The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-19
A Rousing Crowd Greeted the
Peerless Watson.
AT CARTHAGE YESTERDAY
He Spoke Again Last Night at
Aberdeen.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM FOR SILVER
People With Convencing Argu-
snent and Flights of
Eloquence.

Eloquence.
Carthage. y. c., Aug. 18.-(SpeciaD
When the court house bell rang at
Carthage at one o'clock to-day per-
feet swarm of people made a rush for
the court room. Ia five minutes every
seat was occupied, in five minutes more
every aisle, nook and corner was
crowded with the farmers of Moore
county assembled to listen to North
Cardinals great silver champion, pow
erful orator and peerless gentleman,
Cyrus B. Watson.
Mr.. Watson was In splendid trim and
in perfect voice. He seemed to catch
inspiration from the great crowd of
determined and sturdy yeoman that
confronted him and made one of the
most powerful and convincing two
hour speeches that ever rang out from
the Moore county hustings. He hand
led each point in his great argument
with perfect ease, with powerful logic
and captivating eloquenee, the vast
crowd hung as one man upon every
syllable and every sentence and as he
would round up his sentences with
those flights of eloquence, akin almost
to Bryan himself, the crowd suddenly
burst into spontaneous and irresista-
BILE applause and cheering.
Mr.. Watson was introduced by Mr..
y. C.. Black, the chairman of the DEM
ocratic executive committee of Moore
county, in a very handsome little
speech and was given a splendid ova-
ton as he stepped upon the platform.
He began by saying that he was here
because it was his duty to be here.
''I am away from my home and
passing around among the people be-
cause they have a right TO see and
know me. they have a right to know
what my position is on the great ques-
tion that they are called to pass
upon at the election in November next.
/ never expected to be candidate for
Governor" said Mr.. Watson. 81 never
attended that great convention in Raj
-eigh with any such hope or desire and
when, after hours of consideration, /
finally consented, did SO knowing
that with the trust comes q burden OF
responsibilities as we'll as the honor
that was attached"
Mr.. Watson then took up the three
great issues, the money question, the
income tax and the opposition to
trusts saying that he did not know
whether he was talking to Democrats,
Republicans or Populists. He did
know, however. that he was talking to
free men, citizens of North Carolina,
who must soon exercise that great
right of suffrage, men who should, by
the proper exercise of that great right,
be the rulers and not the ruled.
sYou must in your conventions write
platforms and name candidates and
when the candidates you name and
elect to Office fail to carry out your
wishes as expressed in your platforms
then your government ceases to be a
government of the people. For the
first time in the history OF America
great political party had got togeth-
er and declared that all the CONNER
cial transactions, all financial dealings
of seventy millions of people should
be conducted upon single gold stand
ard and that the value of all the pro-
ducers of those people should be meas
ured by this single standard. 1t was
not the masses of that party that did
this, it was a huge, corrupt syndicate
of millionaires who, with the great
wealth they had ground out of the peo-
pie, had bought the platform, bought
the candidate and now, not by buying
the voters, but by using their i'll got
ten gains to divide the voters, they
propose to elect their candidate and
thereby saddle upon the American peo-
pie for four more years this rule of
ruin"
81 went to Chicago" said the speak
er, ''and / saw some of the same crowd
there, but / saw two-thirds of that
great convention coming up from the
tlae Of f1aa
South and West, with deter
mination to register the ver-
dict of the masses of America as it had
been committed to them. Now you find
those men, calling themselves Demo-
Gratis, who failed to control that Chi
cago convention, down in New York
closeted with Mark Hanna, the King
of Mckinley, deviSing means to defeat
that great tribune of the people, VIM.
j. Bryan. But | saw in Chicago thou
sands of brainy and hrawny men who
had left that gold standard st. Louis
convention, men who all their lives had
been Republicans, saying to the Dem
ocrats there, ''Stand by the people
Name your platform and nominate
your candidates. and we will help YOU
elect them" and they are standing
with us to-day.
Two-tlrirds or the voters of the
United States believe in the platform
and candidates of that Chicago conven-
ton. Two-thirds of the voters in
North Carolina the same, but we see
now efforts being made to divide those
voters. 1t will take us all to whip
them, my friends, and for the sake of
yourselves, your homes and your lit
tie ones, don't let any man or set of
men keep you from standing as solid