The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-20

supremacy 10 All enInuSldSlIC GIO"0 u
hearers. He spoke from the judges
stand and the audience occupied the
seats OF the tournament grand stand.
1t is impossible to successfully report
a speech such as Mr.. Glenn makes. The
fire, h vigor, the ardor os his words
car only be appreciated by those who
are under h sound Of his voice.
He drove TO the speakers stand in
a carriage in which there were besides
himself County Chairman z. 2. John
son, Major P. F. Duffy and Mr.. ". E.
Springer.
Chairman Johnson asked the follow
ing to serve as vice presidents for the
evening:
Col. John L. CantwelI. Gabriel
Holmes, ]. ). hopkins. 1. L. Green
wald, S. J.. Ellis, E. It. Wade, q. w.
Chestnut, C. II. Robinson, D. T.
Barnes, Major r. H. McEcy, Hugh
MacRae, c. W. Yates, V. L. Zoeller.
w. w. Harriss, P. Heinsperger, r. P.
McClammy, ]. NJ. MCGOWAN, Robert
Ruark, and L. 3. Sasser.
He also invited county candidates
n Mr.. George L. Morton, cdndidat"
for State Senatir. to come on the ros-
trum. He invited Major DLfy to in
troduce the speaker of the evening.
Major Duffy said that we had in
North Carolina before important po-
litical campaigns but never one that
appeals to the people of the state as
this one does. Heretofore it had been
a QUESTION of this party or that party,
this policy or that policy; now il was,
which race shall rule, the white men
or the black man. In the state OF
North Carolina in the present cam
paign about $50 patriots are going to
and fro over the state appealing to the
people from the mountain to the sea
shore, calling them to meet the vital
issue (nOt issues) before them. Among
these $50 or more men there was no
more devoted, Jealous, patriotic and
eloquent man than Hon. r. B. Glenn,
of Winston.
According to his custom, Mr.. Glenn
diverted himself of his collar and tie
before he began speaking. Then he
asked the crowd to be quiet ten or fiji
teen mfnutes-at the expiration of that
time when he would have gotten the
muscles of his throat wound up they
could make as much noise as they
chose as he could holler as loud as any
of them. He was simply here to talk
as a citizen of Forsyth county to citi-
ZenS of New Hanover. He wanted to
bring one issue before his hearers and
there was no other issue so vital. 1t
meant civil life or civil death; it meant
sunshine or shadow; it meant joy or
gloom; it meant building up or tear
ing down. That issue was who is to
control, the Anglo-Saxon or the ne
gro?"
Now" he said. 1T makes no differ
ence whether you are a republican, a
populist, or a democrat. All / want
to know is are you white, do you love
your children, your wife, your coun-
try, your God. If you do 1 appeal to
your reason, to your heart"
He said he wanted to lay down two
propositions: I. There never has been
a time when the party in power was
put there by the negroes but what
there was evil, darkness, b~loodShed,
corruption, disaster. 2. There never
was a time when white men were in
power but what there was peace, good
will, good government, a building-up
if this great and good state. If I prove
these propositions, l beg, implOre, en-
treat. | DEMAND that you vote for
the amendment.
The speaker then took up his first
proposition. He pictured in vivid Ian
guage the terrible state of affairs that
existed in reconstruction days. The
war was over. The Greeks at Mara
thon, the English at Balaclava, the
French at Waterloo did not fight more
bravely than did Confederate soldiers
at Gettysburg. When they laid down
their arms at AppomattoX, there were
more guns in the hands of Tar Heel
soldiers than in the hands of all the
rest put together. (ApplauSe.)
Then came the story of how the boys
in grey, fOotsore n weary, turned
their faces homeward and the account
of the great devastation and sorrow
Rachel weeping flor her children and
would not be comfOrted because they
wer not In the ACE of all this how
did the party in power in 1S6T-6S and
80 answer appeals for Succour. 1t
gave for bread a stone; in the place of
a fish a serpent. When help was asked
taxes were increased. When schools
were wanted a half million in tax vas
collected and not a boy or girl taught
to read or write. Asylums for the un-
fortunate were demanded: $500, 600 was
collected, but not a cell was built or
asylum erected. This was not all, not
even the worst part. None but those
who saw the blazing light of burning
homes reflected against the midnight
sky could realize the worst.
Personal "reminiscences were drawn
on to emphasize the terrible suffering
and distress which prevailed. Il can-
not redraw this picture. There is no
language to describe the anguish, the
ignominy, the disgrace of it all"
The second proposition was treated
next. The speaker said hat he knew
democrats made mistakes, but he had
voted the ticket Is years and had never
yet been made to hang his head in
shame. But compare the a~dcoinistra-
tons of Vance, Jarvis, Scales, Carr n
Holt with that of Russell. Populists
and republicans are defied to find a
blot, a crime, a scandal, a corruption
In the administration of these men
But look at Dan RusselfSan dark
ness, despair, corruption, with never a
good word for it even from repubi-
cans and populists. But with all the
blackneSs of Russelfs administration
there is spark of humanity in him
for he is going to vote the white mans
ticket this year n support the con-
stitutional amendment and therein is
superior to Holton, Pritchard, Butler,
and Abe Middleton. cOlored. How ara