Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-09-22

you will have no excuse for not
knowing what I am talking about.
"Old men here have not forgot
ten it, but / zee younger men; those
| who vote for the first time in the
coming election. / desire to call at
tention to it 50 that they may know
something Of the wrongs and out
RACES perpetrated upon your fathers
by Republicans in the time Of carpet
bag domination. Alabama then
was brought to the very brink of
ruin, but finally the State found re-
demption. Did it come through the
Republican party? Was it brought
Is a sweet boon to the people Of that
State BY q Third party?
The old Democratic party re-
deemed the State of Alabama and
placed it again upon it's feet. Placed
it's State government again in the
hands of its own people al d hurled
the robbers from power, and the re-
suit was that twelve years from Me
time that Alabama came into the
hands of it's own people, half. Of the
great State debt had been paid, and
the taxable property Of Alabama had
increased more than one hundred
millions Of dollars.
"Let me call your attention to your
own State of North Carolina. Under
the reconstruction measures Of the
Republican party carpet bag rule
~aa onhCks&rfo1 e. AZ .. A.
people. In 1858, from the noun
tains to tho sea, the Old North State
was in the clutches of the plumber
ers. During the first session of the
Legislature, both Houses Of which
were Republican by large majorities,
bonds Of the State to the total
amount Of $25,350,OOo were ordered
by the Legislature, and am 1 not cor
rect in saying that $4,000, 900 of
these bonds were actually issued for
the purpose of building railroads
and not q mile Of railroad was bpilt?
Need tell you, have you forgotten,
that you had taken in the State of
North Carolina railroad bonds to the
amount Of 4324,oO0 for the purpose
Of edreating the poor children Of the
State Of South Carolina? Yet this
Legislature, for the purpose of pay
ing its own expenses, ordered those
bonds sold. They were sold by the
State Treasurer for $158,oOO, every
dollar of which went into their
pockets, and your treasury was abso-
lutely robbed.
"Your school fund was swept out
of existence by the men who were
sworn to protect the interest of your
State. As was said by an eminent
man, the carpet-bag robbers reached
their long, fslonious fingers down
into the pockets of posterity and
snatched the inheritance from the
unborn babe. Will some one kindly
tell me first, when it was that the
Third Party came to the rescue OF
the Old North State? [Applause.
"Can you forget, gray-headed men,
how the Democrats Of the State
fought under the glorious lead Of
Zeb Vance and other illustrious
leaders? l zee before and around me
men who have made this old State
rise from the mountain to the sea
and rescue your State from the
hands of the men who had plum
dered you. It was the Democratic
party. [Applause. We are here to
give you one or two reasons why you
should not desert the Democratic
party ut this critical period.
"During the eight years of carpet
bag rule, the State of South Carolina
was openly and uAblushingly plum
dered. Official corruption reached
the highwater mark when the State
was Utterly PROSTATE, and the rob-
bers were those who sat m high
places in the legislative halls and
courts of justice. Let me give you
an illustration of the honesty,
OF the economy of the carpet
baggers in South Carolina dur.
ing the sevsnty-eighth year of it's
history. From the time that South
Carolina, with this State, became .
component part of the United States
down to the advent of carpet-hag
dispensation, the entire expense for
public printing was $4,000. During
eight years of carpet-bag domination
the cost Of public printing was ST.
235,537 more than double in those
years of Republican misrule what it
had been under seventy-eight years
f the government Of the people.
There is an illustration of the mis-
rule and misgovernment of tho men
who had no sympathy with you, and
whose only object in coming among
you was to plumber You. am talk
ing to you Of matters that are very
serious, and l am talking to YOU
earnestly about it, for I feel what l
"How did the people get control
of their State Government again?
What was the result in all the South
when the State Governments were
restored to the people? Good gov
eminent came; protection to life;
protection to liberty; protection to
property. You extended the hand
Of welcome to the people of all sec
tons of the country to come and
make their homes with you; to
bring their capital to make railroads,
and otherwise develop the resources
of this great section. They came
under the administration of Grover
Cleveland. Tremendous cheering.l
"Why have / dwelt upon this?
Simply for the purpose Of calling
YOUR attention to the evils