The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-27
RED SHIRTS DAY IN
DUPL|N COUNTY
Aycock Met by a Measured
Mile of Mounted Red
Shirts.
PROCESSION TWO MILES
Most Demonstrative Gathering That
Has Assembled in Any Part
Of the State.
AYC0cK's MATcHLEss oRAToRY WON ALL
Eloquent Speeches by Hon. F. A. Wcodard'
and State Senator Aycock. Or. Faison
Arrayed in Red Shirt Made
Spirited Speech.
Spirited Speech
Especial to News and Observer.)

Warsaw, n. c., July 26.-This has
no such political demonstration has
been enacted here as was witnessed at
Kenansville today. The recent arrest
and trial of Dick Williams, the regis
trar has aroused the county from
border to border. The coming of Ay-
cock into the county today furnished
the Democrats the opportunity to
manifest their interest and enthusi-
asm. 1t was the greatest crowd that
ever assembled in Duplin and it was
the most demonstrativeg gathering that
has ever assembled in any part of the
has assembled in any part of the
State.
The march from Warsaw to Kenans-
vile, a distance of ten miles. was a
continuous swell of hurrahs
and cheers. The procession, when it
landed in Kenansville, was two miles
long. There was a measured mile of
mounted red shirts, marching two
abreast. They had come in battal-
ions from Warsaw, Wallace, Faison,
Rose Hill, Magnolia and Chinquapin
1t was the most impressive and for
midable scene that has ever been wit
teaching the. Fusionists Il lesson that
they have been refusing to learn, and
that is that Duplin county is safe for
the amendment and the ticket by six
hundred to eight hundred majority
and all the attempts at intimidation
by Butler and his crowd cannot change
ityor affect it, except to make the ma
jority greater.
Auroolx o11a1 amt hp1. Ca1n n his
crown of matchless oratory and won
the vast crowd in an hours powerful
speech. The crowd were especially
desirious of hearing speaking. They
wanted the pure stuff straight from
the shoulder. and they got it. And
when Aycock, in touching and most
impressive language, declared that the
white people of North Carolina had
erected a monument in the capital
square at Raleigh with AN inscription
that was kissed by the early morning
sun First at Bethel, last at Apo
matoX,' a great monument dedicated
to the valor, courage, bravery, and
honor of North Carolina white men
and that at the opposite gate of the
capitol soon another was going to be
erected to commemorate the daring,
noble and unselfish deeds of its beau
tiful women in war time, and then he
asked: Can Butler or his cohorts in
timidate such men and women as
these or their sons or daughters?''
and laundering NO" came from the
thousand throatsl
Hon. F. A. Woodland preceded Mr.
Aycock in one of the best and. most
effective speeches of the campaign.
Neither Mr.. Aycock nor Mr.. Woodland
were among strangers. The Duplin
county people know and love them
both.
Mr.. B. F. Aycock, Democratic NOM
inee for the State Senate, was present
and in response to a continued call of
several minutes he arose and gave
them of the effective speeches for
which he is noted
DIR. Faison, of Faison, was called out
by the cavalcade of red shirts, and ar
rayed in a red shirt himself, he made
Al most spirited speech.
The meeting at Kenansville was
another one of these mamoth county
gatherings that has for weeks and
weeks been foretelling a great victory
for White Supremacy on Thursday
next
This part of the State is getting
Ted-hot. DIR. Faison called for red
shirt volunteers to meet Aycock at
Clinton Saturday and a great crowd of
nearly four hundred volunteered.
f.. Il ARENDIrJ