The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
Rowan's Favorite Son Makes a
Ringing Campaign Speech.
THEPLATFoRMsc COMPARED
Six-Sevenths of World Against
Single Gold Standard.
COLDS VALUE FIXED BY LAW
Silver Would Come Up Abreast if it
Had Equal Protection--A Graphic
Description of Bryan at
the Convention.

Raleigh audience gathered at Metro
politan Hall to hear the Hon. Theo. f.
Kluttz, of Salisbury, speak. The I'M
terrified Democracy was on hand, and
the speaker was f1anEed on the stage
by Chairman Manly, of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee, and B. c.
Beckwith, president of the Bryan and
Sewall club.
Mr.. Beckwith at the proper time
came forward to introduce Mr.. Klu.ttz,
who advanced to the footlights in the
midst of applause.
Mr.. Kluttz, congratulating the
Democracy on the glorious outlook,
went first into the career of Bryan,
comparing him at present to young
David who had been raised up against
the Philistines. Mr. Kluttz had in his
voice that fervor which makes him al
ways impressive. He drew a graphic,
vivid picture of Bryan as he rose to
answer Senator Hill, and told the story
of that day which held Bryan up in
its hands as the choice of Democracy.
The tumult at the end of his address
was faithfully brought back under the
mastery touch of Mr.. KIuttz, and
then came scrap that heretofore has
never been made public. Mr.. kluttz
told how apprehensiye hefelt lest an
adjournment of the convention might
be fatal to the Chances OF 15Eyan $
nomination. YetsMr. BRYAN voted for
tl,-.
Mr.. Kluttz Fe1nons trated Mr.. Bfyan
replied, mo, If am not tllie deliberate
choice of this cofaVention, I do not care
to be it's nominee (Applause.)
Mr.. Kluttz said he by no means in
tended to forget the name of SewaH,
and he exalted the courage of the
man from Maine, who, in the very cita
del of the gold bugs and proteotionists,
had vet dared TO stand up for the
money of the people and for tariff
that was not robber tax. He referred
to how North Carolina had gone down
for Clark with colors flying, but how
she was loyal now to the dictum of
Democracy.
Here Mr.. Kluttz went into a criti-
cism of the Republican platform, max
ing some good hits at the expense Of
the tariff chestnut, Reciprocity,
s'then," he exclaimed, "Sugar!" and
said he failed to hear any. great cry
going up from the Amert-
can people for sugar. The Re-
publicans, he said, were will
ling to mention everything but money.
II they could not, however, catch the
American people with sugar, they went
further; ''Wool and woolens!" the
speaker shouted sarcastically-then
49, ,,,a,snIa M marine How HhRSxs
platform-makers struggled to divert
the minds of the people from the main
issue-they put off until the last
section what the Democratic plat
form had in the first-and then what?
To maintain the gold standard. He
sneered at the international agree
ment'' condition, and said it was the
object of the Republicans to keep the
woke of gold on the necks of the Am
erican people. And it was the first
time that such a plank had ever been
nut into am American platform.
when exclaimed the speaker, ''can
we expect help, relief, concurrence or
consent of foreign nations? Why
should we wait upon England for the
settlement of this question any more
than we should for the settlement of
any other question? Do we wait upon
it fer the settlement of the income tax
IT was a libel upon the AMERICAN speo-
pie" applause. Ii Mr.. * Iuatzf egafore7.
ed this point with flowing ssa oealent
illustration and forcible g rhetorical
question which brought frequent APP
plause.
He now came to a comparison of the
Republican with the Democratic plat
form, and read the first plank, which
was for free silver.
He gave the criticisms of the oppo-
nents, which he proceeded to answer.
If, he said, it would dump all the silver
into this country, as they claim, why
did it not do so from 1892 to 1873.
"Where is it coming from?'' he asked.
'sWho is going to send it heTe?" Eng
land was using about $167, 100000 of
subsidiary coin at the ratio of 1928 to
1. Was she going to send it here to get
less for it? Mr.. st. John, of New York,
had said that all the silver coin in the
world which could be presented to the
mint amounted to not more than $5,-
000, 000, 900, and if it took twenty years
to coin it, our per capita would then
only be equal to that of Franc.
'Srhev saw it will cause panic, and
nothing but the Mckinley tariff and
the gold standard can stop it. What
caused the panic of 1898, when the
Mckinley tariff was in force and
gold standard2" Mr.. Kluttz quoted au-
thority to show that one-seventh of
the population of the world
preferred the gold standard,
three-sevenths of whom owned
most of the gold, with Great Britain
IN the lead. This left six-sevenths
of the people and four-sevenths of the
remaining seventh in favor of silver.
Then the speaker went into the rea-
sons for the fixed value of gold. Be-
cause, he said, the price of gold was
absolutely fixed by law. The Bank of
England is required by law to take ev-
cry ounce of gold and pay 1881 for it.
IF silver had the same chance wouldn't
it have the same fixed value as gold?
(Applause). They deprive silver of it's
money power and then say it is worth
only SO cents. They say it will iniure
our credit abroad We have no debt
u. 81 IL.