The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-13
NO PROSPERITY YET
McKinley's Election Not Help
ing Prices Much.
TOBACCO FARMERS KICK
Election Promises Fail to Fan
Out For Them.
CY. WATSON is GETTING WELL
The Senatorial Question Now 5eIng
Discussed With Pritchard the
Favorite in the
Race.

Winston, n. u, NOV. IL mere ID d ue-
cided suspicion Of sulphur that floats over
the hills of old Forsyth, and just now 1t
is lust the least bit risky to tread too
near the toes of either Forsyth county
Democrat or the average Forsyth county
Republican.
The Democrats have made out in their
minds bills of indictment against the
Republican machine covering half
dozen different species Of election frauds.
They know that negroes, some old and
some young, have been moulded into
voters by this Republican machine with
out regard to age or other legal qualifica-
ton. l have been told that in one ward
nearly a hundred young negroes voted
who swear that they were horned in
September and October, 1875" They
all seemed to be trained to a knowledge
Of the very month that would bring them
to the polls this year. i have also been
told that hundreds of others-non-resi-
dents, conyicts and repeaters-were al
lowed to vote and little or no attention
paid to Democratic challenges or protests
all Of this under the beautiful ~ new
honest election law" while the honesty
the integrity and the intelligence of the
town had to stand aside and see the
dirty work so on.
Three things have nettled the white
men of Forsyth, and they are not exactly
in the humor to smile over the result.
But among those who are the loudest
and the most vigorous in their denuncia-
ton are the tobacco farmers of Forsyth
and adjoining counties, many of whom,
probably a majority of whom, voted for
Mckinley.
A thermometer around where these
fellows are would climb up into the
nineties, notwithstanding these cool af-
ternoons. / happened to get on the out
skirts of a crowd of them this afternoon
and one of the remarks | overheard
ran somewhat in this fashion:
"These blankety blank, blank, blank,
goldbug Mckinley blank blanks, told me
that if we fellows would vote for Nc
Kinley and hold our tobacco, that if Nc
Kinley was elected we could bring it to
market and get almost our own price
in gold for it, and l brought load to-
day and it sold for $3.50 cheaper than
it did three weeks ago"
That's just what they did" said a
farmer from Stokes. They fooled a
thousand tobacco farmers in my county
just that way"
"And they told the same tale all over
my county," said a Dayie county farmer.
"And where are these promising fellows
now?" asked a bystander
'aThey are riding up and down the rail-
roads looking for Offices" remarked far
mer
II asked that blankety blank, old blank
blank, to-day something about the high
prices for tobacco that we were going
to get when Mckinley was elected, and
what do you suppose he saidT
Told you TO go TO blank and expect,
his friend replied.
"No, he said that all stocks and bonds
were going up and that the mills IN the
| North had started up, and were working
on full time, that confidence had been re-
stored, and that gold was coming in
| from everywhere, and then when | told
| him that my tobacco was from two to
| three cents a pound lower than it was
| before the election, he said:
"'Well, it is supply and demand that
| is doing that, and you will just have to
stand it.
After this there was a panic
| for few minutes, when one
old gentleman said: ''Well, have always
| been a Republican, but was silver man
| aud / just felt like / ought to vote for
| silver. but | listened to these Mckinley
fellows and allowed myself to be pur-
| suaded into voting the gold ticket, but
| let me tell you something, I'll never vote
| again for a gold bug and I'll never vote
| for another man that votes for a gold
| bug" and every man in the crowd said,
Nor me, neither"
| This is the kind Of talk you can hear
| every hour in the day around a market
| place or warehouse. and if you just want
to start the atmosphere to quiyering just
mention a few OF these anti-election prom
ises in a crowd Of Piedmont tobacco
| growers.
Nor is it unnatural that these things
should contain just little bit of amuse-
ment for the silver men, especially in
| view of the fact that about two-thirds
of these tobacco growers insisted on
| voting for Mckinley and gold.
/ Winston is getting over the election
| excitment, however, and getting down
| to business. The tension here over the
| election results has been drawn pretty
| tight.
The boys had nothing over which to
rejoice and they have not been in the
humor to relish much jolliication from
the other side, especially when they con-
sidered the methods adopted to carry the
| local election.
| The city administration is Republican,
| thanks TO gerrymander by the last
| Legislature, and / am told that the
| police force has about as much back
| bone in it as a squad of Cinnamon had
| when confronting a Japanese battery.
| Some of the boys have given the cops
| the name of "snake hunters" because
| they so seldom take their eyes off the
ground. 1t was said that few days
ago, during little fisticuff on the street,
a squad Of police went hustling to Sheriff
| McArthur's office and in an excited
manner told him that fight was going on
and he had better get some deputies and
| go out and stop it. Forsyth's retiring
Democratic sheriff is as brave as a lion,
but he doubtless very properly told the
| trembling policemen to look after their