The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-23


mittees, and said with this record the
Democrats ought to be ashamed of
themselves to mention free silver, but
it will be observed that he was offering
no remedy except gold Senator Pritch-
ard cannot again claim after his speech
to-day that he is for free silver; he
has shown his hand at last. But Wiley
Shook SAYS this district is for gold.
Maybe the Senator thinks so too. Inc
people continue to drift away along the
edges of the crowd.
The Republican party, he sald'
was a better friend of bl-metal-
lism than the Democratic party, be-
cause it believed that one dollar should
be as good as every other dollar. inns
sentiment was heartily appiauded Dy
Pearson who sat just behind. Prltch-
ard denounced the Democrats Tor
turning down Cleveland, an American
citizen and taking the hand of Altgelds
the anarchist, after having criticized
Democracy for acts for which Grover
Cleveland alone is responsible.
Pritchard finally shouted: Il stand
on the platform announced at st. Louis
on the money question, bi-metallism
by international agreement. He be-
lieyed that Republican international
hi metallism, coupled with protection,
was better than Democratic free silver
and free trade" He eulogized McKin-
lev and said, His name was plat
form in itself" (Applause.) Although
the Senator had his speech typewriter
he spoke only one hour, almost to the
minute, using only half the speech.
He said to me privately that his
throat broke down, but he must surely
have observed that the crowd was
breaking down faster than his throat.
They felt that they had come for the
bread of free silver and had got only
the brickbat tariff-in the neck at
that.
But Judge Ewart came forward now
TO introduce JudgeRussell in his usual
happy way as 1.-THE next Governor of
North Carolina" Judge Russell began
by apologizing for the lack of APP
plause for Pritchard by saying that
it was Democratic audiences that were
always loud and noisy. He began by
denouncing the Democratic party as
THE party of free whisl1ey, free trade,
free silver, notification and jeff
Davis" He went into ancient history
about how North Carolinians had re-
fused to vote to go out of the Union.
The sectional venom of the man had
already come to the surface. He point
ed to a flag by him and said that the
Democratic party had said at Chicago
that it meant nothing; that it had no
power to enforce laws against rioters,
they may burn houses, destroy prop
erty and murder, if they will and if the
c4, 70, Il
the government has no power to do 1T.
Do you want that?" (No, response,
perfect silence. Crowd almost inatten-
tive still leaving by twos and singies).
He said when the States could not
uphold the laws the general govern
ment ought to do it, But the Demo
Gratis said it was unconstitutional.
He had never seen a Democrat, wheth-
er he could read or write, that did not
know adj about the Constitution.
Russell spoke of himself and his servi-
ces TO the Confederacy, and incidental
ay of the services of the other 10000
North Carolinians, then went into
tulogy of Lincoln for striking the
shackles from the slaves, saying he
had freed white men as well. He had
given the negroes equal rights with the
Eastern Shareholders. He said, The
old stakeholder had been equal to 100
OF YOU mountaineers, but you are now
free, provided you can preserve the
election law provided for YOU by the
fusion Legislature" Slight applause
on the edge of the crowd. The crowd
had dwindled I turned and asked
Senator Pritchard How many
here?" He replied, How many did
you put them down at when / began"
He finally sa;d"1 600" Wiley Shook
would not estimate, but laughed. TO
me there locked to be not one over 500
left. Mammoth Judge Russell was
perspiring and wallowing in free bal
lot and fair count" He said: I'VE
dent agree with our Populist friends
on many points, but nobody will~ey
get me to say anything against those
men To them | am indebted for a
free ballot and constitutional rights.
But for them we would be outcasts.
He took up Watson, can excellent
lawyer in Forsyth county, he says he is
going to talk only about National is
sues. / thought the governors Office
was a State office and had to do with
State matters. Seems to me that this
candidate has gotten confusion instead
of fusion and probably imagines that
he is running for President. Iaugh-
teri don't see how as governor he is
going to get free silver unless he
should take the convicts and put them
all to making free silver out of that
red clay around Raleigh. This little
humbug is only put up to fool the peo-
pie. ] don't want free silver coupled
with free riots, free secession, free
notification and free deviltry. There
is no end of humbug to this Democratic
talk of free silver. You just ask them,
"How can get any of this free silver?
Where do I come in? "a little laugh
ter.) I could tote all the silver
bullion in North Carolina is an old
linen buster. Then where does your
free silver come in? It is just a little
dodge that the Democratic party has
put up to save itself from annihila-
ton. If the silver dollar was going
to be equal to the gold dollar by free
silver, would not it be as hard to get
a silver dollar as a gold dollar? 1t
Sc CF T,111ah prt0rstanpa a n her