The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-10-06
THE COLORED SPEAKING.
Several Red-Hot Political Speeches
Made at the Court House Saturday

Made at the Court House Saturday
The colored Republicans held meet
ing at the court house Saturday after
noon.
Rev. G. l.. Davis was made chair
man and J. G. Latta secretary. After
announcing the object CT the meeting
Davis went on to criticise some state
ments made by DR.. J. O. Wilcox and
Spencer Blackburn in their speeches
He reviewed Blackburn'S speech and
said the young fellow only became
voter in 1888.
'ThiS meeting is called for the pur-
pose of letting those know who have
brought charges against us that we
are no. Democrats" said Davis.
'-ThOse who have said we were told
Infamous lies" When Blackburn re-
ferred to our local political matters he
got off the track. His duty was to
discuss State and national affairs.
When Blackburn said that all the
blood of the last war was shed to free
the negroes he told what was not true.
The little fellow who said that proba-
by never heard a cannon in his life;
or never heard the explosion of a bumb
shell. The object of the war was not
to free the negroes of the South. The
colored man is not indebted to the
Republican party for his freedom. 1t
was the grace of God that set us free.
The negro fought in the Union war as
brave as the white men. Whenever
you talk about fighting just put the
negro in because he loves to fight too.
When man tells you the negro has
no right to aspirations that man is in
the wrong church or pew"
''The negro is like mule. He is
tired of being ridden by the white Re
publicans and they propose to stop it.
These fellows in Forsyth have got too
big for their breeches. They have got
so they don't respect the men who put
turn them out"
Davis concluded his speech by say
ing that the colored people only re-
commended or asked for the nomina-
tion of Fits, this being only one col
ored man out of nine county nominees.
The colored people will support eight
white men if the white men would
| support one negro. But no. the whites
replied that they could do better with
out the negroes than with them"
| DAVIS severely denounced Judge
| Russell's card and declared that the
/ negroes would not vote for the white
| ticket unless the whites vote for Fits
| and Crews.
| Elijah Mayo was the next speaker
| to take the floor. He charged the
| leaders of the white Republicans with
trickery in the county convention. He
| read the attack made through the
Republican, on Col. ThoS. Ell. Sutton
He also denounced Editor Goslen
very severely for the course of his pa
per toward the colored people.
ssIf any man says the negroes are
Democrats he lies" said Mayo. 81
say this and I can be found by any
man who takes exception to this as
sertion.n
Mayo said he wanted the rascal:
turned out and therefore proposed tt
scratch every white man on the county
ticket He hit Blackburn who ha(
said Friday night that the western
counties went Democratic, by asking
where Cheatham lived.
/ Mayo said he didn't have time tt
arrange his grammar. He then call
ed for rising vote of all who opposed
Fits and Crews. Fifteen men stOot
up. He next asked all those VIII,
would vote for Fits and Crews tt
raise their hands, and large humble
did so.
/ Merchant, of Lynchburg, Va, wa
next introduced. He made ared-ho
speech on the same line of Mayors ar
gument.
Crews, the colored candidate TO
Register of Deeds, rose and said tina
the rumor that he would Withdraw
from the campaign was false; that b
would stand to the end. He made
very good speech and. is evidently
highly intelligent negro.