The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-12
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years of Mr.. Mckinney ADMINISTRATOR
| 1t may be so, Sir, and / am patriotic
enough to hope that the promised Nc
Kinley wave Of prosperity will come to
| the West and the South; but If it does
| not come. or if it continues to come IN
| the shape of failures and closing banks
all over the land, | venture to make you
fnis prou,,,,cyy, and believe it will be YER
| fled by History.
The same forces and influences which
| in this year 1896 dominated the Demo
cratic National convention at Chicago
promulgated its platform and nominated
its candidate, Mr.. Bryan, by a two-thirds
vote, and united in one solid and unbrok-
en- phaIanx the voters OF the three parties
which we represent here to-day, upon the
financial issue in opposition to the gold
standard Republican platform, in the
next National election, will again unite
this army of American voters, vast and
daily growing vaster, and this great
army. with its banner flung to the breeze
Of heaven inscribed with our battle cry,
Equality before the law" will sweep, in
that second battle, not only the States
Of the South and of the far West, but
the now pivotal States of the Middle
West, and plant that banner upon the
Nations capitol.
| 1t is wearisome and needless to quote
statistics of the election, but careful
study of the figures given by Senator
Allen in the Senate of the United States,
and a comparison of the popular vote re-
ceived by Mr.. Bryan, with the Cleveland
and Harrison and Cleveland and Blaine
votes shows that If Mr.. Cleveland had
polled as many votes in 1888, as Mr..
Bryan in 1896, Benjamin Harrison would
never have been the President of this
Republic; it shows that Mr.. Bryan receiv-
ed one million more votes than Mr.. Cleye-
land in 1892, that Mark Hanna's money
in the doubtful States elected Mr.. McKin-
lew; that it is arrogant presumption and
a foul SANDER to say that Mr.. Bryan
has been discredited and rebuked by his
fellow citizens; that sooner or later or
ganized greed must take its grasp from
the throat of the people.
/ Let us, gentlemen of the Electoral Col
lege, defend every attack upon our cause
and its leader, in spite OF all criticism.
Let us follow the example of him whose
dust has made sacred the soil of Month
4 cello
Says Mr.. Bryan, HE was called a
+ demagogue, and his followers a mob, but
! the immortal Jefferson dared to follow
the best promptings Of his heart.
He placed man above matter, huma n
ity above property, and spurning the
{ brides of wealth and power, he pleaded
the cause of the common people.
1t was devotion TO their interest, which
made his party invinclble, its principles
oil nd M y. Ia
history e1dures."
| They tell US that the great party or
ganized by him, and perpetuated by
Andrew Jackson must re-organize upon
the principles of the indianapolis plat
form, which polled less than GOO votes
in North Carolina
1t may be true, sir, but is it my DELHI
crate conviction, that before this viii
and West, burning their bridges behind
them" viii again unite their forces with
the Peoples party and Silver party and
Senator Teller and will again renew the
battle for the financial relief Of the peo-
pie.
| know not what course other men
may take, but for my single self, / am
enlisted for four years or during the
war; and, with all the ability with which
God has endowed me, / expect to be
found like the great statesman for whom
to-day | shall cast my vote, in close touch
with the people of my State and of the
South in the battle for their financial
relief. If that be anarchy make the
most of it.
Mr.. Chairman, it must come; the peo-
pie cannot much longer bear the burdens
placed upon them, and the yoke of bond
age to foreign and Northern taks-mas-
tiers.
Call it what you please anarchy, discon-
tent, labor against capital, or revolution,
financial relief must come to the section
Of the country in which we live.
Neither the ambitious nor the feat of
men can stay it. The agitation is al
ready begun: it ISL heard throughout the
land ere yet the smoke of the first bat
tie has cleared from the political sky.
In the language of an eloquent states
man, 1.-THE people long silent and quiet
under oppression are moving now and
the end cannot be doubtful"
Private extortion must yield to public
right; selfish interests must be sacrificed
for the general good, and in the glori-
Gus results of the struggle, | believe that
the coinage of the 'honest money" of
the Constitution, gold and silver upon
equal terms will be restored, and the
giant of oppression, monopoly will dis
appear from the land never again to of
fend America by his presence, or to dark
en- its fair fields with his shadow
| nominate for President of the United
States William ]. Bryan, of Nebraska.
MR.. KLUTTZ'S SPEECH.
Mr. Theo. #. Kluttz, Democratic cleo
tor OF the Seventh district, seconded the
nomination, saying:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen: That
Bryan was defeated, abates not one jot
or title of. my love and admiration for
him.
| am as ready to follow him, to honor
him, to vote for him, now, as when at
the behest of the North Carolina delega-
ton, I seconded his nomination at Chi
cage.
/ would rather be Bryan defeated, than
Mckinley elected.