The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-17

/ SICK, the manager of the noted hosiery,
was the host and sat at the head of the
| table with Mr.. Bryan at his right.
Cutting short the luncheon, the party
proceeded again under escort of the
horsemen and horsewomen, estimated
! to number more than a thousand, to
a natural amphitheatre near the South
ern railway depot, where the candi-
date addressed an immense audience.
! People from Buncombe county and in
fact from many other points in the
state largely swelled the Asheville
contingent. The sides of the hill on
which the concourse We're gathered
was a solid mass OF humanity number
ing perhaps 10000. Mr.. Bryan was in
troduced by Hon. Locke E. Craig. The
enthusiasm shown was of the heartieSt
kind
Mr.. Bryan said:
Il have a reason for coming to North
Carolina, which IS personal, aside from
my interest in the electoral vote of this
state. 1t was the state of North Caro-
lima which, at Chicago, before 1 be-
came a candidate, before my own state
had taken any formal part in present.
ing my name-it was the state of North
Carolina which, by resolution, decided
TO give me the unanimous vote of the
North Carolina delegation in that ma
tional convention. (Cheers.)
APPRECIATE THE HONOR
which they were willing TO do me and,
therefore, it gives me great pleasure
TO come among these people whom they
represented, and give what assistance
| can, if any assistance be needed, to
secure the electoral vote of this state
for the free coinage of silver at 16 to l.
(Cheers.) / am glad the canvass of
this state opens in this county, which
was the home of one of the grandest
public men given to this nation, not
alone by North Carolina, but the entire
country-Senator Vance. Great ap-
plause.) He was a man whom 1 delight
ed to honor. and / am glad stand
among his neighbors and friends advo-
eating the same cause he so eloquently
advocated; and l cannot more than i'm
press upon your memories the words
he SO often spoke. Among the last Of
his public speeches was one upon the
money question. Let me read a, few
words from j. The great fight is on.
The power of money and its allies
throughout the world have entered
into this conspiracy to
PERPETUATE THE GREATEST
CRIME
of this or any other age; TO overthrow
one-half of the worlds money and
thereby double their own wealth by
enhancing the value of the other half
which IS in their hands. The money
changers are polluting the temple of
our liberties. TO your tents, o, Israel
(Appiause)
He foresaw the struggle in which
we are now engaged. He realized its
magnitude when many others did not.
Those words came from him as words
of command, TO your tents, O, Is
rael' And the command was needed
by the Democratic party, and they en-
gagged first in a warfare within the
party to rescue that party and party
name from the hands of those who
We're using it to advance the interests,
not of Democracy, but of plutocracy.
tApplause) 1t was great contest. 1
venture the assertion that never be-
fore in the history of this country did
any parry have such a. contest within
its ranks as that which ended at Chi
cago. / venture the assertion that
never before in the history of this
country have the voters themselves
had so much to do with a convention
as did the voters OF the Democratic
party with the convention at Chicago.
This question was
SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS.
The Democratic idea has been that the
party is but the instrument of those
who compose it, and derives its power
from the viii OF the voters who num-
Der themselves as members of that
party. Yet ii is often the case that
the party machinery or bosses have
more to do with shaping the policy and
making the nomination than the voters
themselves. l am proud to be the NOM
inee Of a convention which represented
no machine, no bosses, but the unpur-
chased suffrage of the voters of this
country. Great applauSe) In trying
TO do right, the Democratic party won
a possibility of success which it never
could have hoped for if it had con-
suited eXpediency. (Cheers.) They told
us we must not disturb the harmony of
the party. They called us everything
and tried to make US pledge ourselves
to abide the decision at Chicago before
we could go into convention. 1 for one
told them whenever they would bring
a pledge that the gold standard Demo-
Gratis would take, it would be time
enough TO ask free silver Democrats
to make pledges. (Cheers.) Now, when
the secretary of the treasury de-
nouneed me as a Populist and said 1
would not support the nominee, 1 re-
piled that 1 did not expect him TO sup
port the nominee if he was a free sill
yer man. The time came when
He WAS PUT TO THE TEST
and the only difference between him
and me was that ! was candid enough
to tell the people l would follow my
conscience, and he tried to control a
convention and then bolted when he
tailed to do it, (Applause.) have sent
Him no letter begging his support
(Laughter) The highest compliment ne
can pay me is to oppose me. because
then the world will know the secretary
of the treasury whom l viii appoint, if
elected. will be as different from him as
I can find. Great applause.) They call
themselves true Democrats. No true
Democrat ever nominated one ticket
for the purpose of voting for another
We have this contest TO meet and we
are prepared to meet it. We have a
cause than appeals to the intellect of
those who think. ana to the hearts OF
those who feel, and we are willing 10
place that cause in opposition to the
cause which merely appeals 10 the
pocket book (Cheers)
Mr.. Bryan then went over some of the
arguments on the money question used
by him before, and continued as fol-
lows:
7 denounce the idea that some seem
to have that the government has a
right TO lessen the volume OF money,
but no right 10 increase it. Some are
afraid if we pass a free coinage law
there viii be such an enormous increase
In the volume of our currency that we
wont know what to do with ii. You