The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-08-16

IlOn. lie regretted that the Republican
party continued to agitate the Civil Rights
question. He was friend to the colorcd
man and was willing that he should have
every political right, but when the Re
publican party placed the white man un
der the bottom and the colored man on
top, he should ever repudiate it and that
there were $50, COO white voters in North
Carolina grand army Of Anglo-Saxons
as loyal, as honest and as good people
as ever walked the earth who would 20
10 the polls and say by their ballots that
white men must rule this country He
regretted that the line had been drawn;
that the cOiored people had arraved
themselves against the whites They got
on that side themselves. We did not put
them there, and while we will pay our
taxes to educate them and furnish homes
for their nnfOrtunates, yet this is our
country, purchased by the blood of our
Anglo-SaXon fathers, and TO- 900 colOred
men led by DR.. York, or anybody else
Will never rule it.
He next spoke Of the Internal Revenue
system, showing that the platforms Of the
party declared for Its abolition, and show
ed how insincera were the expressions of
the Republicans in regard to it. Wasn't
Or. York the candidate of the revenuers
''Ihey nominated him. They 90 with
him everywhere he goes. He stays with
them all night, indeed he hasn't anywhere
else to stay Cheers. Why, | through
mistake called him DIR. Mott the other
day, somebody corrected me. said well,
the difference is so slight that it is hardly
necessary to correct the error They
know they are not going to repeal the law
when by it they live and receive their part
of the SpOilS"
He then alluded to the National ticket,
and said that Mr.. Blaine's own party had
said that he had used his position as
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
personal gain. Thousands of the best
men in his party had repudiated him and
would support that honest and faithful
servant of the people Grover Cleveland,
the excellent ex-Sheriff, model ex-MayOr,
and now the great reform Governor of the
great State Of New York. Towards the
close of his speech he grew almost elo-
quent and closed amid much enthusiasm.
DIR. York.
Dr. York arose and for the first time
about forty negroes showed forty sets Of
white teeth, about thirty white men
showed signs Of new life, and the reve-
nue. officer on the stand clapped both
hands, patted both feet and a broad smile
spread all over his face. DR.. York said
that he was here to talk to the people of
the mountains; he was a mountain boy
himself, raised under the spur of the Blue
Ridge in the county of Surry, and he was
just going to show what mountain boy
could do with the great giant of the Dem
Ocratic party (here the forty cOlOred and
thirty whites gave a yell and the revenuer
patted one foot). ''Gen. Scales says that
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won't say whether l am a Democrat or
Republican. What more does he want
me to say, what more do the people want
me to say, than that the Republican and
the Liberal conventions have said ? | was
a Whig before the war, a Union man dur
ing the war, and after the war | Joined
the young Democracy; but when the Dem
ocratic party tried to press the yoke
around Yorks neck, he wouldn't stand it.
They tried to read York out but York read
them out. But let's look at Gen. Scales's
politics. He was a Democrat before the
war, Secessionist during the war, a Con
servatiye Democrat after the war; until
Horace Greely was nominated. He was
then for little while Liberal Republi-
can and voted for Greely, but this is all
good naturedly. | like Gen. Scales, have
nothing against him and he knows it."
He then said he would take up the Is
sues of the campaign (Which he never did
during his whole speech). Gen. Scales
reminded him of the boy who went West,
but before leaving he went to hear the old
parson preach and his text was Peters
wife's mother lay sick with fever He
went West, remained sixteen years and
returned and heard the same old parson
preach from the same text, Peters wifes
mother lay sick with fever What
amt that old woman dead yet 2 asked the
fellow ''Gen. Scales has given you that
same old Democratic story, fed you out of
the same old dish, but the principal issue
in the campaign is the tariff, and on that
issue Blaine is going to be elected by the
biggest majority ever given to man in
this country" (heigho said the forty ne
groes while the revenuers laughed reg
ular ha-ha-ha y
He then spoke for nearly three-quarterS
Of an hour on the tariff, his remarks be-
ing entirely at random; and, when he
would try to make a point and discuss it
he wouldn't half finish it before he would
be talking about trace chains or wool hats.
The Democrats say that free trade will
made things cheaper. Why everything is
as cheap is free labor can make it. DO
away with the tariff and it will place
tax on North Carolina of five or six mil
mons OF QOiidfS every year me govern
ment is bound to have money and why
not get it from tax on imports 2 He
spoke long and tediously on the tariff IS
sue, and the only cheering or enthusiasm
was when he would sandwich in a joke
Then the same forty negroes would say
eyes yes y the thirty whites would look
pleased and the revenue officer would
sometimes pat one foot and sometimes
both. He then spoke of the Internal Rev
enue, and read several bills offered by
himself in the last Congress. ''All these"
he said, "now sleep the sleep Of death in
the Committee on Ways and Means. The
Democratic House Of Representatives
would abolish the revenue They have
had the opportunity but they wouldn't do
it. pledged myself to my people to 60
there and try to repeal it and l carried
out that pledge, as l do every pledge that
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