The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-01
Mr.. Bryan Now Campaigning in
West Virginia.
SPEECH AT MARTINs6URG
He Talked Finance to a Large
Crowd of Farmers.
AT SENATOR FAuLKNER's HOME
Wants Boltocrats TO Understand That
They Can Never Come Back Until
They Come in Sackcloth
and Ashes
and Ashes.

and Ashes.
Martinsburg, W., Va, Sept. 30.-In
this city, the home of Senator Faulk-
ner. VIM. j. Bryan to-day addressed a
large and enthusiastic crowd. He
said
"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: In a platform many questions
are covered, but the election always
turns upon some paramount issue and
in this campaign we have declared
that the money question is the para
mount issue. If there are other things
in which you believe, the settlement of
those things can be postponed until
after we have met and passed the crisis
presented by the advocates of the gold
standard. Our opponents, not we, are
responsible for the fact that in this
campaign we are engaged in a battle
royal between the money power and
the common people. These contests
are always brought about by the ag-
gression of those who seek to use gov
ernment as a means of private gain. All
the great questions which have from
time to time been forced upon the pub
lie, have been forced, not by the many,
but the few, and the great struggles
which have occupied the thought and
the effort of the people of the world
have been the struggles made by the
masses in self-defense. And so in this
campaign the hosts are being MARSHALL
ed to resist the aggressions of the
gold standard. If / were to tell you
lta+ fyr fr
attack or that foreign navy was
anchored at our gates, would expect
every one of you to join in an effort
to protect your country from invasion.
/ announce to you that foreign finan-
cial policy has not only invaded our
country, but it has gained a foothold
here and a great National party, the Re-
publican party, has declared that that
foreign policy shall remain here until
foreign powers shall consent to its
retirement (Applause.) The gold
standard idea is an imported idea, end,
my friends, / care not whether you at
Tempt to restrain it by a high tariff
or low tariff, shall not be content
until it shall be driven back and finds
no more home in your midst. ZAP
plause.)
This contest upon which we are
entered is not a temporary fight. Some
of our Democratic friends who have
worked with us in the past tell us that
in this campaign they will either work
with the Republicans or stop half way
between our ranks and the Republican
ranks until they summon enough cour-
age to go the other half and declare
themselves silver Republicans. Zap
plause.) want then s. to go, under
standing that they are never to return
until they come back in sackcloth and
ashes. treat applause.) If these men
who have gained their prominence
through the honors given them by
the Democratic party have an idea
that they can withdraw in the face
of the enemy and then be invited back
TO take command hereafter they are
making "a mistake, the greatness of
which will increase as the time goes
on (Applause) This is no temporary
disagreement. Those who leave the
Democratic party to-day leave Demo
craey and can never excuse themselves
hereafter. Great applause.)
My friends, every man who is in
telligent is presumed to intend that
sequence of his own act. In this cam
paign, when on one side are arrayed
the great common people and on the
other all those trusts and combines
and syndicates which prey upon the
people in such a campaign as this,
there is no middle ground. Those who
are not with us are against us, and,
my friends, j want to say to you that
no matter how distinguished a Demo-
crat may be, the Democratic party is
better off to-day without the men
who believe in Republicanism, as it
is taught by the Republican party,
than it would be if they were among
us. Great applause.
''They tell us that big Democrats
are leaving. There Us one consolation
that j find, and that is when big
Democrat breaks into the Republican
party, he makes a big hole in the Re
publican party. daughter and ap-
plamse) a hole so big that sixteen
little Republicans can get out. (Iaugh-
ter and applause). And, my friends,
so far as | am concerned, | would
rather have the support of one Repub-
lican who has been against us hereto
fore but is with us now, than to have
the support of a Democrat who has
been with us but who stays with us
now simply to use the Democratic par
ty to depart from the principles of fhe
fathers. (Great applause). So much
for introduction.
you have here a fine American
community. / understand that many
of those who are gathered here earn
their living by the cultivation of the
soil. / ann glad to talk to farmers, be-
cause / believe now that what Mr. Nc
Kinley stated six years ago, but what
he has forgotten in the six years which
have elapsed since that time. Gap
plause). Six years ago, after we had