Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-10-13
TWO NOTABLE SPEECHES.

ny he W VIC y. ~
Senate, and then dunked in the
last Legislature on Pritchard, is
again on the stump in this State,
advocating Republican~Populist
fusion, abusing Democrats. and
lauding Russell and the late fuss
ion legislature to the skies.
In his speech at Dunn on
Tuesday Butler said that Dan
Russell is the only Governor
North Carolina has had since
Vance. That the late fusion legis-
lature was honest to the core,
and the only reason it had not
passed better laws was due to the
Democratic members. That fuS>
ion between Populists and Re
publicans this year would bring
Populist triumph III 1900. He adj
vised all Populists to vote for
fusion because it was the only
thing that would beat the Dem
ocrats, whom he characterized
as everything that is odlous. He
stated that "the Democratic
speakers now gong through the
State crying niger are a lot of
hypocrites, scoundrels, Williams
aud thieves, thieves in every
sense, for" said he, "a man
that will steal your ballot will
steal anything" He descended to
the lowest billingsgate and slan-
der upon these distinguished, pa
triotic and peerless men. who are
now devoting their best energies
to redeemiug the State. charac>
terizing them as infamous
scoundrels who would fare with
the negro in the jam OF the fence
at night upon every OCCASION"
This is on a par with Buffers
Infamous Rocky Mount speech:
it is in exact tenor and breathing
sympathy with the diabolical eds
itorial Of the negro Manly, of
Wilmington: and yet Butler is
tolerated and talked to and even
treated cordially by these same
Democrats and Democratic
speakers. This should not be. He
deserves the contempt and scorn
of every Democrat in the State.
He is a disgrace not alone to
North Carolina. but to the Anglo
Saxon race, for the supremacy
of which in North Carolina the
State Democracy is now battling.
while this renegade aud traducer
Of our best men is leading the
cohorts OF negro viciousness and
unprincipled pie>hunters against
u.s..
In striking contrast to his
Dunn speech and his estimate of
Russell and the fusion LegislaS
ture, is the speech of Capt. John
B. Eaves, eXechairman Of the
Republican State Executive CONS
mittee, delivered on Monday at
Rutherfordtor, in which. among
other things of honest utterance,
he says:
"Tne Republicans of this State
have sold out the party to the
Third party-the greatest enemy
the people have. In saying that
do not mean to be offensive to
any member Of the Third party.
but I am referring to the princi-
pies OF that party: 1 believe that
the agitation of the Populists
has done as much harm, fnan-
cially, as the civil war. The mas
tional Republican party is not
represented in political matters
in this State tosday. The fusion
party has been successful in
placing certain men n office, moi
one of whom is in accord with
the Republican party. They de-
serted the national Republican
party-left principle for Offices
If we had followed the wake OF
the national party we would have
been 10 accord to-day with the
~grandest administration which
this country has ever seen.
Ito the colored people. I want
to say, that you may think thai
you are Republicans, tosday, bu'
if you do you r mistaken. Yor
are Republicans at heart; but i
you vote the present fusion tick
eft, you are not voting the Re
publican ticket You have beer
sold out. You r simply join
stockholders in a joint stool
company formed for the purpose
of controlling the Offices in thu
State. In a few counties in thu
eastern part of the State wher'
the negroes r in a great major,
ity the fusion parry gave then
some offices IN ORDER to blindl,