Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-08-14
THE BOY ORATOR." p"
MAKES A SHORT ADDRESS
AT CHICAGO.
GOING TO NEW YORK.
Immense Crowds Hear Him Ard
Are Afterwards Received
by the Nominee.

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notified of his nomination, reach
ed Chicago Saturday and made a
brief talk in the evening. After
all address of welcome by Mr..
William J. Strong, chairman OF
the reception committee, Mr..
Bryan said:
81 have no language, fellow
citizens, that will express the
emotions excited by this, the
most remarkable demonstration
that | have ever witnessed. In
no other country is such a scene
possible. In no other country
can people take up a private
citizen and make him their in
strument to accomplish their
will. When I see this assem-
blage to>night, and when l re-
member what the newspapers OF
this city say, am reminded OF
what one of our friends said, that
there was nobody on our side
except the people, and as l look
into the faces of these people
and remember that our enemies
call them a mob and say that
they are menace to free governs
ment, | ask who shall save the
people from themselves, am
proud to have in this campaign
the support of those who are
proud to call themselves the
common people. If l had be-
hind me the great trusts aud
combinations "a know that l
would no sooner take my seat
that they would demand that |
should use my power to rob the
people in their behalf. But hay
ing rather the support of the
great toiling masses, | know that
when they give to nle their bal
lots, they shall unite in saying
but one thing, "Do your duty
and we are repaid" These are
the people who ask 40 favors OF
the government. These are the
ones who simply say let us ob-
serve equality before the law.
Give equal rights to all and
special privileges tonone. l am
glad to have the support of these
people because | know that
whenever the nation is imperlll
ed every ble-bodied man of them
will shoulder their nusket tC
save the country, and those who
are good enough to offer thell
blood on the altar of their coun,
try in time Of danger are gooc
enough to trust III the quiet
hours of peace. | am simply or
my way from my Western home
to the great metropolis of the
nation to accept there, at the
Atlantic seaboard, the nomina
ton given in this city but few
weeks ago. am glad that as
go l can take them your greet
ing so kindly expressed in word
of your chairman, who, though
Republican heretofore, is a pa
triot to-day. And to those O
your brethren, who, like you
are the bone and sinew of tn
nation, l can take greeting am
tell them that you are thei
friends and that you will stan
by them and help them to einan
cipate themselves from the dc
rninion from which they suffe'
l can go to them and tell ther
that you draw your idea of whs
this nation ought to be from on
of the great philosophers of tt
5 East. I can report to them as
, report to you the language
, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He say
81 will have never noble,
No lineage counted great,
Fishers and choppers and ploughme
) Shall constitute State"
!. upon this enduring found
) tion can be reared a governme
e like ours. I can take to yo
. Eastern brethren greeting al
!c in the language of Abraha
: Lincoln, can say that the peoI
t of the West and South are rea