The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-01

rot come down to the name. ] tell zoe
IL they wsst th~~e tn,ugs done.
vhy have they not done sbeos They
have had the RaitFoad Con mtssiea ~
sr since Mafion Batter established %
BY his effosfs in i>si. Thy tell this
I he people To believe q, th~y stand up
and koilew nigg-r. and Possibly BE-
iieye " they hollow it loud ~nvug, %
gill be easy Zoe you tn believe th-tn.
They said also 1--WE condemn free
passesS l,o they condemn fr~- pass
&c. There has bern . lac UPON the
.fa'st~ ooaks. state aud notiopai. cum
demninx free bas.--. that fhey c"utd
have executed any time they .au nt 70
execute STAGE ISL. ~ they combine
them. 81 by dad hey not cute the lac.
Ny friends 9, ey were prontipg by { ,en
w~rnt they. They we're riding on
free pa.-~ ali ny~s the lasd aud car
rysnK. tb-ir Delegates Ia control
conventions. and the fr-- pas
business n 'uri.h~d by The thousand.
Who pays the freight. II Kept up the |
rate Of travel. Es~ry time yon spent |
two dollars Tor travei yourself you had |
To spend substantially = dollar for ira
vel OF ,omsboSy else. In other words
| your passenger rates were dfty per
reduced To II you did away whh free
passes. and every man paid his way.
They condemned IL. Well isR'g IL
strange the late Democratic Conv-n-
lion '>."d-mn.d Tree pssse.. but con-
demned also This present State admin
isIratIony Now hear me. What has
| this admi Istration done. Foul and
| corrupt as it 10 said To be. Daniel l..
| Russell. acting under the Democratic
Law did what Elias Carr could have
done II hr had desired. He Ia. gone
forward and secured . judgement VI
the Superior Court against the giving
of free passes, and this Judgement 10
confirmed by the Supreme Court Of
the State Of North Carolina.
How in the name OF common sense
can they condemn this administration
which has stopped this free pass bust
ness! But it Is pectly easy to Demo
crat, he can turn and do anything At
ALL"
A certain Irishman (who must have
, been Democrat of the North Carolina
, leading type) was wrecked in SLEEP
ing car at night. Dressing himself
. hastily, he got his trousers on wrong
! side before. When he got out into the
light. he looked at himself and grew
serious. Some of his friends saw him
! and said: "Were you hurt in the
w:eck!" He said: "Oh, am perfectly
asy. l feel no pain at all; hut when
r look down at myself, l fear l have SUI.
, fered fatal twist
n 1t is all the same to them. you know
4 They are simply wearing trousers and
n fetching breath. | knew sOmethia
: was wrong when Buck Kitchen began
. to come to our party and the Dem
. Gratis made out like they were reform.
ers like ourselves. | felt when they
a began to flock this way that sonnet na
4 was wrong. l felt like the fellow il
!. Kentucky. He was holding . revival
n lie had invited the sinners to come
q Many had Gene, but he was still IN.
= . satisfied. Deacon Jones sitting to hi
I right, began to sing: while the lamy
!, hold ont to burn the vIlest sinner MAJ
" return" While the melOdious strains
of this hopeful hymn were ringing
:, among the rafters of the Auditorium
"a q man who appeared never TO hav,
a seen a church much lesa Ia have enter
a ed one, presented himself before tn,
70 preacher. Foul of face; VIII h dishevell
N ed hair; full of straw aud CHECKER
= feathers the parsOu looking down up
on him was startled. He staggered
;. back; he turned to the deacon ant
, said: "DeacOD, stop singing: fo
n Gods sake blow out the light. w,
= have extended the invitation too far.
70 Now let me call attention to anothe
- thing. In 1896 the the Democratic
n party in it's convention said:
"a ave demand the enlargement Of tn
# powers of the Interstate Commerce
I. Commission, and the addition OF sucl
~ restrictions, and guarantees in tn
n control Of railroads as will protect tn
% people from robbery and oppression.
~ That 10 what they said as to the in
# ter-state national commission: and yel
!. when they have a-man upon the Stat
!, Commission that attempts to do thi
= thing they never endorse, but ignOr
= him.
n And they put in their platform tina
20 they are opposed to the removal q
~ causes from the State courts to tn
10 Federal courts; yet it is q fact tina
"a when the last legislature, moved b
40 PopulIsts, attempted to have enacte
~ into law a statute forbiddiDg the r.
- moval of cases from the State court
- to the Federal courts, the Democrat
~ party in the last Legislature, almOet {
-, -. man voted along with the rank an
~ that measure, aud 1t was defeated.
,v Still, my fellow citizens, when 70
~ say these thugs to Democrat he say
is "Oh, let's fight it out inside the party
40 Did you ever think about that? YO
=. know the Democrats said that whe
ID we began TO break away in 1892.
=. want To ask every Democrat that hear
me to-day and believes what l believ
g do you think you can work it out il
m side Of the Democratic party? Tt
;" rank and file of the Democratic part
., is Disguised in North Carolina tO-da
~ Some Of them will come to US. tel
o. you they would come bodily to us If
=. was not that the Democratic party 90,
a and cries ''nigger" all the time. re
=. me, when did the Democratic party
an North Carolina ever have any pOliti,
-, but the Niger? When Never stint
or the war. Is there no other question
% politics just as surely IS it is trI
rs: that by grace are ye saved, 80 also il
:. true that il the Democratic party
." saved at all it is by the negro that the
"a are saved: while the robbery of t.
masses continue. What ought We ,
do?
The honest yeOmaDry Of the Demt
,. cratic party ought to join with Il
:, Peoples Party and break this machin
.r and If you do not join and help
Il break it, we are going to break it an,
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81 tense suffering. Many have for yea,
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