The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-01
GLENN IN RALEIGH
Our People Hear the Great
Winston Speaker.
A POWERFUL SPEECH
HE FIRES ON FUSION WITH
IRRESISTIBLE FORCE.
"A MOST POWERFUL CLOSING APPEAL
To the White Men to Stand Together and Stamp
Out Negro domination in North
Carolina.

IdFOliIlds
When Bob Glenn began speaking in
Metropolitan hall last night Governor
Russells clerk Fowlc was sitting in the
audience, but when the shells began fir-
ing from this mighty piece of Democrat
ic artillery it soon became too hot for
Fowle and he picked up his hat and beat
Il retreat.
On the opposite side OF the aisle sat
Sims, the chief clerk of Sarsaparila
Aver. He stood the rapid fire for half
IN hour, and then it got too hot for him,
so he beat retreat
There were a number of other Hopu
lists and Republicans present, but many
of them were not like Fowle and Sims
fusion pie eaters. They could listen and
take heed and even be convinced per
haps, but not so with Fowle and Sims,
with them it was a powerful irresistible
portrayal OF principle on the one side,
and pie on the other. They prefer, of
course, to hang on to the pie.
The shells from the powerful battery
of Glenn. aimed at Russell, began OK
ploding all about the Juvenile executive
clerk. They were too much for him, and
so he had to go and tell his chief that
his Notifications were being battered
down.
The thirteen inch guns from the great
stumper from Forsythe, against the UNI
holy alliance that has cursed and dis
graced the State began bursting about
the head of Sims. who has so often de-
clared against negro fusion, and he
could not stand it, He thought perhaps
of the auditors office pie that was being
dished out to himself and other mem
bers of his family. and he evacuated,
went perhaps to tell the only bibulous
member of the administration that his
Notifications were being battered down.
All the other two hundred
and fifty or three hundred white
men who had gathered to hear the dis
tinguished speaker remained Through the7
two hours bombardment of fusion rule
and negro domination, and they have
never listened to more powerful or
more crushing arraignment OF bad Cow.
eminent than they heard from o'clock3
until 10 o'clock last night.
Captain Glenn is a strong man. In
physique he is power. In mental
strength he is Il giant. As an orator he
has but few equals He is one of the
most earnest and sincere men that eVeH
plead u cause His whole soul and eyerSs
impulse of his great big heart is in the.
fight for Anglo Saxon supremacy IN
North Carolina. He speaks with. forc9
and with much feeling; his emotions rs
well as his manhood are aroused and
his appeals are as pathetic as they arc
powerful. He is n great lawyer, and in
his speech last night he appeared for the
white men and women in North Carolina
as against the black men and their al
lies. He appeared for Democracy
against Republicanism and unholy flu
sion. and his defense of the party WIS
unanswerable, while his arraignment Of
the despoilerS of the State Government
both under Republican rule and under
fusion rule, was sufficient to convict
them before any unprecedented mind.
lie spoke for two hours. and it was
magnificent effort. He drew briefly a
picture Of Republican rule during the
days of reconstruction, showing it up in
all its awful hideOusness, and invited his
bearers to look upon it. He then pie
tured the twenty years of Democratic
rule and his hearers beheld the great con
trast. Then he discussed these three
years of fusion rule. its extravaganza,
its scandals, its shortcomings, it's brok-
EN- promises, its braZen defiance Of de-
cency, honesty and political integrity: its
increased expenditures, increased taxes;
its foisting of incompetent and corrupt
men, black and white into positions of
honor and trust; its humiliation of the
white men and women of Eastern North
Carolina by the establishment in the
counties and towns of that section of
negro control and negro domination. He
pictured all these things in his own
impressive and powerful way and closed
with an able appeal to the white men
to rise in their manhood and stamp out
these degrading influences and thereby
save the State and its white men and
women from these unbearable condi-
tons. His appeal was one of the strong
est and most forcible that has ever been
heard in Raleigh. He was in earnest.
terribly in earnest, and he felt every
sentence he uttered. His speech will bear
good fruit in Raleigh and in this vicin-
ity.