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The Commoner.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2j
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G
overnor
Gl
enns
Speech
Governor Robort B. Glenn of
Norlh Carolina, seconded Mr. Bry
an's nomination in the following
speech :
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Convention: North Carolina has
no candidate for president on the
democratic national ticket, but I arise
in the namo of my state to most earn
estly socond the nomination of that
profound and progressive statesman,
brilliant and persuasive orator, pa
triotic and law-abiding citizen, and
true and humble Christian gentle
man, William Jennings Bryan, of
Nebraska.
From 18Gi to tho present time,
Mr. Chairman, tho soctlon from
which I come has demanded no
recognition, olthor on tho democratic
or republican national ticket, but wo
have boon content, in a quiet way,
by industry and thrift, to. ttulld up
our waste places and z.M to the ma
terial woalth Piiu glory of our be
lovod nation. In evldonco of this I
,no8d'but state these significant facts:
In 1870 wo were the poorest section
of tho union, tho actual value of all
our property being only $2,160,000,
000, whilo ruin, want and death
stared us in tho face. Not so in
1908, for, Phoenix-like, we have
arison from our ashes of poverty, put
on the garb of plenty, and are today
, worth $19,000,000,000.
Last year, overy day the majestic
sun ran its course from east to west
the. south added $7,300,000 to the
wealth of our nation, while Great
Britain, with all its agencies, could
only, produce $7,0.00,000 per, week.
....,In-9Q7 wo raised 12,000000 bales
of cotton and manufactured 2,7 50r
000 bales, whilo 9,347,000 spindles
made sweet muBic to the industrial
4. .ear. We furnish one-third of all the
4 standing timber in the nation, 75
f por cent of all tho tobacco, and 80
per cent of all the cotton made in
, the world, all tho rice made in this
.' country, all sugar made from cane,
J, and 99 por cent of all peanuts. Dur
J. ing-tho last five years the value of
; ' the south's cotton crop has exceed?
;i. ed the total output of the world's
N gold and silver by $395,000,000 and
A tho rattle, of looms and ' hum of
m.splndlgB -would not be heard today In
our. borders worn if nnf fn fi,o, i.
jton oCour southland.
T& I?ot only as Producers and manu
facturers of every kind of product
have wo added to tho material growth
?! J11?. natlon b"t. truly believing
that the welfare of the people and
the upbuilding of the country would
be best preserved by tho promotion
of the fundamental principles of
puro domocracy, our section has ever
v stood for tho political doctrines
enunciated by Thomas Jefferson and
- practiced by Andrew Jackson. Com
ing, then, not as paupers, but co
workers and builders, a.i the section
that has stood, and ever will stand,
. for the eternal truths of democracy
. . while requesting no place on tho
ticket, wo ask aye, demand that
the man whom we nominate shall
be broad enough to love every lo
cality, brave enough to protect the
rights of every creature, and na
tional enough, when ho comes to
his own as president, to give each
section Its just part In administering
tho affairs of our government; and
. we urge as such a man the name of
Mr. Bryan; for, sir, ho has broken
uicau wim uh in our nomes, mingled
with our people In social converse
charmed our assemblies by his elo
quence and patriotism, camped with
our boys as a soldier In the Cuban
war, and sympathized with us in our
sufferings at Galveston, Now Orleans
and Charleston. uneans
But I hear some say It w? ' never
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I do to nominate Mr. Bryan for he is
narrow in his views, socialistic in his
principles, contracted in his Ideas of
statesmanship, and has twice been
defeated for the presidency and,
therefore, can not, as our leader,
command the votes of tho people and
lead us to victory In November. Lot
us faithfully analyze these charges,
and, If true, lot us demand a new
champion of our rights; but if false,
let us rally still more determinedly
under his standard, and compel a
recognition of his policies.
Mr. Bryan stands for the widest,
broadest, most progressive and
soundest principles of Jeffersonlan
democracy; so domocracy must be
shallow, else Bryan Is Intensely pro
found. If to be narrow Is to stand
for "a government of the people, by
the people, and for the people," giv
ing "equal rights to all and special
privileges to none," then Mr. Bryan
is narrow, for he believes in protect
ing the poorest, humblest creature,
whether the natural or artificial man.
as well as the strongest and most
powerful, allowing the mighty and
proud the full enjoyment of all their
rights; but, like the Master, who will
not suffer even a sparrow to fall to
the ground unless He listcth, he will
not permit God's poor to be need
lessly trampled upon by the heel of
greed and avarice.
If it is socialism to believe in the
revision of the tariff, so as to let
the burdens of taxation fall less
heavily on the necessities and more
on the luxuries of life, placing on the
free list articles entering Into com
petition with articles controlled by
trusts, then Mr. Bryan, is a socialist,
for he stands for a reduction that
tends to restore the tariff to a rev-;
enue basis, with a just discrimina
tion in favor of Infant industries over
articles produced by protected mon
opolies If it is socialism to seek to destroy
all trusts, to prevent the rich from
crushing out all competition by the
weak, and allowing no individual or
corporation, by combination, to con
trol or monopolize the entire bual-
'ness In any one commodity, then Mr.
uryan is a socialist; for with no un
certain voice, in the name of democ
racy, he has demanded that, while
every business shall be amply pro
tected and encouraged In the enjoy
ment of all Its privileges, it must and
shall not lay the weight of its finger
on any smaller concern or Individ
ual to either destroy or lessen its
producing power, els3 it, too, shall
bo controlled, even though it be nec
essary to blot out its existence.
