The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23
THIS is ELECTION YEAR
The Good Work of August Must be
Repeated.
BRYAN'S MAJORITY MUST BE A BIG ONE
Republican Idea of Expansion Ridiculed. How
North CaroIinians Know Hanna Didn't
Tell the Truth When He Said
There Are no Trusts.
Especial to News and Obseryer.)

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Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., Oct. 20.-One Of
the best speeches heard here during
this campaign was tina 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
Itpup1lC liz ~ 80 "@S
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. l 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.
l 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 l see before me, | am at a loss
where to begin to enumerate them. A
party platform is only the concentration
and crystalization 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 it con-
tains about twenty-five good reasons why
Bryan and Stevenson should be elected,
and if you will steudy that platform
UOlrColv0C will NO 1n,Ih find n 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 &C
cept a nomination of any party for a 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
Sas City platform, which constitute the
main issues of this contest between Bry-
an and Stevenson on the one side, and
Mckinley and Roosevelt on the other:
l. Militarism and it's twin brother, i'm
perlallSm. 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
a military government, and a large stand
ing army, it is the people of the South
When We remember the past history OF
the South from 1865 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 pain.u
eXperience-WOuld you for one mOment
slider a proposition to infiict such pun.
lshment upon Porto Rico or even the
FllipinO3, to say nothing of it's effects
upon ourselves? Without intending to g,
further in the discussion of this subjecr
on this occasion, for volumes might b.
written upon it, | make the assertion tina
unless all history for ages past is a lie
neither this Republic nor any other re.
public can continue to exist as a repubfi,
with one class of people in it considers
and treated as "citizens'' and the othe,
as "barbarians.' You need not go bacl
any further than the ancient history O
the Roman Republic and it's downfall t,
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 O
this great American Republic get to