The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-28
THE PEOPLE ARE WITH BRYAN.
baltimore SUM-

The reception given Mr. Bryan last
night was the most magnificent popular
demonstration ever witnessed in this city
The rain could not chill the enthusiasm of
the immense multitude which waited pa
tientIy for hours in the vicinity of the
depot to welcome him, and which crowded
Music Hall and the vicinity to hear his
addresses. There can be no mistaking
the meaning of such popular outpouring
as that last night. 1t means that the
people of this city are with and for the
cause which Mr.. Bryan represents, and
that the popular heart still responds with
enthusiasm to appeals to its patriotism
and its love of liberty. 1t means that the
people understand the true issues of this
campaign and are not deceived by the
shallow sophistry of selfish interests.
1t means that they do not regard Mr..
Bryan as demagogue or a dreamer,
but as an honest and earnest patriot, who
is fighting for the cause of popular gov
eminent against dangers which threaten
it's existence. 1t means that they recog
nize this is a struggle between greed and
gold on one side and popular rights and
free institutions on the other. 1t means,
last but not least, that Maryland will cast
it's electoral vote for Mr.. Bryan. 1t is the
handwriting on the wall, as far as Mary
land is concerned whatever the Republi-
cans and their allies may profess to be-
lieve. The only hope the Republicans
have of carrying the country is by Dur-
chase and coercion. In common with tne,r
so-ealled honest money" associates in
Maryland, their only argument is the
dollar. The Republicans and their allies
know as we'll as they know anything that
if the issues of this campaign were lett
to the uninfluenced decision of the coun-
try to its reason and it's conscience alone,
they would be beaten, horse, foot and
dragons. Their only hope of success
rests on the dollar, which is the god of
their idolatry, and in which they live and
move and have their being. They are
straining every nerve to compass Mr..
Bryan's defeat by coercing their EN-
ployes and by raising an immense corrup-
tion fund to tempt the desperate and
venal voter. These are the men, forsooth,
who have the effrontery to denounce Mr..
Bryan as a demagogue and dangerous
men. The dangerous men are those who
are deliberately attempting to debauch
the country with their honest dollars"
and intimidate it through the power OF
their financial combinations. We do not
believe they can succeed. We believe
they will receive deserved and memora
BILE rebuke on the 9th day of November
and that the manhood, the honor and the
patriotism of these United States will as
sert themselves overwhelmingly against
the tyranny and corruption that for their
own selfish ends are recklessly. endanger-
ing free institutions. In Maryland their
game is surely up. They are beaten
beaten in spite of all their money bags
and their tons of campaign literature, in
spite of the solid phalanx of ignorant and
prejudiced black voters who form the
large majority of their supporters in this
State and who have recently been in
famed to dangerous frenzy by incendiary
appeals from colored ministers and bish
ops Thousands of intelligent and patri-
otic Republicans have declined to follow
the lead of these false prophets, and will
be found on election day voting for gov
eminent of the people and by the people
and against government of plutocrats
and by plutocrats Mr. Bryan is dam
gerous man-dangerous to the plutocrats.
but not to the people. He represents
the peoples cause, and the reception they
gave him in this city last night shows
that they regard him as leader worthy
Of that cause, and that in Maryland they
will carry it's banner to victory.