The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-20
HENRY'S SPLENDID SPEECH.
A Gem of Logic in a Golden Setting
Of Conviction
THE DESPISABLENESS OF WEAVER.

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Hon. W. r. Henry spoke at the
Ouera House Monday night. The crowd
out to hear him was large one.
Mr.. Henry is an immense man men
tally and physically. He weighs over
two hundred and fifty pounds and is
six feet high, and has a voice in pro-
| portion. One could not help thinking
as, in the course of hi speech, he de-
nounced the Mckinley monstrosity,
| that a man for whom it took as much
cloth to do as it evidently did for him,
could well complain of the burdens of
the tariff.
| An intense partisan, his PARTISAN
ship is plainly the result of convic-
tions There is probably not more
| logical speaker on the Democratic
stump in the present campaign. 1t
| is the earnestness of his convictions
| together with his powerful logic that
| go to make his speeches so forceful.
A burning State pride and love of
| the South are also characteristic of
| him. His speech abounded with low
| ing tributes the heroism of Lee and
Jackson and Davis and Vance, and
every mention of their names was
| cheered. And yet he was not so par
| tial to the Southern heroes but that
he could pay splendid tribute to the
| bravery of Gen. Hancock on the field
of Gettysburg.
Mr.. Henry waS7 especially strong in
! his denunciatiOn of Weaver. He de-
spises Weaver, because of Viewers
brutality at Pulaski. He said he hap
| pened to strike Rocky Mount the
night Weaver and his party were
| there. He Esaid to the clerk: ''My
| friend, I've just arrived after having
made speech at Wilson today and
I'm very tired. Can you give me
good room ?"
Eyes" replied the clerk, 81 can give
you a good room on the first floor"
s'Well, show me where it is, but hold
on; understand Weaver and his gang
are here tonight. Before I'll sleep in
| room anywheres near that Scoun-
drel Weaver, I'll take the dog kennel"
(Laughter.)
-"Weaver sleeps in the room just
above the one 1 thought of putting
you in," answered the clerk.
"'Weaver shall never be that much
closer to heaven than l am, with my
Knowledge / said to the clerk, and so
that night | slept in the garnet"
In the outset of his speech the
speaker told a rstOry of Nays Head
which he had heard. in his boyhood. An
old robber on the coast used to ride
his horse up and down that dangerous
strand in dark nights with lantern
tied around the neckuof his horse.
The ships foundering in the storm
out at sea would make for the shore
and be dashed to pieces on the rocks.
SHTha Third Marty iS,a falC0 LIGHT IT ia
the old horse going up and down on
the political coast Turing unsuspecting
men on to destruction by the false
light of Republicanism hung about
its neck" (Applause)
The speaker went on to enumerate
some of the hopeful signs of approach
ing Democratic success. The first was
that the women of the South were all
Democrats. In all his rambleS he had
found but one Third party woman;
the Press of the country, that sentinel
in the watch tower of liberty was
with the Democrats; the pulpit was
with them; the young men, the re-
finement, culture and chivalry of the
South were all on the side of the De-
mocracy.
Other happy signs were the Access
sions to Democracy from Republican
ism; the great majority in Georgia;
the fact that cOlOred men were leaV-
ing the Republican party in great
numbers. He never would forget the
debt of gratitude the South owed to
the colored men; while their masters
were off in the war they remained
faithfully with the helpless women
and children of the South. But the
colored men had already more than
paid back their debt of gratitude of
the North. They have been slaves to
the Republican party long enough.
The Democratic party in North Caro-
lima spends $76, 900 annually for public
schools raised principally by white
| mems taxes, and half of it goes to-
school children. North Carolina
since the prevalence in power of pow
er of the Democratic party has not
| only provided education for the ne
| gro race, but also asylums. Impair
| tial Justice had been meted out to
I them and they were protected against
| violence.
The speaker next spoke of a unique
walking stick he had recently been
shown. Upon the upper part of the
1 cane was eXquiSitely carved the head
and body of a farmer. Around the
| body of the farmer several serpents
were cOiled. A eulogium upon farm
| ing taking up about five. hundred
| words was cut upon the lower part of
of the stick. He proposed, he said,
to show some of the serpents that are
insiduously coiled around the farm
ers of the South.
The speaker here paid a glowing
tribute to the farmers. Farming was
the avocation of the Hebrews; the
farmers of Greece and of Rome made
those countries what they were. 1t
was the farmers of the country who
rallied around Washington; the farm
ers who followed Scott and Taylor in
Mexico, the farmers who with Lee
and Jackson. wreathed the name OF
the South with the word Immortal
Applause.
The Democratic party, the speaker
the political evils the farmers are la
boring under. We are partly to blame
ourselves for one of these evils. Under
false system of agriculture, bowling
down to false god called 'scotton, .
and raising it to the exclusion of the
necessaries of life, the Southern
farmer exposed himself to the dan
gers of the mortgage. The terri
bic burden a mortgage to a poor
man was wildly portrayed by the
speaker. He next enumerated the
party, the greatest of which he SAID
was the stealing of the Presidency
from Tilden.
The contraction o. the currency he
showed, was due to Republican mis-
rule. The wealth in the United
States amounts to SOS, 900, 600, 600
enough money to buy the whole OF
Russian Turkey, Norway, Sweder
and Denmark, the whole of South
, America and half of Africa, and yet il
is largely in the hands of the wealthy
in ono Coofinn IF tho on11nf.pu Won