The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-19
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH GAR0lIMA DAILY

lieve is essential to the welfare of the
masses of America, and moth
ing shall keep me from do
ing all in my power by
voting, speaking or working here and
elsewhere for the election of that peer
less man, VIM. j. Bryan.
Mr. Watson told how, if he had the
power he would make proper Presiden-
tial timber out of Tom Reed, Grover
Cleveland, VIM. Mckinley or Mark
Hanna. Il would take them to my old
county, Forsyth, and | would take
them out on Sandy Ridge, and for
two years they should have naught but
what they made in a tobacco field.
| would put Tom Reed and Grover
Cleveland TO grubbing early in the
winter, and they should grub and
fence and burn brush and plough and
hoe tobacco. When planting time come
| would put one to dripping plants and
the other to setting them in the
ground. with the iron clad rule, that
no back should straighten from rows
end to rows end. Then when worm
ing time came they should go and
trudge up this row and that row, pull
ing off the heads of worms. Then
they should cut the tobacco, carry it
on their backs to the barn and sit
| up three nights at a time curing it;
then they should load it on a wagon,
hitch mule to one side of the tongue
and a speckled steer to the other and
haul it forty miles over muddy roads
to market, and them said the fiery
speaker, Il imagine | could see VIM.
Mckinley as the auctioneer come to
his pile of tobacco and knocked it off at
5000 per hundred, say to Cleveland,
Why, Grover the American Tobacco
CO., bought my pile at the very first
bid, and Grover would say, Why,
Billie, you don't say So
After two years of such experience
as this said Mr.. Watson, "these men
would be fit candidates for President
of the United States"
Mr.. Watson spoke of the insurance
companies, savings banks and rail-
roads, which are warning the people
| that if silver wins they will receive
| their policies, their deposits and their
| earnings in SO cent silver dollars, land
tevery time / read one of these I have
| full proof that the devil is still alive
and doing business at the old stand,
| trying to deceive the people by lying.
Self interest controls the human heart,
at least these human hearts and every
| body knows that if the free coinage
of silver would enable them to pay
their obligations in fifty-three cent
dollars the last one of them would
| be for it.
Gold is a coward and always has
| been, and whenever a battle is to be
| fought for a country's credit, it shirks
| and hides. and to-day the silver dol
lars and silver certificates every dollar
xxrbf thnca hax
all their might, comprises about all
the money there is in circulation.
| Mr.. Watson alluded TO his two oppo-
| nests for Governor and declared that
he had done all in his power to get
/ Judge Russell, who represented the
| other side of the great paramount is
| sue in the campaign to meet him
| but he had tried in vain, not that
| Judge Resell was afraid of him, but
| he knew that whenever he met him
| on the stump that he would make him
come down from one of the horses he
| is trying to ride, Mckinley and silver,
| he knows that / would strike the mask
| from him and show him to be an enc
| my to the peoples cause. / hear that
| he has gone west, but / am going after
him, / am going in obedience to a
L Nc'iihAdhh o1dNl IMAM luihdn Jaw. nat
old command that bids you go after
| your enemies ass if you see him going
| astray.
But have another opponent said
Mr.. Watson, Mai. w. A. Guthrie. but
| what&his politics are ] don't know If
knew to-day / would not know what
they would be tomorrow, the first
| time | knew him he was holding a fat
| nffinn mn
| ton, then in 1880 he Topped and
| Patted me on the shoulder and said.
Il am for Hancock. Let's beat them"
but Hancock was beaten and Guthrie
got no pit, four years later, he was
Blaine elector, but Blaine got beaten,
and no pie for Guthrie, then in 1883 he
was rip roaring Cleveland man, but
that year Cleveland was beat and there
was no pie for Guthrie. In 1892 I believe
he supported Cleveland against Weaver
but still he got no pie.
| hear that Major Guthrie has chal-
lenged me for a joint campaign, want
to say that he may challenge, but
what's the use of joint
sanpaign between us. He claims to
represent what | represent. He claims
| to be for silver, income tax, against
| trusts, etc, and so do /. 1t would be
| narrowed down to a personal fight as
to which of us two you would vote
for for Governor. That, my fellow cit
izens. is of small Importance as com
| pared with the great issues involved,
| and | am not going to do anything or
engage in any debate or arrangement
that has for its object the diversion of
the minds of the people from these
great questions"
Mr.. Watson closed amid a perfect
storm of applause, and received a reg
ubar ovation from his audience.
Tonight Mr. Watson spoke for an
hour to an audience of nearly three
hundred at Aberdeen. He was intro
duced in a pleasant little speech by
Mr.. Henry A. Page, and the enthusi-
asm of his hearers was equal to that
at Carthage.
Moore county is getting in shape for
great battle and great victory.
i. B. ARENDELL.