The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-17

| schools, low taxes, honest expenditures.
All he cares about is ''dat human lib
erty" business. They don't know what
| the speakers mean, but they can meet
| 1t somewhere with negro voting and
that's all he is thinking about or caring
about
why don't you Democrats talk
| about State matters some?" said Mr..
Reynolds. You can't get them to say
a word. Ask them why they don't
and they win go to talking about free
silver"
At Mr.. Reynolds's close Capt. Mason
way. The crowd cheered him to the
echo.
He began calmly and dispasionately
by declaring that these men who, two
years ago, and were up to six months.
ago, were for the full restoration of
silver, could not get him to fail to do
his duty in this campaign, and warned
the people against that hoard of
government wrecl1ers and home-de-
stroyers those bond swappers, trusts
manipulators and manhood debauchers
led by Mark Hanna and endorsed by
those Republican speakers who were
| so recently cursing the Democratic
party ON every stump in North Caro-
lima because the administration had
not restored silver to free coinage.
Mr.. Mason then paid his respect to
the trust combines and corporations,
who had. under the Mckinley law and
| the Sherman gold standard, fattened
into an arrogant army of ballot pollu
| ters on the sweat and blood of the
American people. He then, for half
an hour, delivered a most powerful
telling and effective argument in favor
| of silver coinage, discussing the ques-
| tion in detail and reviewing with great
| force and wonderful effect the
power of the gold standard
| and predicting return to
that prosperity under free coinage on
the basis of which this great country
was founded and maintained for nearly
| a century.
Mr. Mason was listened TO by a vast
concourse Of people, and no man has
| ever spoke in Greene and received
greater ovation. The crowd cheered al
most his every utterance and when in
his characteristic manner he almost
cleaved the skies with stirring bursts OF
oratory, the people went Wild with
delight.
land you desire that / shall say
something, about State matters? You
think / fear to allude to Democracy's
record i'm North Carolina OH. no,
no, my friend; you don't think that
YOU can't think that. But you insist
that must say something, that | must
review the glorious history of the man
agement of the affairs of North Caro-
lima, after that grand tribune
of the people, wrested the
State from The corrupt clutches
of YOU and yours in that mem
orahle year of 1876, Oh, yes; come,
my dear sir, and let's talk about it.
| These good people love to talk and
read about it; let's you and / read
about it. Have you family? Bring
them up with you and let's read some
State history. Have you a boy? Set
him on your knee and let's you and
read to him the political history of
| North Carolina for the past thirty
| will want to begin reading this history
to that boy Yes, my dear sir, you
| are all intelligent men. OF course
| you want to begin with 1876. You
| know that you will want that boy TO
hear us read those bright pages; but
| no, my dear sir, let's go back few
| years. can hear you say: oh, no,
| not that, for the sake of the boy don't
| turn those leaves don't go back to
IS, go, and 10 Don't do it for the
sake of the boy And as / insist |
can see the distress on that face. Tear
| those dark pages out, / can hear you
| plead. Don't read them; oh! no, don't
read them. Spare me; spare my party.
| Do you want to say more or read
II
| And then for fifteen minutes no
| man in North Carolina has been more
| literally wiped out in debate. Capt.
Mason was eloquent, ne was pathetic;
he was terrible; he was scathing;
| his speech was whitening. Reynolds
| withered; he was completely con-
/ quered; he tried to smile, but the
| smile died almost before it mounted
! his cheek; he seemed riyeted to his
seat; he was undone, completely
| undone.
Capt. Mason closed, and Mr.. Walser
| was introduced. He had profted by
| the experience Of Reynolds, and he
had waiting behind him another
Democratic giant, Hon. Frederick A.
| Woodard The crowd was Mason's; he
| knew it. He began by thanking the
people, especially the Democrats, for
their courtesy 10 MIN in Eastern North
Carolina. He went ON, and for forty
minutes made a very mild, fair, and at
! times, Interesting speech He showed
| some Of the discontinue that Reynolds
felt, burt he did fairly well, and his
speech was a conservative one.
He was followed by the gallant, able
and honest Woodland. The people of
Greene love Fred Woodland; everybody,
colored and white, loves him and they
| greeted him to-day with JOY and glad
ness. He spoke with feryor and feel
ing, literally tearing away every de-
Tense for the Republicans position that
Walser had erected. He was cheered
| and cheered again. Greene county is
all right. 1t is perfectly organized,
and Democracy lis alive here. The
Populists are swearing vengeance
against the goldbugs, and there will
be silver vote in every sound that
comes from Greene in November.