Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-12
BRYAN'S SPEECH.
Great Discourse Before
Democratic Clubs.

MIR Bryan sand:
Il appreciate the work done and
being done, and to be done by this
association of Democratic clubs, and
l appreciate the energy, the enthusi
asm and the ability display ed by MIR.
Hearst, the president of this associa.
ton. j believe democracy being
work for the people must be done by
the people. We need the clubs to
help us collect money TO carry on
our campaign. The Republican par
ty can get ats money from the corpo-
rations, which plumber the poor
people between campaigns in return
for money contributed du'irg cam
paigns.
eve cannot 60 To IA trust and ask
IL To help us BECAUSE We do not ex-
pect to be helped. The Republican
party does rot collect mon. y for it's
national campaign from one Repub-
lican in 100, and wh,.n th, lee ion is
over 90 out OF 100 R"r.Lhcans have
nothing to Fay about the r.ruir.g of
the gOvernmt
I'VE exp CT that the Naturalization
will be conducted im aeha'f of the
great mass of the American people
ard we have right 81 call upon
them to help wih = cir money a
well as their votes % win the fight.
We need the clubs to Ia. ip clrculate
literature. If every member of the
clubs will pick out some acquaintance
and find out what he is thinking
about. prepare to meet his argument
supply him with literature and work
for his conversion, the members of
these clubs will be astonished to find
how much can be done. We need
tue clubs to poll the vote, for we
mast do by voluntary effort what the
Republicans can afford to pay for
having done.
REPUBLICANS DODGE THE ISSUE.
The Republican p rty is not pre-
| o ed To meet the issues of this cam
paign. The Re- ublican party is
t"dsy running from nearly every
issue in the campaign. When they
started out they said the money
question was the question of para
mount Importance. But my friends,
they found that when "A man saws
that question of money is more
important than question of gov.
ernment 1t II once arouses the sus-
plcion, and people begin to wonder
whether he thinks dollar is more
Important than a man.
think of trying to Nuke the
money question paramount in this
campaign. Why, my fri, nds, when
the money question was paramount
In 1896, We found the Republicans
trying to make out that the tariff
was the paramount issue. They said:
LET us open the mills instead of the
MINIS" and the first think thew did
whe' they got into power was, not
to reform the currency, but to reform
the tariff and give the men who con
tributed a chance to run their hands
deeper into the pockets of the peo-
pie
Now, when the question of human
race and human liberty are at stake,
the Republicans say that the money
question is the paramount issue
They were afraid in 1896 that we
were going to have a fifty cent dollar.
Now they give us an So cent citizen
In Porto Rico, and they dare not tell
Us what per cent. of citizenship the
Filipino is to have. In 1895 thew
said that we could b ave a double
standard of money. Now they think
that we can have a double standard
OF government, republic here and
adespotism in the Philippine Islands.
They said in 1896 that we could not
maintain parity between a white
metal and "a yellow. How can thew
maintiin a par y between a white
citizen and a yellow subject in the
Philippine Islands! They said that
1t is too sordid doctrine to saw that
the standard of money you have 10
more important than the form of
government under which you live.
THE TRUST QUESTION.
And yet, my friends, while thew
cannot now boast ~ tho e.... -