The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-08
OF others free; contend manfully that the
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Of others free; contend manfully that the
people shall be heard.
My contention is that a people who
are intelligent enough to be trusted to
pass upon Constitutional Amendment.
with their ballots. are sufficiently wise to
be trusted to declare with their ballots
who shall be the guardian of their lives
and liberties, in the highest councils OF
the nation.
mo more propiticus time could be Sc
lected for the taking of the people into
the confidence of the party and delegatins
to them the privilege and the power OF
selecting their chief representatives, than
this, the closing year of the Nineteenth
Century, when North Carolina will rise in
the power OF her strength and throw off
the yoke of vice and gnorance-in this
year when North Cardinals slogan will
be, the White man shall rule the land or
die In this year when North Carolina
by the vote of the people will register the
edict, that the men who made North Car
NJ, shall rule North Carolina.
I'm this Commonwealth where the
spark of civil liberty was born-and more
than twelve months before Jefferson
wrote the immortal Declaration of indie
pendence, the patriots of grand old Meek
lenburg county, had adopted a similar
resolution.
at this propitious era, and in this
grand old Commonwealth, let this be the
time, when the Democratic party, shall
resolve the people shall rule in fact. as
we'll as name. And, as the men behind
the guns at Manila Bay, made the name OF
the American soldier glorious through all
the ages, give the people the opportunity
of manning the guns, and we will rejoice
in the refrain,
Sound the loud timbrel Ger Carolina S
glad sea,
The people have spoken and Carolina is
free
A resolution that the convention in
struct It's delegates to the State conven>
ton to vote>for Aycock for Governor and
Cunningham fer Lieutenant Governor was
unanimously adopted.
The following were the delegates cho-
convention, which meets in Raleigh next
Wednesday, fifty-six in number:
Coxs Store, j. E. Cole; COUGHS Store,
r. G. Russell; Pickett's Mill, G. d.
Markham and H. " Couch: Vickers
SUM- Il. hdootyr ANSiSOH, lciCy dSC
Suits Store, j. e. Nichols;y Barbee s
Store, S. NJ. Suit; Bahama. A. w. Tilley;
Mangum's Store, John w. Umstead: Stag
willie, Benehan Cameron and W. d. Tur-
rentine; Rougemont, w. l.. Parrish;
Rragtown. Hiram Vckers, ID. l.. Belvin
West Durham, Jerome Dowd, Tandy Wal
ker, Charles Wilkins, /. w. Shields; North
Durham, r. B. Boone, j. S. Manning A.
J. Draughan, T. B. Lyon; Mangum's Brick
Store, John +. Harvard, Charley Whita-
ker, w. A. Erwin, ]. b. Hunter, DR.. J.
M. O'Kelley; Commonwealth Mills, f. d
Markham. Fl. b. Craven, O. X. Proctor,
Stroud's Store, c. W. Massey Five
Points, p. c. Graham, l.. G. Cole, II. A
Foushee, J. c. Biggs, V. Ballard. Arthur
Cobb; Parrish Warehouse, r. w. Win
ston, G. B. Green f. IL Fuller. j. G.
Patterson, M. G. Markham Jones Fuller
Oscar Adams; Court House, H. A. Reams
j. A. Robinson, r. Fl. Scoggins n. A.
Ramsey, G. G. Farthing; Hunts Store
V. S. Bryant j. NJ. Manning, W.. a. Sla-
ter, w. j. Griswold NJ. c. Herndon H. j
Bass, Leo ID. Heartt.
Never before has there ever been seen
a larger attended or more enthusiastic
county convention than the one today.