The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-03
WATSON'S CAMPAIGN
He is Making q Great Fight
For Principle.
AND THE WEST is AROUSED
All Parties and Glasses Are
Against Russell.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM FOR BRYAN
Mr.. Watson Discouraged by the News
paper Reports That He is CO.
ing to Get Out of the

Race.
To the Editor: The passing OF Hon.
Cv Watson through the counties of
Randolph, Montgomery and Staniy
has been attended by a degree OF en-
thusiasm that has hardly characterized
the campaigning of any man within
a dozen years. Mr.. Watson has passed
along from Asheboro and Randleman'
in Randolph, along through Mont
oomery to Troy and from there to this
Toint and has left in his wake an
ARMY of determined workers, thor
oughly united and completely equip
ned for the great battle they are TO
FIGHT on the 3rd of November lie spoke
on Saturday last TO over six hundred
at Asheboro; on Saturday night 10
vast crowd at Randleman; on yester-
day to a large crowd at Troy and to-
day to a courthouse packed at Abe
marie. The weather has been unpro-
Ditious. 1t has rained and ralned ana
the winds have been wild and bols-
ferrous, but neither winds nor rains
have. kept the people away from the
meetings. They have come from miles
around, facing the winds and through
the rains to hear Democracy $ stand
ard bearer. They have heard ana
cheered his utteranceS, grasped ms
hands in friendly greetings, assured
him of their steadfast support and bid
him God speed in his efforts to WIN Tor
the people this great peoples tight.
Men of all classes, all conditions and
of all parties have met him at these
different points and at other places
as he has travelled through these
three counties and told him that, re-
gardless of past opinion or party affilia-
lions, they were going to stand by
North Cardinals second Zeb. Vance
and put him at the helm of the old
ship of State that was manned SO
skillfully and so successfully by Vance
himself.
Mr.. Watson's speeches in Randolph,
Montgomery and Stanly have been
powerful thunderings from that great
battery of logic and truth that has
sent terror into the ranks of the enemy
and made many of them acknowledge
within my hearing that the fight to
them is lost. He sent a thrill of en-
thusiasm and determination through
the ranks of Democracy that has called
to arms every laggard in the camp
and encouraged him to line himself up
for united and determined fight for
victory. 1t has been encouraging to
see these vast crowds of honest toilers
coming up from their homes in these
three grand old counties, hundreds of
them, with snowy locks and wrinkled
brows, bringing with them their sons
and grandsons and hearing them say,
Sometimes in the past we have been
Isx-s1a1 h4.f M oil r1raifnH nxus -
One old gentleman pressed his way
through the crowd at Albemarle to-day
and grasping Mr.. Watson by the hand,
said: 81 wish / had ten thousand votes
to give You, but / have only got ten;
I have seven sons and two sons-in-law
and myself, and there will be no division
this year in my family. We feel, Mr..
Watson" said the old gentleman, that
the fight that you and that great man
Bryan is making is one fight and we
are going to stand by you"
81 have been a Republican all my
life," said another gentleman, ''but
when that party got to the point where
it had nothing to offer to the plain
people but higher taxes and more
trusts and combines, turned my back
on it, and like my old friend, Col. Dock
cry, am going to do all can to de-
I3db IL.
THAT was the greatest speech that
has been made in Stanly within
dozen years." said a gentleman here
to-day, and since it's close / have heard
Populists and Republicans, say that
nearly dozen men, who were formerly
they were going to vote for Cy. Wat
son and for silver.
Mr.. Watson goes tomorrow to Big
Lick, in Stanly county, and from there
to Monroe, where he speaks on Wednes-
day. It is, and / might just
as well say il right here,
exceedingly exasperating to the friends
of this great man, who is so unselfishly,
so earnestly and with such loyalty to
his party and to principle, fighting
against Russellism in North Carolina
and Mark Hannaism in this country,
to have newspapers claiming to be his
friends, printing from Republican
sources such utter rubbish as has APP
peared in print during the past few
days with reference to some deal or
trade by which he is to retire from
the ticket. The Democrats here to-day
were Disguised and indignant at these
publications, and / have heard num-
Der express the opinion that these re-
ports are schemes gotten up for the
purpose of disorganizing and democrat
izing the forces that Watson himself
is so effectively uniting What other
motive could prompt them?
r. B. ARENDELL.
Albemarle, N. c., Sept. 20.