"I am informed that Andrew Jackson was a law student in this city, and I am glad to
tread the soil made sacred by the hero of New Orleans. (Applause.) The principles for which I stand
before the people are the principles taught by Jackson, when he was the idol, not of Democracy
alone, but of the great common people whom he at all times defended. (Applause.) When Jackson was
president his greatest fight was against the United States national banks. Those connect with the
great banking influence denounced him and applied to him just such abusive epithets as the money
owning and changing class applied to Thomas Jefferson before him, and have applied to everyone since
who did not bow the knee to Baal and worship the golden calf. (Applause.) At that time all the money
influences of this country were combined for his overthrow, just as they have today combined to
perpetuate a government of syndicates, by syndicates and for syndicates. (Applause.)
LABORERS WARNED.
I am glad to note the intense interest in this campaign. I have noticed it all along
the line. Our opponents try to divide the toiling masses and put the laboring men in opposition to
the farmer. I warn laborers not to desert the farmers who have been the friend of labor in every
struggle to better their condition. The very people who today are attempting to use laboring men to
defeat the farmer in their just cause, are the same people who have oppressed labor from the
beginning of the world and who will do so again the moment they have the opportunity. (Cheers.)
We have lost a few Democrats by desertion, but the number is growing less each day
because the Democrats who have not entirely agreed with us, find that if they leave the Democratic
party in its great struggle with plutocracy, they leave it to make a permanent home with those whom
Democracy has always fought since it became a party. (Applause.) They realize they cannot afford to
separate themselves from those with whom their interests and sympathies lie." (Cheers.)