Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-10-15

l pie are the safest cusrOuinns Of YOUR na-
I tion's honor ana your nation credit
But these people tell us that The trouble
\ is that there ~ a lack Of confidence IA
| lack Of confidence in WHAT They say a
lack Of confidence in the currency 1 deny
/ it. There is not man or woman on this
| earth today that ever had any lack of con
/ hdence in the currency of the country
| 1t is not lack Of confidence 1t is "a lack
! of currency that is bothering the Ameri-
can people
They used TO be amiable with us, these
| goldbug people. They used To employ pet
names and endearing epithets when they
were talking of US. They called rs social
lists, and they called us communists and
1 lunatics, idiots and fanatics But they
have gotten madder here Of late. They
/ have dropped all these honeyed phrases,
and now they call us anarchists Wait
and let Us sec. Herr Most is recognized as
the leader of all the anarchists i'll all this
/ broad land. Where is he tOnights Whom
\ is he supporting CD raad his letter He
/ tells you that he Is for Mckinley and for
| gold, and he tells YOU why-because, he
says, the maintenance 0f the gold standard
\ will bring the American people To starva-
\ ton, and that when a people il starving
u
\ you that the maintenance Of the gold
| standard opens the only road through
\ which anarchy can ever come to dominate
/ in the politics Of your country. He argues
/ with more logic more sense, more honesty
and more decency than the average apostle
/ of the goldbug standard.
Who are the parties to this contest?
/ Look at them. Herr Most, the anarchist;
! Marlr Hanna tho s.r,rrrsrs-for,fe+ Oh
/ lock, the money changer, are all on one
side, and the American people, thank God,
are upon the other side.
/ What issue have you got heres Tell me.
/ free men, in this free land Of ours, what
issue have you got to decide in this con
test? Does any man undertake to belittle
\ it by telling you that this is simplya ques-
I ton Of ascendency between Democracy and
\ Republicanism2 That il not trae.
Does he undertake to tell You that this
| Is a fight between a gold standard and a
\ silver standard The man who tells YOU
I that is not telling you the truth and he il
/ not trying To tell the truth. That il not
the issue 1t l. broader issue. 1t II a
4 deeper issue. lit means more.
\ The question that you have got To decide
/ in this contest in November il not a ques-
I ton between parties. If it be a question
I between classes, God knows we didn't
raise it. Tho issue that you are to deter
mine, stripped Of all its teguments, pre-
sented markedly, is simply whether the
money power or the people are to rule this
/ country.
/ You will settle it one way or the other
1t is question between the plutocrat up
on the one side and the democrat upon
nrh 10 f.sr.r ? f-,
/ bondholders on the one side and the plow-
holders on the other side.
! Now, my countrymen, this issue is the
one that is pending l am not here to
/ apologize for anything I am not here to
I apologize for single plank il the Chi
cago platform am here to justify and
to defend every Gods blessed sentence,
! line, word and syllable that the Democratic
party Of my country gave us at Chicago as
\ the foundation of it, faith. | am not here
90 apologize for its candidates ann here
I to justify and to defend them am here
70 say that for the first time i'll 30 years
the Democratic party has promulgated a
\ platform and nominated candidate that
represent the demands, the claims, the
rights and the purposes Of the American
people.
/ 1 know full well the disadvantage at
/ which we stand here in this great employ
ers' state / know that your Democracy is
headle.ss. 1 know that those trusted lead
ers that in the years that are behind us,
have led you to so many stubborn fights
and to so many splendid victories are not
on the front of the line of battle now. But
/ you don't need them. You don't need
them.
This is not a politicians campaign. Chi
cago's convention was not politicians
convention. 1t was q peoples convention,
and this is a peoples campaign.
4 Politicians are not leading the people. /
/ and all the balance of tic politicians are
4 busily engaged today and tonight in dou
1 BILE quicking and striving to catch up with
the people.
Now, my countrymen, mere Il your L.
sue 1t may be that We are not to have
\ your support in this great contest. 1t may
be that New York's vote i not to be given
\ On the side Of the masses and the people;
\ but, my cOuntrymen, while | am here
\ from my southern home to appeal to and
/ be with you, want to be fair l do not
mean to threaten. | only mean to be can
/ did and to tell you the truth. Whatever
you do upon the 30 Of November, we are
i going to elect the man that preceded me on
/ this platform, with New York's vote If
| you will give it, and without it if you
won't
1 know how prone you are, you New
/ York people, to believe that the sun rises
down here at Sandy Hook out OF your bay
and sets within a stones throw OF us over
h6re at Buffalo. But you are mistaken New
/ York may be all that there is of the United
I States. but l will swear that she Is not
/ all that there Is Of the world. The man
/ who is your candidate tonight comes from
\ a place that it takes YOU three days and
Y two nights to travel to on limited express
! trains from where / stand now. And when
you get 10 his home, in the center of Ne
/ braska, three days and Two nights from
\ New York, you have got exactly half way
II across the continent to the Pacific seab0ard
4 i don't know what this narrow strip of
1 earth between the Allegheny mountains
I ana the Atlantic ocean means 10 do in
II November, but I think I do know what
\ that great empire west of the Allegheny
mountains means To do. Across to the Mis-
sissippi and across the Mississippi to tine
! Rockies, and from that to the Sierra Ne
vada, and from that t. the Pacific seaboard,
/ the west and the south. the great produc-
I ing sections of this country, have deter
/ mined that the day Of ring rule has ended
x that the people of this country are the
masters of their own destinies and mean
/ to make their laws under the guidance Of
/ a peoples candidate. l know it Is not wise
u have been in public life too long not to
/ know that he is neither prudent nor
( wise man that ventures upon political pre-
\ diction. He has all to lose, and he has
I nothing to make And yet, with that
knowledge in my face, | venture predic-
ton tonight, and | subpoena Iammany
Hall to bear witness 60 its yerihcation-
when your election shall have passed,
whenever the votes shall have been counted
upon the 3d day Of next November, marx
( what / tell YOU, Bryan will have received
more votes than any presidential candidate
Of any party ever did receive since God
made this world Of ours
! NV countrymen, on Wednesday night
last stood with him in the Academy Of
Music in your sister city of Brooklyn AZ
YOU see me with him here tonight Since
that time, within the last six days, under
the orders Of the authority Of my party, l
have traversed your continent On Satur-
day last. at / o'clock at night, was ap-
pealing to my own people upon the banks
of the gulf of Mexico, at Pensacola, In
Florida. Through New York, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida / came back
to tell you that whatever else may have
been done, whatever we may have failed to
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