The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22
BRYAN ON AVERAGE MAN
HAS TYPICAL AUDIENCE
Foru-fye Thousand North Carolina Products on the
Grounds at State Fair to Greet Him
krBRASkAN AT BEST

pi-rIs-ed at Length the Issues of tt
nay and political History of TT
nocadc With Chara cteristic Claril
and IIo0ucnce-Thc Great Con
moner in Fine Humor and Sparl
nnr With Jokes-Magnitude
Reception Fired Him to Give II
Personality to His Friends-Tl
scene and the Speech to Which
Was brilliant Setting.
When William Jennings Bryan
sr,lsa at the Fair Grounds yester-
dav am estimate of the number of
neopIe within the enclosure at
tarrv-fvc thousand would per-
haps have its error in conver-
vausm.
TO q crowd that was unprece-
dpnted ana that dwarfed in COM
r9rison the great gathering that
kTFEttI ILObStNSll III 1JOO, hi-
BRYAN spoke for almost exactly
Two hours on the subject, THE
Average Mana discussion
which he illustrated by copious
references to political conditions,
10 the meaning and effects of
present and past policies, and to
which he applied an expression of
faith in the ultimate triumph of
the principles embodied in tariff
reform. prosecution of trusts and
the curtailment of the power of
Injunction as f1agrantly exercised
bv the inferior Federal courts.
In treating the average man."
Mr. Bryan eloquently made the
term descriptive of character
rather than condition and put in
his keeping the responsibility of
preserving and restoring the JEFF
fersonian ideals of governm ent
and destiny of the average man
himself.
In drawing to a conclusion. Mr..
Bryan also treated at some length
Of the question of States rights,
which he declared to be still
vital and to which. he bore the
4 assurance. the South had no
monopoly of devotion. He warm
ly commended the course of
North Carolina and of Governor
Glenn and took occasion, also, in
drawing a contrast between the
natural man and the fictitious per-
son Of the corporation, to say that
the State was fortunate in having
IN the person of its Chief Justice
an able Judge who understood and
acted upon the distinction.
Possibly five thousand of the
great crowd were able to follow
the speech, which was at times
coll0quialIy couched and abound
Cd in jokes, but at least twice that
number stood within the radius of
the crowd hopeful expectants of
a Crumb of hearing.
Delivered in an easy, at times
eloquent and fervid and at others
a jocuIar style, the address was
peculiarly popular and was fire.
quently cheered to the echo.
N Unprecedented Average" Grow,
The scene when Bryan rose to fax
ne thousands OF average North Cal
linians who formed the mass of HI
.anity that stretched away for
larter OF a mile beyond the star
rom which he spoke; that was pile
ehtnd him in the grandstand in til
pom tier of faces; that hung grote
uelv for vantage of view upon eVel
all and pole and fence within r;
i0us of three hundred yards was OF
hat was unparalleled. not only
he history Of the fair, but in the hi
ory as well, of popular gatherin.
'itain the State.
No such Out-pouring of the peop
las yer beOre been experienced
Worth Carolina. No such charact
'as ever fumaniZed crowd II
'eople thousand upon thousand, CO.
red the spacious lane of the ''mi'
way" filed the buildings, overfiowe
he race track enclosure like a carp
n Whic3! the slow surge of movemel
Vas like a shadow crossing field
olour.
As Bryan looked upon it all, /
2as imp1 essed to hesitation. tt
task was beyond the power of HI
man voice. A great popular person
Atty was overwhelmed with appreci;
r'a And as the currents of peop
,'oE7d at the stand WhereOn was 81
I,'letted the figure and the head tn;
NdS oeeI Photographic on the mlnt
ana hearts of the masses, as the
.I'E" INTO the long, rafting cheer
I, great crowd, strangely enough II
: 9Ilt that was uppermost was II
t1HatF 0f words to sound messag
u L" found a following.
Here were forty thousand peop
"a ~ more controlled with the sing
~ :. agat of one man. There stoo
Se man, powerless to make himse
.,5ara I'D one-tenth of the numbe
t..~ tL Yet. in the strain OF the eye,
iFagT ents of words that fell fro
I ,,-V man INTO the moving bosom of tl
VAS there strange comfort an
l., ,a.j jHn. And. from the great co
So intellect of the crowd, from tt
"f personality within it COZ
e.s--E all to one central point, thel
s. % the speaker the command
tSs~E and there came to him, ais
lF iu-se 20 understand.
"eat Crowd in Wireless Telephony
r. mat when Bryan faced tf
h .ahC 10 commence his addres
tars @r'A9 the crowd as we'll as hin
Ncr4 ma, as he spoke himself, tf
rJr,t[ mat We're Swallowed in tt
ing '- the peoples silent breatl
70 l1laed in some mysterious We
IN ~ caught the ears that straine
hat,,--- L. hear them and to crea
teIers-t. the thousands and the one
strer '' current investing each wit
t. co.,, d hd giving to each the poW'
FIs- ehend the other.
&efea,i,,' ny packed into a great sci
''~ mass. deafened by