Wilmington journal., 1876-09-01
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
v.NCE AND SETTLE IN MOORE
COUNTV-SETTLE LOsE> TENN:
PER-

Vance and Settle met in dlscusslo
at Jonesboro on Friday. The discus
sion was interrupted by a ram, no
hovo1ar before each candidate ha(
uode his first speech. The following
account of the discussion after th'
rain we take from the Raleigh Senti-
mel:
After the heavy rain had run the
crowd from the first atahu Ihe cahdl
1ataa finished their reply speeches il
the UPPER portlco- OF Ryan & Bu-
aL,o,,'a stores. A great mass OF
human beings STOOD Delow III the
at.aat nearly all of them wet, and
some few mp to their chlns In hard
cider and mean whiskey. Judge Set
tle waxpd fercer than usnal in his re-
cltaI of ku klux outra8es IN 1870. This
set the bad blood to work in the
whiskey men. They groaned at the
iudge. He flushed at once with anger
They grcaned again. He then de-
nounced them. He said: 'I tell you,
those ku klux were men like you who
bray at me; you scoundrels; You in
formal fiends of hell. you'll!
"Hurrah for Vance" yelled a
crowd.
Judge Settle-"If my competi-
tor does not rebuke you for this con-
duct, he is not the gentleman I have
always fonnd him in this campaign. IF
he does not tell you he wishes no help
from such as you. he is not the gentle
man | have always known him since
our bOyhood."
Another gr0an and cries for Vance.
Settle-"Will the decent people of
Moore county suffer me to thus be in
terrupted by mob?" (The Judge
was about to sit DOWN. Vance arose
and cal1ned the troubled waters and
the crowd cried, ''Keep quiet, men,"
"Silence''
The Judge then continued on the
subject of hd6eda corpus, and cooled
off rapidly at every inch of returning
reason. He did Vance the justice to
say that he believed he never in all
his life laid hand on any woman save
in the way of kindness. (The crowd
clapped their hands The judge CLOSED
Vance arose, perfectly at home and
three times as natural, aud told the
crowd he knew that the handful of
men who had interrupted his compet-
itor were wet at the time, l. 9th inside and
out, that the campaign had always been
pleasant between them, and wherever
Settles friends had predominated he
had always been treated with respect.
He could not tolerate such conduct in
those men, and at the same time he
condemned the severe languarge used
towards them by Judge Settle. He
thought in his cooler moments the |
Judge would sea his own mistake and |
apologize for snch hasty speech. The |
admirable self-poise of Vance, the easy
way he smoothed the passions of the |
crowd, and set the judge himself to |
laughing, won him the full measure of a
we'll balanced man in the minds of all
that crowd, and the sun set on as bril-
liant Vance victory at Jonesboro as
it had redeemed in the whole csm-
paign. Judge Settle arose after Vance
and explained how easily such taunts
could provoke speaker into madness,
hat he had no roferenc9 in his offensive
language to those of the ku kIux who
had never hung or stabbed or drowned,
and right here half drunken fellow
"but do not wish you, sir,
% take any of this apology to your
SELF"
The truth is just this: Tt has ever
been wrong i'll Judge Settle to appeal
70 the bad passions of men. It was
equally as wrong in some few of that
,rOw1 to drink too much of mean
Thiskey. And more unfortunate than
all was it for Judge Settle that he got
mad and used abuse. 1t lost him more
votes than he gained.
Score one Moore for Vance.