The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-14

Cammander's House and the memo
~ OF their own former achievements,
"The belief in the Atheniau mind
that on the day Of Marathon the
shade Of Thesus had marched in
the rear OF their countrymen and by
the strokes of his flashing sword red
dened the waves Of the Aegean Sea
with the blood OF their enemies,
sustained their banners at Salamis
and Platea.'
So likewise amid the seyerest
shock Of the recent battle. when the
eoemies of our people were bringing
to bear upon them all the powers Of
darkness, outrageou. salsehoods, wills
ISLANDERS, contemplate demagoguery,
bribery to beguile them Of their
senses. to fssten upon them the gall
ing shackles Of Republican rule
and to lmprison them in the dun>
geons of humiliation and despair, the
Hon. W. II. Kitchin raising aloft the
banner of North Carolina, shouted
the Democratic battle cry to the
chlvalric white men of the West, in
tones that reverOerate still through
out her valleys ana over her green
mountain sides--that battle cry was
"North Carolina, God bless her, let
US keep her grand and pure, rally to
the rescue of our women and chill
dren, down with the protective tariff,
Anglo Saxon supremacy forever"
Hearing hi. mighty "shout to
arms" and remembering the history
Of their State in the past, the white
men Of the West sprung to his call
IS gladly IS ever Scots did to the
call of Wallace. The people of the
West had often heard the polished
and sllvery eloquence OF Ransom
and Fowle they had oft times seen
the Sa!adin.like blade @; Waddell,
they had ever and anon witnessed
the crushing blows of Vance fall like
the cleaning battle axe of Richard
upon the helmets of the foe, they had
hung with confidence and love upon
the eloquent words and unanswer~
able logic Of that great tribune of
the people--Thomas J. Jarvis. and
they had s:ood transfxed with as
tonishment ss the perfiiy and cor.
ruption Of the Republican party
came to them on the burning rhet.
oric and laundering tones of Octav>
i1s Coke the A jax or the Democratic
camp for fifteen years iu North Car
olina, but this man Kitchin, this
Democratic Nemesis upon the trail
of Oliver Dockery was indeed to
them a veritable phenomenon. His
like had never been Seen by them
before. he threw the grandest
thoughts and truths, clothed in the
most rugged and powerful Anglo
Saxon into the ranks Of the enemy
as fast. and As irreslstably as the
shafts and jayelins of the English
archers and men alarms ratified
against the batt!ements of Font De
Boeuf.
Col. Doctery and his followers
were utterly confounded and dis.
mayed by the merciless onslaL ghts
of this Titan from the East and il
was not long before his promises and
deeds Of daring carried JOY and en-
couragement to the Democratic host.
all over North Carolina.
We hear him repelling all false &C
cusatlons against his great leader
the Honorable Daniel G. Fowle, We
hear him telling his opponents that
the slanderers of Mrs. Cleveland, the
| tair young wife Of our President oi
blessed memory, are liars and
towards, we hear him presenting tc
them in all their Llack deformlty the
infernal iniquities OF tha Protective
Tariff, and we see .he star OF negro
sscendancy-tbs: star which is yet
to go down in bloodpaling in the
West before his lightning glance and
fiery impetuous oratory.
Col. Dockery, understand, de
clared during the late campaign thai
be VAS not afraid of any Democratic
debater that he had ever met before
but he hardly knew how to defent
himself against that Democratic
I Clycone, Buck kitchin. | heard {
gentleman say not long since tina
be never witnessed the electric fish
es nor heard the rattling discharges
of Captain Kitchin's oratory amids
the Republican legions without
thinking of the thunder storm 81
sublmely pictured by Lord Byron