The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-02
Mr.. Watson Denounces Certain
Newspapers Rumors.
HE is ARRANGING NO DEAL
He is in the Race For Governor
and in it 10 Stay
TALKS PLAINLY OF THE REPORT
lie Has Gone to His Home TO Register
and Will Resume His Canvass
at Lumberton on Next
Monday,

Monday.
Monroe, n. c., Oct. 1.-(Specia)
| The people of Monroe and Union coun-
! ty turned out in large numbers to hear
| Hon. Cy Watson at this place to-day,
and his speech has had an electrical
| effect in unifying the silver forces in
| this county.
Mr.. Watson left Albemarle yesterday
morning, and at midday spoke to
| large crowd, mostly silver Republicans,
at Big Lick, Stanly county. He spoke
for three and half hours and made
one of the most effective speeches he
has made in the campaign, and prac-
tically solified that section in favor of
Bryan and Democracy. He arrived
in Monroe last night and an immense
audience greeted him at o'clock
| to-day.
Monroe has some dozen or so of hair
| splitting anti-silver, anti-Bryan Demo-
| Gratis who say more and talk louder
than any l have met in the State. This
contingent is divided up into about
| half dozen factions with from two to
three in each faction. Mckinley has
| one faction, Palmer one, the stay-at-
homes one, the Bryan electoral scratch
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| factions that are wondering where
| they are at. Meanwhile the white men
, all over the country who are for the
| white metal and for white supremacy
| in North Carolina are quietly, but
surely, getting themselves together for
| pull all together in November.
Mr.. Watson's speech to-day has slim
ulated these men and Union county
may, with perfect surety, by set down
| for Bryan and Cy Watson by a large
| majority. Mr.. Watson prefaced his re-
| marks to-day with the first reference
he has yet made to the silly news
paper reports, coming, as he said, from
| unfriendly and frivolous scribblers with
reference to his retirement from the
| ticket. He read the headlines of the
| Raleigh letter in Tuesdays Charlotte
| Observer and said that, however much
| he regretted the necessity of noticing
frivolous newspaper reports he felt
| that it was his duty to say once for
all, and to say plainly and distinct
/ ly, that there was absolutely no truth
| in them and that the headlines which he
read and which were written, he sup
| posed, by the editor of the Observer,
| not only had the effect of disorganiz-
1 lllS anu dSniDld1AGluE his 41INnuS anu
| the friends of Democrats in the State,
| but were an imputation upon him in
| dividually in that they intimated that
he was arranging deal by the terms
Of which he was to be rewarded with
a seat in the United States Senate.
IF you will go down to my home,
| said Mr.. Watson, ''and talk with those
| people with whom / was raised and
! Co. hr1
| not find man among those who know
me who will not tell you that such inn
/ putations are unjust and untrue. So
| far as / am concerned, / care nothing
| for them. ] know full well where they
come from, and think | know the mo
tive that inspired them. They come
| from little unreliable newspaper
| scribbler who hangs about Republican
| and Populist headquarters, prying in
| and out, and Matching up what ne
terms rumors, the publication of which
he thinks viii injure me and the cause
/ / representa- man to whom | have
! resolutely refused to talk, because /
! know of his enmity, and he who retail
| iates in this manner is no gentleman"
| Mr. Watson spoke of this with much
| earnestness and determination, ar.d
| there was not a man in the aud ,ence
| who was not in sympathy With him.
| He then spoke for some l.rtle time ON
| State issues, in reply To Republican
speeches made here q few DAYS ago
and tore into atoms every argument
i that they had advanced. The audience
responded with vociferous applause.
Taking up the National issues, he
dwelt at length and with great power
and effect upon the platform. He
made one of the strongest speeches of
his campaign. A number of gentle
men have told me it was the strongest,
most effective and unanswerable silver
argument THAT has ever been made in
| Monroe. He pounded McKinleyism
! until it hay at his feet a chaotic mass
of political corruption and ballot de-
bauchery. He spoke with telling effect
of the Importance of the joint electoral
ticket, and pleaded with the friends
of Bryan and reform to go to work and
see that every Bryan man stands to-
gether on election day
Mr.. Watson goes home tonight to
register. His appointments tomorrow
and Saturday will be filed by Hon c.
B. Aycock. He will resume the canvass
on Monday at Lumberton.
+. b. ARENDELL.