The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-06
Campaigns Glorious End
ROUSING DEMOCRATIC RALLIES
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Concord Roxboro Redsyie, Tuckahoe and Other Towns
the Scene of Remarkable Demonstrations of En-
thusiaSm and Determination to Win
for White Supremacy

Burlington, Nov. Especial .)-Th,
Democratic campaign in Alamance coun-
ty eliminated to-day in the
grandest rally that has ever oc-
Cured in this section of the State. At
Burlington. seven thousand enthusiastic
white people gathered under the auspices
of the Democratic County Executive
Committee, to hear great rallying speech
es by Overman, Guthrie and Brooks; to
eat up the greatest spread ever attempted
in the county, and to take counsel for the
fight for white supremacy on Tuesday
next.
1t was one of the most patriotic dem
onstrations that has occurred in the
State, and was a glorious foreshadow-
ing of Il great victory for Democracy in
this county on Tuesday next.
1t was a great mingling together OF
the friends, neighbors and kinspeope of
the lamented Thomas NJ Holt and the
spirit of that great commoner seemed
to hover over the gathering. 1t was
a monster meeting of the descendants OF
those heroic regulators of old Alamance,
who more than Il hundred yeares ago
fought back the evils of Iryonism and
these their worthy gradsons and great
grandsons had assembled to fight back
the evils of Russellism.
1t reminded the venerable Giles Me-
bane of the days of 1910 and caused him
to almost forget t lat he moved about with
the weight of 81 wel-spent years upon
him. 1t inspired the young men and
the young women of Alamance county
and prompted a determination in every
man to win the battle for White SUI
premacy in North Carolina. 1t closed the
doors of 20 cotton mills in Alamance
county for the entire day. stopped the
activity on the thousand farms and
rang up the yoemen from one end of the
county to the other. 1t was a great
plain peoples banquet spread by white
people for white people upon Il table
five hundred and sixteen feet long and
four feet wide.
1T slew one hundred and forty two
lambs and pigs, with not black one
among them to feast upon by this vast
throng. Of course this great occasion
had to have an originator and generous
and active promoters and supporters.
It's originator was Mr. Robert l.. Holt,
one of the truest of the true blue Dem
ocrats of Alamance and one of the
States most unseltish young patriots.
1t was promoted and generously sup
ported by such men as l.. Banks Holt,
A. w. Haywood. B. S. Robertson, Col.
Eugene Holt. Col. james Ii. Holt, r. s.
Parker, chairman of the county Demo
cratic executive committee, John q.
Cant, the Erwins, the Williamsons, the
Webbs, Turrentines and other busy citi-
Zens Of the busiest county i'll the State.
The pigs and lambs were 'cued on pits
superintended by that prince of 'cuers,
George c. LANCER of Durham, aided by
Mr.. Robert Gates. The table was
in charge of detail of 100 managers
who saw to it that every person present
was bountifully supplied. The great
parade, a mile long, was led by 800
marshals on horseback. riding four
abreast and the great volume of moving
humanity II, we'd to music by a band of
fifty four pieces, made mp of the cornet
bands of Burlington, Haw River and
Liberty. The detail work of the great