The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24
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and supplying the hiatus in the plat
form, as he had a right to do, the
revulson was sudden and enthusiastic.
Men said "He is demanding nothing
and debating nothing; he is merely
being manly and honest" Perhaps no
more dramatic scene was ever pre-
sented in a convention than when
Judge Parker's telegram was read, to-
gether with the proposed reply TO It,
After the author of this article had
completed reading them, and few
remarks in explanation and in adVo-
cacy of them and While Senator iii
man, of South Carolina, was on his
feet, Mr.. Bryan came into the hall,
lips compressed. gait not too steady,
because he had been both sick ana
overworked The excitement was so
intense that even in that immense
hall a whisper might almost have
been heard 1t was rumored about
that he had come for the purpose
of opposing the reply suggested TO
the convention. he was applauueo
as he passed through the delegates,
but it was noted that the applause
was neither so deep, nor so long, nor
SO loud. as previous outbursts in ms
honor had been. Some resentment
was created by his conduct and by
his speeches in opposition to the tele-
gram proposed. The absolute truth
of all the statements contained IN the
telegraphic reply could not be ques-
toned. When one OF the speakers
from the platform made the state
ment that before the receipt OF Judge
Parker's telegram the convention had
already known how he stood and that
therefore no one had right to affect
surprise-that utterance was cneefeu'
and when later on he turned TO the
audience and asked: Is it not true
that the gold standard is estapllsheu'
and that it neither is nor can now pe
made an issue, and that nothliis pue
issues are contained in the PLATFORM
and challenged any man who denied
that statement if there was even one
TO rise to his feet, and then Wheh
he turned from the body Oh tne CON
vention to the gentlemen sitting on
the platform and looking directly at
Mr.. Bryan himself asked him or any
body else if they did not agree apso,
lutely with the assertion to arise anu
then added. .'Nobody arises; no, not
one"-the feeling became intense diio
the applause hearty
The whole thing looked like an un-
toward circumstance at the uhle' ou''
looking back over it all, it seems now
fortunate. because if there really naa
been anybody in the United states Iool
enough to have said on the stump III
a newspaper, or otherwise lndt lile
action Of the party in convention as
sembled had been tantamount, directly
or by Inference to the reimbursement
Df free silver as ar issue, then even
the Inns of that man are now Seaieu'
and nobody. not even fool or an uh-
scrupulous enemy, may now pretend
to misunderstood in the slightest de-
gree the position of the party.
The papers were filled with mlsln-
| liz tn hn Gh
headlines: "Hill Surrendered to Bry-
an" 'Hill Overawed by Bryan, Hill
and BRYAN COMPROMISE, Bryan anc
Hill Agree, the First to Withdraw the
Income Tax Proposition; and the Sec
ond the Gold Standard Plan Hill,
Williams and Bryan Appointed COM
mittee of Three to Agree on a Money
Plank" all this ad nauseam Ihefe
was no ompromise-Bryan was Voteu
down. Hill was voted down. Neither
ever surrendered or compromised, un-
less by surrender or compromise 1t is
meant that both agreed when beaten
| not to make a minority report TO the
unable-to-h convention.
1t was | who offered the income tax
nroyision, and who. on full considera-
ton of the improbability OF a con-
| stitutional amendment and the IN
| equity Of an income tax exemplng
|
be valid without an amendment-and q
| for other reasons, later Withdrew It
| Mr.. BRYAN renewed it. The reasons
which had satisfied me in withdraw
| ing it satisfied a majority of the com
mittee in voting it down. Senator
| Bailey. of Texas, did propose com
promise, whereby Hills gold standard
plank and Bryans income tax plans
should both be withdrawn. Hill posi-
lively declined. Bryan never assented
| Hill, E>-xan and Williams were ap-
pointed a subcommittee to agree
about certain minor financial ques-
tions, but not the question of moneta.
ry standard. That Subcommittee
never met Hence no minor matters
were reported or adopted.
Hard Work I'm Committee.
/ would not consider it within the
limits of propriety to say anything
about what occurred in the meetings
/ of the committee on resolutions, whose
transactions ought to have been con
sidered as if in executive session, were
it not that the newspapers have pub
lished what purported to be proceed
! ings of that committees in detail
These reports contain just enough
truth to be harmful, if not dangerous
as half truths always are-just enough
| truth III Certain . " iiCNSE1oi7
tate telling the whole truth as to the
points thus "set down in malice" or II
error. Then, too, Mr.. Bryan, Senators
Carmack and Tillman, on the floor OF
| the convention, and ex-senator Hill
and others in interviews have discuss
ed it's proceedings with regard to the
points referred to by me here. | have
referred to nothing which had not be-
come, in one OF these several ways
in some sense public. / have never
witnessed anything more intense no.
more self-contained than the determi
nation of every member of that com
1 mittee to bring out a unanimous re
port without the sacrifice of any prin
ciple.
There was need in the committee
and need indeed, of sleepless worl
and ceaseless tact, and of that rare
virture the courage of self-repression
All We're forthcoming in measure
unstinted.
May God crown earnest and pa
t1iotic efforts with useful success!
Gen. Carr'S Model Farm.
| Durham Sum-
w. II. Hopkins, the plumber, has
large force of hands up at Occonee
Ichee, General Carr's farm, remodelint