The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-03

And we would rather keep the Dec
laration of Independence than get the
Filipino"
NORTH CAROLINA AGAIN.
voice from the audience: How
about North Carolina?"
Mr.. Bryan: THE gentleman asks how
about North Carolina / was waiting for
him. My friends, the Republicans are not
meeting these issues and no Republican
shows his hypocrisy more clearly than
when he talks about North Carolina. This
administration has provided qualifications
for voting in Porto Rico, educational
qualifications and according to those
qualifications, as you will find in a gov
eminent document issued by this admin
istration ON the 29th day of last August,
SO per cent of the black men of Porto
Rico of voting age are disfranchised by
this administration. Does the gentleman
who spoke of North Carolina know what
percentage of the people are DISTINGUISHED
there?"
Mr.. Dairy. who had asked the question,
replied:
Every one who does not interpret the
Constitution
Mr.. Bryan said: eff we had that law in
the North and DISTINGUISHED every Re-
publican who did not know how to in
terpret the Constitution. not half of the
Republicans could vote in this country.
Mr. Bryan's questioner attempted to
proceed with his interrogation amid
cries of "sit down. and put him OUT
A PERSISTENT SMART ALEC.
Mr. Bryan tried to obtain quiet, and
after some confusion Mr. Dairy shouted
above the noise and the confusion:
May I ask one question:
Mr.. Bryan asked him: my friends,
while it is not fair for a Republican to
come and take up my time. l will be
fairer to him than he is to me- Ask your
question"
Mr.. Dairy said: "You say that you
have known for the last four years that
there are trusts in this country. and
that they are in violation of the antitrust
laws of 1896 to prevent control of mark
ct prices. Then was it not your duty as
citizen to file a complaint with the Dis
trict Attorney? Can you name one Dem
ocratic or Republican District Attorney
with whom it has been filed?"
Mr.. Bryan answered: my friends
want to call your attention to the fact
that the gentleman started out on North
Carolina. and has got tired of North
Carolina. In the second place I want to
call your attention to the fact that he
tries now to lay upon all the people as
citizens, responsibility for the failure of
an Attorney General to enforce the law
that he is sworn to enforce. I want to
remind you that letters have been writ
ten to Mr.. Grggs. calling his attention
to trusts, and that he has refused to en-
force the law, and when a Democratic
Attorney General of Nebraska brought
suit against the Starch trust, the Repub-
licans of Nebraska city met in the court
house and appointed a circuit judge as
the chairman of the committee on reso-
luton and passed resolutions asking the
Attorney General not to enforce law of
he State of Nebraska"
INTERRUPTER HOWLED DOWN.
Amid the applause that followed, the
man who had been interrupting Mr. Bry-
an shouted: How many did you file,
Mr.. Bryan" But further Interruptions
were howled down by the impatient au-
dience and the pointed demands Of two
police officers made his remaining in the
audience contingent upon his silence. Mr..
Bryan then continued:
my friends, l am not talking for the
benefit of the gentleman. He has shown
that he is not here for information. He
has come here to interiect a question
here and no matter how / answer him it
would make no difference in his vote.
But I want to tell you this, that if I am
elected / will appoint an Attorney Gen.
eral who Will not remain idle until some
Republican comes and files a bill.
Mr.. Bryan then resumed his discussion
of Imperialism
PRESIDENT PLAYED HIM FALSE.
Regarding the vote in Congress to rati-
fly the treaty with Spain, Mr.. Bryan said
at Brands Hall:
mo Senator said he voted for the
treaty with Spain because l asked him to
do it. but can prove by Senator Yelling
ton, who did vote for it and by whose vote
the treaty was ratified that he would
not have voted for it had it not been
that the President had promised him
that when the treaty was ratified the
islands should be free. / can prove that
your President secured the ratification of
the treaty with Spain by making a
promise that has not been kept"
Mr.. Bryan was driven rapidly to an
opcn-air meeting at the corner of 22nd
street and Oakley avenue, where an i'm
mense crowd greeted him. He also spoke
in a tent at Spaulding and Madison
streets. He addressed large crowds at
Pulaski Hall next at the 10Th and Hal
sted streets, then in the stock yards dis
trict and closed with an address to col
ored voters at 31st and State streets,
which point was reached about midnight.
At each place he spoke from fifteen
minutes to half an hour being heartily