The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-14

to the Republican camp and say; Give
us some offices and take our voters,
and then you talk of hypocricy and say
that It is Il wondSr God don't blast the
Democrats for their Hypocricy.
you are comparable only to the phari-
see in the scriptures and Burns holy
Willie" whom the poet has pilloried in
everlasting infamy.
LET me read you Holy WIllies prayer:
81 bless and praise Thy matchless might,
When thousands Thou hast left in night,
That / am here, afors Tiny sight,
For gifts and grace,
A burnin' and a shining light
TO a this place.
"Lord bless Thy chosen in this place,
For here Thou hast a chosen race,
But God confound their stubborn face
And blast their name,
Who brings Thy elders to disgrace
An public shame"
"You said in your Clinton speech that
Governor Russell had removed Railroad
Commissioners who he had found were
under the control of the railroads. Was
Ohio Wilson one of them? Who is
Ohio Wilson? Who is the chairman of
the Populist committee in Wake county?
Ohio Wilson. Who is the chairman of
the Fourth Judicial district Populist
Executive Committee? Ohio Wilson.
Who is the chairman of the Fourth Con-
gressional district Populist committee?
Ohio Wilson"
Under the control of the railroads they
and yet you go about talking about A..
&. Andrews controlling the Democratic
party.
1--WE gave the negro the right to CON
duct his own schools. Do you want to
give him the right to control the white
schools too. You say Democrats helped to
make the law. When the Democratic
party was in power you said that it was
responsible for the laws. | say that
your fusion party is responsible for the
present condition of affairs. And ! tell
YOU that the hour has come in North
Carolina when this condition of affairs
has got to stop.
Mr.. Aycock then turned TO the crowd
and said: Il come to yen to-day IN
behalf of the manhood and wOmanhood
of Eastern North Carolina, in behalf
of the goddess Of Democracy, the white
womanhood of the State and / appeal to
Won to come to their relief. VIII you
come to the rescue? VIII you| Yes.
we will. many cried as n storm of APP
plause arose and Mr.. Aycock took his
seat.
DIR. THOMPSON.
Dr. Thompson arose and his friends
cheered him. we have listened ~ a
speech presenting the other side of this
question:" began DR.. Thompson: such
as no man will or can make in North
Carolina, except the man that made 1t.
But it is the same old cry upon which
the Democrats have fought every dlm-
paign, save one, since '16-the cry of the
negro.
''In the name of God, are we never go
ing to hear anything in North Carolina
except the negroW
He then took up the notes he made
while Mr.. Aycock spoke. He was not
himself in the beginning; he was mani
festly ratified; his friends cheered him
vigorously at times, but at first it could
be readily seen that the applause was, to
a large extent, manufactured. 1t was
led almost every time by Morrison Cald-
well, who not only did all he could to
coach the speaker, but rooted for APP
plause at every opportunity.
u can tell Mr. Aycock, said DIR.
Thompson "that the Peoples party and
the Republican party are going to CO.
operate again in this year of grace, and
that they are going to cooperate to the
damnation of the Democratic party"
He then gave the same reasons for CO.
operation that he gave in his Clinton
speech, declaring that without fusion
the Peoples party would disintegrate,
hat hut Min 9Ac
they had heretofore professed they stood
by to-day.
He then took up the Populist PROPOSE
ton to fuse with the Democrats, and de-
clared they prepared to fuse on the pro-
fessed principles of the Democratic par
ty, but that the Democratic party in its
organization was dominated. and in its
convention controlled by A. r. Andrews,
a Mckinley gold-bug; and so we are go
ing to fuse with the Republican party
because We can't help it. Would to God
that we could go into the middle-of-the-
road. but we cannot and live. We made
two gold-bug fusions in '96-one with
the goldbug Democratic machine: the
other with the goldbug Republicans, and
if we had fused with the Democrats in
'9S, we would have made another gold
bug fusion.
He acknowledged that Jim Young did
inspect the Blind Institute, and that
the responsibility for his so doing
rested on Benjamin Il. Montague, who
was chairman of the Board of Trustees
ut the time.
He declared that Democratic speak
| ers had appointed negro members of the
Legislature on committees to inspect
these Institutions; that Lee $. OyermaT
appointed one in 1893.
He declared that Warren county had
had a negro register of deeds for fifteen
years, and that he held his office. be
| cause the Democrats gave his bond.
In answer to Aycock's question as tC
whether they were going to take Lloyd
down. he said that Lloyd would remain
in the race against Geo. White in the
| Second district He said that Fowler
would stay in the field also, and that il
| the Republicans put mp candidate
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