF
| Cleveland with gloves off and said that
| for four years he had been studying the
remedy for all these troubles. 1t was
as much the duty of the government
to protect the property of the citizen
| as it was to protect the liberty of the
citizen, and Mr.. Watson proceeded to
discuss the proposition of wealth by
which he said he meant wealth as OPP
| pressing poverty. And up to 1873, no
government had even put silver and
gold asunder except little Portugal,
and he would like to know if the ac-
tion then of this government was at
i VI
| this State or this country.
Mr.. Watson traced this movement to
| few men and in such away that
| Ulysses S. Grant sand he didn't know
| there was any such provision in the
| bill when he signed it.
| Mr.. Watson had talked for 40 min
| utes to an audience which had given
the closest attention that / have ever
seen given a political speaker. There
| was absolute quiet, the people in
| terrupting very little even by applause,
| so interested were they in the clear ex-
| preston of a subject which is now SO
near to the fireside of the people.
Mr.. Watson said that the cotton OF
the South was enough to consume
each year all the silver on the face
of the earth, and he exclaimed, 81
| would say to all the nations, Bring all
| your silver here. and we will swan
| YOU wheat for it; We will swap you
| cotton for it and we will get circula-
| ton possibly sufficient to carry on
! our colossal trade At this point the
| speaker received an outburst of ap-
plause.
Mr.. Watson, after referring to the
/ under consumption forced upon the
people by the present financial policy
and the consequent loss of the farmers,
reviewed the income tax feature of the
| platform and demanded that the
| Rockefellers and Russell Sages and the
| other millionaires pay their share to-
ward the support of the government.
Mr.. Watson then opened up an at
| tack on the trusts, taking them by
name, and showing by figures that
| their policy was invariably to get to-
gether for the purpose of buying cheap
from the producer and selling dear to
| the consumer. He paid his respects