The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-29
JUDGE RUSSELL SPEAKS
rhe Republican BI, Wont at Metro
pOlItan Halt Last Night.

The Russelites, the Logites and 9th
critics had a meeting last night.
1t was a cloudy gathering.
The darkies had the front seats, the
middle seats and nearly all the rear
seats. and about every other seat was
occupied.
After some preliminaries the chair
man introduced Judge Russell.
The Gubernatorial asprant seemed
to feel that as IA real genuine Russellite
Rally, the meeting was a sort of Il
fiasco. but made up his mind to make
the most of it. He touched along at
first what he doubtless thought was Il
humorous vein, talking about funerals.
But the darkies didn't catch the
humor and dozens of them proceeded
TO drop off to sleep.
He touched another cord and these
that had remained awake proceeded to
veil, which for a moment woke up the
sleepers.
This cord was what the speaker
termed Democratic election frauds
The more he talked on this line the
louder the dusky crowd followed and
when he referred to the Democratic
Drunken Bull pen Scoundrels," there
Il
hall. but many of them soon dozed off
again and woke up only when the
speaker declared that if all the Demo
cratic ballot stealers were put in the
penitentiary their legs would be hang
ing out at the windows.
THE fusion of 1894" he declared
had saved the State, and as a result
northern men and money was coming
into the State.
''They would not go to South Caro-
lima. a man that would go to South
Carolina with himself or his money
would be fool enough to rent yard in
hell for a summer resort.
me man who tells you that it is
populists who are disfranchising the
negro in South Carolina is liar.
.'They are Democrats, and the man
who opposes fusion in North Carolina.
you may put him down as hired CON
sistent Democrat.
Thank God for fusion" (great
yells.)
A drummer said at the hotel in Raj
eigh that he was Republican, and ]
thunk, and ! thnuk, and | thunk."
That drummer a few years ago
would no more have said in Raleigh
that he was Republican than he
would have stuck his head in fire
Thank God for fusion, '(moreyells.)
jeff Davis died and woman in
Washington draped her house in
mourning.
| like that woman. If she wanted
TO make a fool of herself she had d
right to do it. For freedom gives
the right to make fool of yourself if
you want to"
II worshipped Jeff Davis once and
went into the army TO fight against my
country then | made a fool of myself"
But still we are proud of the State
that sent more soldiers, according to
its population than any State in the
Union"
We fusionists built that monument
10 their memory.
''But | don't care what you sesesh
Democrats say about me, am glad we
got whipped"
i have got to say something to get
the Democratic papers to abusing me.
We fusionists havn't got any daily pa
pers, and Judging from the election
returns we don't need any. But | tell
you | am not happy unless the Demo
cratic papers are abusing me-"
The speaker then went into the for
cign policy of the Cleveland admins
tration and declared that Cleveland
| had sent a little Bayard from that lit
| tie Peach orchard, Delaware, who goes
| up to that little she thing. over there
| they call queen, and tells her that he
| regrets that America has had a Protec-
| tive policy"
Our victory means that Bayard and
| such AS him shall get out
Suppose we had a few more years
| of Cleveland?"
| ''Why | see that Chatham county is
| caring formore lunatics than ever be-
| fore in its history, who wonders at it,
| when Cleveland is president?'
| After Judge Russell concluded, Pat
| Stewart, j. j. Rogers and other Rad
| Pops. ranted for an hour or so and the
meeting broke up.