The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-05

pflale Ihal much more. Is that eXtray-
agance! If you are opposed to educating
the boys and girls vote the other way.
when came into power ] found a
band Of old, decreDit men in the State.
Some were blind, some crippled. some
feeble and some poor. Who were they?
They were not the business leaders. [
had read whore hose men had once
said, NO, we win not go against the
Union that our fathers built but
when the order from the President of tho
United states told them TO go and fight
the South Carolinians and others who
had LETT the Union they rushed out and
fought with their own people. They shed
the trst blood at Bethel, went farther
at Gettysburg and stood last at Appo
mattoX These are the men that made
heroism illustrious. But they were not
as brave as the women they left behind
them, VINO, while their husbands and
sons fought TO the beat of the drum and
the song of the bullet, remained at home
and farmed the lands and ran the fac
tories. AS often as man went down
at the front some good woman died at
home from sheer sorrow. The women of
North Carolina wrote to their husbands
and sons. in 1854. and told them that
they were hungry and in great need of
them, but urged that they remain there
even if death came to them. They said
they would rather die than be disgraced.
The State has undertaken to care for the
widows and for the old soldiers who
survive. Last year we spent 5000 900 on
the widows and the old soldiers. We will
do it again this year, and again the
In VOl1 10 81
against it. If you do, vote with us.
you may find man in the State
who has said that the boys and girls
should not be educated, but you will not
find woman who has said so. Nor is
there any woman North or South who
does not believe that the old soldiers
and widows should be oensioned.
Il never held any State office except
that Of school committeeman until was
elected Governor. The office of school
committeeman is an honorable place
When ! went into office as Governor of
the State l received letters from women
asking me to do something for their in
sane husbands. Some of the unfortunates
had been placed in county jails for safe
keeping and others were in the county
there was no room in the State hospitals.
There are today COO insane white men and
women in the jails and poor houses of the
State. They ought TO be in the hospitals.
When this condition was made known
there was but one thing TO do We
turned to the Democratic platform and
then to the State Constitution. We saw
the platform promised and what the Con-
stitution provided for. BY the first of
January we viii be able 10 take care of
400 of those who are out. Two good,
comfortable buildings for that purpose
are being built at Morganton They will
cost 100000 1t is great work. We
have spent your money in that way and
I am glad of it. Are you in favor of it?
If So show your faith by your work.
The Republicans are in favor of educa-
ton, pensions for the old soldiers and of
maintaining our charitable institutions.
Or at least their platform says they are.
If you are with us, Republicans, vote
with us. You stole those planks out of
our platform.
1--WE are charged with having spent
SIS. COO for lawyers. / spent 500 of that
and Governor Russell had made con-
You did not think that 1 would employ
j. c. Logan Harris. l never did in my
life. l did spend $500 in defense of the
Democratic registrars who were arrest
ed and carried into the Federal courts.
would have spent $4,000 before a
single one of them should have seen in
side of a prison. 1t was a vain effoS%
to intimidate the white manhood of North
Carolina
Governor Aycoek admitted that during
the four years the Democrats had spent
$947, 600 more than the Fusionists did the
four years previous. But, he declared,
that what had been spent for schools,
pensions and charitable institutions
would more than account for that.
In a delightful way the speaker re-
viewed the history and recalled the con-
ditions of the daysNo Fusion rule.
He said that no white man mad been
DISTINGUISHED by the constitutional
amendment. If any man failed to pay
his poll tax he dsfranchsed himself
eff you didn't pay your poll tax, you
can't vote. and should not vote" he as
serted. ''Three-fourths of the poll tax
goes to the public schools and one-fourth
to the aged and infirm and a man who
won't pay this ought not to vote. The
Republicans claim that $4,000 white men
have been DISTINGUISHED. If so $4,000 are
Republicans and they will pay up and
vote the next time. The amendment will
make the Republican pay his poll tax.
1t is certain that we did disfranchise
50, 900 negroes. That does fairly
we'll Spencer Blackburn said at
Sparta, the other day, that he knew
of a poor old Confederate soldier
who had oeen di3franchised because he
failed to pay his poll tax. Think of
that Everybody knows that no man
has to pay poll tax after he is so, and
there are no Confederate veterans under
that age
Mr.. Blackburn and Mr.. Pritchard
may take care of the deserters and the
Union soldi er out of the Federal Treas
ury, but we will look out for the old
Confederate
His graphic pictures of fusion rule as
compared with Democratic rule was most
interesting His Democratic audience as
they beheld the one all besmirched, the
other clean and glorious felt proud OF
their Democracy. No hastily Worded