Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-09-03
CYCLONE CY WATS0N
RAISES A GREAT STORM OF
DEMOCRATIC ENTHU>
SIASM.
SPEAKS AT STATESVILLE.
Some Fifteen Hundred People from
IredelI and the Surrounding Coun
ties Heard the Democratic Can
didate.
SPEAKS AT STATESVILLE.

| ~liCS& IA CoId tItc D6HlOCfdtIC OdIl
didate.
Statesville, N. c., Aug. 20
1t is Cyclone Cy now. The peo-
pie Of Statesville have said it. The
effect of the speech of the great
campaigner here to-day suggested
it. The terrific force with which
he swayed and scattered the oppo
sition made it appropriate. The
way he turned a shower of Iredell
Republicanism into a storm of
raging, irrsetible Democracy sus-
tains it.
To-day has been political red
letter day in Statesville, and the
grand old Piedmont town has been
bubbling over with politics since
early morning. The Republican
county convention met to-day,
which brought large number of
Republicans to town. Senator
Pritchard had been invited to ad-
dress the convention, and that part
brought still greater numbers. 1t
was expected that M. L. Mott
would be here, but he failed to get
here, but Moody, of Haywood,
and Zigzag Linney were present.
This was the shower of Republi-
cans. The Democratic storm be-
gan early in the morning, when
the Democrats of Iredell, Rowan,
Alexander and other adjoining
counties rolled into town. Cy
Watson had been billed to speak at
Statesvillc. The people wanted to
hear him. Democrats, Populists
and Republicans wanted to hear
the campaign successor to the great
Vance, and they came 1900
strong. They came to listen and
they listened. Five hundred of
them listenee to Pritchard in the
conrt house before dinner, and to
short speeches byl Moody and
Linney, but the great mass, solid
acre of people, gathered on the
court house green to hear Watson.
Pritchard had talked tariff for
nearly two hours, and, as a gen
tleman remarked, had made a
very ingenius and effective speech,
if he had been talking to an entirely
ignorant and unobservant crowd.
He wound up with a few back
| landed licks at his old friend, the
silver dollar.
On the gold question he said
that he had been elected to the
Senate as silver man, by silver
votes; that he had voted for silver
and remained silver man until
his convention spoke at st. Louis.
Now the more he thought about it,
the more he was convinced that his
party was right and he was wrong.
His crowd listened and few
times cheered him, but it took aw-
full hard work for the erstwhile
silver Senator to push the stale old
tariff chestnut down the throats of
his crowd. These people live in a
chestnut country and they know
when a chestnut is old, stale and
wormy,. and they did not relish
Pritchard' S.
At 2 o'clock Mr.. Watson ap-
peared in a stand erected in the
court house grove. Mighty cheers
went .skyward through the can
opied oaks and elms from fifteen
hundred throats, some Of them
still some what lacerated from the
efforts of Pritchard's to cram the
tariff down them.
Mr.. Watson had heard Senator
Pritchard' s speech and he lit right
in to perfectly annihilate the sena-
tor and his stale argument. Within
thirty minutes the cyclone had
swept both from the deck and a
clear field had been opened for. an
argument of the great issues of the
campaign.
.Statesyille was anxious 10 hear
Watson. Iredell county was
anxious to hear him and they
heard him. They heard him for
two hours and twenty minutes in
what Mr.. L. Scales, Mr.. B..
F. Long, Mr. T. j. Allison and
others isay was the biggest
speech to which they have ever
listened. Che speech that Mr..
Watson had heard on the other
side bad. tanned him into, q de-
vouring flame of powerful argu~
ment aud almost unequoled elo-
quence:
only repeat what every man
I spoke 1 to. after. the speaking
saidv when ] say that it was one
of the most powerful and telling
speeches that was ever delivered
in Statesville. It solidified the
Ir.dpu Democracy If cnnvincad