The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-03
APPEALS TO PATRIOTISM
MIR. WADDELL DISCUSSES THE
WILMINGTON SITUATION.
AND is ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED
cn,:ra'ic pa-y ;,i1iny
Prominent Populist Comes GU. souareIy
fnr White C,nroro,.u
tor White Supremacy.

Durham, n. c., Nov. ..-(Specian.-
The Democratic party grows stronger in
Durham county daily. The Democrats
are alive and working. and men who put
patriotism above mere partisanship are
declaring their intention to vote the
White Mans ticket this year
On Tuesday night, Hon. A. NJ Wad-
dell. of Wilmington. and Mr.. A. T..
Brooks, of Greensboro, candidate for So
licitor, in this district. spoke to a crowded
house here. The Parrish warehouse had
been handsomely decorated with flags
and electric lights for the occasion, and
the Durham band supplied patriotic airs
Both gentlemen made excellent speeches.
Mr.. Brooks declaring it was question
above party, and Mr.. Waddell making
a thrilling appeal to white men to come to
the rescue of his native city and save it
and the East from the horrors that
threaten.
Mr.. Brooks spoke first. in the absence
of Hon. Il. M. Simmons. who was te
have been present. Mr.. J. s. Manning
introduced the speaker. Mr.. Brooks de
clared that the practical question which
confronts the voters in this campaign, IS
whether they will have Fusion govern
ment with negro rule, or Democratic
government with white rule He said
this was a woman's campaign. and ev-
cry woman should ask her husband, or
father or brother not to cast his ballor
for the party that is negroizing Eastern
North Carolina. Mr.. Brooks continued:
IF the Democratic party desired to ex-
To
them, we had ample opportunity, we had
control of this State and the reins of the
government for over twenty years The
Democrats are the best friends the ne
gro ever had, but this is a white mans
government, and by Gods help, we in
tend to run it.
The same spirit that actuated Worth
Bagley to spill the first drop of blood for
his country in the war with Spain, will
actuate the North Carolinians to spill
the last drop of their life's blood if neces
sary, to free North Carolina. / ask you
not to be a Populist, a Republican or
Democrat in this campaign, but be pa
triot to your mother State
At the conclusion of Mr.. Brooks
speech, Mr.. Victor s. Bryant introduced
Hon. A. M. Waddell, who was accorde
a most enthusiastic reception. Mr. Wad
dell said among other things:
Il have taken no part in this campaign
or any political campaign FOR severa
years, and would not have taken any par
in this one, had it been an ordinary CAIN
paign. l have no favors to ask at you
hands nor any political aspirations: .uT
expect to continue to live as a private
citizen, as l have been doing, but if Their
is one thing on which / am a mono man
lac, it is love for my native State.
care nothing for party politics, / come
here to make no false representations
You have been misled, you have been be
trayed by parcel Of Internal scoundrels
You have no conception Of what we hav,
to bear in the east though it is not from
cowardice that we submit. 1t is not
question of political issues with us dow
there, but it is a question of society an6
civilization. You may remain indiffer
ent if you want to, but we do not inten6
to submit to it. His ex-Reyerend, PR
vate seceretay to His Wickedness, the
Governor of North Carolina, on one Of his
oratorical chores, said that this is not
white mans country, but free man.
country, a low piece of demagoguery. The
+,
this is not an Indians country; the Oh
naman is free man in this country, thi
is not Chinaman's country. The negr
race has had one quarter of this worlf
for three thousand years, and tina
continent is in the same condition thai
it was at the beginning of that time: L
this whole Southern country Of ours wa
abandoned to the negroes, in a hundred
years it would be in the same state OF
savagery.''
Referring to his native county, Mr.
Waddell said:
IF you go into the court house of New
Hanover county, and il is a court house
that cost something like seventy or eighty
thousand dollars, you will go into the
Register Of Deeds Office and find a ne
gro Register, and every one of his dep
uties are negroes. There are forty ne
gro magistrates in New Hanover coun-
ty. negro Coroner, and fourteen negro
policemen in the city Of Wilmington.
'.It would be bad as it is. but with the
report from the polls at any election thas
their race is getting offices there is a
marked change in their demeanor. The
negroes drew the color line. Since thes
first became American citizens they never
voted as an individual, but persistentiy
and unitedly as a race. The white peo-
pie for twenty years have furnished then.
with schools, asylums, etc, and have en-
ployed them almost exclusively as labor
ers and when they went to the polls they
voted against every principle of the wnltp
race. We are threatened with an influx
of negroes from all the Southern States
who look uf,ou Ea cfaru North Carolina as
their paradise. The leading Republicans
of Wilmington advised that no Republic
can ticket be run in New Hanover coun-
ty for fear of blood she'd
Mr. Waddell spoke for more than hour,
and made profound impression by his
earnestness and fiery eloquence.
Col. Julian s. Carr. Chairman Of the
County Democratic Executive Commit