The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-08-21
BIG DAY IN ALAMANCE.
THE COUNTY DEIOCRACY THOR
OUGHLY AROUSED.
Governor Holt, Senator Ransom and
s@Baldy,, Williams Deliver Stirring
Speeches TO a Large Crowd.

Governor Holt, Senator Ransom and
ssBaldy'' Williams Deliver Stirring
Speeches 10 a Large Crowd.
Special to the State Chronicle.
BURLINGTON, N. c., August 90
A large harmonious and enthusiastic |
county convention was held here today. |
All the nominations were made by accla- !
nation. Jacob A. Long was nominated
for the House, Rev. J. A. Burch was
forsheriff, I. H. Watson register TO deeds,
James A. Dickey, treasurer, L. H. Holt
surveyor, and DR.. A. Freeman, coroner,
excepting the Legislature tickets all the
nominees are present inc ,mbents. It is
winning ticket and will weep the coun-
ty; stirring speeches were made by J. A.
Long and Hon. Giles nebane, a vete-
ran in years and politics. He warned
the democrats against division and said
his utterances to-day were the last he
would ever make. At his farewell ad-
dress he begged the people to think
soberly before they surrendered their
civilization and their manhood Mr.
Mebane is about SO years Old The con-
vention was indeed earnest and when
White, the peoples party candidate for
the House entered the hall he was Kissed
J to the echo. There is no temporary
among -Alamance democrats, they are
going into the fight to win it. Gov.
J Holt was present and seemed deeply
J interested in the proceedings
Alamance was thoroughly aroused to-
day by two great speeches. Over thou
sand people packed the conrt house and
listened for three hours with deep inter
, est to brief, strong, stirring speech from
Gov. Holt, followed by the great speech
t of the campaign by Senator Ransom.
Gov. Holt was unexpectedly called out
j., but his speech was strong, clear, patriotic
and able He alluded to his love for
s Alamance and her people, who had made
him all that he was; he spoke feelingly
of the sad providence in the death of
t Gov. Fowle that made him the governor
2 of the State; saying that in the admins
r tration of State affairs the humblest citi-
/, zen was the peer of the highest, in his
q estimation. He came to Alamance for a
q day of rest, but was always ready to re-
0 spond to the call of duty and his neigh
bors. Briefly and eloquently he pointed
to the danger that threatened the State
in the division of the democratic party.
!, There were only two parties in the
i country; the peoples party was republi
j can annex. The republican party is 8
t sectional revolutionary party and is the
a source of ali the evils shat oppress the
) people to day. Speaking of the peoples
e party being farmers movement, he sale
:. that he raised more corr and wheat thar
;. all the peoples party lei ders in the State
v yet he was denounced by them as a,
\ enemy to the people He read certif
d cate from the clerk of Wake county show
st ing that the peoples party candidate il
,e Wake for register of deeds was an Office
is in Kinks cut throats He discussed tn
D. monstrous proposition to buy allthe rail
If roads and telegraph lines, showing tina
,r it would entail an Indebtedness of owe
fourteen billion dollars. He denounced
in unmeasured terms, the treachery o
H. the men who were delegates to the dem
ocratic State convention and who wer
:, afterwards delegates to the people
al party convention. A man must be los
es to all self-respect and be without princi
q. pie or honor. He implored Alamanc
ae democrats to stand together in the inte1
II est of common sense and in the name {
ox manhood and patriotic duty Th
n speech was greeted with great applause
1t Ransom was in good trim and mad
n: the great speech of the cempaign. Tn
st is great day with me, he said. The il
ne spiration of one hundred years ago CON
TO to my heart, as said by your wise an
'st patriotic Governor The first bug
eo blast and the first gun and the first bloc
ng of the Revolution occurred on the sacre
x and historic soil of Alamance. There we
ne reports, he said, of division in the den
sh ocratic party; he did not believe
on North Carolinians we're courageous ar
or brave people; they loved liberty, justi
Or and honor. They were proud of the
ne State. His faith in them was unchangt
he and unchangeable One hundred al
ws fifty years of her history was proof
I'm the States constancy and fidelity to pri
ple 1t was said that there was no d
oV. ference between the democratic and !
ON publican party. What had the dem
nat cratic party done for North Carolin
rst Can it be possible that the create
led courts in the history of the State ha
3u been so soon forgotten2 Has some {
raj mon, some evil spirit stricken the peoI
en- with madness? Who redeemed the ST.
'ses from military rule and bankruptcy
urn 1870? Not a name, or syllal
lth of name of the peoples pal
an ticket had any part in that stru gg
ur Who faced the cannon and laughed
om- bayonets; the men who today make
this the democratic party in North Caroli
her The democratic party settled the St
tier debt of over forty million dollars. {
,en- six per cent bonds are now worth in n
past York one dollar and twenty five Ger
ems There was not school house in the st
OF in 1878, today there are 5000. Just
Ac- has been established, liberty secur
zed peace and law everywhere prevails
this vet we are asked what has the democrs
iza- party done. During sixteen years
nth, democratic rule not penny has b
:, to stolen or misapplied by democrat {
cial Something unparalleled in the
tory of any other State or country.
the face of this record who shall dare
WOW change our government The peop
po, nf party proposed today to buy all the I
+ba roads and telegraph lines at g. cost
o.o .no fourteen hundred million dollars, put,
sase s,e the people under despotism of {
ooo,, , and bondage for five hundred years
0So creating one million five hundred tt
oO- ,a,l foJ Jorol off "a ho15ers Ha sho,