The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-21
OVATION To AYCOCK
metropolitan Hall Crowded
to the Utmost.
CASE FOR DEMOCRACY
WAS CLEARLY, CLEANLY AND
CONTINGENCY PUT BY THE
YOUNG ORATOR.
EL0QUENCE, HUM0R AND PATHoS
Waited at the Call Of the Speaker and the Oc'
casion. Fusionisis Arraigned on their
Own Figures and Statements. A
Plea for White SUPREMACY,
Plea for White Supremacy.

The largest crowd that ever assem-
North Car0linian since the voice
of Vance was stilled, crowded
the Metropolitan House last night to
hear Charles b. AycOck. 1t filled the
seats, the windows and occupied every
inch of standing room in the rear of the
hall. A number of ladies were present
in one of the galleries. Every shade of
political belief was represented and ev-
cry calling. 1t was an audience critical
in its attitude, prepared to judge ana
capable of judging the speaker and the
cause he represented. And before half
of the one and three quarter hours had
passed the great audience, pit and gal
lery, was swept off its feet by the
young orator. convinced by his logic,
tingling with his magnetism, alternately
gripped in breathess stiffness by his
pathos and anon bursting into bolster
Gus merriment at his keen humor. And
from beginning to end there was no de-
scent to the shallow arts of the dema-
gogue. no misrepresentation of the
party he opposed and no attempt to con-
ceal any shortcomings of the party he
represented, nor any sentence that he
could not face the ladies present and
utter without conjunction.
1t was clean. clear-cut, forceful. and
over all the charm and enthrallment that
is the gift of none save the orator, and
of the orator only when he is supremacy
conscious of the right and justice of
his cause 1t was the manifest sin
cerity of the speaker and his unfeigned
earnestness that most impressed the
nearer. His sarcasm cut because II
was edged with truth, but there was no
bitterness and no appeal to prejudice.
He appealed for white supremacy, but
he did not excite race hatred. He
showed that only the white man has
been able to rule well, and that as the
superior race it is not only his privilege
but his clear duty to rule.
He showed that the Fusionists have
promised retrenchment and have given
extravaganza instead. and he did it
with their own figures. He showed that
they had promised purity in politics, but
had been guilty of more corruption III
two years than Democrats had in TWEEN
ty-fve. and he did it with the words Of
men now fighting to continue the ex-
travagance and the corruption. 1t was
a mastery demonstration of the fact
that political battles may be fought on
a high plane and fought more success
fully than elsewhere.
There were some memorable scenes
in the speech. Time and again the
crowded house had cut his flights mid
way with sharp and spontaneous trl-
ute, but when he finished his magnificent
characterization of the Angl0-SaXon and
paused breathless for one tense moment,
he received such an ovation as is sell
dom given to q public speaker-it was
as though each auditor were striving to
assure the speaker that he more than
all the rest had caught the meaning
and the inspiration of tia thousand
men mentally grasping the hand of one
at the same instant And so when he
spoke for the womanhood of the State.
The humOr with which Mr.. Aycock
irradiated his earnest plea was as free
from the clownishness with which we
have recently been made so familiar rs
his pathos was from anything forced
or STACEY. He had the cause which he
represented too much at heart to in
dulge in by-play and shallow sentence
making. / do not believe that any man
who went to hear him, open to convic-
ton, came away unconvinced, or that
any man hesitating as to which ticket
to vote will vote any other than that of
the white man.
1t is not too much nor too little to say
that if all the white voters of the State
could hear Mr.. Aycock put the case for
Democracy there would be no doubt as
to what the result would be at the COM
ing election. 1t is merely a case of the
right man in the right cause