The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-29
THE REPUBLICANS EXHIBIT A
FALSE BEACON,

made In the RepuDllcan PLATFORM auopleu
at Greensboro yesterday is best seen in
one quotation from it.
of the State to the clean. able and
economic administration of our State
government by the Republican and Pop
ulist parties from 1897 to 1901" is this
quotation. 1t covers the period o. Flu
sion misrule and scandal with which the
State are familiar during the days when
Governor Russell was Chief Executive of
North Carolina, and when Fusion forces
ran riot in the halls of the General AS
as "clean" deserves rather to be hidden
away in some secret closet as a CHASTITY
skeleton of darkness.
In it's declaration for a four months
public school for every district in the
State it is a belated note it sings, for
the Democratic party has given this to
the State. 1t is the declaration of a
party which, when in power from the
close of the war up to 1870 appropriated
money for schools, squandered this
money, and had no schools for the chill
dren of the State, the declaration for
education of a party that closed the
State University, and which now seeks
to sail beneath the beacon of education
set afire by the Democrats of the State.
OF such a nature, too, is the declara-
ton for public aid to the charitable in
situations of the State. When the Re-
publican party had fastened it's tentacles
none of these as the Democracy has
done. 1t is the Democratic party which
has opened up these boons to suffering
humanity, and which has provided for
the care of the afflicted of both races, as
it was the Democratic party which first
provided an increasing and generous aid
for the veterans of the Confederacy.
The arraignment of the leaders of the
Democratic party as false to the pledges
utterance, and the specific charges made
are a mere gathering together of words
intended to deceive the unwary and to
cover up the designs which are to form
a campaign which has for it's purpose
the return of Pritchard to the Senate, an
Utopian dream, not to be realized.
&
stitutional Amendment has passed out
of the realm of politics." and so it SEEM
ed when the people ratified it at the
polls, but Nowhere does the Republican
platform say that the Republican party
will not take the earliest opportunity to
attempt to overthrow it, if by any means
in their power they can find chance to
do so. They have the wish, it is only the
opportunity they seek.
The platform falsifies the record when
it refers to the amendment. When it was
presented to the people for their ratifica-
ton its terms were enunciated from
every platform in the State, and the
columns of every Democratic paper were
filled with explanations of its provisions.
At no time and in no instance was it
promised that men who declined to pay
their poll should be given the electorate.
Every pledge made the people by the
Democratic party concerning the amend
ment will be kept, and this will be seen
when the first election under it occurs
These are but a few of the inconsis-
tencies of the Republican platform. 1t is
false light which Pritchard and his
satellites are attempting to lift up before
the people. 1t is the last refuge of
rarty whose incompetency has wrecked
it, and which by the glamour of false
promises is seeking again an opportunity
to entrench itself in office, that once more
it may fatten on the mistakes of a
deluded people.
But it will not come to pass that
Pritchards desires shall be realized
The people of North Carolina know him
and his party and in November at the
polls it will assign him and those who
are following him to that obscurity which
is their just DUE