The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-06
SCENE NO. 2

cheeIed weaver ana Lease eo
vociferouslY at Rocky Mount last
Friday would hardly have cheered
the speeeA be made about them IN
private the following morning.
The editor OF The DEMocRAT
spent the night IN Rocky Mount.
and Weaver and wife and sir,
Lease were on tie train next morn
ing On their way TO Portsmouth.
We took a seat on the OPP
posite side of The car from them
and 10y mere accident We heard
their conversation as the tram
would stop at different stations,
Weaver and Lease were occupy
ing a seat together and Mrs. Nea-
ver's seat was turned In front OF
them and she was riding wards.
they were cOnverslng abOnt what
they saw along the road and were
discussing the South aud its peo-
pie. At station near IarborO We
heard Weaver and wife telling Mrs.
Lease some things she seemed not
to have heard before. First they told
her. in tones of ridicule and with an
air of scorn, about the old time we'll
sweeps, by means of which the peO-
Die draw water. They described
to Mrs. Lease how the people pull
on the hand>pole to carry the
bucket down and then how the
weight at the other end Of the
sweep brings the water up, without
effort on the pat of the drawer.
Mrs. Lease expressed surprise and
affected that she could not believe
that the people are SO ignorant as
to draw water that way.
And they told her, with the same
air of scoIn, that it has only been
a few years since the people learned
how to go to mill. Tnat when one
carried cOru or htav to mil he dld
not have sense enough to divide
il but would put al; the grain IN
one end of the bag aud then place
a rock in the other end to balance,
swing it across his horse and thus
get 1t to the mill They SAID the
Deop did not have sense enough
to discover how TO divide the corn
themselves but some one else lad
to discover it for them Aud Mrs.
Lca-e aided that che suprr,,td a
woman lad to discover it Tor them
Sh.. then exclaimed, "LOrdS OF Gre
alton, how well they have managed
things!"
We heard the conversation iust
as we have related it without
making any effort to DO so what
ever A. We stated above il was
a mere accident that we sat where
we hrar.l the conversation and that
that part of it occurred just when
the train was still so that we could
hear it. What else they said we
do not know We changed cars
at Hobgood and they went their
way
How can Southern farmers sup~
port man who one day openly
asks them fol- their votes and gnsh-
es IN his demagogic praise of them
and the next day in private cons
versation with his travelling party,
ridicules their life Of simple but
honest toll and rudely .iests and
lies about their ignorance? We
can't believe that many OF them
who have the proper self respect
will do 1t.
How can the Southern people
respect woman who comes all the
way from Kansas to instruct them
calls them "brothers" in open decla-
nation one day and the next day,
in private conversation, in tones of
low ridlcule and biting scorn, calls
them "lords Of creatiOn?" il the
crowd who heard them speak at
Rocky aOunt on Friday had heard
their conversation the next day as
We heard it, their shouts of ap>
plause would have been turned to
Misses OF DISCUS There was no
other passenger on the cars near
enough to hear the conversation,
but Weaver and Lease would not
dare deny it.
Let the people have nothing to
do with such humbugs.