The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-06

Ohcaso, November Nv. j. Bryan's
in Chicago today compre- !
hended twelve speeches. The crowds
tnat greeted him were greater than
those at the meetings of yesterday and
last night The candidate began his
itinerary at Handel hall. in the down.
to"h business district. going from
there to the public library, where he
spoke to an outdoor gathering of work.
ing men. After luncheon he made two
addresses in old Vienna" pavilion, at
Slxtleth street and Cottage Grove ave-
nue., one to the crowd in the building
and the other to the throng that was
unable to gain admittance. Here was
only semblance of disturbance
6anifest during the day. Two men in
0S audience asked. almost simuItane-
oGsly, How about North Carolina?"
and Mr.. Bryan was replying, when
one of the questioners insisted on ask
ing a question concerning trusts,
whereupon the crowd demanded that he
be thrown out and threatened to lynch
him. Mr.. Bryan insisted upon answer
oB SoN NOoAo hoI UO 81 lO1
some time. owing to the uproar made
by the crowd in expressing it's resent
ment toward the inquisitor. The lat
ter was saved from violence only by
police Interference.
Mr.. Bryan's night meetings were
held on the north, west, southwest and
south sides of the city, the closing
speech being made at midnigh at
State and Thirty-First streets.
In speaking at Handel hall under the
auspices of the Single Tax Society, Mr..
Bryan said:
Il complain that the producer of
wealth does not enjoy a fair share of
the wealth that he produces, while the
man who does not produce wealth en-
Joys a larger part of that wealth han
he has produced. When you seek to
correct these conditions. l believe we
are seeking to show a higher patriot
ism than those who are seeking to
maintain present conditions and insist
ing that they must be maintained re-
CARELESS of the injustice which they
sanction. L am a conservative man.
When 1 complain of injustice done L
do not ask that we shall go back and
undo what has been done. I simply :
ask that those who nave Sinned shall
sin no more and those who have suffer-
ed shall suffer no longer. hat is the
conservative PLAN
AL the COHCIuSlOn OF MS remarks,
Mr.. Bryan was escorted to the lake
front, near the public library, a square
from Handel hall. In the course of his
speech Mr.. Bryan said:
W have pointed out that the re-
publican party today stands for a
las appeared on any platform with au-
I thority to withdraw the presidents
recommendation of an army of 100, 900;
but, stranger still, no republican
speaker, so far as 1 have seen, has ap-
peared on any platform, read the
- recommendation of the president, de-
Cleared it was the policy of the party
and attempted to defend the policy.
Therefore, l repeat. the republican
party has brought this question into
the campaign and then has dropped it
like a founding left on a doorstep.
The republican party dares not defend
the presidents recommendation.
What are we going to do with the
$4,000 extra soldiers demanded by the
republican party? Do we need them
for service outside of the United
States? If so, I ask you you think
of a policy-what o think Of a colo
NAL system that requires three times as
many soldiers to force upon 5000, 900
people a government without their con-
sent and taxation without representa-
ton, as it does to take care Of 5000
900 people in this country. who govern
themselves and levy their own taxes.
If We do not want these soldiers for
service outside we must want them for
service in the United States. If those
soldiers are to stay here we must
either keep them idle or keep them
busy, and nobody can defend an idle
army of 10O. 900 in a country like this.
And yet I would a hundred times
rather that we should maintain an
army of loo, 900 in idleness than ain
tain an army Of that size in this coun-
try and keep it busy. Why do we want
an increase in the army for domestic
purposes? What has happened in this
country to make an increase in the
army necessary for domestic purposes.
Nothing has happened here burt a re-
publican administration, and does a
republican administration make SOL
! sdiers necessary at home? If we have
Il prosperity on every hand do we e a
= large army to point out the prosperity
to us with bayonetS?
There are people in this country who
have for years wanted a larger stand
ing army in the United States. Those
' at the head of great s~yndicates have at
times felt that We needed a stronger
government and more soldiers to sup
port it. There is only one explanation
~kLlunoo s!Ql VI ldeH 'GmIB eSLBI e LoJ
and Kept busy, and that is to suppress
by force the discomfort among the peo-
pie that ought to be cured by legisla-
ton.
'The republican does not give the la
boring man the relief which he de-
serves. The laboring man wants short
er hours, relief from the black list, re-
lief from government by injunction
The republican party offers him ne
such relief.
ut is right that the farmer should
be represented in the presidents cabi
net; but it is also right that the wage
Garner should be represented in tn
cabinet, and there is nc plank in GU
platform that appeals more directl.
and forcibly to the laboring man thai
that plank declaring for a member o
the cabinet chosen from among tn
wage earners, for that will be tn
means by which the laboring man wi
secure other remedies for his griev
ances.
At the "Old Vienna" Sixtieth and
Cottage Grove avenue, Mr.. Bryan be
gan his evening round of speaking.