The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-25
BRYAN GAINING GROUND
The Only Hope to Restore the People
the Control of Government.
REPUBLICANS HOPE FOR NORTH CAROLINA
They Rely Upon Democratic Apathy and Over
Confidence. They Have no Chance if
All Bryan Men Will Work
Earnestly,
To the Editor:

Earnestly.
To the Editor:
A period of great political activity in
North Carolina is nearing its close. The
Democratic party has grappled with the
far-reaching question of negro suffrage,
and has solved it. In local affairs the
people of North Carolina now enter an
era of changed political conditions that
will remove race antagonism and the
clashings of the races and that will tend
to secure quiet, continual good feeling,
and prosperous industry in the homes of
all the people. This glorious result has
been accomplished mainly by the effective
work of the local champions of the good
cause All honor and credit are due to
the press, the party workers, the public
speakers and the local organizers, to the
committeeman and the Democratic clubs.
1t was these who brought to the polls
that vast array of voters, who, arranging
themselves beneath the Democratic ban
ner, secured the adoption of our reform
measure by majority of fifty thousand
votes.
Also of immense interest to the peo-
pie is the triumph of Democracy in the
national campaign. On November the
9Th the people of all the States are to
pass their judgment on the great Federal
questions of the day. Many of them are
of momentous Importance, some relate to
finance. some relate to industry and near
ly affect every family in their homes;
others relate to our Federal government,
the capitlation of our country, and bear
upon the perpetuation of the liberties and
privileges of the citizen, which we have
inherited from our fathers, and which
we are in duty bound to hand down un-
impaired to cur posterity.
On all these questions the Democratic
party stands by the people, our platform
is clear. positive and without duplicity.
It's principles are the teachings of Wash
ington. Jefferson and the patriot fathers.
Our standard bearer, William j. Bryan,
is known by all men for his honest devo-
tion to his political convictions, and his
zeal and determination to carry them into
operation, and his spirit of self-sacri-
flee, and his large sympathies for strug-
Cling humanity.
No leader has arisen in hundred years
who was so strongly inbred with sympathy
for the manhood of our country 1t is the
flesh and blood, the men and women OF
the land, the great masses of the people
whose interest he strives to promote,
and whose rights he proposes to guard
against the insidious encroachments OF
men seeking their own selfish aggran-
diZement. The election of Bryan means
the overthrow of the trusts, the death
of those rings which, under McKinley's
administration, have plunged our govern
ment into courses full of peril to the
future of our country.
Immense was the effort made to defeat
him four years ago, but the change of
few thousand votes would have elected
him, and would have prevented all the
evils of McKinleys administration. And
now another great effort is being made
against him. The trusts and the rings
die hard. They fight for life, but the
people are against them The people
are rallying everywhere to the standard
of Bryan, and Democracy never had
leader anywhere with such immense
crowds to hear him as Bryan has had in
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and New York.
These outpourings of the people bespeak
their sympathy. They mean victory for
William jennings Bryan. But what shall
be the voice of North Carolina? The Re-
pblican leaders have been devising means
to give our electoral vote to Mckinley.
They think that our people are apathetic;
they believe us over confident; they count
on a light vote. They expect that Bryan
men will not go to the polls, and they
hope to gain the victory through our
negligence And there is danger in this
emergency. / appeal to every Bryan man
to come to the rescue. ! appeal to every
citizen who wants to see Bryan and Ste-
yenson elected to bestir himself. In par
ticular | appeal to every working Demo-
crat, who did such splendid work last
summer, to aid once more in making
supreme effort. / appeal to the Demo-
cratic press, the most potential political
power. l appeal to the committeeman.
the party workers and the clubs. None
of these have ever failed the party in
the past Last summer they covered
themselves with glory Today the party
and the country call them once more to
the post of duty, and commit to them
the banner of Democracy, believing that
they will again secure the victory. 1t
is the call of patriotism, and ! know
that this appeal will not be in vain but
that every Bryan man possible will be