The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-19
TUPPORT THE NOMINEE
THE DISSATISFIED DEMOCRATS
ELECT REPUBLICANS.
BRYAN RASPS THE ADMINISTRATION
He Compares Mckinley to George the Third of
England and Alfonzo of Spain. Bryan
Will Begin the Ohio Cam
pagn Today.

| thousand people greeted w. ]. Bryan
and the candidates on the Democratic
| State ticket at Churchill Downs, this
| afternoon, the occasion being the first
| demonstration by local Democrats in the
| State campaign now III progress. Inc
| crowd was filled with enthusiasm and
satiated with barbecued meat and bur
| goo. 1t fed upon oratory by the State
| leaders. notably ex-Speaker j. e. >.
| Blackburn and William Goebe and the
| champion OF the cause in National poll
ties, W. j. Bryan.
The barbecue was the feature of the
| third days programme of the party
which has been stumping Kentucky In
| the interest of the regular Democratic
nominee They spent three hours at the
Jockey Club grounds, all full of speech
making and then resumed their trip to
Coyington, Ky. After a meeting there
tonight the campaign in Ohio viii be
begun. A notable part of the days pro-
gramme was played by the Cook County
Marching Club of Chicago, which, three
hundred strong, came into town at :
O'Clock this morning and TO the music
Of FIVE bands cut swath through the
heart of Louisville that brought cheers
from the hundreds who had gathered
to greet them. Tomorrow they viii
take trip TO the Blue Grass region,
touching Frankfort, Lexington and
Paris, jumping into the midst Of the
Ohio campaign ON Friday at Cincinnati.
When Mr.. Bryan arrived at the race
track he was greeted with loud applause
The crowd completely filled the large
grand stand, even down to the bottom
OF the steps, and several thousand peo-
pie were jammed and packed together
ON the ground. The speaking stand was
immediately in front Of the grand stand.
1t was sea Of humanity that the speak
ers faced. The Chicago Democrats
were seated in the center of the grand
stand.
Mr.. Bryan began by reading let
ter from John Young Brown, which
had been handed to him on his arri-
val in the city.
The letter cited the statements con-
cerning the agreement of G0ebel and
Stone, by which they were to combine
their forces for the purpose of securing
the organization Of the Louisville Con-
vention and asked whether, 'after over
three hundred men were placed in the
convention instead of the delegates Sc
lected," the convention could give oGe-
bel the nomination of the party. He
also asked whether such a contract was
not fraudulent.
Coy. Brown further asked whether a
chairman had right to deny an appeal;
whether armed police in the convention
were not a menace to free government;
whether Bryan was in favor of the
Goebe Election Law, and lastly, wheth
ID ha1 ~,
teal expendiency to justify submis-
sion.
Mr. Bryan said on the subject of the
letter:
Now, he asks if it be true that this
was done. | want TO say that ! did
not come to sit in Judgment on any
convention. | did not come to discuss
the details of an election law / come
to say, and / say with emphasis, that
if there was anything done in that con-
vention that IA Democrat does not think
ought to have been DONE | ask of that
Democrat, what his remedy is. Is it to
elect a Republican Governor and Repub
hcan officials? The man who tries 10
correct Democratic convention by
electing a Republican Governor assumes
responsibility for all that that Governor
does after he has been elected"
Mr.. Bryan then urged his hearers to
support the regular nominees of the
Democratic convention, saying that that
convention not only reafhrmed the dec
laration of the Chicago platform, but de-
fined the attitude of the party on the
issues that have arisen since 1896. The
survival of these principles, he declared,
TO be more Importance than the question
of candidates. He asserted it was not
a question between Goebel and another
Democrat but between Goebel and the
election of a Republican Governor and
Republican State officers He recogni- |
zed the right of any man to bolt, but
said he thought this very poor way
of remedying any wrong, fancied or
real, that might have been done by the |
Louisville Convention.
Mr.. Bryan again attacked the Phil |
ippine policy of the Administration. He |
cited Mr.. McKinley's statement that |
the United States would hold the archi |
pelago and quoted the President as say |
ing:
Il confidently believe that Congress
will provide for these people govern
ment that will bring them blessings and |
advance their material interests"
Change this sentence but slightly,
said Mr.. Bryan.
Put Parliament instead of Con