The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-14
A GROUND SWELL FOR
BRYAN THIS YEAR
Continued From First Page.)

| unexpected fire and vim. He is not re-
puted an orator, but in portions of his
/ speech he was as impressive and forceful
as Bryan himself, and his utterances
were greeted with repeated applause.
| My advice to everybody is to read his
| speech carefully. 1t is a. clear-cut. Wig
| orous and able treatment of the issues
of the campaign. He rings clear every
time. He is grand old man who grows
| younger all the time. He looks the
| sturdy, wise Presbyterian elder, and he
! is one of the sort of unflinching, unaf-
| fected old time Democrats who has held
to the old landmarks in day when com
| mercialism has come to we'll nigh destroy
honest politics of his section He has
| a keen sense of humor 1t was very
hot while he was reading his speech, and
his glasses would soon be so full of per-
| spiration that he could not see. During
| one pause, while waiting to rub his
| glasses with his handkerchief, Mr.. Steven
] son said, You must excuse me, my
| friends, but / borrowed Mr. Bryan's
| glasses and they are a little too old for
me- And the crowd enjoyed the joke
hugely.
81 want YOU" said Mr.. Stevenson &C me
| ito give my love to my North Carolina
1
| in the flesh before many months, and to
meet them all at Washington at the in
auguration of Bryan ON the Fourth of
next March He has genuine affection
fer the people of North Carolina, and
knows hundreds AMI hundreds of them
! by name and inquired after them. I told
him that he had something like 200, 900
| friends in the Old North State who re-
| af ic Jxrbr Wi
| be glad to vote for him in November
/! He may come into the State later in the
campaign and make few speeches,
though that will not be determined until
! the campaign arrangements are COM
! pleted. He remembers with pleasure his
visit here in 1892, and said he would be
glad to come again if it was possible
to see all his friends, particularly to
shake the hands OF his relatives and
their neighbors in the Iredell and Meek
| lenburg section of the State. | told him
| that he could count on the people of those
| two counties giving the ticket big ma
! jority in any event, but that he would
be welcomed as a son and brother if he
| could come to speak to them. Your
! Uncle AdIai," as the boys at Indianapolis
called him, is a wise and discreet man
and his advice and counsel will be of
! great assistance in the campaign.
"Bryan's speech at Indianapolis was
! surprise to his close friends and most
ardent admirers He read it until he
came within ten minutes of the close, but
he read it with clear enunciation and it
was frequently punctured by applause.
But when he had come near the close
nf 10 man
script and a new light came into his
eye as he looked out upon the sea of up
turned faces before him. 1t was such
a light as | imagine must have trans
formed the face Of Patrick Henry when
he made the speech that will ever be the
classic of men struggling for liberty Mr..
Bryan did not elevate his voice percepti
bly,, now that he was freed from his man
uscript, but there was a quality in it that
was far-r reaching and men and women
| leaned forward as if they OWNED they
were to hear words that would lift them
up to a higher plane. He spoke as one
impelled by a sense of high public duty.
| He had a message that had burned itself
into his heart and brain and permeated
| his whole being and that he was forced
| to deliver. There was no straining after
| effect. 1t was all as simple as all true
oratory. He had pictured the evils of a
| colonial policy, and had piled argument
| on argument to show that we were rapid
| ly drifting into government with tyran
| ical power. There he had been the advo-
| cate-the logician-the orator. Now, I'M
! fettered by manuscript, his face illumined
| with the glow of a transcendant thought
and holy purpose, he became the seer,
| and said
| 81 can conceive of national destiny
| surprising the glories of the present,
and the pasta destiny which meets the
responsibilities of today and measures up
to the possibilities of the future.
Behold a republic resting securely
| upon the foundation stones quarried by
| revolutionary patriots from the mountain
Of eternal truth-a republic applying in
| practice and proclaiming to the world the
| self-evident proposition that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed with
| inalienable rights; that governments are
| instituted among men to secure these
rights; that governments derive their just |
powers from the consent of the governed. |
Behold a government in which civil |
and religious liberty stimulate all to
earnest endeavor, and in which the law
restrains every hand uplfted for a neigh |
Dor lnJury-a republic in which every |
citizen is a sovereign but in which no
one cares to wear crown.
Behold republic standing erect |
while empires all around are bowed be-
meath the weight of their own ornaments |
"a republic whose flag is loved while |
other flags are only feared.
"Behold a republic increasing in popu-
lation, in wealth, in strength and in in
fluence solving the problems of civliza-
ton and fastening the coming of an uni
versal brotherhood-a republic which |
shapes thrones and dissolves aristicracies
by it's silent example and gives light and
inspiration to those who sit in darkness |
Behold a republic gradually but surely |
becoming the supreme moral factor in
the worlds progress and the accepted |
arbiter of the worlds disputes repub- |
lie whose history, like the path of the
lust, is as the shining light that shineth
II ore and more unto the perfect day."
1t was fully half a minute after he |
had finished before there was a sound |
The people had leaned forward to catch