Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-10-27
SPRINKLES DID NOT COME
HI. DOES NOT MEET CAMP
BELL. SATURDAY NIGHT.
Hut v. =. I.usIS, of This city, Rep
resents Hini-He is Cheered by
the NegrOes-Nr. Crawford Pres
ent, Hut Does Not speak.

discussion between J. NJ. Campbell and
w. 7. Sprnklcs, the opposing candidates
for the state senate. Mr.. Campbell was
present in time, but Mr., Sprinkles, the re,
publican, failed to show himself at all.
His place was filed by V. $. Lusk. The
audience was enthusiastically demo-
cratic, with the exception OF large num-
bcr of negroes on the south side of the
house.
Mr.. Campbell made the first speech OF
the evening. He began his talk by telling
of the difficulty with which he had met
in trying to get Mr.. Sprinkles to meet
him on the stump in Madison county.
He said that his opponent had promised
to meet him at different places, but had
failed to do so. MIR. Campbell said that
the reason Mr.. Sprinkles would not meet
him was because he lSprinklesl was
chairman OF the Madison county exccu-
tive committee and secretary of the coun-
" farmers alliance, and that he was a
traitor to both organizations. He
charged that he had called the county
convention this year one or two months
earlier than usual, for the purpose OF
forcstaling the alliance who he knew
would make demands for representation
on the ticket. He also charged that
Sprinklcs had worked before the republi-
can party and the alliance for the nomi-
nation for clerk OF the superior court, but
had been beaten. He called him politi-
cal coward who would not meet him on
the stump to discuss these issues. He
said that when he was in one county
speaking, Mr.. Sprinklcs was skulking in
the bushes of the other county.
MIR. Campbell said: 81 told him yes
tcrday that would be here tonight and
offered to pay his expenses il he would
come. He is not here. He has not got
the manhood to say whether he is re-
publican or an alliance man and you
know there is great difference.
IL have another charge against this
man, and hope ii is not true. 1t is said
bv many republicans that when the fence
law was i'll operation Sprinkles said that
poor white man or negro should not
be allowed to vote unless he was worth
5000.
81 am without an opponent tonight,
but will discuss the issues of the day. !
stand on the platform of the democratic
party. the farmers alliance and the
knights of labor. Sprinklcs has refused
to sign the alliance pledges and say that
he cannot cOnscicntiouslv sign them be-
cause he is opposed to the principles con
tained in them"
With reference to the state election law
which he said I.ush would talk about, Nj.
Mr.. IampD,ilsaid that lie only cause the
republicans had for complaint about it
was that it forced man to tell where he
came from when he registered.
He asked Mr.. Lusk il he was a republi-
can in lSGS and 1860 and the latter re-
piled that he was. Mr.. Campbell then
told that Mr.. Ewart had said in his
Force bill speech that the republicans OF
lS6S and 1860 were n set OF cut throats,
thieves and scoundrcls and asked Mr..
Lusk it he would vote for the man that
spoke OF him that way. Mr.. Lusk, OF
course, replied that he would vote for
Mr.. Ewart.
Nj. Campbell said that the man who
declined To sign the alliance demands and
voted for the Mckinley bill was not the
friend OF the farmer. He said that pro-
lection was helping the rich and hurting
the poor and asked il there was ever
such oppression and rascality. Cries OF
Never, Never" was the response re-
ccivcd
He spoke Of the republican party as
having once been respectable. but said
that II is now n sectional party.
After Mr.. Campbell concluded there
were loud cries Tor Lusk from the negro
side OF the house. He started of in his
speech by announcing that he was
about as big a man as Jack Campbell" ="
He said he was present at the solicita-
ton of Mr.. Sprinklcs and said he was
authorized by him to state that he had
never made the remark that the poor
white men and negroes should not vote
unless they were worth $500. The
speaker said that Mr.. Sprinklcs was an
alliance man; and when he made the pre-
dction that he would he elected
the negroes chtcred vociicrously. Mr..
Lusk vcnturcd the astonishing assertion
that u tariff is not u tax and said he
would show that some articles were
che per under protection than they were
under free trade. As a iorciblc example
he took railroad iron. When he
announced this, some ono in
the audience asked him about
common window glass, but Of course Mr..
Lusk did not hear this. lie also took
bed blankets and said they were cheaper
under protective tariff and that the
men who made them were paid more
now than they were under tree trade. lie
was asked il the man who made them
did not do great deal more in a day
now, because of the improvements in the
machinery than in 1850, but replied that
"a man only works day anyway
After saying that these articles wcr,
cheaper, Mr.. Lusk very blandly re
marked that this knocked the the
theory of protection and free trade sky
high. Mir Lusk made an attack on tn,
state government for appropriating sc
much money" for the state guard. which
organization he held up AS a subject fol
ridculc. lie talked for some time about
the state election law and deplorcd tn,
fact that every mans liberty is place.
at the disposal OF one man" (thc reg
istrarl.
After Mr.. Lusk closed, Mr.. W. 7. Craw
ford, who had entered the room wa,
called on with rousiug cheers. He sale
he would not speak, but said that til,
republican party was preparing for dcatl
at he election Mr.. Crawford's presence
caused the crowd to give long and lou,
cheers after the two speakers wcr
through,
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