The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-09

| from Marks Creek township. lie SAD
! he was poor, laboring man ana ne
! could not imagine why he had been
| nominated, unless it was because ne
| was poor. He had worked, he said, Tor
| living all his life and now he recNoal-
| ed he was expected to canvass TOT IL
| He then referred to the reporter as
/ being there to report what he sald aIla
| grew quite red in the face as ne oe,
| nounced newspapers IN genera anu
this paper in particular, but proceesleu
| at once to destroy the effect OF ms de-
ANNEXATION by showing an utter az
| norance of anything usually printed
in newspapers. ,Inen he switched on
| on the last legislature, ana spoke Oh fts
soreat and noble deeds" The election
/ law was praised and the Democrats
/ were denounced for having stolen,
| as he claimed, adj the elections
for the last twenty years. But
| he at once acknowledged himself par
| ticeps criminis by telling the crowd
| that, he had always been a Democrat
/ ND to the last four years. lie said
| he didn't want the nomination but the
/ people seemed to want him IN the
| Legislature, and the only way to get
! him there was to elect him, adding
| that he wasn't much of a speaker, but
| that aus soon as he got time he was
| going to study something to talk
| about. Then he remembered that he
had not quite abused the Democrats
| enough and he proceeded to ge them
| to steal the populist party, ~ said.
| They have already stolen oer plat
| form and our candidate, William
| Jenkins Bryan
| Here Braswell made his 81 APP
| pearance and asked Ferrall il he was
| going to vote for silver man for Uni
| ted States Senator. Ferrall tried to
| evade the question by saying that he
| was going TO vote for Bryan and Wat
| son.
That's not the question" shouted
Braswell. who are you going to vote
for for Senator?" Ferrall still tried
to evade, but Braswell was too much
| for him, so finally, after much hag-
! cling, he said he would vote for "a silver
man.
| Next on the programme was Jim
| Young. He came forward looking as
modest as a maiden and wearing smile
as bland as the autumn sunshine. Jim
| was received with a volley of yells and
| hand-clapping from his brothers in
| black, but before he finished his long
| halangue many of the crowd had wan
dered away TO seek warm, sunshiny
spots and the applause had petered out
to an occasional guffaw from some
admiring constituent. His speech was
a mosaic of Democratic abuse, Popu-
| list adulation, vulgar stories, appeals
| to passion and prejudice and defense
| of the last Legislature, of which he was
q member. In discussing the money
| question he said the Democrats were
| not in earnest in their advocacy of sill
yer and that there is not Democrat
| in the State who really wants Bryan
| elected, any more than he wants Jim
| Young elected"
At this point Braswell asked Jim il
he wanted Bryan elected. But the
| speaker paid no attention to him.
Are you silver man, shouted
| Braswell.
sit down." said Jim. tYou are
| paid Democratic money to come
| down here and interrupt me-
That's not true" said Braswell,
'.and You know it. Just give me a
chance to speak TO these people and
| I'll show you and them, too, who am
and what I'm here for"
/ IF You don't shut up" said Young,
/ FIJI have you examined and sent to
| the asylum for crazy
Then the crowd yelled and Jim pro-
| ceeded, without answering Braswell's
/ question, to declare the Republican
| party true friend to silver. lie said
| that they had put a silver plank in
/ their State platform and had also
| passed a resolution in the county con-
yention endorsing it. why, the Re-
| publicans are as good friends to silver
as are the Populists,' he went on to
| say, flor the Republicans are not only
| in favor of the free coinage of silver
| by this country alone, as are the Popu-
| lists, but they favor the free coinage
| of silver by all the other nations of
| the world, all together and all at the
| same time, so that we can just have
| plenty of money And the crowd
yelled with delight ait this brilliant
explanation and wondered that they
had never thought of it before.
| fare you a silver MANI" interrupted
| Braswell.
| Jim looked at him d moment and
| said, wen I'm no gold-bug. There
| are no gold-bugs except the people who
| are going to vote for Palmer and
| Buckner. There is nor such thing
as d gold-bug here. The speaker then
| said there were issues in this State
| as important as the money question,
| such as the election law and county
(, government. And the crowd was told
| that in case the Democrats were
| elected they would pass q law dis
| franchising all the negroes and Repnb-
| 1fcans. Young warned the Populists
against fusion with the Democrats and
| said that the Democrats would do
| any thing to get them back, but If
| they would only stick to the Republi-
cans they would put every county COM
| missioner out of office and when the
next legislature adjourned there would
not be a vestige Of the election and
| other obnoxious laws left on the
| statute books. In closing he attacked
| Pou and advised the negroes to vote
for Strowd
The speaking was closed by Buck
| Adams, who has been a candidate for
office in this county every election
except one for the past fourteen years,
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