The news & observer., 1901-10-16
A Fuller Account Of the Speech.

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lating the county upon the organization
Of the Business Mems Republican
League of Franklin county" (of nine
members out of white voting popula-
tion of $4,000 and said it's move in the
right direction and would result in much
good to the State (and keep him in the
SeLateJ. 'sIne Southern people have SUI
fered mu-tl Ter giving 100 much attention
to sentiment, he declared, and ne
wanted them TO think from "a purely
business standpoint" He criticised as
ignorant and unworthy to lead the men
who shaped Southern policies after tine
war. He asserted that they opposed all
measures that were calculated to bring
about the commercial and Industrial de-
velcpment Of the South" His argument
was that Littlefeld, Deweese, French ana
the other carpet-baggers ought to have
been followed then instead of Graham,
Vance and joseph j. Davis. He laid the
poverty of the South to "the action OF
Southern Domocrats,'' thus exonorating
the scoundrels of his party who stole
everything in sight and mortgaged the
credit of the State for generation TO
come.
He then referred to the Constitutional
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quoted from Governor Aycock's great
speech, constituting it to mean that the
white people of Eastern Carolina would
in the future be permitted to pass upon
public questions in accordance with rea-
son and common sense thus insulting
their reason and common sense that have
govern in the past. He said these
white people in the East had been living
under slavery worse than that which
was endured by the black man prior to
emancipation. He said they had been in
intellectual slavery" and by inference
proclaimed himself the evangelist to bring
light.
He then took up the editorial in the
News and Observer and read a paragraph
to the effect that 1.-The negro will not
be eliminated from politics until he is
departed" (That extract from the News
and Observer was the best thing in his
specch). He assumed to believe that Mr.
Daniels was advocating deportation of the
negroes and told the farmers they could
not afford to lose the negro as a laborer.
(The News and Observer advocated no
deportation. 1t merely used that sentence
to show that as long as the negro lives
here he will be an element in politics
and 10 will be. Mr.. Pritchard right noIr
is urging the white men to divide because
the negro is eliminated, and in 1902 he
will be moving heaven and earth to get
every negro who knows ''b'' from "bull's
foot on the registration books to kill
the vote of white Democrats.-Editor)
Prosperity was the next theme touched
upon and he claimed credit for the Re-
publican party for good crops and good
prices. He did not candidly tell the
farmers that, if his party is to be credited
for last years good cotton crop, it is to
be blamed for this years short crop and
low prices.
McLaurinism was then touched upon and
again he quoted from the News and OBJ
server. (The crowd thereby got a few
sentences of sound doctrine sandwiched
in with a lot of sophistry). He was gin
gerly in his talk about McLaurinism. 1t
seemed that he didn't want to give too
much encouragement to it and yet wanted
to give enough to encourage it to help the
Republicans. He declared that the money
question was not now an tissue, and de-
fined the three foremost issues now to
be in this order: /. Industrial expan-
sion: 2. Rehabilitation of our merchant
marine; and 3. Protection.
Under the first head he said: ''The ac-
QUESTION Of the Philippine Islands by our
government will result in more substan-
tial benefit to the South than all other
sections of the country combined" 1t
would give them markets "for our sur
plus raw cotton as we'll as our cotton
fabrics" He denounced viciously any
who took the opposite view. He gave
statistics then as to the growth of the
cotton mill industry and claimed all the
credit for the Republican party. not STOP
ping to explain that more mills were built
under Democratic administration than
under any Republican administration. One
hard headed and wise old farmer said:
IF We have expanded so without the
yaller Filipinos, what do we want with
'emo ! don't see that we have any use
for them except to kill them and do not
believe in that"
The c~-afor then took another excur-
sion to South Carolina and jumped on
Senator Tillman. He told the farmers
who followed Democratic policies that
they are absolutely ignorant, to say the
least" He had already told them that
they had been voting without treason or
common sense" and accused the Demo-
Ars