The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-06
THE FAR MERS HEAR BRYAN
From Four States They Pour Into
Ocean Grove.
BRYAN TALKS OF PRICES AND CROPS
Wrecks Republican Financial Theories and Ar
guments For War in the Philippines. Let
ter From Ex-Postmaster Wilson Op-
posing Mckinley.
posing Mckinley.
(BY DE Associated Press.l


Shepherdstown, w. Va. Sept. 5.-Mr.
Bryan began the second day of his pres
ent tour at this point. His first speech
was made at Morgan's Grove, in the sub
urbs of the town. where he began to
speak a few minutes past ten o'clock.
At this grove the people of the vicinity
are in the habit of congregating annually
| to hold a colt show. The show is now
on, and advantage was taken of the fact
~ have a Bryan meeting at the grounds.
/ The attendance was immense, people hav-
| ing come in not only from West Virginia,
but from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsyl-
| vania to hear .the speech while they at
| tended the fair. There was for instance
| several hundred men in the procession
wearing anti Imperial badges, who
were from Hagerstown, Nd. A letter was
| read at the meeting from Hon. w. L.
| Wilson. ex-Postmaster General. strongly
opposing the Governments course in the
| Philippines and regretting that sickness
| prevented his presence.
Following is portion OF Hon. w. L.
+, Wilson's letter:
| ''The condition Of my health is, I regret
| to say, such as to make even a journey
| to Jefferson unadvisabe and public speak
| ing beyond my physical capacity. Long
| before it became an issue dividing poiti-
| cal parties I took strong grounds in ad
| dresses before students of this university
| washington and Lee) and IN a set
speech before the Legislature of Georgia,
| against any colonial or imperial policy on
| the part of our Government as a result
of our war with Spain. My views are
| stronger than ever against such policies,
and did opportunity permit 1 should be
| glad to express those views on the plat
form at Morgans Grove"
A MAN MONEY CANNOT BUY.
| Mr.. BRYAN was introduced by Hon.
| George r. Vending, who had opposed
| his election in 1896. Mr. Vending said
he had known Mr.. Bryan from his boyhooi
and that all the money in Wall street
could not buy him.
| Mr.. Bryan was received with deafening
| applause. He began by referring to Mr..
| Wilson in most complimentary terms. He
| had known Mr.. Bryan in Congress and
he had never believed that so kind and
loving a man could endorse a war of
conquest. Mr.. Bryan expressed his plea
sure at being able to address an assem-
| blage of farmers. He wanted to know
how any farmer could be Republican.
1t was easy. he said. to understand how
| the head of an army or an army con-
| tractor could be member of that party,
| but as for the farmers. they were not
| trying to get their hands into others
pockets and to keep others hands out Of
their pockets. However prosperous other
classes might he, the farmer was not a
| Sharer of that prosperity. Here Mr..
Bryan related the current reports, con-
| corning his oat crop, claiming that the
| eXaggeration in this matter was a speci-
men of the fallacy of the reports in the
| East concerning the prosperous condition
of the agricultural class.
l "They always eXaggerate the pOssibili-
| ties of good crop" he said, "and never
| take into consideration the likelihood of
a bad crop. And after the farmer has
| taken these chances. he passes between
the bulls and bears of Wall Street The
| bulls horn him, the bears bite him, and
| when he is through with them he has
| to meet the goldbug. A good crop is made
| the occasion for praising the Republican
| party" he continued. while bad crop
| is taken as a punishment for voting the
Democratic ticket. The claim is almost
| made that the Republican party controls
| the rail-fall but this cannot be true, for
/ if it were there would be a monopoly on
rain; the price would go up
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Mr.. Bryan then took UP the discus
sion Of the financial question to show
| that more money was especially neces-
sary to the farmer. Mr.. Bryan said:
"What does the Republican party do to
help the farmer? Has it any means of
raising the price of what he has to sell?
You are told now that you have more
| money than you had in 1896. l want you
to read the speeches made in 1896 and
see whether the Republican party prom
| ised any more money. You cannot find in
| a Republican speech of SO promise of
more money. The Republicans said then
| that it did not matter whether We had
| much money or a little just SO it was
| good. They disputed the quanttative
| theory of money and you cannot find where
any Republican said in 1896 that we had
| an insufficient amount of currency and
promised that the Republican party would
bring more money; and yet today the Re-
publican party boasts of an increase in
the volume of money. Republican farm
ers, do you believe that times are bet
ter than they were and that we have
more money than we had, and do You be-
No A -