The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-17
Jim Holt Couldn't Stand Rus
sell and His Savages.
DoNEWlTH REPUBLIcANlsM
Will Return as a Worker in
Democratic Ranks.
THE TWO KINDS OF PROTECTION
His Manufacturing Interests Would
Make Him a Republican But
the Home Must Be
Preserved.

Goldsboro, n. c., May TO- Special)
Mr.. Jas. III. Holt, Jr, the young cot
ton manufacturer who recently went
over to the Republican party because
he was an advocate Of protection and
was made a delegate to the st. Louis
convention, is in this city to-day by
chance, and here met and viewed the
returning Republican forces from the
State convention that last night nom
mated Russell for Governor. In con-
sequence he published this afternoon
i'm the Goldsboro Daily Argus the fol-
lowing letter which speaks for itself:
Editor Argus: 1t is an old saying
but a true one that "self-preservation
is the first law of nature" Acting on
this principle from mistaken stand
point of view, as to in what consisted
my preservation as a purely business
question, / have of late lent my aid
and influence to the furtherance of the
policy of protection championed by
Mckinley and advocated by the Repub-
lean party and / have gone so far as
to permit myself to be named as a
delegate from the Fifth, my resident
district, to the st. Louis National
Republican convention. But, Mr.. Edi-
tor, to-day in the city of GoldsborA on
nv way home from the session of the
Mystic Shrine in Newbern, / am greet
ed by a scene that gives me pause and
deeper reflection than heretofore.
1 have read of the scenes and expert
ences of '68 as we read Of other dark
epochs in history, but, reared since
that time, growing up under the be
nign influence of Democracy and en-
joying only the pacific blessings and
eleVating experience that appertain to
its supremacy, / could not compre-
bend what 1.-The men of old" endured
nor could my mind formulate a pic
ture so dark as their words painted
But to-day IN GoiGsooro / am able to
approximate from what Democracy
has delivered the State and to what
we are again tending. 1 am greeted
here by seething, surging mass of
conglomerated humanity, bowling ne
groes and exultant white men, arm in
arm. bearing aloft a banner with the
painted picture OF ID. i. Russell, our
choice" for Governor and with McKin-
ley badges son the side" And this
is the party with which / have become
allied and to this belongs the negro and
all with which / am to consort at st.
Louis. "Aly God, Abernethy!" Never
! hereby recant, abjure, abhor my afii-
iation with this party that fosters and
glories in such scenes in North Caro-
lima. l believe, Mr.. Editor, in honest
money sound money, if you will, honest
values and in 'our' turn at protection
to the infant manufacturing indus
tries of the South. But what would
industry, however much exerted,
amount to in State dominated by
Russell and his mob of bowling saw
ages? Yes, Mr.. Editor, there is pro-
lection and there is protection, and
for that greater protection / hereby
withdraw as a delegate to the st. Louis
convention, renounce my utilization
with the Republican party, only just
begun, / ann happy to say, and return
an humble but earnest worker in the
ranks of Democracy for white supre-
macy in North Carolina, good govern
ment economically administered and
home protection.
Very truly,
j. III. HOLT, JR.