The Caucasian., 1896-09-03

without getting into q revs. Is here
any danger o. getting into : row in
this peaceable audienrr to-day" Cries
OF No. No.t
Are you going - vote Tor = RAN
who won't meet his competitor:
\ yoii.y of Noes 60 me forth in an
sx-r 10 this question. The Major con-
tinu-d to sCorch Russell siling be
had turned tail and run laughter
and exclaimed: Drop him like you
woGlt hot potato THAT wrWill -
Addressing the rol1Tet people, tEt
Major said: do you want 4 man
who calls YOU savages:~ There went
up = shout of NOES.
Now, | am 20 b. followed hy AT
honest and = great man. lie has bee n
= consistent Repu5.icaU. Ur stands
by principles and not party. ! am =
Populisi OF the truest type. You Re
pub!icans here in thi. county come to-
honest men: free silver men. Come
together. What difference doe, il
make what man has been. None. I
think" c"Me. neither" cried colored
man. Then he asked them 20 r-mem-
~ ''N1 y kiB OF
"yeses went up from the audience.
The old War Horse Of Th- Pee pee
The closiac Of Maj. Gu;Irir's speech
was an elo4 irHt Introduction Of Col.
oliyer H. - ct hcry, " no ha, for wear,
borne the sobriquct 81 th- "old War
Horse OF tn Tee Dee" This intro
duction "a >uIl l,emrutet with some
remark So '.,gu-It diction hy Con-
gressmau haI!rs IL. Martin. WHO pr--
sented C.t. DJCkery.
Col. Dcckery Vas greeted with en-
thusia>;I" cheers. and expressions nf
tod Bless \ On" were from where IN.
c"lorec people were standing thick,st
He was suffering with y chill. and de-
clared that he felt unable 10 make :
speech. But he began 10 taIA. and al
most before tie "Old War Horse" was
aware he was delivering an aG-
dress which will effect the drs-
TIMES OF great State-pOssibly Y
The nation. His very appearance.
showed that he spoke under the
Inspiration Of intense conviction.
Scorn OF petty partisanhip. deiianc. of
party criticism and honesty of pur-
pose shone with force from the strong.
determined cUuntenance of the GRAND
OLD MAN of North Carolina. The
eyes OF thousand people riyeted upon
him, and the most acute attention
was iii readiness for what he had to
say. He did not approach his audi
ence IN roundabout way. Like
y man of invincible integrity and
tirmness of purpose that he is. he let
he people understand his position in
he utterance of his first sentence. lie
said:
I'm some essential features | like
the Republican party, but the Repub-
licans are wrong this time, and / An
NOT GOING WITH THEM IN THIS ELEC-
TIoN."
There was 4 perceptibie shock in
the audience, but there was no cessa-
tion of thu most rapt attention.
Two years ago the Republicans OF
Richmond county adopted a resolution.
one clause OF which read this way :.
We, the kepublicans Of Richmond
county declare for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
Of lG to l. | went on TO Raleigh and
was chairman OF the State convention
there. appointed committee on
resolutions, of which Loge Harris was
hartman, and told it TO PUT in a free
It was Adopted by he convention. And
to-day the Republicans in this State
stand bound hy that resolution.
Not long since, | was candjdat.
for the Repu blic&n nomination for
Governor of this State. The method.
by which Was defeated constituted =
sWlndle, which was perpetrated by ID.
l.. Russell and his supporters. Dut
| am glad now that was done: for if
had been nominated then | would
have sent back the nomination tn th..
party after Mckinley was nominated,
on 4 gOldbug platform on account uf
his gOldbug ideas.
Russell and Pritchard are comino
out now for gold, though they were
for silver. and Russell once for green
backs. 81 am not made out OF that
kind OF dirt. They are in it for he
pie. | can get my pie made at home.
| am for free silver, and | am against
any party that is against free silver. |
can't advise you to vote for Mckinley
because | don't think it's right: |
know it's not right The speaker
eulogized Clay, and plead for profec-
ton OF labor, though he was not a.
high protective man Us some. lie
would not today vote for the McKin-
ley bill, If he were in Congress. II
was simply tub thrown to the whale,
tie was IN favor OF moderate prntec-
tIOn that would not rob CDe part of
the country for the benefit OF another
w hen thls bill had first been passed
during his absence abroad. he hao
called his son and said, Claude. look
at 1T Claude, it is fatal TO the success
OF the Republican party"
''The people want more money. They
want free silver. Look at Russell
PrltcharG and the like, going
over the State huwiinS for gold.
will not turn my back on those
| silver resolutions nf two years ago.
am for silver and against any nar,y
| that Is not for it. / could not advise
anybody to do what do not think i,
right. | do not think the gold stand
ard is right and cannot advise YOU ia
vote for it. We ara living in perilou.
times; never saw more naket,r.ss
l never saw more cloth in fzctorie.
THAT cannot be taker out for lack G.,
money. The gOldbugs say that the
times are good. Snch men should be
put in the asylum and the door locked
with l6 keys.
II love the principles, generally. a
| tne republican party-the priucipIe,
that Clay handed down. The ReoUb.
llcan party followed him and said that
| the laboring classes must be protected
L believe in protection, but | would
not vote for the Mckinley bill now
because that is protecting one secti, /
against another. 1t would be fatal Il
the South. lam for reasonable prn.
tection.''
Col. Dockery reviewed the history q