The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-03
five LONG SPEECHES
Candidate Bryan Yesterday
NBroke His Record.
TLE ANMpAIGN IN ONlO
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
His Audiences Made Up Prin-
cipally of Farmers.
SPOKE AT TOLEDO LAST NIGHT
Over Thirty Thousand People Greeted
the Young Silver Leader at Toledo
and They Cheered Him to
the Echo.

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the Echo.
Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 2.-Wm. Jen-
nings Bryan to-day again demonstrat-
ed that it made no difference whether
his voice was hoarse or not by max
ing more speeches than he has for sew
eral days. He made long speeches at
Springfield, Kenton, and Findlay, and
tonight made two more in this city.
The party left Columbus at 8:15 this
morning and arrived at Springfield at
10:30, where the nominee made a
twenty minutes talk.
The next stop of any consequence
was made at Kenton, where Mr.. Bryan
addressed 5000 citizens
The address was made at the park
of the little city, and was well received.
The crowd was made up mostly OF
famers. who cheered the ntterances of
the nominee heartily.
Thirty thousand is a conservative
estimate of humanity gathered at the
High School Square in Toledo thfs
evening to hear VIM. j. Bryan deliver
an address; 10000 would probably be
nearer the correct figure. The au-
dience was very enthusiastic, and at
times it's cheers became deafening
uproar.
Mr.. Bryan was introduced by Judge
Lennon. and spoke in part as fol
lows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: AS / look
over this vast audience, which is meas
ured by the acre, rather than by the
heads, am led to regret that the silver
craze is dying out, Great applause
and laughter) If this is what the
people do when the silver sentiment
is on the wane, what are they going
to do when the sentiment begins to in.
crease? / am afraid that 1 cannot
make myself heard over any large
part of this audience, but I hope that
| those of you who find it difficult tc
hear will assist me by being as quiet
as possible so as not to disturb others
who can hear.
A POLITICAL REVOLUTION.
I'VE are entering upon a great ma.
tional campaign, the nominations hav.
ing been made, the issues have been
laid down and the voters are choos
ing their sides upon this question
In former campaigns we have beer
| able to measure the vote of each party
with some degree of accuracy. In or
dinary times the platform adopted by
| the party represented the sentiment
of the party, generally speaking, and
the number of changes from one side
to the other was few But we are in
the midst of great upheaval in poll
| tics. Men who used to wait to have
| the party managers tell them what
| ought to be done are now telling the
party managers what they ought to do
Great applause.)
Men who in ordinary times made
their opinion fit into party creeds are
this year making their creeds conform
to their deep convictions. (Applause)
To my mind the present campaign
proves anew the capacity of the Amer
lean people for self-goyernment. GAP
plause and ehee1s). / have believed
| that tbs. power could be safely entrust-
ed into the hands of the american peo-
pie. lApplahsel. 1T was the doctriire
Of Washington, Thomas jefferson
Abraham Lincoln. 1T has been the doc
trlne of every man who had faith in
republican institutions. (Applause)
The inherent virtue which resides in
the people, the intelligence of the peo-
pie, all these manifest themselves III
the early hour of dangers. (Applause)
Il am a believer in the progress OF
the race. / believe that humanity is
going on from victory to victory pitch
ing its tent i'm every generation on
higher ground
Il am not willing to believe that the
| experiment which is being made in
Democratic government upon Ameri-
can soil is an experiment that is going
to fail. / am not willing to believe it.
and bhis campaign is another evidence
that the people are able to govern
themselves. Great applause).
THE DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP.
There is only one thing that is nee
| essary in order to make citizen prop
erly exercise the duties of citizenship
| and that is TO make him aware what
his responsibilities are and what his
duty lis. The desire to live up to ones
| responsibilities, HIhe desire to discharge
| ones duties is the very foundation
upon which we can build (Applause)
Il want tonight to impress upon you
the Importance of the part which you
are to play in the conduct of the gov
| ernment of the United States Do
you believe in the restoration of bi-met-
| allism? (Cries of Yes, sir"). If you
| do, then you are opposed to a gold
standard. (Cries of Eyes, sir'). Be
tween a gold standard and bi-metal-
lism, whether that bi-metallism be in
dependent or international. (Cries OF
Independent there is an impossible
gulf. Those who believe in a gold
standard cannot politically affiliate
with those who believe in bi-metallism,
and those who believe in bi-metalHsm
cannot for one hour remain i'm polit-
ical association with those who would
fasten a gold standard upon the hui
man race. The United States is the
greatest nation, in my judgment,
among all the sisterhood of nations.
We are an example to the oppressed
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