The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-17
Capt. Tom Mason Gives Him q
Joltsin Joint Debate.
WO oOARD DOWNS WALsER
The Pitia bls Story Of These Two
Light w Fights in Greene.
THE NEGRos WENT TO SLEEP
REYNOLDS Said People Know Nothing
About Financial Question; So Ma
son Gave Him Some State
Republican History.

Republican History.
Snow Hill, n. c.. Oct. TO- (Speeial)
7 don't know what may happen in
the campaign in North Carolina be-
tween now and election day, but /
think / know one thing that will not
happen again, and that one thing is
that C. A. Reynolds. the goldbug can
didate for acknowledgements, won't
again ask for joint debate with Hon.
Thomas w. Mason. He did it at Snow
Hill to-day, but his Republican friends
in Greene county Will never forgive
him for doing it, and | think that he
will spend his leisure from now until
his permanent retirement from the
stage of political action kicking him.
self for putting his Uranium under the
guillotine of Mason.
To-day has been great day in Snow
Hill. a glad, glorious day for
Greene county, a sort of a date day in
its political history, and one that peo-
pie will talk about for years to come,
The gubernatoriad appointments of
Mr.. Watson and Judge Russell collid-
ed here again, but of course Judge Rus
sell was not on hand His corpulency
of the Cape Fear is too keen to get in
hearing distance Of Democratic
speaker, but he did not care if two of
his lieutenants did get smashed up,
so he sent Reynolds and Walser,
and, strange to say, they asked for a
joint discussion with Capt. Mason and
Congressman Fred Woodland, but / feel
"a "a hot
have enough joint discussion TO last
them until election day.
Early this morning Reynolds and
Walser Sided out of Kinston and
wendell their way towards Snow Hill.
An hour later Capt. Mason, Mr.. Wood
ard, Mr.. A. ID. Ward, of Newberns and
myself followed on their trail. About
four miles from Kinston we encoun-
tered a mighty caualcade of Greene
county boys, a great big grove full of
them, with flags and banners. a brass
band and volume of cheers and APP
plause as our standard bearers drove
up that echoed and re-echoed through
the fields and the woodland. A grand
procession, nearly a mile in length
was formed, and the march to the little
capital town of Greene began.
The gay, gorgeous and glorious pro-
cession of buoyant patriots, young and
old, led by a huge float decorated with
banners, flags and festoons drawn by
four spirited steeds. and driven by that
prince of drivers, George W. Wynne,
in which sat sixteen and one Of the
brightest and prettihst of Greene's
| beautiful young women--the sixteen
dressed in pure white, and the one in
golden yellow. 1T was a charming
illustration of the shibboleth of the
campaign, and as the bright eyed
beauties waved their flags and raised
their musical voices in hurrahing for
Bryan, Watson, Mason and free silver,
the gallant Greene county boys that
followed on horse back caught up the
refrain and rent the woods with cheer
after cheer / rode in the procession
with genial, jovial Bill Carraway, be-
hind his spirited pair of chestnut po-
| MES. Pumpkin and Climbing, and as
| the voice of this 300-pouhd chunk of
| Lenoir Democracy mingled with the
sonorous tones of Greene county's gal
liant Democratic champion, Capt.
Swift Galloway, the autumn leaves fell
in showers and the hopes of Reynolds,
Walser and their Republican contin-
gent went to wreck, like air castles in
panic.
Snow Hill was reached and the
| whole town and the whole county,
for that matter, seemed TO have taken
a day off and gathered for a great
gala occasion. They cheered the gall
liant Mason, and their much loved Con-
gresham, the honest, able Woodland.
at every street corner and from every
portico and lawn. 1T was when this
grand demonstration had ended that a
request came from Reynolds and Wall
ser for a joint discussion. The request
was granted and the details. arranged.
Mr.. Reynolds, at his own request,
opened the debate. He couldn't make
his regular negro arousing speech to
that vast audience of splendid men and
fair women, so he was lost completely,
but he had not touched an issue in so
long that he didn't know just at what
point to catch hold Of None. He found
cred away at everything and every one
for a few minutes and then in dull,
prosy, tedious boring sort of a way
began reading about wages in Mexico
and how dangerous it was for the peo-
pie to be monkeying with the silver
question. This, according to Mr.. Rey-
nolds, is question that the people
know nothing about and can't learn
anything about, but must just leave
it to Mark Hanna, VIM. Mckinley,
John Sherman and the other Republi-
can leaders to settle to suit them
selves. He put half his negro audi
tors to sleep and come near talking
the meeting all to pieces in a ten-min-
utes' discussion of the tariff
All he knew about the trusts, ac-
cording to his speech, was that Car
Isle wrote the sugar schedule in the
Democratic tariff bill. He didn't be,
lieve Mr.. Carlisle had done anything
wrong, but that he had learned some
thing about the sugar business by
rubbing up against the members Of
the sugar trust.
Then. like all the other Republican
speakers, he got off on State matters;
NOS State matters either, for a Repub
lfcan discussion of State matters is
confined to two single points: election
l.. tho Iaftnr