The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-26
PEOPLE URGED TO THINK
A Vast Gulf Between Democratic and
Republican Policies.
BOTH CANNOT POSSIBLY Be RIGHT
Bryan Points Out That One Democratic Vote il
the Senate in the F lace of Thurston's
Might Have Brought Peace
to the Philippines.

Omaha, Neb., August 25.-Mr. Bryan
made two speeches here today, one of
them in the afternoon and the other in
the evening. He spoke on both occa-
sions at Syndicate Park under the aus
pieces of the Jackson Club of this city.
There was a large attendance upon both
speeches and applause was frequent and
enthusiastic. At the afternoon meeting
MIR. Bryan was preceded by Webster
Davis and j. r. Sovereign. He was not
heard until after four o'clock and he
spoke briefly. He devoted himself to a
considerable extent to State politics,
urging the fusion forces of the State
to make sure Of the success not only of
the electoral ticket but of the members
of the State ticket, Congress and United
States Senators. After urging the peo-
pie to carefully study the questions at
issue, that they may vote with clear
understanding, Mr. Bryan said
'If Republican policies are right then
those who represent the opinions held
by Democrats Populists and Silver Re-
publicans ought to be Overwhelmingly
defeated, for there is difference be-
tween Republican policies and ours in
their terms as wide as the gulf that
separated Lazarus in Abraham's bosom
from Dives. The policies for which our
people stand are directly antagonistic to
the policies for which the Republican
party stands and both cannot be right.
He retired to the Republican policy
in the newly acquired possessions, say
ing among other things on this point:
THE Republicans say we want fifty
cent dollar; they have given us an IS
per cent citizen in Porto Rico"
Referring to the election of United
States Senators Mr.. Bryan said
II want a Senate that will be in har
mony with the Congress and the Presi-
dent if we win this fall. If we had had
a Democrat or a Populist insthe Senate
in the place of John M. Thurston, there
would be today no war in the Philip
pines because that one vote would have
been sufficient to have carried the Bacon
resolution and l do not believe that the
administration would have carried on
war against the majority of the Senate"
Mr.. Bryan talked tonight at Syndicate
Park to one of the largest crowds he
has addressed during the campaign.
There were many more persons present
friends and neighbors and he manifested
his confidence by his freedom of manner
and scope of treatment. The speech COW
cred much of the ground which has been
gone over before but the language was
generally fresh and the illustrations new.
Defining some of his general views and
speaking of civilization in the abstract
and as applied to politics Mr.. Bryan said:
Of v-ha oiIyi1i
should mean. / want to see if it is
your idea Some people say that we
Democrats are enemies CT property. 1t
is not true. l have a home. l hope
may some time have a better one.
would that every head of family had
home and the better the home, the hap
pier would / be. l want property to be
the reward OF industry and | want to
every citizen to be secure in the enjoy
ment CT the products of his toll. l do
not envy the rich. I am not DESTROYS
Of pulling them down. l want a civiliza-
tion that makes every poor man hope TO
be better off and relieve the rich man of
the fear that his children will be tram
pied on if they ever become poor. CAP
paluse). l want a civilization that en-
braces within it's benefits every deserv-
a civilization that will prevent man
from riding in a carriage, but | want
civilization that gives hopes to the dri-
yer OF the carriage as well as to the
man who rides in it. (Applause). / want
a civilization that gives hope to the girl
who works in the kitchen as we'll as to
the one who sits in the parlor. Great
applause) | want a civilization that
makes life worth living to every human
being. And when l speak thus, l am
not an unselfish man. | am selfish. I do
not know what may be my life in the
years to come. | do not know what will
be the lot Of my children and if | dared
to favor a system that helped the few
at the expense of the many my children
may be among the many who Will suffer
rather than among the few who will
profit by the law. (Applause)."