Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-03-04
OUR LEADER IN
CONGRESS,
HON. JOSEPH W. BAILEY,
Speaks in Richmond. Bryan the
next President. Extracts from
hrs MasferIy Address.
Richmond Dispatch.1

Richmond Dispatch.1
Hon. Joseph w. Bailey, of Texas. ad-
dressed probably the largest audience in
the Academy OF Music yesterday after.
noon That has gathered there since the
campaign OF 1896.
The speech consumed nearly ihree hours
IN its delivery, and though it was of as
strictly a political nature as the one
which Mr.. Bailey delivered here during
the Bryan campaign, the attention OF
his hearers never tagged
The entire address was a vindication of
the Democratic platform of 1896, and
the speakers able presentation Of prin-
ciples, and exposition of doctrines. upon
which the splendid campaign OF VIM. J.
Bryan was fought, excited enthusiasm
that was convincing proof that the issues
OF that campaign will be the issues of the
next.
Now, by your leave" MIR. Bailey weni
on, 81 will take up the money aastion-
the one of interest paramount to all
Others. Let us have peace, say those
who voted against lis two wears ago
but say to you there is no peace, nor
will there ever be as long az this war be-
tween justice and greed is necessary. for
as sure as the Democratic party reassem-
bles in 1900, SO surely will it readopt
word for word the platform of 1896.
prolonged applause.)
"W. J. Bryan, the fearless young tri-
bune of the people, will be our leader
then, and victory is as certain as the day
Ia to follow the night. Qmmense ap-
plause.)
| The Democratic party makes no war
on wealth, but wealth must cease its
war on labor. We have sworn before
high Heaven that the rich shall cease to
take the poor mans bread. (Applause.) }
"1n this grand crusade upon which we
have entered there is but one man safe.
That is the man who has never wronced
his neighbor. And want to say to those
who think us Anarchists, and that their
property>is not safe here, to follow VIII
liam Waldorf Astor across the seas. and
they will be out OF danger, for there were
six and a half millions OF the anarchists
in America two years ago, and they will
sweep over this country two years hence.
Ignorance is at the bottom OF all these
charges, have said, but they have been
so long kept upI find we have to summon
all our Christian forbearance to keep
from saying malice is not entirely alb
sent. Ignorance or malice-I really think
it is both. Uaughter.) l have heard
men denounce the Democratic platform
who afterward confessed they had ne yer
read it, and it would be charitable to
say that many OF those who revile us
know not the platform upon which we
stand.
What do they mean by saying we are
going to make money too cheap? They
must mean we are going to make it too
plentiful, because nothing ever did be-
come too cheap in the history OF the world
until it became too plentiful. Therefore
they mean we are going to make money
too plentiful. Have any OF you any fear
OF that? My anxiety is not that You
Will have too much, but that you will
not have, as much as you need. The
gold-standard man could take the histo-
ry OF the world, and he can search 1t as
far back as the time OF Father Adam, he
could go back until authentic history
lost itself in the twilight OF myth and
fable, and he could not find single in
stance when any nation ever had too
much gold and silver money. Ii he can
find IL single one, l will admit that our
position can be fraught with danger. |
have no apprehension that what has not
happened in the centuries thath have gone
is apt to happen in the centuries which