The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-09

them. and because he loves them in5
return-therefOre I take special pleas
ure i'm introducing to you aL.greats-
honest. aud able Carolinian, " Vf'alas-
son, of Forsyth, ..
Mr.. Watson's appearance was Ieeo-
cd with wave of cheering ana aP--
plause. lie began his speech m PuleS
conversational way, and taxing UHe
audience with him led them with per
fect ease into a discussion of the greas
questions at issue in the present cam
paign.
In moment he had riveted the
attention of every man in the au-
diencc, a few moments more and they
were to n man following him up inc
rugged slopes of powerful argumeHG
and startling facts and then with tha@
mower of delivery and flow of words
that few men possess he scaled with
them the heights of burning eloquenc6'
uptil. with vociferOus cheers, they
tbundered back their genuine endorse
ment of the speaker and the speech
'eYou have nothing to do with the
enactment or execution of laws" SAID
the sneaker, ''you give a power of attor~
nev i'm the adoption of platforms and
the naming of candidates and when
the men you select as your agents fail
to carry out your wishes then this gov
ernment ceases to be a government o8
the people"
"Several great conventions have mes
during the past few months, the Pro
bibition convention was the first auus
the great question that to-day mostly
concerns the American people went
into its deliberations and split it in
halves. The Republican convention
met. It's delegates had been bought
bv the representative of a great syn
Iicate of millionaires and trusts, ind
tariff barons to 90 hence and register
their will, they did as they were bid
and declared in a platform that this
country must remain on a gold stand
ard. then they name as their candidate
for President of the United States,
the tool of that greedy and heartless
syndicate, but thank God there were
patriots in that body Of npn,whO wer5
at the christening Of the Republican,
party. great men and honest men who
arose and bidding farewell to those
destroyers of American honor and
greatness walked out of that party
never to return. The Democratic party
met in Chicago, / was there and / wit
messed the registering of the viii of
the people as they had expressed it in
their primaries from one end of this
country to the other. That cOnven-
ton adopted platform embodying the
just demands of the people and placed
upon it that great American WIN. j.
BRYAN, of Nebraska.
Two great conventions have met
since then and endorsed that man, and
xx-11 Ea fhn aay~t IgTaggs.
dent of the United States despite
all the efforts to drive or buy the Am
erican people.
! Mr.Watson discussed the money q a.s-
tions at length and declared that an
ounce of silver to-day would buy as
much of the farmers and wage-earnr-
| rs products as it would twenty years
| ago. Silver had not deprecated bus
| gold had gone up until it took from
two to three times as much OF the
toll of man to get a dollar as it did.
before silver was demonetized.
This is the greatest country in ths'
world" declared the speaker ''It pro-
/ luces two-thirds Of all the cotton that
clothes the world. 1t is the largest
producer of wheat and corn. 1t pro-
duces one-fourth of all the gold pro-
duced in the world and one-half of all
the silver; it is the greatest producer
/ of iron and coal in the world and it
/ is peopled with the bravest and
best men and women in the world
and / desire to arouse in the minds of
men spirit of true Americansm that
they may declare with me that this
country is able to establish it's own
financial system and conduct its own
affairs
This sentiment was loudly cheered.
Mr.. Watson showed that over pro-
duction had not been the country'S
menace. He scored the Republicans
demand for a return to war tariff
taxes; declared his firm belief in the
gustness of an income tax and closed
by asking the people whatever else
they did to vote in November next
against continuation of this pluto
cratic power.
He spoke an hour and half and
MS speech has lit campaign fires in old
wayne that will burn until November,
and then result in the overwhel Inning
obstruction of the Wayne county adj
herents of the great hosts of evil
After Mr.. Watson had concluded,
Ex-Governor Thomas j. Jarvis was in
troduced and when our train left he
was treating the crowd to one of his
most stirring and telling mattresses,
hlled with that sound logic, intense
enthusiasm and fiery eloduence fop
which the distinguishetl--eX-Go Governor
is far-famed. +. B. ARENDELL.