Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-10-22

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and nothing else is the same, and
nothing SO good.
cratic legislatures they are
indebted for their asylumns and big
educational institutions through>
out the State and their free
schools in every county. If DR..
Person and his crowd get control
of the Legislature they will change
all this, for DR.. Person does not
even let 'tnigger' work on his
plantation or did not up to the
time he entered into politics and
needed their votes. He spoke Of
the leading Democrats of the
county in the old Republican
threadbare and senseless rot as
''the Democratic ring, and said of
them, with the deep hatred of his
heart clouding his ''foxy' coun
tenance in murderous scowl,
.sthere is not more desperate set
of dare devils unhung." He at
tempted to show the superiority
of the present Rep-Pop fusion
election law ove- the former fair
and open one of the Democrats, that
gave the people every day in the
week to register for thirty days
before the election, instead of
seven hours day for four con
sccutive Saturdays only, and clos
ing two weeks before the election,
as provided by the present law
that he attempts to hold up to the
people as the superior of the
two.
There are railroad men all
over the State to-day who have
not registered; because the
trains must run on schedule
time and these men must work for
their daily bread and the support
of their families, and they have
not had the opportunity, nor has
it been possible for them to be at
fhome on any of the four exclu
sive Saturdays between the exclu-
sive hours of 8 Il. m. to 4 p. m.
1t was not so under the Demo
cratic election law, that gave every
man a full opportunity all day
long for thirty full days be
fore the election to register.
The people know this aid Judge
DIR. Person right up TO his little
calibre when he attempts to dc
fend this new handicapping and
unjust election law, that is the
highest form of class legislations
because it is impossible in many
instances, such as the railroad
cases above referred to, for
working men on wages, who have
no other means of supporting
themselves and families, to get te
their registrar within the exclusive
hours on the particular days-anc
only four days at that; while mer
of ease and affiuence, who employ
labor, and have not to work them
selves, can easily be registered
Hence the class legislation feature
of this PERFECT law that DIR
: Person would have you believe i
to be.
DIR. Person said further, tha
, the freedom of the American citi
zen stood out ahead of. SILVER o.
anything else and, that the mail
issue now before the people wa
mot free silver but fair elections
He told the Populists not to le
> democrats divert them from tn
course they had begun by tn
: silver question. That the silve
: question could wait four year
longer.
q DR.. Person said he had NO
g tossed up his hat single time fo
4 Bryan and was not going to do SC
q He said other people could do a
t they pleased, but he could not er
d dorse the fusion elector:
r ticket now IN the field. In re
b lsponse to question by Jude
s Allen as to whether be would vol
o for Bryan. DR.. Person said
e had not made up his mind to
K so. He said let the gold stand
+ ard remain until the election la
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