The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-23
HOT POLITICS.
A Lively SolicitOrial Fusilade in the
Fifth District-.HOw Mr. Barber Set.
ties Mr.. Settle.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.

WINSTON, N. c., Oct. 2O.-Yester-
day the Solicitorial candidates, Messrs.
Barber and Settle, sounded the tocsin
in these parts. The general opinion of
those who heard them speak was that it
was one of the most heated campaigns |
ever seen in the district or anywhere.
considering the fact that they carefully |
avoided personal abuse. A tremendous
crowd greeted them at l O'Clock in the
opera house, the gallery being filled
with colored men and the lower floor
with white. Mr.. Barber, the Demo
cratic candidate, opened the debate,
and the audience was soon found in a
regular uproar of applause as slug after
slug of solid fact he would hurl at Mr..
Settle. He explained the trickery OF
the Republican party iu the National
Congress, dwelt at length on the Lodge
election measure and showed by the
Mckinley tariff how the Republican par
ty legislated for the monopolist and the
Democratic party for the masses.
Then he went for Mr.. Settle and ask
ed him if he endorsed the Force bill; if
the Mckinley legislation was intended
TO increase the price of articles for the
consumer or to raise the price for the
benefit of the manufacturer; for whom
he was going to vote for Congress. Mr..
Barber then declared that Chas. Price,
the Republican candidate for Chief JUS
| tice of the Supreme court, had never vo-
ted the Republican ticket, and demand
| ed proof to the contrary from Mr.,
Settle. He asked him if he endorsed
the Constitution of the State and of the
United States, and charged he (Settle)
endorsed no action Of the Republican
Congress, neither the Lodge or McKin-
ley bills that were passed. He closed
with plea for Mr.. Settle not to squirm
and twist about on the question, Of
which he would support for Congress,
Moore or Brewer. His speech was
great surprise to the crowd, who had
never before heard him. 1t was spark
ling with happy political hits and hot
with slugging argument. He took his
seat mid storms Of applause.
Mr.. Settle then rose with one of those
naughty airs which is common to that
set Of men who try to show their con-
tempt of an audience by keeping their
hat on. Gle sat upon the stage with
his hat on). The same old song pealed
forth in slick, greasy and easy strains:
aud he made al graceful action on the
stage before his cOlored constituency.
which grinned at every attempt at wit
He had hard position to defend and il
must be admitted that he did it tolera'
bly, we'll, not by dealing in straight cut
slugs of logic, but by interesting generali
ties He said to the astonishment of his
constituency, that he did not endorse tht
Force bill; that he would vote for ChaS
Price who had never voted the Repub
lican ticket, and that he would also sup
: port Brewer for Congress.
l MIR. Barber then rejoined for fifteel
Y minutes and used his time we'll. H
said that the Democratic party hat
0 been charged with nominating Bar
ber for the purpose of showing Settl
e and that he (Barber) would not dare t
: deprive him of one hair of that beautl
J. ful mustache, but that he intended,
the people would do their duty, t
/ shave his majority of 700 down to moth
II ing and pile majority of 1000 upon il
u In Mr.. Settles rejOinder which fOl
q lowed, he accused Mr.. Barber of vOtin
q against the Railroad Commission bill
but Mr.. Barber quickly informed bill
of the fact that he was a nice man to
y talking that way when every Republ
y can in the General Assembly did til
same thing. He (Barber) declared tn;
10 his constituency asked him to vo
, ~ against the bill and he did it because
y that. He further charged Mr.. Sett
y with being a railroad attorney and Ri
&c 10 ing about on free passes, at the san
10 s time being paid by the State to pros
cute all railroads who violated the la
Is' and declared that he (Barber) wou
u. L. never be found as railroad attorn'
o oo and a solicitor at the same tim
gu The speeches were both good b
40 40 everybody was loud in praising N
- Barber's, exclaiming: ''Tom has g
his match now.''
asked two men from Rockingha
county to-day who know more abe
ice politics over there than any mer
know, and they both declared that b
Der would carry that county by 4
majority.
ich ~
the The report sent the CHRONICLE
rn. other day concerning certain cutt
affray near here was badly wrong. Y
0"' correspondent got the news from
son officer who ought to have known bett
eet. but who did not. Riggs, the man "
ing was badly cut, is not so seriously b
the as was at first supposed.
it is NJ. '1CIoF
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