The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-21
GUTHRIE SPEECH
At GREENSBORO
Ell
A Fine Argument on the Is
sues of the Day,
THIS is ELECTION YEAR
The Good Work Of August Must be
Repeated
THIS is ELECTION YEAR
BRYAN's MAJORITY MUST Be A BIG ONE
Republican Ide / Of Expansion Ridicued. How
North Caronans Know Hanna Didn't
Tell the Truth When He Said
There Are no Trusts.
Especial to News and Observer

(opecfdI 10 news ana observer
Greensboro, N. c., Oct. 20.-One of
the best speeches heard here during
this campaign was that delivered the
other night by Maj. Guthrie. 1t was
full of good things-sound argument
and happy hits. Those who heard
him were delighted at the happy man
ner in which he discussed the issues.
Among other things Maj. Guthrie
had this to say in course of his re-
marks:
The year 1900 will be known to the flu
ture historian of our State as Election
Year. for we have had now an almost
continuous campaign for the last eight
months, and it is not yet ended. The
August election is now past, and the
good work then accomplished for the
State has been written already in our
history. But you must not forget that the
November election is now near at hand
and you must not get weary in we'll
doing, and / would most earnestly i'm
press upon you that. the November cleo
ton may decide the future destiny of the
Republic which history tells us was
framed by statesmen of the Revolution
and baptized with the blood of Ameri-
can soldiers shed in the cause of liberty
and handed down from generation to
generation to the present time. Let no
side issue, however important it may
be to the individuals concerned. divest
your minds from the main issues which
the people are to settle at the November
election. ! appear before you as the
chosen candidate of the Democratic party
of this district, selected by the unani-
nous vote of the delegates at the dis
trict congressional convention for the po-
sition of elector for this district to cast
the vote of this district for that peerless
statesman and patriot, William Jennings
Bryan for President, and that true and
tried public servant, Adlai e. Stevenson,
for Vice President of the United States.
| want to remind you that Billy Bryan
and Uncle Adlai' are still in the race and
we expect them on the 9Th of November
to pass under the wire several lengths
ahead of all competitors. And unless all
signs fail they are going to do it.
There are so many good reasons why
Bryan and Stevenson should be elected,
that speaking to an intelligent audience,
such as | see before me, | am at loss
where to begin to enumerate them A
party platform is only the concentration
and capitalization of the political senti-
ment of the people who think that way.
II you will read the platform of the Dem
Ocratic party adopted at Kansas City this
year and upon which Bryan and Stevenson
are now candidates, you will find ii con-
tains about twenty five good reasons why
Bryan and Stevenson should be elected
and if you will steudy that platform
yourselves you will no doubt find a hun
dred reasons why you should vote for
them. The Kansas City platform, what
ever else may be said of it, and however
much men may differ about it, is strictly
up to date, and of one thing you may
rest assured, if Mr. Bryan is elected he
will carry out, as far as he can, every
single principle of government laid down
in it. He frankly says that if elected,
he will not under any circumstances ac-
cept nomination of any party for sec
ond term. He will go into office not
pledged to any man or set of men to do
or not to do anything further than his
pledges already given to the people to
stand by the principles laid down in the
platforms of the three parties by which
he has been nominated. Now that suits
me. How do you like it my Demo
cratic and Peoples party friends? OF
course we don't expect a Mckinley Re-
publican to think we'll of it, if he thinks
or thinks he thinks, about it at all.
'Ephraim is joined to his idols; let him
alone.''
Let me briefly refer to a few of the
leading principles laid down in the Kan
,,lo nh nk
main issues of this contest between Bry-
an and Stevenson on the one side, and
Mckinley and Roosevelt on the other:
1. Militarism and its twin brother, i'm
perialism. However much the people of
the North and Middle West, and West
may differ on this subject there ought
not to be any difference of opinion about
it here in North Carolina, or in the
Southern States. If there is a people
on Gods green earth who ought to hate
military government, and large stand
ing army, it is the people of the South.
When we remember the past history of
the South from 1866 to 1876, the eleven
years succeeding cur civil war, up to the
time when President Hayes was forced
by the popular sentiment of the North
itself to withdraw the Federal soldiers
from the South-after our sad and painful
eXperience--would you for one moment
slider a proposition to inflict such pun
ishment upon Porto Rico or even the
Filipinos, to say nothing of its effects
upon ourselves? Without intending to go
further in the discussion of this subject
on this occasion, for volumes might be
written upon it, ! make the assertion that
unless all history for ages past is lie,
neither this Republic nor any other re-
public can continue to exist as republic
with one class of people in it considered
and treated as Citizens" and the other
as "barbarians" You need not go back
any further than the ancient history of
the Roman Republic and it's downfall to
get proof of this assertion. The Roman
Senate and the Pretorian Guards convert
ed the Roman Republic into an empire,
long before a Caesar became emperor.
And in my opinion, unless the people Of
this great American Republic get to-