Asheville daily citizen., 1894-09-24
DUKE on RICHMOND ON 7HE RACK
HE WOULD NOT MEET CRAWFORD
AT THE WAREHOUSE.

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sitting OF the grand jury that present
ment be brought against Richmond
Pearson, the famous HAT Politician, ,"
who is pretending to make race for
Congress in the Ninth district. He
should be presented for causing such a
Jam in the court house Saturday after
noon as precludcd. absolutely. all idea of
bodily comfort unless one had special
seat where the crowd could not spread
over him.
Everybody expected the discussion to
take place in the Farmers warehouse,
where platform for the speakers had
been erected. But Pearson would not
hear to it, aud he sent a telegram The
has pen,hant these days for helpiag to
increase the dividends OF the Western
Union) saving that he would spea< in
the court house. The word was passed
around and his crowd began to gather
and fill the seats of the room. Then the
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made another change aud they went to
the court house, determined to hear tue
issues Of the day discussed, if it were pos
sible to find breathing space, by the two
candidates OF the Ninth. They swarmed
| in, and the Republicans came on, until
the place was packed as it probably
never was before. Seats, aisles, ratings,
window ledges-everv inch was taken,
and there was talk oi laying floor on
the heads OF the crowd and placing an-
other crowd above them. 1t would have
been Impossible to get postage stamp
through the crush without many hard
lick.
Pearson planted his foot down and
tragicallv declared he would speak either
i'll the court house or i'll front OF the court
house, which property be ongcd to all
the people, and nowhere else. 1t was
certain that no one could be heard at the
latter place because of the constant noise
ol traffic. so the Democrats decided to
stay in the court room, stand up, stand
on their heads or do anything in order
to sec and hear dscussers and discussion.
Pearson said the warehouse belonged to
his family, and to go there would place
him in the attitude OF host and he did not
want it that way. We'll, he had his own
way, and there is not bit OF doubt hat
he GOT dose that was OF qu'e differ.
cnt character from thc partially known
Pears n Pellets for tilv Prevention fP>n-
ury-paid for by the Duke and
given to voters free. F'aying is the
proper name for the dose
The people of the Ninth, with the ,x-
lccption of some possible purchasables,
are intelligent, ard they want a cam
lpaign of education. They will never get
it from Pearson. In his Saturday speech
into questions ol moment that affect
the people. Mr.. Crawford had the open
ing hCur and quarter and devoted
much of the time to the work of the
Democratic party, presenting the ques-
tions squarcly for the voters consider
aticn. He alluded to the repeal of the
Mckinley law the enactment OF an in
come tax. the changes wrought by tn,
new tariff law, etc. He said Pearson
could not agrcc with President Cleveland
and the Democrats, but must make a
whitccak platform of his ownest own.
But the people OF the Ninth wanted a
man who can get his politics Fellow his
hat-in his breast, where he can Sympa-
the with the people who stnd him to
Congress.
NJ. Crawford alluded to the d spatcn
he saw in THE CITIZEN concerning ttle-
grams Pearson had sent out asking that
delegates favorable to fusion he sent to
the recent Popuist convention here. Mr..
Pearson said THE CITIZENS news was
true, but that MIR. Crawford had no
more right to open his kilograms than to
open his private mail. He wanted to
know where THE CITIZEN got this pete
OF news unless it violated private conf
d,nccs. Mr.. Crawford said that was
none of his business. He had read it as
q piece Of news and Pearson had owned
up that it was correct. The Congress
man closed with an allusion to the
barter of the Republican votes Of the
district between Pearson and the Rcpub-
lcan bosses, and showing the tallacy of
the assertion of Pearson that President
Cleveland had struck down one halt the
money metal OF the country.
Pearson stands Up.
Soon after the opposition candidate
opened it was discovered that he had
learned his first little piece SO well that
he could not refrain from speaking much
ofit again, although it is not long since
he said it at the Grand opera house.
This goes to show that the piece has the
Dukes approval-he knows it's good.
and he said he would be here again be-
fore the election, which will probably
give him his third opportunity to say his
lines A more disappointing exhibition
would be hard to imagine. In his talk
there was nothing of the manner of a
statesman who can give birth to great
thought, nothing of orator, not an
OASIS to relieve the desert OF insipidity.
lie was acrobatic and clownish. He was
continually striving after ttf ct, and, as
might have ben expected, his harl,qui-
made was rclishcd BY some who claim to be
his followers. Soon after opening he
asked il John p. Kerr was in the house,
because he was about to make a public
attack on MIR. Kerr and he did not wis h
to do it except in Mr.. kcrr's presence. A
friend went ti,cr Mr.. Kerr. Pearson
said he would use the sottest words pos
siblc, but the tone OF the discussion had
been low because he had to meet the re-
cord his competitor had made! This
statement must have stricken some OF
the fair Republicans dumb. He once
more declared that he would be in the
shades OF private life but for the treach-
lcry of the Democratic party. He proudly
derl n rod hc W o,ll toll he trtt IA If IL CoS 4
limb, wheu Mr.. Kerr came IN, and
Pearson said he wanted to ask if the
correspondent of The CITIZEN had used
the contents of his private kilograms.
IMr. Kerr replied that the correspondent
had gotten the news in a perfectly le-
lgitimatc way, and il Pearson had any
charges to go ahead and make them,
The speaker then read a telegram from ]
b. Tree, superintendent of the Western
Union, stating that he would invcsti'