The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-23
GREAT DAY
IN SAMPSON.
-FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE MEET AND
ofH0Uncf DtnocRAIic MACHINE
METHODS.


Den I MIA IlbN-
senator Butler speaks Great
Enthusiasm Fine speech by
a Democrat.
The most remarkable aud ~ignifl-
laut public ma-s-meeting ever held
I'm North Carolina, certainly within
he memory Of this generation, Was
held in Clinton, Sampson county, |
on last Saturday, August 18th. il
was an Indignation meeting of more
than two thousand patriotic white
men of Sampson county and this
number was swelled la thirty-tivc
hundred men who came In from
the adjoining counties of Dupiin,
Baden, Fender, Harnett and Cum
berland TO join with the people of
Sampson in recording their indig-
nant protests to the election outrage
perpetrated by the Democratic ma
chine in Sampson county and in
Eastern North Carolina during the
re, ent campaign in this State.
The meeting was called to enter a
solemn protest against the reign of
terror inaugurated by State Chair
man of the Democratic party, F. NJ.
SimmOns, and carried out by his
henchmen and redshirters through
out the eastern counties of the State
and to further protest against their
campaign Of intimidation, fraud and
theft at the polls.
The meeting was called together
| by w. +. Seasons, Chairman Of TN,
Peoples party Executive Committee
Of this county, who called A. II
Herring, ex-chairman of the county
Board of Education, to the chair. A
icOmmittee on resolutions Was ap
4 pointed, consisting of one man from
each township./I
The speakers billed for the Occa
sion We're United States Senate
Marion Butler, ex-Congressmal
John F.. Fowler, and Hon. F.. r.
Cooper.
Il Mr.. Cooper is lawyer and prom
Al inent Democrat of Sampson county
, and made one of the strongest an
= most patriotic speeches ever mad
l on public stand in North Carolins
t The vast audience of four thousan
people went wild with enthusiasm
: at the patriotic words Of the speaker
He declared that he was Democra
i and that all his fathers since tn
u Revolution had been Democrat,
but he declared that he was not
red shirt Democrat, nor a shot gu
Democrat, nor vote stealing Demt
crat, but that he was one of til
plain, honest Democrats, Of the tyI
of Jackson and jefferson, who h
, ilieved in the sacred tenets of tn
9 constitution and the rule of the ne,
Is pie. He declared that the issu
e now before the people of Mort
o Carolina was not whether one part
. or the other shall administer IL
l. affairs Of the government, bl
! whether or not there shall he an
government at all. That the recer
campaign in our State was a da,
gerous invasion upon our Republica
form Of government and was bo
& dering on mob rule and anarchy.
% His entire speech was a terrif
n castigation of the Democratic met
l. DDS in the recent campaign in tn
8 State and made profound impre
o sion upon the people i'm this county
u Senator Butler was then intr
:. duced by Chairman Seasons an
'Iwhen he appeared on the stand III
Applause was deafening. The shout
. of the people, together with fyin
r hats and fans made a scene of will
v excitement. 1t was i'm recognitio
of the gallant fight he had made f.
them in the campaign just ende
against such tremendous odds thu
d called forth such demonstration
y and besides they desired to do homo
t to Sampson cOunty's most gifte
and hOnored son.
/, Senator Butler spoke for MOI
q than an hour amid continued an
o Ideafening applause. He shove
up the dirty and disgusting cam
1 paign waged in the State by tn
, Democrats, and how, through thei
campaign Of force, fraud and intimi
datlon they had stolen the State an,
counted what would have been. b,
fair methods, fusion majority O
10000 to Democratic majority O
|, $4,000, thereby fraudulently taking
control Of all the State and county
offices and defeating him for re
, election to the United States Senate
Il Senator Butler was followed b,
ex-Congressman John Z. Fowler
who showed up their fraud in Samp