The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-27
Capt. Davis and DR.. Fox Person Not
Welcome.
WERE HUSTLED BACK ON THE TRAIN
Their Troubles Began With the Red Shirts at
Warsaw. They Got OFF the Train in
the Country Near Rocky

He had an appointment to speak at
Whitevile Monday but the white people
of that community didn't approve of his
| coming into their midst, and so, Tor
| twenty miles around, every incoming and
| outgoing train was searched. But the
| Endless Chain came not.
Tuesday he was to speak at South
port. To do this he would have had to
pass through Wilmington, and sometime
ago in his paper he called the people of
Wilmington "murderers," so of course
they were on the lookout. But he came
not.
In his stead went Capt. R. B. Davis
and DR.. Fox Person. So far as is known
here all went we'll with the Captain at
Wilmington and Southport, but Wednesday
when they arrived at Warsaw, in Dup
lin county, and Davis got off the train he
found about fifty red-shirts lined up wait
ing for him. Before he had gone half
dozen steps from the car they took him
up and hustled him back on it. DR.. Fox
Person saw the red-shirts and did not
try to get off.
At the next station, Faison, Davis tried
to get off. but the redshirts were there,
too. and they said, mo advocates of Ne
gro Rule are allowed to stop here" He
took the hint and got back on. The train
went on to Goldsboro, and there also they
tried to dismount, but the people said
NO" They said it quietly, but there
was a business look in their eyes, and
the train sped on with Davis and Person
on It,
Wilson, and no better luck. Davis got
off but Immediately crowd met him and
ordered him back on. The Southern train
was standing there, and he wanted to get
aboard that. They told him that Butler
and such as Butler were not even allow
ed to change cars in place like Wilson,
so the Captain climbed back on the train
and it went on to Rocky Mount. Just jas
it was pulling into South Rocky Mount
the train slowed down and Captain DAVIS
and his companion dropped Off
Stump AshSy spoke Wednesday night
at Lexington. He had 25 negroes and 40
white men to hear him, writes gentle
man CT that town, and adds: Mr. Ashby
don't hurt anything. He says lots of
things about preachers and western life,
and makes fun of preachers and religion"
Capt. James B. Lloyd, of Tarboro, is
i'll with fever at the hospital here. Capt.
LLOYD has been here at Populist head
quarters for sometime and was out on
the canvass when he was taken sick.
The Fusionist conspirators and their
dark allies" have been mighty quiet
since the recent meeting of the Legisla-
ture They can now find no mouse brave
enough to tie the bell On the cat.
Rolton and Butler are these days
almost inseparable, and so happy and
contented do they look together that the
small boys on the streets have named
them THE Heavenly Twins"
Mr.. Walter Neal, chairman of the
State Board of Elections. said yesterday
that out of 800 negroes in Scotland
county. only have registered. Scotland
is in every sense of the word, White
Supremacy county.
The railroads will give reduced rates
for "Aycock day" at Clinton, Saturday,
.JuIy 2Sth Two special trains will be run
bv the Atlantic Coast Line from Warsaw
so that passengers can make connection
with every train, both north and south.
Mr.. Frank Spruill, of Louisburg, was
here Yesterday on his way to Statesville,
where he speaks tomorrow. From there
he will come back east and complete his
canvass. He predicts Democratic ma
iority of 500 in Franklin county.
A committee composed of Ashley
Horne, w. A. Barnes, Will H. McCullers
and L. d. Debnam, has arranged a big
barbecue at Liberty Park, Clayton, We'd
nesday, August 1st. Speeches by Hon.
C. NJ Busbee and E. w. Pou and music
by the Aycock brass band of Goldsboro
The Black and Tan orators are meet
ing frost most everywhere. C. j. Meekins
was advertised to speak at High Point
on Wednesday night A band had been
engaged and at the hour of the speaking
the eight members of the band and five
negro boys marched up the street. There
was not voter in sight and so Meekins
didn't speak.
There is man in Raleigh who says
| he has seen one of the Fusion tickets.
and that it positively is headed by Ad-
ans.
When this was told to a Populst he
| declined to believe it and said the man
| was either mistaken or the ticket he
saw was fake
The Republicans, though. say that it
| is the true and correct Fusion ticket
and the only one they'll vote for.
Mr.. Francis D. Winston left yesterday
for he IN
| day and tomorrow. 1t has been his
custom, he says, for the past ten years.
| to speak in Martin on Friday and Sat
/ urday before election.
| And there is one township in Martin
county" he added, that has something
l don't suppose any other township in the