The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-26
CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT
STATE CONVENTION TO ADOPT
CHICAGO PLATFORM
LARGE DELEGATIONS GREET BRYAN
He Makes Short Speech Which is Received
With Enthusiasm. Republican Principles
of Monopoly and Their Effect Be-
pinnnior tn he Sann
ginning to be Seen


New York, Jan. 25.-Colonel w. J.
Bryan left Jersey City at 1915 this
morning for Harrisburg, Pa. He says
that before he returns home he will ac-
cept the invitations of the Legislatures of
Virginia and Mississippi.
BRYAN AT HARRISBURG
Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 25.-The STATE
Democratic Committee set the pace for
the Democracy of other States today by
making Colonel William ]. Bryan its
choice for the Presidency in 1900. This
action was taken by the committee while
Colonel Bryan was ON his way to Har-
rsburg from New York to attend the
meeting and confer with the party lead
ers This is probably the first time i'll
the party's history that the Democrats OF
Pennsylvania have indicated their choice
for President in advance of the State
convention.
There was a large attendance of Dem
ocrats from all over the State to meet
Colonel Bryan and hear him discuss the
issues ON which the coming campaign
will be waged. The State convention will
be held in this city on April 9TH and vii:
adopt a platform along the lines laid
down by the Nebraska orator in his
speech tonight before five thousand peo.
pie at the Kelker Street Hall. The plat
form will endorse the Chicago declaration
of principles, denounce the trusts and inn
perialism, advocate ballot reform and
pure elections and condemn machine pol
itics. The convention will also nominate
candidates for Auditor General. Con-
gressmen at large, the Presidential cleo
tors and elect eight delegates at large
to the National Convention.
Colonel Bryan reached here at ) o'clock
and was escorted to- the Board Of Trade
rooms, where the Senate Committee was
in session, by a committee representing
the State and local Democratic Commit
tees. He was introduced to the assem-
blage by State Chairman Killing and
made short speech which was r1ceived
with much enthusiasm. AT the close OF
the meeting he held an informal reception
at the Commonwealth Hotel and later
he was the guest of Mayor Fritchey at a
dinner party at which Colonel Guffey,
Chairman Killing and other party lead
ers were present. After tonight's meet
ing he attended session of the local
is an active member at his home in Lin
coin Colonel Bryan will go from here to
Smyrna and Wilmington, Del. ard from
there to Washington to meet the Ma
tiOnal leaders.
a large crowd greeted the Nebraskan
at this afternoons meeting. He con-
tended that the young men were grow
ing to see that Republican principles
Of monopoly kept down all but the very
few and added:
I'VE appreciate the odds Eastern Dam
ocrats have to contend against. 1t is easy
to be q Democrat in the South, and it
is easier to be a Democrat in the West
than it used to be. believe the tire
viii come when Chicago platform DEM
ocracy vii he as popular in Pennsyl-
vaDia as it is out in Nebraska. While
no Republicans can remember what was
in the Republican platform of 1898 and
while no gold Democrat can repeat the
indianapolis platforms every Democrat
and Republican can remember the Chica-
go platform. The Democrats ought to
make progress in this State because the
Republican party is more corrupt in this
State than in any other State in the
Union: The people have forgot to think
and act for themselves: they ought to
rise up and wipe the Republican party
out of existence. l believe we are going
to win in the campaign of 1900"
At tonight's meeting Mr.. Bryan opened
with congratulations to the Pennsylvania
Democracy on the suspicious opening of
the campaign of 1900 and predicted that
the vote there this year would be largely
decreased both because of the issues and
because of the hostility which machine
politics is arousing among Republicans.
After reiteratng his ideas as to the
dollar mark In Republican politics, Mr..
Bryan said:
isn't it strange that men who have
labored to fasten the gold standard ON
their country for 80 years should now be
defending their position by arguments
that have arisen since the election. When
I say that reverses in a war with hand
full of Beers will shake our financial sys-
tenn, where will be the gold standard if
England ever attacks nation of her
size and gets into real war? When we
Join ourselves to the gold standard, when
we make gold alone the legal tender for
the payment of debts, we connect our
selves with every disturbance in Europe
and make ourselves dependent upon their
condition for our prosperity"
Colonel Bryan said that the Republi-
can party seeks to fasten upon this coun-
try perpetual and ever increasing debt
in order that the banks may control the
volume of the peoples money. When a
man tells you now that more gold means
more money and that more money means
better times You tell him that he has adj
nlitted the quantitive theory of money
and that is what we contended for in
1896 We wanted more gold and we
wanted more silver. too.
Discussing trusts Mr.. Bryan said:
If they are bad are you going to say
YOU can't help yourselves; that YOU have
got to submit to the trust or to the mo-
nopoly? The American peoples don't
have to submit to anything that is detri-
mental to their welfare. In a govern