The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-06

| about half an hour and shook hands
with those who passed through,
| white and black. 1t was said that
he shook hands with 200 people,
and Gen. Tneaver so stated in his
| speech at the fair grounds, but
others said he did not shake hands
| With more than a few hundred.
Atl2 o'clock there was a parade
10 the fair grounds where Gen.
y eaver and Mrs. Lease spoke. Two
carriages, drawn by white horses,
| carried Gen. Weaver and wife aud
Mrs. Lease, Exum and others. They
were follow ed by a few other
vehicles and the marshals mounted,
but the most of the crowd went on
foot.
THE SPEECHES.
Mr.. E. A. Thorne introduced
Gen. Weaver, but we could not
hear his speech for The crowd that
| vas pressing around.
Gen. Weaver is rather a good
looking man and has rathe:
commanding appta! ance before
an audience and is an easy and
fluent speaker He spoke for on
hour and we listened closely.
The burden of his speech was an
attempt to disclose the fact to the
| people that the are poor and need
more money. He referred 10 the
poverty of the country in such mar
ner as to stir the prejudice of rest
less people against the two old par
ties. He spoke of mortgages and
the scarcity of money, but did not
tell the people how they came to be
so poor, nor did he point out any
means of relief except to vote the
Third party ticket. He insisted on
every mans voting and seeing shat
his vote is counted. He favored
the free coinage of silver and prom
ised that with law for the free
coinage OF silver the people should
have it if 1t takes Winchester
rife at the shoulder Of every man
in America.
He did not mention pensions at
all. He dismissed the tariff with a
very few words. On the tariff he
said that the Democratic party In
the West think that all they have
to do to whip the people back into
line is to cry "Tarlff." And that
was all the discussion be gave it.
He discussed the force bill Just AS
laconically. He said the democratic
party South think that all they
have to do to keep the people in
line Is to cry "Force Bill !"
A great deal of what he saiu
about the poverty of the country is
true, but he gave no word of ex-
PLANTATION nor did he give a remedy.
He was cheered by the Third party
people and gracefully acknowledged
the confidence they expressed IN his
leadership.
MRS. LEASE.
| At the conclusion of Gen.
Weaver's speech Mr.. Kutchin ill.,
troduced Mrs. Lease. We could
not hear what he said.
Mrs. Lease was received by the
Third party people with some de.
gree of enthusiasm, but many OF
| them showed that they heard her
through curiosity rather than
through their approval of being in
structed in politics by Kansas
woman. She has strong, mascu-
line voice, clear and distinct, and
she spoke with ease and confidence.
Her speech was evidently carefully
prepared and we'll memorlzed. She
acclaimed for several minutes on
her Irish blood, then acclaimed
longer on the French Revolution.
and then dwelt ON the poverty of
this country.
She spoke Of the scarcity of
money and the poverty of the coun.
try in such way as to make men
who we're in sympathy with the
movement she is trying to lead feel
glad that some one could express
the condition of the people in easy
sentences. She gave no reason what
ever as to what has brought power.
ty to the people, nor did she sug-
gest a single remedy as to how the
people may better their condition.
The burden of her speech was that
the people are poor and that there
Is a great movement in the Third
party to have more money. She
warned people to stand from be.
fore this great car of reform or they