The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-30

Before| that let me say at the out
set that mere is but one issue in this
campaign. l have been impressed with
this one thing: No matter what reason is
given for supporting Mr.. Bryan, when the
man gives it he invariably ends on Trusts.
Trusts then is the issue. Now l will give
some reasons VIII Mr.. Bryan will be
elected:
There is rot a single individual in
the whole country who is not affected by
Trust. and every one of them feels ii
and says so. 1t has taken a long time for
the people to realize that they are robbed
from morning till night and from the era
die to the grave. but they realize it at
last and they know where the blame lies.
The small business men, manufacturers
and merchants, have seen their customers
leave one by one until they have moth
ing to do. Combinations have driven them
out of business and thev feel that with
out a change it is only a question of a
little while before they will be working
for wages, and low wages at that. Mr.
Bryan and his party promise TO cut the
cords which are binding the hands of
these small business men, and they are
going TO vote for him.
The travelling statesmen see their num-
Der rapidly diminishing. and the salaries
of those remaining reduced, until it looks
like starvation to them. This great body
of intelligent men is going to vote for
the Democratic candidate.
WHAT THE TRUSTS HAVE DONE.
The farmers see an increase in the
price of everything they buy. 1t is true
that the Lord withheld the rain and sent
nd hmc chOr
crop OF cotton. 1t is true that this short
crop makes high price, but the intelli-
gent farmer cannot understand how
drought and storm can affect the price of
nails. He cannot see the advantage in
high priced cotton and wheat if the price
of all he buys is increased more in pro-
portion than the price of what he has
TO sell. These farmers have at last got
it into their heads that the reason for
this unnatural state of affairs is that
Trusts control everything they must buy.
They believe that the Republican party is
responsible for the existence of Trusts,
and they are going to vote for the party
which promises to take the clenched fin
gers of the Trusts from their throat
The laboring man sees his employer
revel in luxury while he has not even
the HSceSSaT-eb OF ire. lie KNOWS llaI
he made all that IS in the hands of his
wealthy employer and feels that he ought
to have at least a comfortable living out
of his toll. He asks for better pay just
enough to provide few comforts for his
wife end children. but he is told prices
for our products will not justify it, He
sees the factory closed, and little man
ufacturing villages become desolate. He
l. u hnNge
nothing to do His scant wages allowed
him to save nothing for rainy day. The
pinched face ce his loving wife hauntS
him, and the prospect of his babies crying
for bread drives him to desperation. Did
/ say prospect? 1t is an actual reality. He
knows his loved ones are neither we'll
fed nor well-clothed. He knows they are
dying for the necessities of life. He real
ICES that the Trusts are coming gold out
of the very blood of his children, and he
swears he will go to the polls and vote
against the party that has made it possi-
BILE for one set of men to live entirely at
the expense of another. These men were
driven TO vote for the Republicans four
years ago, but they will net do it again.
They are going to vote for Mr.. Bryan be-
cause they believe he is their friend.
BRYAN WILL BE ELECTED.
This is why l say Mr.. Bryan will be
elected. The people are determined to
assert their manhood. The anti-expan-
sionist, the antitrust advocate. the free
silver enthusiast 1.-The people opposed to
national banks the people opposed to
large army-all these-as | said before.
will present their arguments and wind up
by telling you that the Trusts favor all
these things, and they are going to vote
for their country's interests and not the
interests of the Trusts
Mr.. Bryan will be electedA He will
sweep the country like cyclone. He will
carry all the States he carried in 1895,
with possibly one exception, and he will
carry Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota.
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Del
aware ard New York. He has fighting
chance in Michigan and Connecticut. That
is a pretty rosy prospect, you say. Yes.
it is; but l tell you, there is a whirlwind
OF wrath to be poured out on the McKin
ley Hanna administration in November.
have talked with all sorts of people
from all PARTS of the country, and there
is no hiding the fact that there is going
to be landslide"