The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-09
FEEDING THE WILD BEASTS.
The Exhibition at Metropolitan Hall
Last Night too Indecent to be
Put in Print

| Russell in the Metropolitan Hall last
night fed raw meat to house packed
with negroes who grew more and more
| fiendish in their desire for words of
hatred against those white people in
| this State who are called Democrats.
Pritchard could not hide the sting
| he felt at his helplessness to an
! swer the questions put to him in an
/ open letter in yesterdays News and
! Observer.
| The account of the speeches and
| speakers taken in full by News and
Observer reporter portrays picture
/ too foul to- be put before the decent
white people of this State.
1t beggars description.
In the midst of Pritchard's speech,
| he ridiculed the Democrats who he
/ said, were trying to ride into power
| on the trumped up issue of free silver.
/ Hehad a chance here to answer the
| News and Observers question why he
| had signed the Mantle resolutions de-
| claring for 1.-The free and unlimited
| coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to l."
| Why did he not answer that? He
| signed the resolutions. If he is not for
| free silver, why did he sign them?
| Such a man is not fit to be trusted
| as the representative of any people.
| He either acted insincerely then or he
| is acting insincerely now under the
| whip or something else of Hanna, or
| else he does not now his own mind
| long enough to fit him for the duties
/ of United States Senatorship.
| Revealing in the passions of his igno
| rant audience, he tainted the Demo
Gratis with a lack of financial sagacity
| because forsooth they failed in the
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| keep Confederate note as
| good as gold And the black
barbarians sent up a roar from
| one end = of the panther-scented
building to the other Shame on the
| white man in this State that puts him
| self thus against his brotherl
| Marshall Mott was delirous with a
| dozen or more demons that Kissed blue
| fire from their nostrils Hidden be-
| hind the screen of his own intelligence
| he barbed and barbed the pent-up
| passions of these negroes until they
| could hardly retain their seats. There
is hardly ON extract decent enough
| to take out as sample. But let this
| (Cleveland) traitor, but it is a lie as
| dark as night, as black as hell; if Gro
YER Cleveland is a traitor, CIV.
| Watson is traitor; if Grover
/ Cleveland is a traitor, Pou, who
is running for Congress is traitor;
| if Grover Cleveland is a traitor, every
Democratic nominee is a traitor But
Grover Cleveland is not traitor, the
nominees are traitors. They knew he
| was against silver and yet they went
| before you and told you wilfully, ma
iiciously, and told you what they knew
| was a damned lie from the beginning
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| kinds of barbaric eXclamations) We
| dare not for our readers sake take any
more of the filthy stuff that was like
the incubation of rabies virus into the
veins of the beasts in front
And yet they scream about the color
| line. This, men of the State, is the
| food they are feeding to the negroes.
| Listen at this: "a vote for any body
| else except Russell means a vote
| against untrammelIed citizenship: I
| myself, the peer, socially or otherwise.
of any Democrat in the State, was until
two years ago, a political slave" He
meant he was a slave perhaps until
he got job, after that he was draw
| ing money and was free
| As to Russell, nothing better was
| expected His bowels boiled and
heaved like the witch's cauldron, until
the bubbles lifted from him like lava
from the lips of a mountain of hell.
| The negroes were in a state of exalta-
| ton of evil heartedness when he came
| forward. They had almost returned
/ in feeling to their primitive savage
state, and Russell took the tide at its
| flood. Here is a glimpse of his low
demagogy: Russell don't get mad
with black man because he is riding
in top-buggy or living in painted
| house" Does he know any Democrat
that does? All, the dirtiness of it.! 1t
| almost befouls the fingers to write of
/ such a gathering.
| And yet there are some Democrats
no would hesitate between the Repub-
4 Hcan and Democratic tickets
These are men forsooth who in their
1ninds are processing to be trying to
| uplift the negro, Pr!tchard for the
sake of an office, Mott for an office
and Russell for an Office. 1t is an in
fernai re that they have any more In
| terest in the negro than any good
| Democrat in the State, or that the ne
| gro can get any better treatment from
them than from any good Democrat.
| The rest of the outfit at the carnival
| are not worth mentioning
| White men can see for themselves.
and while they do not court any con-
fiict, they will not shun any defence of
their Anglo-Saxon rights against igno-
| rance and brutality led by selfish mis-
| creants and bEood-breeders. One rape
and one attempted rape are already ait
| our doors this week, the outer breath
| of the storm that would eliminate
| finally under such direful outbreaks as
| were those of last night
| If these three men are out for the
purpose of firing the negroes with in
| surrection, it is time for the white men
| to know it.
| One thing they may be assured of:
| Anglo+SaXons have been tried before,
| and have not been found wanting.
ROSH-HASHANAH
| Yesterday was the New Year of the