The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-08
BRYAN SPEAKS At
PLA|NF|ElO, n. ],
Also Delivers an Address at
Carnegie Hall, N. Y.
CROWDS PRESS UPON HIM
THE TOILER Is THE MOST IN
PORTANT MAN.
sRYsN's SPEECH ON PENDING PROBLEMS
The Civil War Greatest Of All Wars. He Said
The Soldiers of the South Are Glad
That the Union Was Pre-
served.

New York, Feb. 1.-William J. bryan
delivered an address in Music Hall.
Plainfield, y. j., this afternoon.
Mr.. Bryan. Congressman DAILY, of New
Jersey, and John B. Hellman, of Plain
field, left Jersey City ON a Central Rail
road train at noon. They arrived at
Plainfieh at l o'clock. At each station
many persons entered the car, some of
field. When the tiain reached Plainfield
fully LOCO people We're on the platform
1t was with difficulty that the way to the
carriage was cleared Mr. Bryan bein3
compelled To- shake hands with all who
could get near him. Preceded by ii
brass band the carriages started fer the
Cedar Brook farm, the home of James f.
MARITIME
At rhe farm an informal luncheon was
provided. Mr.. Bryan was introduced to
200 men as he entered the house. Snortly
after two O'Clock the party started for
the hall and also many gold standard
Democrats.
The speaker said he had 20 hope of
converting any man who in 1896 voted
against free silver and diI not know
why he 50 voted. The man who voted
against free silver and who knew why
he voted that way was n titan teen for
conviction. The Republican party, he
said. was 4 good party for some and
there were men who naturally supported
it, There were others who thought il
was to their interest To support the Re
publican party and who We're mistaken.
These men were open to conviction. The
great mass OF the people of this country
he said, were toilers, and the man who
tolls was the most important, for the
country. He believed in party and a
principle good for the coachman as well
as for the man who rides in the carriage.
Bi-metalism, Mr. Bryan said. was
stronger today in the West than ever
before The armies OF England bad been
checked by handful Of Beers and that
was enough 10 shake the money market.
What would happen he asked. il England
had been fighting a big nation.
At this point there was much applause
and Mr.. Bryan said:
Don't applaud that, it's anarchy"
He said he had been asked 30 drop the
money question. In reply he would say
he considered it the greatest question that
had ever been presented to the American
people. He would not drop 4, but would
stand by all of the principles of the Dom
ocratic party.
Mr. Bryan left for New York on the
Ill train. About 1900 persons Il the
railroad station cheered him rs he left
for the metropolis.
Mr.. Bryan spoke tonight at Carnegie
Hall on Pending Problems under the
auspices of Winfield Scott Hancock Post
No. 239. g. A. II. of the Department of
New York for the relief of soldiers and
widows and orphans. He said in part
I'VE passed through a great war from
1861 to 1860. The greatest | may say in
the history of the world. greater in res
pect to the numbers engaged on both
sides than any wan in previous history.
In wars of conquest the stronger has
always dominated the weaker But the
Civil War was greater than all the wars
that have preceded it because the soldiers
of the South are now glad that the In
ion was preserved and that the republic
was saved. That war eliminated the one
chord of discord and made it possible that
never again will there be any effort to
disturb the Union"