The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-25
Telling speech

GEdlC EaNAtIgIA Al tNAAtaNh 81 A'"
nights ago. From the Raleigh Post
we clip the following extracts from his
speech:
The making OF the railroad commits
sion a board OF equalization. and the
taxing OF the farmers horses and cat
tie and sheep and farming tools. etc.
at values fixed by them. greatly In cN-
cess OF their real value. and as good
as saying every man who had preNl-
ously given In his taxes was a liar ANA
a perjurer. was severely handled hy
Mr.. Aycock.
DISGRACE BROUGHT UPON THE
STATE.
mo newspaper could print such
charges against any democratic lcgis-
lature which convened in North Caro-
lima during the twenty years they en-
acted the laws for this people as the
organs Of their own party truthfully
made against the Legislature OF 1877
members either Indifferent TO the well
fare OF the state or pitiably ignorant
| of its needs a 'damnable disgrace To
the state etc, etc.
Never in the history OF democratic
legislatures was the charge ever mad,
tina a United States senator bought
his way through IT. II remained FOR
these fusion organs to charge II
l dBdlIlSl lItlI OWL party, ia ilt case fl
Pritchard. and thus disgrace the state
in the eyes OF the world.
"A party which would make such
things possible ought TO be hurled from
power by the honest voters OF tho
| state.
FEB VANCE'S NAME.
| when reverently used by the speaker
with the benediction, MAJ God bless
and we keep his memory green for
II Ax-ar'f--nnllnI fArth ~.,..,.I T..tk.w
amens from a number OF those pres
ent.
Mr.. Aycock then told OF Governor
Nance's action in retaining DIR. Girls
som in office as superintendent Of the
asylum for the insane in Raleigh. "A
republican, simply because he was a
competent man especially fitted for
, this place.
! He then narrated how the fusionists
had not even spared these poor unfor-
tunate people, upon whom God has laid
the hand OF afniction, i'm their mad
rush for office; how the supreme court
had to be called upon to save them
from the acknowledgement by incompe-
tents OF their home provided by the
state. He grew very eloquent i'm this
portion of his speech, and when he al
luded to the asylum for the white
blind children he even surpassed his
usual self.
When / look into the faces OF these
unfortunate children who never saw
the splendor of the monday sun, the
purple tent Of the violet or the blush
of the rose their mother state has
said, i cannot spit upon the clay and
give them sight but / can educate and
care for and lift them up to appreciate
the goodness Of God; / can erect a
building, that will be an asylum for
them, where l will protect and care for
them
Surely, / thought, here Is at least
one place on which their Decorating
hand will not be laid.
But what did we see' These poor
little motherless girls, many Of them.
who never knew the blessing Of a
mothers love, insulted. Inundated
outraged by having "A negro politician
appointed inspector over them-a no
gro of whom the governor who APP
pointed him had made the most seri-
Gus charges.
After an elaborate and beautiful tri-
butte to the record OF the democratic
party and a fearful condemnation OF
that OF the republicans and fusionists.
Mr.. Aycock took up the question OF
white supremacy versus negro political
domination and negro rule.
II didn't mince his words. either.
He made the bold statement that the
negro might as well understand now.
once for all, that the white man whose
forefathers shed their life's blood in
creating and building up this great re-
public OF liberty would always govern
1T and every state in il. every county
in it.
Il am not crying niger, nigger,' as
the fusionists charge. / am crying
white man! white man" and appealing
to every true hearted self-respectinr
white man In North Carolina 10 come
to the rescue Of his old mother state
and save her from the polluting hand
OF the negro and the white-faced de-
spoiler,
Talk about stirring up strife bet
ween the races? My God, If trouble Is
to be stirred up Gas the republicans are
e~ndeavoring to stir ii up between the
democrats and populists), then | pre-
fer that IL be stirred up between the
negro and the white man, rather than
that ii be stirred up between the white
men. who should be brothers and act
as unitedly in this campaign for Whit
supremacy as the negroes are acting
and as solidly as they will vote against
the white man and his intents."
Il appeal to you In the name of the
white maidenhood and motherhood "
North Carolina TO come To the rescue
or your state now 50 seriously threat
ened.
In England they nave a queen-a
woman, neitner young nor handsome,
but she Is the Englishman's queen, and
whenever and wherever God Save the
Queen Is heard the Englishman raises
his hat in reverence and respect.
W have a queen in North Carolina
Her name is the white of
the state-for the protector OF whose
virtue and honor the democratic mar
~ stands! Our party stands for the
highest ideal Of pure womanhood. and
we are going to march to victory in
November under the folds of that han
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