The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-29
SPEECHES OF MAJOR GUTHRIE,
MIR. FOUNTAIN AND OTHERS.
THE RINGING RESOLUTIONS PASSED
The Great Speeches of Waddell, Watson, Ay-
cock, Neal, Jarvis, Pou and Gillian.
A Mighty Flame of Democratic
Enthusiasm kindled.
(Staff Correspondence.)

Goldsboro had within its gates to-day |
the most potent political gathering That
has ever assembled in the State.
II was not a convention. 1t was not
a mass meeting. 1t was not picnic nor
a conference but it was a great gather |
ing combining the best features of
them all. 1t was an outburst from the
field and the factory; from the shop and
the store; from the office and the count
ing room of eight thousand white patri-
offs assembled in obedience to a call from
the brave and manly general of North
Cardinals white forces, the fearless, az
gressive Il. M. Simmons, to take counsel
with each other before the fighting OF
the great battle of ballots on next Tues
day week.
The patriotic white men came from
nearly every county in the East. They
came from Edgecombe and BERTHE and
Halifax and Northampton, from Nash
and Wilson and Green and Pitt, from
Craven and Pamlico and Perouimans on
the one side, and they came from Col
umbus, Brunswick, Richmond ana
Robeson and from Sampson aud Pender
and New Hanover. from Jones and Ons-
low and Lenoir and Duplin, on the other
side. Then they came from Johnston |
and Wake. from Durham and Orange
and Forsyth and Guilford, from David
son. Mecklenburg and Iredell and other
counties in the West and they formed
altogether great delegation of patriots,
lovers of State and home and fireside,
defenders of liberty and justice and
right, advocates of principle and deter
mined defenders of virtue and honor
and character. 1t was potent coming
together of heroes and statesmen and
honest yeomen with courage written in
every countenance. with hope in every
heart, with eager enthusiasm sparkling
from every eye, and with daring and
determination pictured on every face.
1t was one of those gatherings that in
spires, that thrills, that stirs the minds of
men. and melts the hearts of women.
1t was mingling together of white
men, brave men, loyal men, represent
ing every phase of political opinion
Democrats, Populists, Republicans, Pro
hibitionists-all joining in one earnest
appeal for the supremacy of the Anglo
Saxon race in North Carolina; all
concurring in one strong demand for the
protection of the wives and mothers and
daughters and firesides Of the best speci-
mems of the best race that God ever
created. 1t was an orderly gathering; a
good-humored gathering; a good-natured
crowd that harbors no i'll will to any
class or to any faction. but it was a
determined gathering, with minds made
ND, and with a firm and resolute pur-
pose to take forever fro mthe necks of
white men in North Carolina the CALLING |
yoke of negro domination.
do no violence to truth; | sound no
unnecessary alarm when | say that in |
the faces of these ten thousand white |
men, delegated by more than one hun |
dred and fifty thousand others, was
plainly written a bold declaration of
independence from corrupt, incompetent
and arrogant negro control, and a stead |
fast determination that come veal or
woe, come sunshine or showers. come
even life or death, virtue. integrity and
intelligence must and shall sit once more
and foreyermore enthroned in the
grand old commonwealth of North
Carolina.
This was the tocsin sounded by the
fearless, the honest the gifted Guthrie,
and re-echoed by the conservative,
methodical Fountain. 1t was the battle
cry raised by the alert, the aggressive
Simmons. ana responded TO Dy the ornate
Neal: the brainy Gillian: the expert
enced Jarvis: the matchless Aycock;
the fluent Waddell; the honest Cy Wat
son and the forcible Pou. 1t was the
ralying cry emphasized in resolutions
passed by the unanimous aye of ten thou
sand voices, and that will ring like
bell in every hamlet III the State. 1t
was a call to arms of white army. two
hundred thousand strong. to march TO
victory under the unsullied banner OF
Anglo-SaxOn rule in the interest Of
peace, of decency, of good order ana OF
good government. And this mighty host
is going to conquer
The meeting was held in the public
square liz front Of the Wayne county
courthouse. 1t could not be held in
doors; there was no building, perhaps no
half dozen buildings in Godsboro that
could have held the crowd
Hon. Il. NJ. Simmons called the vast
assemblage together, and in a very forci-
BILE speech explained the object of the
meeting. He portrayed the conditions of
Eastern North Carolina under Fusion
control. He enumerated the hundreds
of responsible positions held over white
people by irresponsible and in most in