The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-10
PEOPLE IN EARNEST
Great Crowds Meea mocrattc
Speakers in the County.
OPENING or THE CAMPAIGN
Fine Speeches Made by All
Legislative Candidates.
BRouGHToN ALMOST a VANCE
Thera Were Over $50 People at Gross
Roads to Hear the Speaking
and Some 800 Were at
Myatts Mill.

MyattS viii.
II have been in every Wake county
campaign and / have never been SO
thoroughly satisfied as | am with the
present canvass of the county Demo
cratic candidates" said Democrat
yesterday who was at the opening OF
the campaign in Panther Branch town
ship Thursday.
Are there good crowds" asked the
reporter.
'The biggest you ever saw. There
were over $50 at Cross Roads, where
they spoke during the day, and at
Myatt's Mill last night they had
great crowd The most conservative
estimates place it at 800.
You may just put it down that eV-
erybodv is for Sheriff Page. He viii
beat Ham Jones all to pieces. And
Broughton makes the finest speech |
ever heard. He is almost Zeb Vance.
His efforts yesterday and last night
can hardly be surpassed. His argu-
ments were strong, unanswerabie. All
the candidates made good speeches.
Olives speech was splendid, as We're
also those of Mr.. Fleming and Capt
Harris. / was surprised and the peo-
ME were delighted. You have no idea
how the people are feeling about this
campaign. They are with US. There
has never before been such intense IN
terest shown BY our people. 1 tell
Won they are sincere and the Populist
leaders and office-seekers VIII not be
able to .deliYer their followers into the
hands Of the Republicans.
I'm proof of this fact, why the speak
ing at Myatt.s Mill was opened by
Populist. Rev. d. p Meacham, who was
a candidate four years ago for the
State Senate He said he had been III
the councils of the Populist party, but
they had now forsalxen their principles
10 vote for goldbugs.and that he would
not do. sOtaao Wilson may ram Hanna 5
money down into his pockets. but he
can't ram goIdbug Republican fusion
down nv throat He denounced SEN
ator Pritchard as a goldbug and adj
yised the people to repudiate him.
THE first of the candidates TO speak
was Mr.. J. Fl. Fleming, nominee for the
Legislature. He discussed the silver
question, declaring that 1t was only
through the Democratic party that the
people could hope to get free silver.
is to /, without international agree
ment. He declared that even the gold
men were bound TO admit that free
coinage would increase the money in
circulation and that the more money
we had the higher prices would be.
High prices, he held, would give the
farmers prosperity. 1t was strong
speech and was listened to with the
closest attention.
Mr.. Fleming was followed by Mn f.
A. Whitaker, also a candidate for the
Legislature. He spoke briefly Of the
issues before the people, congratulate
ing them that the issue had been
drawn in spite of the money power
which had tried to straddle it. He told
them that he was a plain farmer and,
as he looked at it, if there was any class
of men whom silver would benefit it
was the farmer.
Mr.. N. B. Broughton congratulated
the people on the platform and the
tickets that were presented this year
for their suffrages by the Democratic
party. For the first time in his life,
he said, he was a candidate for Of
fee. He had not sought the honor,
for he was $50 miles away, at Ashe-
vile, when he was nominated. 1t was
against his business interests to make
the canvass. But the people demand
ed of him to accept the trust and he
was not the man to shirk when duty
called He was living to serve his day
and generation and do the right as
God should help him to see it. He re-
ferred to the fact that he had cam
yassed the county once before with the
late Col. Polk, preaching the Alliance
doctrine before politics had taken
charge of that organization. He told
his hearers that the fusion candidates
had been invited to joint canvass but
had declined, and added that many of
the fusion candidates for the Legisla-
ture were gold men and would support
Pritchard for the United States SEN
ate. The county government and pub
lie printing questions were also dis
cussed, and Mr.. Broughton charged
that not only was the public printing
costing $1,000 year more than under
Democratic rule, but that the printers
were getting less. The speaker refer
red to Bryan as the tribune of the
people and the greatest man of his
day.
''The last of the legislative candi-
dates to speak was Mr.. III. G. Olive, the
nominee for the State Senate. His
speech was clear-cut: plain and con-
vincing. He went into the facts in re-
gard TO silver legislation and the in
famous bond transactions and showed
that the only hope of the people for
financial relief is the Democratic par
ty.
after the legislatiyes nominees had
concluded their speeches the county
candidates announced themselves
Capt. Harris, the candidate for Treas
urer made a short and effective speech
''Mr.Mial, the nominee for register Of
deeds, is very strong in this township.
where he has many relatives and
friends"
At night the candidates spoke to a
crowd of some 300 at Myatt's Mill and