The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-02
DEPEw's SARCASM FOR BRYAN.
The People Have Always Decided the
Presidency, and They'll DO IL
Vii.

The People Have Always Decided tho
Presidency, and They'll DO 10
Again This Year.
Chauncey NJ. Depew said, in recent
speech in New York
ave have heard much in the years
gone by of bridging the bloody chasm.
We have been in the bottom OF the
bloody chasm for four years, but the
bridge is being filled in and is almost
completed which will carry the Ameri-
can people from Harrison to Mckinley.
(Applause.)
1.-THE words of Patrick Henry are as
true and significant to-day as they were
in the old hall Of the Virginia Assem-
bly,. We have no lamp by which our
feet are guided except the lamp of ex.
perience: we know no way of juding
the future but by the past. 1t so hap
pened that the programme proposed
by the Democratic and Popocratic par
ty from Chicago has been tried every
since the dawn of history, and ever
time it has been tried it has failed.
(Applause.)
PATRIOTISM AND PARTISANSHIP.
"There are times in the history of
republic and in representative govern
ment when partisanship is not patriot
ism and when patriotism must ignore
partisanship. (Applause.) Three times
in our history has this period come. 1t
came when slavery was the question,
involving human rights and natural
Justice it came when the preservation
of the Union was at. stake; it comes
now when the national honor and the
prosperity of the land is at stake.
(Applause.)
"The Democratic party, composed of
shareholders seeking to put slaves all
over the country, produced the free soil
movement of '4S, which carried the
brains and the conscience Of the Demo-
cratic party outside of it. Then patri-
otic Democrats become free soilers and
revolted from the crowd which was
subverting the principles of their party
In 1856 the shareholders still controlled
the government, the Democratic party
and a portion of the Whig party, and
endeavored to make the vast territories
which now constitute such splendid
portion of our national domain and 80
many of our commonwealth slave
States, and the patriotic members Of
the Democratic party and of the Wing
party broke loose from their organiza-
tions to form the Republican party for
free soil and free men. In 1860, at the
call of president Lincoln for the pre-
servation of the Republic, the war
Democrats again separated from their
party to give their efficient and needed
assistance to the Republic in its hour
of peril. In this crisis, when the ma
tional honor and all that that involves
to the business, the employment and
the prosperity Of the country is at
stake, the Republican party welcomes
with open arms the assistance of pa
triotic Democrats.
bryan goes up and down our Hud,
son River, looking at our beautiful
farm-houses and thrifty villages, say
ing where did they get the money"
Laugater and applause.) 1 receive
every day copies of Populistic newspa-
pers, declaring that am the head and
front of gigantic monopoly, and that
| am dangerous man. They don't
know me. Laughter and applause.)
| "A voice: 81 know you: you are all
right"
"Bryan and his Populistic candidate
for the Vice-Presidency and are law
yers. We all three of US had the same
sort of starts in the world and the same
world to fight, and if one of US has
made more, and is making more every
year than the other two (laughter) that
is not regarded as misfortune or a
crime among lawyers.
PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS DECIDE.
"Bryan made a speech yesterday
morning at Utica, and he repeats 1t
again at Syracuse to-day Qaughter.) in
which he says that for the first time in
the history of the country the people
of the United States are going to de-
eide their own affairs. Laughter.)
Every President since Washington has
come from the ranks, al! our prosper
Gus former ones have climbed from the
bottom. There are no classes in this
country, to which the humblest may
not aspire. Who elected Lincoln :?
Who elected Gen. Garfield? ZAP
plause.) Who elected Gen. Har-
rison? More applause.) Who elected
Grover Cleveland? (Applause and
hisses.) Evidently the people of the
United States have voted before
daughter, and Mr.. Bryan will discover
that they are going to vote again, and
don't you forget it. (Cheers.)
"Does the Democratic ca andidate be-
lieve that these elections were carried
by syndioates and bankers and not by
the people? In his speech he made yes
terday he says that the Republican
party, and especially the sound-money
Democrats, in relying upon confidence
and talking about confidence are
speaking of confidence men. Laugh
teri Well, if man who would be Pres
ident of the United States knowns so
little of the industrial and financial
condition of our country that he does
not know the great power of confidence
!, among business men let us accept his
definition and say that gold is Con
+ fidence man and silver is confidence
f man.
f WHAT CONFIDENCE MEANS.
, The gold confidence man. who has
beeen governing this country since the
!, war, has paid off most of our national
debt, has more than doubled the mile
age of our railways and telegraphs.
(Applause.) Since the civil war this
confidence man has doubled the
number of States which belt this great
continent, has created new South,
has advanced wages, decreased the
cost of living, and has made the United
States Of America the most powerful,
the largest and the happiest-except
} lust n0w-that there is anywhere in
the world. prolonged cheers.)
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