The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-29

who. under the leadership of few
traitors to their party and their prlh-
ciples had gone out and voted for the
Republican Governor, and thereby help
ed to saddle negro domination on our
good old State.
1--WE have it in our power, SAID the
speaker under a recent decision OF the
Supreme court, and without doing amy
violence to our constitutional form ct
government, to come together like white
men, like patriots who love their
country and their countrymen and cor
rect these evils, and thus avert this inn
pending crisis. The remedy is at hand
it may be easily applied, and ! for one
am going to do all i'll my power to have
this remedy applied.
Il stood in the last campaign on the
Peoples party platform. ! have not
sulked. but | stand there to-day. | can
vassed this State rs the Peoples party
candidate for Governor. but | would
rather live as n private citizen under
good government than to be Governor
all nay life.
''fhe bolters of the Peoples party soiG
it's flag, and what have they received for
it? Negro magistrates, negro legislators.
negro postmasters, negro school commit
teemen. negro deputy marshalS ana
revenue officers, negro officers all oTcr
Eastern North Carolina, and i'll soIGe
counties in Western North Carolina.
Nor were these boilers forgotten They
| received their pay fer the party's flag III
Federal offices. 1t was with these FED
eral offices that Pritchard and HoltoH
and the other McKinleyites bought tho
flag from these traitors, and now they
have turned that flag over to the one
I>hundred and twenty thousand negro
voters in North Carolina, and L am here
to-day to assert and to assert boldly and
fearlessly that so long as these one nun
dred and twenty thousand negroes have
charge of the flag of the Peoples party,
until they give it up. until they surrende'
back that flag. | SHALL FIND THE
FLAG OF THE WHITE MANS
PARTY GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
TO FIGHT UNDER.
'Thc Anglo-Saxon planted civilization
on this continent, and wherever this race
has been in conflict with another race, it
has asserted its supremacy and either
CONQUERED or cXterminated its foe.
This great race has carried the Bible
in one hand and the sword in the other.
say to the nations of the world. resist
our march of progress and civilization
and we will wipe you off the face of the
earth"
Major Guthrie then. with copy of the
Bible in his hand. which he declares is
the only document he cares for i'll this
campaign, drew a parallel between the
rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by
Nehemiah and his faithful followers and
| the rebuilding of the broken walls of
| the AngIo-SaXon race in North Carolina
II am going to read said the speaker.
| ''from the Holy Scriptures, and | hope
! that no Fusionist will go off and say
! that Guthrie read at GoldsbOro lot of
| Democratic lies"
He then read from the Book of
| Nehemiah how the Persian army, under
! Cyrus. had torn down the walls and
| burned the gates of the Jewish city.
! and how the young Jewish leader, Ne
! hemiah, had come with his followers to
! retake the city and rebuild the walls.
| The enemies of the Jews rebelled
against it, but he was armed and watch
| full, and the people by not
even putting off their clothes at
| night with the sword in one hand to
ward off attack and by working with the
| other rebuilt the walls. IF fox
| go upon it he shall break II down" they
| said. but Nehemiah and his followers
worked on. The King threatened to
call an army but even this did not dis
may the brave Nehemiah, and finally
| it was finished, and there was much
gladness and rejoicing.
Major Guthrie read the story with
J powerful effect, comparing and contrast
: ing points as he went along, and finally
! called upon every true white man to
! join in rebuilding the broken walls of
white supremacy in North Carolina so
that all the people might rejoice from
! the mountains to the sea-
| The effect of the speech was electrical.
1t was a wonderfully strong and forcible
! argument, and went home to every
heart
Any attempt to print the speech or
| to convey ON paper it's effect would be
| futile. It had to be heard to be fully
appreciated
AT the close of Major Guthrie's speech,