The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-27
TEN THOUSAND PRESENT
TO HEAR AYCOCK, WATSON, POU
AND JUDGE CONNOR.
BELLS RINGING AND WHISTLES sHRlEKISG
Welcome to the Visitors. There Was Plenty to
Eat and to Hear and toInspire. County
Sure TO Go Democratic
This Fall
this FALL.

Wilson, y. c., October 26.-(Special.)
The clouds and insistent drizzle Of the
early morning could not keep the Demo
Gratis of this section at home on yes
terday. From six o'clock to twelve an in
cessant stream of vehicles, horsemen and
foot-travelers poured into town, literally
swapping it in a deluge of white men.
There were many women among those
who came to participate in the great
Democratic rally.
At eleven o'clock there were easily six
thousand people on the streets and five
hundred mounted men in the parade led
by brass band that crashed out stirring
music as prelude to the stirring scenes
that were to make this n memorable
day in the history of the county.
The business houses were all closed
and the business men turned out to
join the sturdy farmers from far and
near to swell the demonstration for
white supremacy. And all the secthing
thousands moved to one harmonious inn
pulse--a patriotic determination TO win
for white supremacy and Anglo-Saxon
civilization.
The Hons Cyrus b. Watson, of Win
ston. f. w. Pou of Smithfe1d, and Il. +.
Aycock of Wayne, were the orators
of the day. The crowd was so large
that it had to be divided. Watson and
Judge III. g. Connor addressed part of
it in the Woodland warehouse, and the
court house was filed at the same time
with hundreds eager to hear Aycock and
Pou. And they all got Democratic doe
trine straight. The powers Of all the
speakers are too well known to need
anything said of them.
Dinner was served in the large central
warehouse and the Watson warehouse.
and there was an array of things to
please the inner man that was eloquent
of the hospitality of this people. An
idea of the crowd may be had
from the fact that the two
hundred pigs, $50 worth Of hams
and two large beeves which formed
the mainstay of the banquet were much
the worse for wear when all had been
satisfied. There were hundreds of bas
kets, filled with the products of house
wifely skill from town and country.
Every township was represented in the
parade which preceded the speaking and
dinner and each delegation carried a
banner suitably inscribed.
/ have talked with hundreds of men
from every section Of the county and
have not found one who did not say that
it will 90 white in November.
The county has been organized in the
most thorough and systematic way and
the organization is alive and doing the
honest, earnest work thar wins cam
paigns.
Certainly it has been a most remark
able day here. BY the time dinner had
been finished at one o'clock there were
probably ten thousand people in town be
side residents. Bells were ringing, steam
whistles shrieking and everybody doing
something to express his enthusiasm.
Hundreds of ladies we're present at ali
the functions of the day.
The day passed without single ar
rest no town can boast of a more vigil
liant police force. The rally has done
much good for Democracy. Wilson will
go Democratic. News from Nash from
reliable sources is that it will go Demo
cratic by at least three hundred.