The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-30
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| part of the State and speak without
getting into row. Is there any dan
ger of getting into a row in this peace
| able audience to-day C'NaW, san. .
| Nav, dat dey amt, sah.")
| Are YOU going to vote for a man
| who won't meet his competitor?
A yolley of Noes" came forth in an
swer to this question. The Major con
| tinued to scorch Russell, saying he had
turned tail and run (laughter), and
exclaimed: Drop him like you would
| a hot potato!" {"Dat we willl'O
do you want a man who calls you
savages?' C'Naw, sah!' with accent
on the 'sah'-an' we amt gwine to
hab'm, nuther.)
The Major, in the midst of his hand
some introduction of Col. Dockery, at
this closing portion of his speech, said
he (Guthrie) was a better Republican
than Russell, though he was a Populist.
He said it made no difference to him
whether man was Populist or Demo-
GRAFT or Republican, so they were to-
gether ON principle. c'Me, nuther!'O
The Major had, it must be said i'm truth,
made very fine impression.
At the close of his remarks, which
covered about an hour, Congressman
Charles II. Martin stepped to the rail
ing with a white tie, and pomatum eff
fects on his enslickened front-hair, and
introduced Col. Dockery. The Con-
CHEESEMAN'S little speech had been bar
bered as carefully as his hair, and was
as pretty as q prize effort of a sophie
more with blue ribbon around it. 1t
was one of those gems that reads bet
t.,x.
water, and will no doubt live again
some other where, some other day.
Col. Docl1ery came forward. Good
bless YOU" said negro voice, almost
reverently). The Colonel said he had a
| chill on him, as he arose. in some es-
sent.al features, the Colonel exclaimed
in the very next breath, "the Republi-
cans are wrong this time, and am not
going with them in this election
This startled the crowd.
The Colonel said he had helped to
draw the Republican resolutions in
favor. of free coinage. He referred to
| the convention of two years ago, at
which he appointed Logo Harris as
chairman Of the Committee on Resolu-
| tons, aud told him not to fail to frame
Ia resolution on free coinage, and Loge
satfd he would IsIs5Es
Tie had been true to this resolution,
! aJgl,here. hnd come along that man Rus
sell, who had swindled him out OF the
nomination; not that he wanted it,
IF / had gotten it, knowing that Nc
Kinley was going to be put up ON a
gold plank, would not have accept
ed it."
Russell and Pritchard are coming out
now for gold, though they were for sill
YER, and Russell once for greenbacks.
Il am not made out of that kind OF dirt
They are in it for the pie. | can get
my pie made at home. ! am for free
silver, and am against any party that
is against free silver. / can't advise
you to vote for Mckinley,
because don't think it's right; / know
it's not right" He scoffed at gold bugs
who said the times were never better.
Such men ought to be put in Jail and
locked up with sixteen keys. The
speaker eulogized Clay, and plead for
protection of labor, though he was not
as high protective man as some. He
would not to-day vote for the Mckinley
bill, if he were in Congress. 1T was
simply tub thrown to the whale. He
was in favor of moderate protection
that would not rob one part of the
country for the benefit of another.
When this bill had first been passed,
during his absence abroad, he had
called his son and said, 'Claude, look
at it Claude, it is fatal to the success
of the Republican party!"
Col. Dockery reviewed the history
of coinage in this country down to
1873, saying that all went along
smoothly until then, when something
happened that wasn't done in day
light-as things like that ought to be
done. He said silver was, in 1878, worth
103, and asked why did they take the
highest metal to demOnetize. 1t was
a conspiracy from Europe and Wall
street Then he told a funny joke,
illustrating the preciousness of gold,
which raised a great laugh, an old
negro, who was afraid to pick up a
! piece of gold in the road saying: "Naw,
sab, / ain gwine tech dat; OATS white
mans money; mout be hind de tree to
shoot eff / dar' to pick it up saia
~ Then he exclaimed:: 81 never win de-
ceive the people. I'D rather live all
my life on hoe-cake than do injustice
to my convictions" = 7t1
/ "Well, tell us about RUSSELL" cried
a voice.
Russell was the man who swindled
me out of my nomination. They put
man in as chairman referring to
Marshall Motif who went there pledg-
d to me from Wilkes county, who sold
out, bought out, went out, did some
thing, declared Russell nominated,
when the whole convention cried mo,
no."
! Col. Dockery formally announced
, himself as candidate for the Lieuten-
ant-Governor. He was not a Populist:
he was only in accord with the Popn-
lists. He was a silver Republican. He
twitted Guthrie again, saying he had
boxed the compass, but that he had
improved with each change. The
Colonel spoke with vehemence, saying
! ONE of the Republicans, he knew were
going to pitch into him now: LET 'em
pitch and be durned:" (Laughter.)
''In 1883 Russell wanted to run for
Governor. His brother Tom came to
my house, and asked me if | wanted
the nomination; I said, NO, | don't
care a snap for it, Well said Tom,
if you don't, brother Dan does
told him / would say more; | would
send letters declining the nomination;
] would go and put his brother Dan in
nomination. The Colonel told how
surprised he was at the telegram an
nouncing his unanimous nomination,
land no one expected it less than t.
He told how he was prevailed upon by
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