If it Is to be contracted to believe
In state's rights in its widest sense,
giving the state government absolute
control of all its own affairs and for
bidding federal interference, only al
lowing such authority to be exercised
in cases where state courts can give
no adequate relief, then Mr, Bryan
has a contracted mind, for he advo
cates a state controlling its own af
fairs, free from federal court injunc
tions and habeas corrus, only grant
ing the right of a centralized court
power in cases where mr remedy can
be offered by the state, as in the
matter of tho prevention of mon
opoly, the regulation of interstate
commerce and the preservation of in
terstate resources. And, as declared
by Mr. Bryan, there is no twilight
zone between the state and nation in
which exploiting interest can take
refuge from both, for where one ends
the other begins. Mr. Bryan Is broad
enough to advocate these great truths
and bravo enough to see that overy
violation of law shall be prosecuted
catholic enough to embrace in his
creed every condition and typo of
man and, filled with tho Christian
spirit, to proolaim brotherly love, as
taught by his Master, the Prince of
Peace.
Tho democratic party stands today
for the protection of all tho individ
ual rights of every class of people,
and for the upbuilding of the na
tion's power by recognizing the
masses, instead of classes, and ele
vating the man created by God over
tho dollar produced by man. It
favors a just income tax, to the end
that wealth derived from interest on
bonds, stocks, and other securities
and property not now taxed shall
bear its just proportion of the na
tion's burdens, as well as an inherit
ance tax, to reach swollen and, alas!
often ill-acquired fortunes. We
stand for exact justice between capi
tal and labor, and favor every legiti
mate means for the adjustment of all
disputes between employers and em
ployes, to the end that the property
of capital shall not be destroyed, and
that those who toil with their hands
shall not Buffer unjustly from the
exactions of the rich, thus causing all
classes to dwell together in brotherly
love, and the country not to be
shocked and convulsed by strikes and
strife. We, likewise, in the interest
of fair elections and to prevent cor
ruption, demand that the utmost pub
licity be required from all candidates
and the committees, showing the
amount of the funds received, and
how used, and the sources from
which thoy were obtained.
Today, in no uncertain language,
I arraign and denounce the republi
can party for its hypocrisy and false
assertion, as set forth in its national
platform at Chicago. In blatant as
sertion it assails the democratic party
as the party of adversity, and praises
Itself as the party of prosperity,
when all reading, thinking men re
member the, fact that the panic of
1893, with which today they taunt
us, commenced under Harrisons ad
ministration, and was brought -about
by laws of a republican congress and
transmitted to us before Mr. Cleve
land took charge c.f affairs or a single
congress had assembled under his ad
ministration; while all know that the
panic of 1907 the worst In ages,
with the republicans' boasted tariff
and financial laws in full force and
effect happened at a time when the
executive, legislative and judicial de
partments were all under the abso
lute control of the republican party,
and that breaking and dissolving
banks, assinrnincr hnafnnsa infarcefc
stringency In the money market, em
ployes out of jobs, and empty din
ner palls give the lie to its cry of
prosperity and prove it utterly unfit
to control public affairs.
.. arraign it for falsely declaring
tnat it stands for higher wages when,
Dythe panic produced under its
methods, thousands and tens of
thousands of honest toilers have been
deprived of work by the shutting
down of mills, the taking off of
Jn for want of height to haul,
and the closing of mines for the lack
or money to operate. And as we
listen to the cry for "Bread!" from
hungry children, and see the look of
desolation and desperation on the
faces of strong men out of employ
ment, with wives and little ones de
pendent on them and begging for
help, we can but denounce a party
which, in honeyed language in its
platform, boastfully cries out "Pros
perity and high wages!" but, in prac
tice, gives to the hungry a stone in
stead of bread and a serpent instead
of fish.
I denounce the assertions of the
republican party when It declares it
stands for "law and order," equal
rights to all, and no special privileges
to rich or poor; when its protective
policy has produced monopoly, built
up the rich at tho expense of the
poor, and, by injunctions and other
writs in its courts, shielded trusts,
while denying to tho laborer even
the sacred right of a trial by jury I
defy any honest man to deny these
two charcrpn fimf r - x ,
der the control and domination of
truBte, created under republican lawn
and that no relief has been attempted
against this wrong, until the nresl
dent himself was compelled to crv
out, saying, in a special messaco to
congress, that the laws favorine
trusts and monopolies are so unjust
in their robberies that they would
justify every form n criminality on
tho part of labor unions and every
kind of violence and fraud, from
murder and bribery to ballot-box
stuffing.
I arraign the republican party for
its Utter inconsistency in declaring
for the preservation of our forests
and the deepening of our waterways,
when it is well known, though peti
tioned by conventions, asked by the
governors' conference at the White
House, and demanded by public ne
cessity for the preservation of our
national resources, with a majority
of over one hundred in the house tf
representatives, it yet remained deaf
to our entreaties and silent to our
demands, and let Speaker Cannon
wantonly throttle the voice of a free
people.
I pass over with contempt, as un
worthy of a great pa.'ty and a bravo
people, its slurs and thrusts at tho
south, and Its attempt to gain votes
by raising the cry of sectionalism;
for, standing here, the son of a con
federate soldier who died for a causo
he believed just and right, and mak
ing no apology for the acts of my
father, I deny as absolutely false the
charge that the south Is disloyal or
untrue to the union, but assert that
it yields to no - action in love for our
glorious flag and devotion to the na
tion's truest interest; and we are
brave and generous enough to return
to our enemies love for hate, and
kindness for abuso,
I likewise hold up before the gaze
of a just people the miserable sub
terfuge the republicans placed in
their platform as a remedy against
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