The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-06


plahse.) If we are right in the
we have taken, if the Democratic
right in it's platform, then the
does not stand upon that platf
matter how good Democrat he
is no Democrat now, (applause) to
man can claim to be friend of II
says he wants to elect me becau ru
the regular nominee and then GO --.-
and ties my hands and makes me power
less. (Applause.)
"To those who believe in regularity, my
nomination appeals; to those Democrats
who are willing to trust the judgment of
majority of the Democratic party more
freely expressed than in any Democratic
convention ever held before, to those my
nomination appeals. But my friends,
would not feel the interest in this cam
paign that do, if all that had to COM
mend me was party regularity. Gap
plause.) 1 appeal to you on higher
grounds than that ] have a stronger
claim upon your support than can be
given by the regularity OF convention.
stand by the right of the American peo-
pie to have financial system Of their
own, (applause) and therefore my candi-
dacy appeals to every American citizen
who believes in the right of the people of
this country to govern themselves regard
less of the aid or consent of any other ma
ton on earth. (Cheers.) am not appeal
ing to any sentiments hostile to foreign
ers, but say to you, my friends, that ma.
ton does not deserve to he called nation
which bows to accept a financial policy
ready made from some other country.
Our opponents say that the tariff question
is the important issue of this campaign;
tell them that until they put prohibit
tive tariff on foreign financiers I won't
talk tart with them, and AS long as we
must go to others to ask them what we
can have there is no use to discuss any
question until we decide that we have a
right to express our own opinion, when
we have one. When we establish the
right of having policy, when we decide
on 1T, 1T will then be time to discuss the
other questions upon which parties and
people differ. But until we have vindica-
ted the right of this people to legislate for
drive tariff into the people with pile
driver.''
Mr.. Bryan then entered into an OK
haustiye silver argument, going over
much OF the ground covered in his former
speeches and ending with an appeal to
the voters to do their duty and vote ac-
cording to their conscience. Mr.. Bryan
left for Nashville at noon over the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad.
TREMENDOUS MEETING AT NASH
VILE.
Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 5.-The greatest
crowd that ever turned out to political
meeting in the history of Nashville
crowded about the streets here to. night,
shouted and yelled, cheered and applaud
ed and listened with marked at
tention to the triple nominee on
his arrival tonight. The train
hearing the Bryan party was due at 635,
but was ten minutes late, and il was
nearly 9:15 o'clock when Mr.. Bryan adj
dressed his first audience in this city at
the Haymarket o-night. On the train
from Memphis he spoke to large crowds
at Arlington, Brownsville, Milan, Hum
bolt and Camden.
AT to nights meeting here the five acres
of ground i'll the enclosure was fully half
filled with people, who cheered the can
dldate wildly on his appearance. A glee
club of thirty male voices opened the
meeting with 'Home, Sweet Home" the
old fashioned melody which the nominee
has declared to be his campaign song.
The candidate was then introduced by
Senator Bate as the next President of
the United States. He was cheered and
applauded thu oughout his speech and
many times was stopped by the enthu-
Ladies' and Gentlemen: II was my
good fortune to visit Nashville more than
year ago when we were beginning the
nght which resulted in securing the con-
troll OF the Democratic national conven-
ton. L remember with pleasure my visit
then, and 1T gratifies me much on return
ing TO lind that the sentiment in favor of
the immediate restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and silver
at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, (ap-
plause) without waiting for the aid or
consent of any nation on earth, has ex-
banded until to-day vast majority of
the people of Tennessee are arrayed I'M
der double banner. beg to thank the
young men who have opened this meeting
with our campaign song, our battle
hymn, it might be called, for in this fight
for the defense of the homes of this land,
the humble home as we'll as the palatial
home, we we'll might take as our bait lie
hymn that most beautiful of all songs,
Home, Sweet Home (Applause.) Our
warfare is in one sense aggressive, in
another sense it is defensive 1t is ag-
gressive in the sense that we are asking
for remedial legislation. It is defensive
In the sense that we are insisting that
something shall be done, and it is done in
the sense that we are fighting for our
homes and our people from the invasion
OF foreign financial policy. applause
AS passed through the streets to night
and listened to the ordinations of the
people, could easily believe that was in
city so near to that sacred spot-the
hermitage. (Applause.) I can under
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