The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-20
SPRUILL REPLIES TO PRITCHARD
Some Extracts From 1.-THE OnlytISpeech of the Day
That Observation-Disclosures

ment of a pest house in almost every
county.
1t means the overriding of the best
loved traditions of a free people, and the
lie given to our proud boast that ours is
the cradle of liberty, and the birthplace
of freedom.
1t means a change in our national
character SO complete that what was
George Washingtons browning glory is
Aguinaldo's undying shame!
1t means that the Constitution is
falsehood, and the boast of American
freedom a show mans catch phrase, and
trickster's artifice
1t means that the stars and stripes are
not the symbol of liberty, but the token
of tyranny!
The Republican party undertakes,
thI ough the honorable Senator, to take
credit for the national increase in wealth
and population. The unhewn forests, the
untamed water powers the unworked
mines of the State, are not the gift of the
Republican party to our people We owe
no debt of gratitude TO any political pow
err or party for these good gifts and yet,
to hear the complacent words of the Re-
publican party's spokesman here today,
one would reach the conclusion that even
the increase in our census was the result
OF Republican activity and benelcence
1t has been heralded all over North
Carolina that this is the beginning of the
era of Pepublieansm in North Carolina.
From this meeting much is augured, and
| fabulous tales will go forth as to the
| power and influence of the Business
| Mems Republican Club" in .Louisburg.
| AS look into the faces of these, my fell
| low citizens, whose truth and sincerity |
| have come to know so WE'LL l marvel at
| the temerity of. the party that would risk
| its first opening and stake its first throw,
/ among people so firm in their convic-
! tions, so unchanging in their opinions.
| UPON THE FINGERS OF MY TWO
/ HANDS L CAN COUNT EVERY WHITE
MAN IN THIS AUDIENCE WHO HAS
LISTENED WITH SYMPATHETIC
EARS TO THE SENATOR'S PLATt-
/ tubes. Save and except the corps of
| office holders, who are met here together
| as an illustration to our wavering mine"
of how good and lucrative a thing it is
! 10 be Republican, / can, UPON THE
| FINGERS or ONE HAND NAME EVERY
| WHITE MAN HERE WHO WILL BE
/ SHAKEN IN HIS POLITICAL CONVIC-
|
| HOUSE THERE IS SHAKEN BY A
/ PASSING BREEZE.
Let me serve notice here and now upon
! those who expect the ranks of the State S
| Democracy to waver and break under the
| tide of Republicanism and McLaurinism;
| We have not gone through the dread or
| deal of wrestling North Carolina from the
| domination of the negro, to see it pass
| again into the hands of those who direct
| ed and profted by that negro vote. When
| the constitutional amendment was adopt
| ed, we won a great battle for intelligence
and virtue and by the memory of that
mighty conflict, by the sacred right of su-
perior manhood to control, we mean to
reap the harvest of that sowing, in the
better government and the cleaner admin
istration which the Republican party has
never given and can never give.
| thank God that the day of the parti
san Judiciary and the corrupt official that
| worst spawn of Repubicanism and Flu
sion. is almost over. few months more
and the air will be purer for their re-
tirement. The places that know them
now will know them no more forever, and
they will pass out of human memory,
'sunwept, unhonored and unsung.'