Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-10-01
SOME REPUBLICAN TALK
I.INNEY AND FURCHEs SPEAK
SEVERAL. HOURS.
The Court House Was Chuck EulI,
the COIOred Contingent Filling
the South siGe-Linney and His
Foul Jokes.

the COIOred Contingent Filling
the South SiGe-Linney and His
Foul Jokes.
When Geo. Nj. Bulia, who, by the grace
of Collector Rollins, helps to keep this
glorious old government on its legs,
arose to introduce the two Republican
speakers, Linncy and Fprches, i'll the
course last evening, he looked out occr
a packed house, made sure of his au'
dicnce and then proclaimed that they
would be addressed by two speakers,
ono Of whom, he modestly added, was
to be the next Governor of North Caro-.
lima. This little assertion was greeted
with yell so loud that it could not be
drowned by the din made by the band
practicing in room upstairs
1t is certainly safe to say that at least
one-half of the Republicans present were
colored men. The latter sat on the
south side of the room, the north side
held good sprinkling of Democrats
while most of the white Republicans
revenue officers, postoffice employees, and
80 forth. sat inside the bar.
The first man introduced was Romuluf
Zoroaster Linney of Taylorsville, and
Rom" proceeded to raise trouble for
the Democrats if possible. He talks rap
idly, but has fashion of getting his
voice downt to a ghost of whisper wher
he wishes to make point or become
tragical. He referred to the immorta
Jefferson as believing in absolutely free
discussion-no throwing of rotten eggs
no firing of shotguns, no blowing o
rams horns to disturb speakers. HI
rdiculed Elias Carr, who is the Guber
material candidate of the Democratic
party. Linney said the Democratic
party was inconsistent because it sem
out as poor a speaker as Carr with n!
bright talkcr as Frank Osborne. Wher
Linney and Furchcs had concluded, il
was evident to anybody that this crit
csm might as well apply to the Rcpub
liran party for sending out Linnev anc
Furchcs together.
You'd as well, Linney said ''look for I
block Of ice in hell as to look for one Dem
ocratic idea in Elias Carr" And here h
got in dirty joke. which created Sc
much applause that he had to wait ioi
it to die out. He then compared Cleve
land and Harrison, declaring that thu
latter was the grandest living American
while he made vile reference to Clcve
lands private lite, which he meant to b,
funny. 1t made the crowd roar. Linncl
admitted, however, chat Cleveland is {
great man.
Referring to the Chicago convention
Mr.. Linney said Mrs. Lease had init
mated that the Democrats were all drunk
He didn't believe that, for he didn't
think there was enoughllQuorin Chicago
to make them all drunk.
Romulus said just few words abou
the force bill. He vowed it WAS dead it
fact, it was stillborn. He thought ever,
Democrat who talks about the force hil
ought to have the lett hind foot Of {
graveyard rabbit tied around his neci,
The force Of this was not fully felt cxcep
by the colorcd contingent.
The county government system wa
given few touches, Linnev averring tha
the registrars of election have NOR
power than the Queen of England. "lf,
he said, "the Democrats get through thi
year they will go through powerful
small hole and they will then leave lot
of hair on both sides of the hole. II
admonished the Republican cohorts It
'gird up your lions" and stopped him
self amid great applause from the soutl
side of the house.
Furchcs Tires Kim Out.
When Judge Furches arose he said h
was glad to see so many of his fellow
citzeus out, because he had been speak
ing to small crowds. He spoke abou
two hours, and succeeded in causin
nearly one half of the crowd to leave
He spoke slowly. He also told the co
ored men that Buncombe county evie
on them $3S 900 in taxes, exclusive {
school tax, But he neglected to give tn
tax rate, or to state who paid the tax, rt
lying on the lump sum to astonish hi
hearers. He succeeded, as was evidence
by the grunts and prolonged whistles {
surprise sent up from the south side.
Furches stated that it was not hi
fault that be was not to have a join
canvass with Elias Carr. But he di
not say that Chairman Eaves had d
clined Chairman Simmons propositio
for joint debate between Carr an
Furches, Osborne and Purnell.
Furches jumped into the annual mil
tary encampments, when men in bras
buttons feast and carouse for weeks q
time and promised, if he was elcctct
that he would do all he could to save Il
taxpayers the $4,000 expended for tn
purpose. He said the public printin
was given to Joe Daniels by farmers VIII
- had not combed their hair for six montl
because he bootlicked them.
The speaker had occasion to refer I
= the StattSville Landmark, and said "
" you doubt the Democracy of that pape
go down to Charlotte and say so, al
you'll have to fight Joe Caldwell"
1t was near 1870 when Furches four
place in his speech tostop at. Some
his points were greeted with such excl
nations as "Amen :" God help