The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09
A ROUSING RECEPTION
TO w. j. BRYAN BY THE CONVENTION
OF DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
ADDRESS To THE CONVENTION
He Places Trusts and Imperialism as
the Leading Issues OF the Campaign.
Efforts OF Republicans to Dodge
Them Bishop Turner Makes a
Speech-He Pledges a Large Negro
Vote In Northern and Western States
to Bryan Other Speakers

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Indianapolis, October 4.-The hall in
which was assembled the National AS
ISOLATION Of Democratic Clubs was
thronged with people this afternoon,
probably 5000 being present, but as
the hour approached for the advent Of
Mr. Bryan at 4 O'Clock the aisles were
filled M the a thronged to a de-
gree OF almost s~uffocation.
After Adlai E. Stevenson had con-
cluded James r. Sovereign, ex-grand
master workman Of the knights Of
Labor, spoke, dealing with he work.
ing man from a political standpoint.
He a labor is the foundation of lib
erty in all the world.
Mr.. Sovereign was followed by Bish-
OPP j. Milton Turner, minister to Lbe-
ria under Grants administration, VINO
spoke briefly and in part as follows:
"A great many of my race who form
ed the majority of the negro popula-
ton of the United States twenty-five
years g have been promoted and have
gone to their good Christian atherS
but the boys are coming forth in tenn
AA5 I'LL us dIId lIOuSdIS 1IOIl IldI
palladium and safeguard of American
institutions, the, public school system
OF u country, and, unlike Uncle Tom
and Aunt Sally, they are doing their
own thinking, like other young Amer
leans, for themse. Ives. We come with
a fresh-born disinterested patriotism
to put forth our might at this time in
n states of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
New York and New Jersey and other
states where We have been making the
presidents for the last twenty-five or
thirty years, and We think this time,
through our boys, We will be able to
make up.Such a quota for the election
of VIM j. Bryan that we will elect this
ticket without n possibility of Nc
Kinley defeating it"
AS Bishop Turner concluded Mr..
Bryan appeared upon the platform.
He a reached h city a few minutes
before 8 O'Clock but did not arrive at
the hall until Ala o'clock. He was es-
cOrted through he streets by a number
of marching clubs.
As OOn as the democratic national
candidate appeared on the platform
there was a wild shout of greeting and
this sOOn developed into a demonstra-
ton which continued for about SIN
minutes, indeed, there was a cal for
it's cessation from Mr.. Bryan himself.
The speech was literally applauded
throughout and when 1t was conclud-
ed there was a rush to the stage on
the part of those in the audience who
wished to shake hands with him. He.
however, avoided this demonstration
and soon found his way back to the
hotel. MIR. Bryan said in part:
Il appreciate the work done and
being done and to be done by this AS
ISOLATION of Democratic Clubs and 1
appreciate the energy, the enthusiasm
land the ability displayed by Mr..
kH "a rEr tho nVZSI6anr nj This aSSnRIa-
StiOn. L believe in these clubs. The
= work OF democracy, being a work for
the p5Ople, must be done by the people,
We need the Tub to help us 10 collect
money to carry on our campaign. The
republican party "a get its non
from n corporations, which plumber
the people between campaigns in e
turn for the money contributed dur
ing campaigns.
I'VE cannot go to a trust and ask
1T to help us because we do not expect
TO be helped. The republican party
does not collect money for its national
p from n republican out OF
a hundred and when the election is
over 80 out of LOG republicans have
nothing to say about the running OF
the government.
I'VE expect that the administration
will be conducted in behalf of the great
mass of the American people and we
have the right to call upon them &c
help with their money as Well as their
votes to win this fight which is their
fight and not our fight. We need the
clubs to help literature. II
every member of the clubs will pick
out some acquaintance and find o
what he is thinking about, prepare tC
meet his arguments, supply him with
literature and work for his CONVEX
sion, the members of these clubs will
be astonished to find out how much
can be done. We need the clubs to
poll the votes, for we must do by vol
untary effort what the republicans
can afford to pay for having done.
The republican party is not pre-
pared to meet the issues of this cam
paign.
THE republican party is today dodg-
ing from nearly every issue in the
campaign. When they started out
they said the money question was the
question of paramount importance
but, my friends they found that wher
a man says a question Of money Is
more important than a question o.
government he at once arouSes suSpi-
cion and people begin to wonder wheth-
er he thinks a dollar is more important
than 4 man. Think of trying to make
the money question paramount IN TINS
campaign!
VIII my friends, when the money
question was paramount in 1896, we
AO0AAA NNN AOP0oAENNAAS Ny
out that the tariff was the paramount
issue. They said: Let us open the
mills instead of the mints' and tbs
first thing they did when they got into
power was, not to reform n currency
but to reform the tariff and give the
men who contributed a chance to rur
their hands deeper into the pockets
of the people.
Now, when the question of the hui
man race and human liberty are a
stake, the republicans say that n
money question is the paramount is
sue. They were afraid in 1896 that W.
were going to have a fifty ent dollar
Now they have given us an 50 per cent
citizen in Porto Rico N they oon'
dare tell us what per cent. of citizen
ship the Filipino is to have. In lS9'
they said We could not have a doublt
standard of money. Now they Ih1ni
we can have a double standard or gov
m a republic here and a despot
ism in the Philippine islands. Inc!
said in 1896 that we not main