The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-25
GLORIOUS DAY In CUMBERLAND

Great White Mans Rally AT Fayeste.
Vile Friday-Speeches by Mason.
TiIlman and KitchiB-A Float Of
Lovely Young Ladies and Over 300
Of the Red shirts Clans I'm the Process
sIon-A housing Day for White Cow |
m in North Carolina
The democracy in Cumberland coun-
ty covered itself with glory Friday. |
The white mans rally and basket pic |
mic at Fayetteville was an immense
success.
Early in the morning people began
to pour into the city despite the fact
thai a heavy rain fell during the night
and frequent snowers UP to noon The
people from Cumberland and the sur
ounding counties arrived in buggies,
carriages and wagons, and all trains
that arrived were loaded down with
people. At $3.50 o'clock a Wilmington
delegation took the Fayetteville Gound
train on the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley railway and arrived in Fayette-
Vile at I1:40 a. m. There were eighty
two Wilmingtonians in the parry, in
GLIDING members OF the White Govern
llcHI CIAlcli5y "
Fear Camp No. 254, u. G. " under
command of Captain James l. Nets,
the Fifth Ward Cornet Band, under
Mr.. Robert Burruss, the leader, and
Squire George w. Bornemann. Sew
eral ladies' also went up All along the
road men and ladies got on at every
station. At Rocks a Fender delega-
H. r tL;-t, ~;u cnt nn IIn6a-. nnpn-
mand of Captain r. p. PaddisOn, of
Point Caswell. On the way the band
played at the different stations and
created no end Of enthusiasm.
The rain awaited nothing to dampen
the enthusiasm or diminish the crowd
of people pouring into the city from
all directions since sunrise. The various
townships in the ocOunty-Seventy~f first,
Q~uewhiffe, Little River, Pearce's Mill,
Rockfsh, Gray's Creek, Beaver Dam,
Cedar Creek, Flea Hill, Carver's Creek,
and Cross Creek-Were represented by
mounted delegations uniformed in red
shirts, while the long lines of vehi-
cles filling all the streets and thor
oughfores gave evidence that the white
peODlc il upper OdpC iCd q iSLA
the pillow, the machine shops, the kitch-
en-, nay, the very neighborhOOd school
room, to give me day in the cause of
North Cardinals redemption.
At 11:40 o'clock the northbound
train on the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley railway arrived with a
splendid delegation from Wilmington,
Pender county and intermediate points
on the line; and when, with band play
ing and banners flying. this fine body
of the stalwart democrats of the tide
water county turned from Maxwell
into Hay street, they were greeted with
cheers, shouts of greeting, and waving
of hats and handkerchiefs.
Chief Marshal Geo. A. Burns, with
his staff of efficient assistants, mar
shaded the immense procession in front
of the Hotel Lafayette, OF Hay street,
at noon, led by the Wilmington band
and the imposing scarlet brigade" of
hundreds of horsemen riding in column
followed by a float Of ornate decora-
tons, in which were seated sixteen of
the pretty girls of Cumberland and
Fayetteville, as follows: Misses Ellen
Underwood, Bessie Mcneil, Matte
Sedberry, PEARL Mcmillan, Jeanne
Evans, Flora Mcpherson, Elvie King,
Alice Beard, Maggie Ray, Annie Nc
Allister, Sallie FRAGILE, Fannie Cam
eron, Alice Wade, Eloise McGill, Leola
King and Sadie Bolton. Then came
the speakers in carriages, closing with
a seemingly interminable concourse Of
people, riding and on football pressing
onward to the fair grounds. Arriving
there amid the boom of cannon, the
great throng assembled in the grand
stand and gathered around the speak
ers' stand.
The exercises were opened with a
fervent prayer to God by the Rev. T.
H. Leavitt, followed by a union choir's
stirring rendition of the state anthem
Carolina! Cardinal" Ladies and men
alike joined in singing The Old North
State" with %throbbing hearts, and the
great swelling chorus was an inspiring
thing. There was tremendous enthusi-
asm and deafening cheers from earn
est and determined sons of Carolina
that rent the air.
Seated on the speakers stand were
Senator B, r.. Tillman, of South Car
DINA, who lac been specially invited
to speak in behalf OF white supremacy
and the other speakers, two patriotic
and able sons of North Carolina, the
Hon. Thos. w. Mason, of Northamp-
ton county, and the Hon. w. H. Kitch-
in, of Halifax. There were also on the
stand Mr.. w. w. Huske, chairman of
the democratic executive committee of
Cumberland; Major E. j. Hale, editor
of The Fayetteville Observer; Hon.
w. j. Green; Mayor w. S. Cook,
OF Fayetteville; the venerable Hec-
tor McNeill, a veteran of ninety
years, who fifty years 6 was sher-
iff of Cumberland; the Hon. H. Med.
Robinson and Veteran j.. w. Atkinson,