The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-21
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

Hon. Daniel Hugh Mclean, Electo :
at-Large, who is making a magnificent
campaign. is, in the city and spoke at
Pilot Mills last night. Speaking of
his tour and the political outlook in
the counties he has visited, Mr.. Nc
Lean says:
81 am just returning from my canvass
in the mountains and the Piedmont sec
ton of the State. ] go from here to
Moore, and then to Pitt and Gates, where
big rallies and barbecues are being pre-
pared. These gatherings are largely at
tended.
81 was at Thomasville on the 18th, /at
a meeting of the trustees of the Baptist
Orphanage at that place. The Hon. M. H.
Justice, of Rutherford, delivered the an
nual address. In the afternoon he deliv-
cred an address to the large assemblage
of three or four thousand people upon
the Constitutional Amendment. His
speech was forcible. plain and convincing.
He demonstrated the fact that no white
man would be disfranchised under it's
operations, but that at least $4,000 ignor-
ant negroes would be. He demonstrated
that the amendment was constitutional,
and, as Mr.. Justice himself is a fine con-
stitutional lawyer, what he said upon
this phase of the subject had great weight
with the people where he is best known.
After the close of Mr.. Justices speech,
Mr.. ]. w. Bailey, editor of the Biblical
Recorder, delivered short, but very
earnest address upon the subject of the
amendment. He told the people that
he had never made political speech in
his life, and that he did not consider that
he was then making a political speech,
but that, in the interest of good order
and clean and economical government, OF
the white man for the white man, he de-
sired to urge upon everybody to vote for
the Constitutional Amendment, as 1t was
impossible for the people to discuss in
diligently and dispassionately other mat
tiers of governmental concern until this
all absorbing question of negro rule was
settled, and settled for all times. He said
that he had deliberately weighed and
measured every sentence and word Of the
proposed Amendment, to ascertain If any
white man could be disfranchised under
it's provisions, and was prepared to tell
the people Of the county of Davidson, upon
his honor as a Christian gentleman. that
1t would not disfranchise any native born
white man. but would eliminate eighty or
ninety thousand negroes from North Caro-
lima politics. Mr.. Baileys address made
a profound impression upon the people
present, and many, who had hitherto been
opposed to the Amendment, went home
strong advocates of its adoption. David
son county will ratify the Amendment by
a decided majority
I'm my canvass in the Piedmont sec
tion, l came in contact with Mr.. D. NJ.
Luther, OF Asheville, who at one time
was opposed to the Amendment, but after
sections and had been merged into
one and the section 5 added to the
Amendment, declaring that all must
stand together or fall together,l Mr..
Luther became an ardent supporter of
the Amendment, and is making strong and
convincing speeches in its favor. He says
that Buncombe county will go for the
Amendment by more than 1000 majority.
81 had the pleasure of meeting Mr..
Owen H. Guion, Of Craven, wnoNis doing
valiant work for the cause of White SUI
premacy and the Constitutional Amend
ment in the Piedmont section of the State.
Mr. Guion is fine lawyer and graceful
orator, whose speeches make fine i'm
preston wherever he goes. North Caro-
lima will not soon forget the valuable SER
vices he is rendering her in this struggle
for the rule of the white man"
DR.. Thompson sp, Ike at Angler, in
Wake county, few days ago. He
made many converts for the amend :
ment Yesterday a Democrat, who
had seen several men who declared for
the amendment after hearing DR..
Thompson speech against it, wro e
to a Democrat in Raleigh: please
have DIR. Thompson sent to as MANI
places in the county os possible. His
speech makes votes right along for
the amendment" And yet Cyrus is
talking against it after advising Pop
ulist legislators to vote for it.
Mr.. Mclean will go to Moore and other
counties today to fill other appointments
as follows: Egles Springs. Moore county,
July 23rd; Noise, July oath; Gainesville.
Gates county, July 9th; Grendall, Pitt
county, July 9th; Farmville, July 2Sth.
At the two last named places there will
be great barbecues. From Pitt, Mr.. Nc
Lean will return to Harnett to put in the
last few days of the campaign.
1t was a sight to see the loving COM
partnership of Chas. Price, Republican
attorney of the Southern railway, and
Marion Butler, the base pretended OPP
ponent of corporation, in close consulta-
ton at the Marlborough House last night.
A gentleman who came by said 1t was
1.-The lion and the lamb lying down to-
gether, with the lamb inside the cor
poration lion."
The Democrats of the First district in
their convention at Elizabeth, did well
to unanimously re-nominate Hon. John
H. Small for Congress. He is an able,
honest and courageous man, and his re-
demption of the district in 1898 was