The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-08
MAY Be HISTORIC

VIsrn He Comes TO Speak to North
CaroIinians From the Stand on
" hich Roosevelt Announced His
central Policy, Bryan May be
Equally Significant
thursday, of the State Fair, will be
made notable by the presence here of
william Jennings Bryan, several times
q visitor to the State and always more
warmly welcomed and more interest
tpq. in personality and utterance oa
each succeeding visit.
Durino the memorable campaign Of
1896 Mr.. Bryan came to Raleigh for
the hret time. speaking in Nash Square
10 an immense audience. He return ed
again d year or SO later and q third
time last year, just after mis- return
from his tour around the world and
1.-THE great reception rendered him at
Madison Square Garden in New York.
Although twice defeated for the
Presidency. Mr. Bryan remains the
most generally magnetic character il
American life and his hold on the sym
pathIes of the people and his ability
10 interest them is strengthened rather
than diminished with time.
When he speaks at the Fair Grounds
on the big day" the holiday occa-
sion, the low rates and the oppor-
tunity of hearing the great Nebraskan
again will operate to make the mum :
hpr Of those who hear him exceed
even the monster gatherings at Raj
eigh. Greensboro, Winston and Char
lotte when he made his weep through
the state last September.
After the speech al the Fair, Mr..
Bryan and a number % the promi-
nent men of the State will be enter
tanned by the management of the
North Carolina Agricultural Society at
a luncheon on the grounds.
It viii be rem bered that, when
President Roosevelt spoke in Raleigh
at the Fair in 1905, he sounded the
keynote of his policy which resulted
IN the fight for the enactment of the
rate bill into law by the last Congress.
The utterance was the first authentic
pledge of the President to the support
of the policy which the Commoner.
Who will speak at this fair. first in
augurated.
At this time, while the fight for the
Republican nomination for President
III 1919 IS already becoming warm, the
attitude of the Democrats is one ~
waiting to see what Mr.. Bryan is to
say. So far he has not said that he
would be a candidate or that he would
not be. Therefore, in the relation to
the chief role which he has twice en-
acted In his party and which he once
voluntarily relinquished to another.
Mr.. Bryan is still the center of politi-
cal interest to the great body Of the
Democrats throughout the country.
1t is therefore possible that, VIII er
he comes to speak from the same
platform on which Roosevelt stood
when he announced the policy of the
rate bill that has brought about g. rev.
olutlon IN the attitude of the people to-
ward the control of public-service
corporations. the Nebraskan NAV be
moved to make an interesting an
nouncement and. perhaps to f0rnau-
late a keynote policy that NAV again
cause important changes in the coun-
try's history TO relate back to the
State Fair at Raleigh.
At any rate, and in any event, the
fact that Bryan will be present and
Will speak is warrant of a tremendous
attendance of people from all parts OF
North Carolina, who never tire OF
listening to his elOquence and to the
discussion and analysis of pending
conditions and problems which ne
man living so we'll knows how to ex-
press and vivify.
With Bryan as the central attra elton