The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-10-30
HON. WIN. ROBBINS
Addresses % large Audience in
Clinton Thursday night.

On last Thursday, Hon. ". NJ.
Robbins addressed the people
OF lower Sampson at Lisbon. An
appointment had been made for
him in Clinton, and he came up
from Lisbon and addressed large
assemblage Of SIMPSONS Democracy
in the courthouse Thursday night.
He was gracefully introduced by
Mr.. +. II. Cooper. Maj. Robbins
was unWell and not at his best, but
his speech was powerful exposition
Of Radical wrong doing, and an able
appeal for the Democratic party.
"The Republical party he said,
is sectional party, and has no res
pect, or good feeling for the South.
In the % years since the war they
have only had two cabinet officers
from the South, and one Of these
was a Democrat and the other
Northern carpet-bagger. Northern
Republicans consider the Southern
people as base, unworthy rebels
that ought TO be thankful thai their
lives were spared.
The republican party has been
the friend of those who have not
needed friends and has shown no
friendship for those in need Of
friends-tha farmers and laboring
men of the country. The Republi-
cans demonetiZed silver to please
the bond holder, and when the peO-
pie demanded that more silver ne
coined they made the silver dollars
as ugly as possible in order to make
them unpopular. They have con-
tracted the currency, so the laboring
man can not get the money to pay
his debts. If anything will take
the heart and manhood out of a man
it is debt. 1t hangs like cloud
over his life and almost drives him
to despair when he sees no hope of
lifting it. The farmer is the man
who creates wealth from nothing by
digging it out OF the soil, and he, of
all men, is most unjustly discrimina.
ted against by the unjust laws of the
Republican party.
The strangest thing in the world
is that an intelligent Southern man
can vote the Republican ticket.
The negro laborer will vote Tor
the party that is pauperizing his
employer, and thus reduces his own
| income. Frequent elections aIe the
only safety of the people. Every
two years we look over the books
and hold each officer to strict ac
count for his acts. The great ma
jority of the white voters Of the
country have for many years voted
the Democratic ticket. There are
now million more white Demo
Gratis than white Republicans. See
ing that Democracy is growing in
strength the Republicans have re-
solved to pass the wicked force
bill to perpetuate the power of the
party. The Republican party is not
the party of the people and if the
majority had ruled there would not
have been republican President in
years.
The Democratic party is the great
national pa,ty.It extends a friendly
hand across Mason and DiXon's lile
and bridges the chasm of sectional
hatred. Nothing will so soon make
the hearts of the North and South
throb in unison with friendly feel
ings as the ascendency OF the Demo
cratic party"
This outline will do but faint
justice to Mr.. Robbins speech. L
was full of truth, wisdom and wa:
put IL way thai none could fai
to understand. His remarks to the
negroes were plain but were tht
words of a friend. 'sIt took the
great anglo saxan race 600 years to
learn the lesson of self governmen
he said," and can the negroes have
learned this lesson in tie brie
period of % year,? No; and it il
not slandering them to say they
have not"
The time has not yet arrived fo
the negroes to rule this country
Maj. Robhions showed that it was
the duty of all Southern men to vote
the Democratic ticket, because tn,
Republican party has no respect TO
Southern people or their rights.
Hon. B. F. Grady was present
and at the close of Maj. Robbin
address was called for, but owing tC
the lateness of the hour declined t.
l.