The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-09-24

'' ~ A>N IN
Mr.. Aver introduced Mr.. BRYAN in
a witty speech thfS caught the crowd
and was well applauded.
lie said: democrats, Republicans.
Silver men, Populists. Popocrats, Pro-
Ladies and Gentlemen:
introduce to you this evening a man
who Is the nominee Of the Democratic
party, of the Peoples party and the
Silver party, for President of the Uni
ted States, ard is the nominee of bout
all the rest of the people in America
except ouc man and his name is Mark
Hanna" (Applause.)
WHEN BRYAN CAME TOWARD.
A moment of expectancy, and then
Mr.. Bryan came forward and surge
after surge of cheers for '.Bryann
swept over the square and rumbled
into the side streets and penetrated to
almost-deserted Fayetteville street.
The great arc lights and the tar bar
rels at the corners of the square threw
their light on the scene and the in
candesccnts bazed the name of
Bryan in living light from the speak
er's stand.
His voice was a trtle husky at first,
but it soon cleared and rang out with
It's accustomed force. Nearly every
sentence Of Mr.. Bryan's speech was
greeted with applause. At the men
ton Of the name of Vance the crowd
cheered wildly. Every two or three
minutes ''Bryan!'' "Bryan!' came
from the crowd.
In the midst Of the speech some one
Oh the south side Of the stand yelled,
'!Come over and talk to us some, Mr.
Bryan.' He smiled and good-natured-
ly walked oyer to that side Of the plat
FORM
MIR. BRYAN's SPEECH.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The trip through North Carolina
has beeu SO we'll managed that at the
close of the second day | am feeling
better than | did when | commenced
TO speak to the people of North Caro-
Tina. (Applause.)
Il have-followed somewhat the eX-
ample Of the man who in trying to
seek employment III Southern Illinois
stated that he never became tired, hun
gry or sleepy. After he had been at
work little while the farmer who
hired him went out to see how he
was getting aIcng and found him sit
when he reminded him of what he said
the man explained that the way he
kept from getting tired was that he
rested before he got tired, and the
way he kept from getting hungry
was that he ate before he got hungry
and he always slept before he got
sleepy. (Applause.) | have been fol-
lowing that plan for the last few days
and by resting every spare moment
have to some extent prevented myself
from getting tired.
1t has been a great pleasure to note
the interest which the people Of this
State are taking in the campaign, and
while sometimes their demonstrations
of affection and interest come very
near keeping me from getting into the
place Of speaking or out OF it, yet
| feel as as your own great statesman
Vance once said about it. Great ap-
p.ause.) Some one asked him if il
didn't nearly kill him to have the peo-
pie pulling him around and shaking
hands with him, ETC., and he said, yes.
it does nearly kill me, but if they did
not 90 it, it would have entirely killed
me- (Applause.) 50 while it is rather
hard sometimes to bear up under all
the affection that is bestowed upon {
candidate it is a great deal easier tC
get along with it than it would be tt
travel through this State and get along
without it. (Applause.) | am glad te
talk to YOU little while tonight. we
have cause which we believe is just
one which we are willin. to present to
the people, one which we believe The
people will accept and adopt, because
we believe that the triumph OF th'
principles upon which this campalgr
Is being fought will be for the best IN
formed that the Republican Natlona
committee has sent out circulars t
various religious papers and orSanlza
tiOus calling attention to DANCE
which they say threatens these rell
"ious organizations if we have the ire'
coinage of silver. | want you to re
member that the Republican party
and the Republican speakers, and tn
Republican candidates, most OF al
these have denounced the Democrat
for trying to array class against class
| want to say to YOU that the Repupll
can party is doing more i'll this coun
try to-day to array class against elias
than any party that ever existed in tn
United States. (Applause.) The Re
, publican party is appealing to ever
class or nearly every class and at
tempting to array that class agalns
others. They appeal to the laborln
man and tell him that the gold stand
ard gives him higher priced dollar 10
his wages without telling him that
also makes it impossible for yer
: large number of men who want TO ID
Dor to get chance 10 earn one of thos
high priced dollars. (ApplauseD Ou
. in our State the Republican commit
tee of one of the counties appealed I
the school teachers trying to sho'
them that gold standard was goo
thing for them, thereby trying to sc
the school teachers against the res
of the people, and now they have al
pealed to the church organizations an
church papers and are now trying
array them against the free colnag
of silver. Well, | could stand an nj
peal made by the advocates OF the Gol
standard to almost any class better tha
an appeal made 10 the preachers an
teachers Of religion. Ii there Is on