The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-21
SPEECH UNANSWERABLE
He Contrasts Particularly Conditions
in Wilmington Now and in 1898.
THE EVIL RULE OF RUIN IN 1868 AND 1898
Mr.. Aycock's Speech to the Randolph Voters
Won Hearty Applause and Warm
Approval From All Who
Heard II.
Especial to News and obscrvcr)

Asheboro, n. c., March 20-Hon
Charles Brantley Aycock, who will
be the next Governor of North Caro-
lima arrived here this morning to adj
dress the people of Randolph county.
He has a host of friends here and had
been invited by the county executive
committee to address the people on
Tuesday of court.
He received a warm welcome from
Randolph voters and thrilled them
with grand speech-one of the
greatest ever made in this county. 1t
made a profound impression, convert
ed backsliders, comforted the
''staints' and put on the anxious
seat" every white man who heard his
powerful appeals for white suprema-
cy. 3Ee
Mr. Aycock was in fine condition and
spoke with what the preachers call
junction" He had liberty" and as
he traced the ruin and injury that
followed in the wake Of Republican
rule in North Carolina in 1865 and
1898, and plead with the peopi1 never
again TO permit such Il condition of
affairs in North Carolina, they were
with him to man. When he point
ed out that there was but one way
to prevent its recurrence-an that
was to ratify the pending Constitu-
tonal Amendment-the applause
showed that his audience was in sym
pathy with him and that Randolph
was in line for the amendment.
MIR. AYCOCK'S SPEECH.
"A whole people will assemble in
August at the polls in North Caro-
lima, TO determine whether or not
they shall chenge their organic law
This question is the outg"owth OF condi-
tions. The North Caro- ina people are
conservative. They do not like change
They endure for a long time unpleasant
and evil things t9thcr than lake the
effort necessary to throw them Off They
would not today change their organic law
if there were any other course open to
them. But thirty years Of experience
have satisfied them rlat the highest in
terest of the State demands a change.
In 1868 the negroes and the whites who
acted with them, took charge OF the
State In two years time they did more
TO wreck the State than tour years Of
most terrific war had been lhe to do.
North Carolina sent into the Confederate
army more men than she had voters
every battle robbed her Of her nobicst ana
Lest-she poured out The blood of her
sons like water-her notle aud true heart
ed women taught in the old school that
woman's place was at hOme-to make 1T
sweet and attractive -carue out from
palace and from hut rom piano and from
spinning wheel and with treaking hearts
took upon themselves 10 run the farm
and the forge. the shop ana the factory,
until they were swept i:;to the grave
from sheer sorrow almost as East as the
storm of battle destroyed their sons and
brothers and fathers. vt the close Of
that terrific strife mourning was every
where in the land Universal poverty,
actual scarcity, real suffering, genuine
want were in the STATE.
Did these things 5ismay ,he N0rtl!
Carolina people? Did they hang their
harps on the willow tree an1 cease 10
sing their songs of slainess? On the
contrary they rebuilt their burn homes
plowed their lands, opened theiv stores.
started their factories, opened their
schools, and did not forge in their
churches to acknowledge God and invoke
His blessing upon their undertakings.
They had lost much of blood and treasure,
but hope, and sublime courage and honor
vet abided with them. But when the
carpet bagger came and the negro be-
gan to vote, an era of shame and hu-
initiation, extravaganza and corruption,
lawIessness and disorder swept over the
State for two years, and a. the end of
il left her bankrupt, indeed, with a debt
so stupendous that honesty itself found
it's only refuge in reputation arl CON
promise Senator McEnery calls that era
i'm Louisiana a "hellborn dream" his
Characterization of conditions there would
be perfect here if it were not too weak.
We had bought and sold negroes as
slaves before the war to the horror of
these same carpet baggers, who soiI
themselves in those bad days with a
shamelessness and effrontery that became
So common as TO be looked UPON as q
matter of course. Counties were &C.
clared 10 be in state of insurrection
and reputable citizens were arrested ald
confined in jails without charge or trial