The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-03
THE DAY OF WHITE SUPREMACY
Great Gathering I'm the Arrnory-Eoun-
tfful Dinner In the Tobacco Ware
House-Sp;endfd Speeches of Kitchtn
and Dixon -~Falsehoods oft Fusion
fsts-MoreB urglarfes
Correspondence of The Messenger.)
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Fayetteville, July IS
Heavy rains have undoubtedly
diminished the size OF the gath
ering o-day, but the crowdt which
assembled in the armory at II
O'Clock was very large, representative
of the best element of the upper Cape
Fear section. Hon. W. H. Kitchin
delivered the first address, introduced
by Hon. John G.. Shaw briefly, but in
a gem Of happy thought and express
sion. Colonel Kitchin was in his ringing
enthusiastic vein, and for nearly two
u held his immense audience in
close attention, during a powerful ar
raignment Of the republicans and flu
sionists, n an eloquent plea for the
ratification of the constitutional amend
merit.
After an interval for dinner, which
was served in the tobacco warehouse,
only a few yards away, and where the
patriotic women of town and county
served a magnificent and profuse BAN
quet, Hon. 3. F.. Dixon ave a master
~ speech. He is very strong on the
platform, dignifed, impressive and
very pleasing a. a public orator, while
he shows his thorough acquaintance
with state and national politics. He
was introduced very happily by Mr.. D.
T. Oates.
The confidential circular sent down
from Raleigh, notifying the Cumber-
land populists that Cyrus Thompson
was to be here to-day is a queer pro-
duction. Among other orders from the
greater magnates to the small fry, it
especially ~en1oins hat no effort be
made to bring out the negroes. They
are worse than the democrats, who
propose to ~disfranchise the negro, if
possible; the "~fusionists" do not wish
10 give the poor a chance to find out
how to vote.
The burglars sought their spoils on
HaymOnut last night, entering the din
ing-room of the residence Of Miss Mag
gle O'Hanlan, where they treated
themselves to a good qua meal, and
afterwards at tempting to break into
her bedroom. Aroused by the noise
at the window, she rave the alarm
by ringing a bell, which brought her
neighbors. Messrs. Morgan and Wat
son, TO the house. but the thieves had
made their escape.
In the American Juvenile Journal.
Colonel c. w. Broadfoot, of this city,
payS a very handsome tribute to Mr..
Warren Prior, still spared to us. for be-
You'd the age of four score years, who
established the jewelry business in
Fayetteville 66 years ago, and his son,
Major j. n. Prior, still conducts the
business after the honest, square meth
DDS OF his father.
The methods of the ~fusionisss in this
campaign show fully the desperate
straits to which thew have come.
A canard making the most outrage
Gus and charge against
Captain j. D.. Mcneil. president of the
State Firemen's Association, and now
democratic nominee for the state sen
ate, has been put in circulation, only to
prove a boomerang and badly crack
the crowns of its projectors. The Ashe-
vile Gazette, fit medium for such lit
erature, has been publishing the most
absurd correspondence from this city
so unreasonable on it's face as to be un-
worthy of the trouble of contradiction.
DR.. Cyrus Thompson spoke at noon
in a back street. Yesterday his friends
approached the democratic leaders
with the proposition for a joint debate
to-day, which, of course, was rejected
DR.. Thompson and his crowd are
"slashing about loose" and have nc
claim whatever to recognition. He
held quite a levee at the Hotel LaFay-
cite this morning, and the populists OF
the east side of Cape Fear river were
present in considerable numbers.
There is nothing more uncertain thar
politics, and until the campaign is
closed, in fact, until the polls arr
closed, no prophet or the son of 6
prophet, car give the bottom line. Blu
the skies are clearing and we thinl
we can see the sunshine in Cumber.
land. Conservative men realize tn,
hard work which has been before us
but are confident that the county is
safe by a small majority. The dispen.
sary question has been a disturbins
element in the campaign, and our enc
mics have used it to attack the legis
lative ticket, which they are s~trainins
every nerve to defeat.