The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-15

and teacher. / think all OugnL 10 at
tend the primaries. He praised Sena-
tor Pritchard. l have made two sub
jects a special study, money and tariff
AS young man / taught the colored
people. The man who doesn't believe
in protection, is worse than a Demo
crat. / was a Democrat when | lived
in North Carolina. The colored man
was elevated through slavery, and the
white man degraded by it. He praised
Col James I'll. Holt, Jr., one OF his old
pupils, who is a delegate who goes to
ST. Louis TO nominate Mckinley
hold but two positions: President OF
Antioch College, and pastor of a col
ored church at Graham. You must
hang together for sound money and
protection He reviewed all the tariff
bills from the fourth of July, 1916, i'm
terspersing his claim that protection
and prosperity went hand in hand with
some anecdotes. He rejoiced that the
time had come when, as to-day, he save
a manumitted slave call the roll Of
freemen.
When this government was founded,
money was Is to / till 1884. Then gold
was recoined, and it became 16 to I,
the unit of measure being, the silver
dollar.
He praised Hamilton and John Sher-
man, and the convention went wild
with applause at his eulogy of John
Sherman, who demonetized silver.
| The gold dollar is the only standard.
Great applause.) | have in my pocket
| the Ohio resolutions, and Mckinley
favored the platform adopted If such
financier as John Sherman can say
1 TaTg s,,ta sn al atGat,A bn
| question" can't you accept him as
sound money man? About fusion?
| have nothing to do with factional
| fights. If your State will show it has
laid aside prejudices, you will get
plenty of immigration. Eight years of
| Mckinley and protective tariff will
double North Cardinals population
and wealth.
| Here you stand in North Carolina
cursing the Yankees (here he whined
l as if mimicing q Southern MANI in
stead of building factories, and pre-
| tending TO try to make a living"
| ((Great applause "All the cry of fiat
money will be gone when we have
| protection. We need the Senate in or
| der to overcome the votes of the repre-
sentatives of the mining camps" Gap
/ plause) Send men like Settle back
so you will stand for sound money"
/ (Applause.) Send Pritchard back TO
the Senate SO he viii hold up McKin-
/ ley's hands" (Thundering applause.)
/ During the delivery of the speech,
/ Pritchard's face was study, and the
evidence was plain that the preacher
| politician was drllbbing the Senator's
/ pretended devotion TO silver. The
| reverend preacher said he didn't eX-
| pect to speak, but before he closed, he
| told of visit he had made to Nc
| Kinley and gave a message which Nc
/ Kinley sent 10 the North Carolina Re-
publicans. 1t is perhaps possible for a
/ professional politician to deliver a
speech fuller of the tricks of the dema-
/ gogue and of detraction Of his native
State, but we never heard it.
Some Of the crowd called for Black
burn. The young man came forward
but the crowd yelled Boyd" and
wouldn't hear Blackburn. Finally
| Boyd came forward, and excused him
| self when the convention agreed to hear
| Blackburn. The young orator, with
| anecClote Of a low and vulgar order
created great enthusiasm. The young
man grew eloquent, and his gesticula-
tions were so promiscuous that the re-
porters had to dodge. Blackburn is a
/ rustier and a whooper-up from way
back.
/ YIRGILIIfS SEAIPER
Mr.. Nirgilius Sempel' Lusk, who had
been sitting waiting and praying for a
| call, at last got 1T. He is the same
man who prayed four years for gum
boat in the port of Asheyille to fac
company the Force bill Don't believe
| the enemy is dead. They are alive and
| they will hustle "You owe a duty
| to the Goddess of Liberty said Lusk.
Now you've got b." shouted a colored
adherent.
/ DANCING MAKES A HIT.
Jno. G. Dancy (col.) was enthusiast
cally received. He said the Democrats
were divided upon the money question,
but the Republicans would stand BIZ
whateyer+pl platform was adopted. Moth
ing by this Congress can be critized
to any considerable extent. We want
sound money. We are ready to take
In all men who have left the Demo-
cratic party because the Democratic
party has nothing more for them. He
| named over the candidates. Moody
received slight applause; Boyd great
| applause: Russell greater applause,
| and finally when he named Doclery
tIe convention went wiz. 4 MS was
| the oratorical hit Of the day.
The convention then adjourned till
this morning.
/ THE CONTESTED CASES.
As soon as the convention adjourn
ed the committee on credentials met
in the hall. Jake HALLIBURTON was APP
| pointed sergeant-at-arms and ordered
to clear dhe hall Of everybody except
| the committee. After an hours fgur-
| ing the committee announced contests
| from the following counties: Craven,
2; Cumberland, 2; Edgecombe, 4; Hall
fax, 4; Franklin, 2; Mecklenburg, 6;
Perquimans, 2; Union, 2; Wake. 6;
Wilkes, A; Wilson, 2. Total number of con-
tested votes, SO. The contests that
were expected from New Hanover and
| Warren didn't materialize.
The Russell men claim that there
is only one straight Russell man on
| the committee, one representative of
| pPitQhard and all Tho Y,ausg Fo,. nonIra,.v