The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22

srtv They we're tn . meeting ard
ths speaker sai4 the Republican, w~rs
In favor % a republican FORM O
government bat the Democrats ~Fr"
In favor Of an ~fri.nman by the name
OF Bryan for king | call your AZ
,entsoa to this Illustration - sht1
you how tire word republican ts
raIs-used-
States Rights
But my friends. the average mnu
- not onlv interested IN the form OF
the government but nc = interested
in problems that come before the peo-
PIE For instance. take this doctrine
If States rtghts Some OF the Dem
ocrat=. / fear. have some doubts about
the States rights I wan; = '~U YOU
that this doctrine Of States rights, the
right Of the State to attend - It's own
business. Is not 4 sectional question
We believe in IL IN the north. and we
believe In IL IN the South / con-
gratulat. YOU that when tho qu"@-
ton waa raised in North Carolina
YOU had . governor who would
defend the rights 81 this state and
that YOU stood back % him in what
he did. No Officer san do his duty N
such cases. unless the III people
stand back Of him ard take their
share OF the responsibility that rests
on him
EE5iltIsk AAAS AVN -
eral good things bur my friends he $
mistaken II he thinks he can get the
common people 10 endorse his Ideas
OF a national corporation to control
the railroads which would give &c
the Federal courts exclusive control
Of these arteries OF trade. when that
question is presented 10 the people.
| believe they viii take A deeper In
terest in II. Federal remedies must
be consistent with State rights: not
49,. thADr W. uftl nRF
transfer our power TO Washington and
be at the mercy Of the Federal courts
until il can free itself from the DOM
nation OF railroad lobbyists who Tor
the last % years have had possession
OF the national capital. Now. FOR me
to take up all or the questions that
are before the country. ! would have
to trespass upon your time and my
strength. but | want 10 give YOU JUS
a word OF encouragement governor
Glenn has stated that the President
has been using some OF my ideas. II
gives me a great dea OF pleasure 70
know that he has come TO regard my
plans as good ones. / have no m
ventive ideas. / have simple adopted
ideas. The ideas that | have stood for
have existed ever since | was born anu
will live long after | am dead. | am
glad TO know that the president Is fol-
lowing some of the planks in our plat-
form. Our platform was made for
use, ana unti we get q cIidhte - uoS
it, | am glad to have anybody 10 use
It who will. Ny friends | remember
a story told of oil Peter Cartwright.
Some one asked him II he was sancti-
fed. He said Yes. I'm sanctified
in. spots" II any one would ask me
if the President is a Democrat. /
would say Yes. in spots. | wish the
spots were more numerous. When
ever he has done right he has been
Democratic. ne has done
wrong he has been u~ndemocratic.
What a great change there has
been in the Democratic party in the
last eleven years. Do you wonder
hat | smile. Do you wonder that |
wear the smile that won't come off! |
am glad that / have lived to sec so
many Il the things in our platform
used in a decade. When l say there
has been Improvement In the plat
form on which | an, ! am glad to see
it and to see that it is being used By
our ~ponen There was only one
important plank in u platform that
l wrote. That was adopted by the
committed when l was out and they
didn't know that | wrote it when they
adopted it. l happened to get with
the man who wrote the platform two
weeks before and I wrote out and
handle him this plank which | have
mentioned. At the end OF two or three
years 1 could look back at that
splendid platform adopted at Chicago
and the one ~.dopted in Nebraska.
This seems a little coincident. 1t was
not because l was there to present il or
to urge it. The Nebraska meeting was
but a elimination Of the meeting in
Chicago. Nebraska presented a plat
form that was absolutely democratic
throughout and my friends whenever
you take up any of the great re-
forms, you will find hat the Demo-
Gratis have led the way. When the
people come to consider the various
questions before the country. they
cannot find a better statement Of their
mature judgment than is to be found
in the Democratic Platform.
Long writ For Expression.
II remember the story of the farm
er who was laboring so earnestly to
get in his hay. The clouds looked
like rain. He got his load on his wa
gon and started for his barn. He ran
into a rut and his load fell off. He
put the hay on the wagon again and
started on. His wagon ran into an
other rut and his loa fell off again.
He put his hay on again and started
on and got in sight OF the barn before
any rain fell. But suddenly his wa
gon ran off of the bridge and his hay
fell off again and then it began to,
rain. His good wife seeing that some
thing was happening out at the barn,
ran out ana asked MIN what was the L
trouble, that he and the hay were both
getting wet. He said, Sarah. Sarah, .
go back, go back. am about to ex-
press myself. l believe the common
people are abOu to express them
selves. Take the question Of railroad
regulation, while / believe in the plat
form of 1895, and In the platform Of
1900. and in the platform of 1904, l
think the president has about come
to the point when he must express
himself. His railroad bill went
through the House and was voted
by both Democrats and Repub-
licans. 1t went to the Senate and not
a man in the Republican party would
it up for discussion. They had
to ask a South Carolinian. they had
get Ben Tillman to take charge Of
the bill in the Senate.
The Goldman and Corporate-man.
MY friends. the people have come
to distinguish between the natural
and the corporate nan and the
has come when the natural man.
created by the Almighty and placed
on Gods footstool shall be protected