The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-29

through great tribulation aud vashe,
their robes white in the blood Of IN
Lamb" These are they ~ho hav
come mp through tsibulation, &C,
when | have looked into the faces o
the little blind children ef Nor q
Carolins, sad. surely. surely,
men and women and children com
up to that throne and join 10 lh
praise OF God first through grsa
tribuiation. VIXEN God saw tit to af
fiict these little children with blind
ness he Was creating . new order o
angels and arc angels. Aud yet you
have taken these little white chill
dren and put them under the con
troll OF this Infamous negro politi
elan in North Carolina
Mr.: Aycock apolo9ized for M
Frank Winston, the Democrat wh,
Is now organizing "White Uuior
Clubs over the State, bat who 10 th,
man Who wrote to George 81. White
the negro Congressman from thil
State, telling him that he wanted hi,
support for Judge, and that it woult
be an honor to him to ride the cir
euit with this negro, by saying tha,
Mr.. Winston At the time he wrote
the letter was . Republican.
Mr.. Aycock again grew eloq uent
DE assumed that the white woman
hood of North Carolina demanded
that the Democratic party be agair
placed in power. He said:
Tho goddess of North Caroline
Democracy is the white womanhood
of the State, represented in sculpture
by the marble figure of q beautiful
maiden. expressing our highest idea
OF beauty both in form and spirit
and standing in an attitude Of ap
peal to us for protection. In the
name OF that goddess ! come to thu
white people of Wayne county and
demand that protection for the wo
of the State. Across the
Atlantic ocean there is a little coun,
try from which our ancestors came
1t is = small territory but it domi
mates q great portion of the surface
OF the globe. The sun never sets on
the Kingdom of Great Britsin. The
governor and ruler of that mighty
empire is a woman. She is old; she
is not beautiful; she is not even learn.
ed, and yet the greatest men of al
England find their chiefest pleasure
their highest delight in ready obedi.
ence to her commands. And when.
ever an Englishman steps upon thu
green earth and the band strikes ur
"God save the Queen" he takes of
his hat and stands uncovered until
the music ceases. We have in North
Carolina Queen. 1t is the agere.
gated womanhood of the State. In
the name Of that Queen of North
Carolina, l call upon you white men,
Democrats, Populists, Republicans,
to rally to the cause of Democracy
this year and let Us put an end forev.
or to this strife, this outrage, this
DIR. THOMPSON's SPEECH.
Er. Thompson then arose to speak.
He expressed his appreciation of the
fact that the Democratic party had
selected Mr.. Aycock as the one man
Of their. party to stand before him, as
he regarded Mr.. Aycock as one oi
tEeir best and most clog uent speakers
he said: 1.-The change
which goes on in the minds of the
Democratic speakers from year to
year and from month to month is ab.
remarkably astonishing.
When we began our organic alton in
1892 We were hated by the Democrat.
lc party, and the one avowed pur-
pose of every Democratic candidate
and speaker everywhere in the land
was to make Populism odious
throughout the State of North Caro-.
lima and to damn irrevocably any
man who had the courage to cast his
fortune with this new organization. y
Referring to Mr.. Aycock's euiogy
Of the action of the Populists in
quitting the Democratic party iu
1892. DR.. Thompson said:
my friend said at Concord, and
he has said here to-day that the
greatest political spectacle ever held
in the State of North Carolina was
the revolt of the honest yeomaury
out of the Democratic party In 1892
the organization of that party and
the casting Of $1,000 votes for . CUB
candidate within fou,
from the birth of the organ.
izstion. lie has said here to every
Populist who went out then that yoI
were justified in leaving and in build
ing q new organization. I challenged
him at Concord, and challenge hin
here to-day to show by any compar
ison of what the Democratic part,
was in 1892, and what it is in 1898
if We are not justified in remaining
out OF the Democratic party if ",
were justified in going ont of it il
1892. I challenged him at Concord
as he feared the great God and eter
nal damnation to come aud Civ
some sign of regeneration in his par
ty, and he lay as dumb rs an oyste
in the New River Of my good oil,
county of Onslow. I want him t.
come here and show you any differ
ence between the spirit of the Demo
cratic party in North Carolina to-da,
the leadership of the Democrati
party 10 tie State Of North Carolln,
to-day, the head and controlling ele
ment of the Democratic party to-day
to show wherein there is any differ
ence in it now and in 1892, whel
Mr.. Simmons with his secret circu
lar deprived many an honest yeo
man Of his vote, and when by hi
ruling prior to that time he said tha
if . man could not swallow Grove
Cleveland that; he was not . Demo
crat and could Est participate il
any Democratic primary or conven
ton. I said in my Clinton speec
that If the Democratic party can b
shown to be now such that If it ha
b ca ths same in 1892 We would NJ
nave left it, then the one thing for Q,
cry Populist in North Carolina to do
to leave the Peoples Party and z
back into the Democratic party. !
that cannot be shown then the sen