Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-09-18
GOLDsBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER IS

| cally endorse two Of our nominees
and take up another Democrat to
| head their ticket.
III told you in '9S that if you
would place the grand old Demo-
cratic party in power we would con-
| vert these radicals and make even
| them better men, and we have done
| it.''
He then took up Pritchard's plat
| form declarations at Greensboro, and
with burning logic and stirring elo-
| quence tore Pritchard and his follow
| ers into a thousand atoms. Pritchard
| and his party declaring for four
months of common schools, the same
crowd that collected school taxes
| from the people and sold railroad
| bonds, but never built school house
and spent only the pitiful sum OF
| $3S, 900 and paid all the balance to
themselves in salaries. Then the
| raised and expended the first year
of their power for common schools
| $400,00 They increased this sum
| year after year until 1896, when they
went out of power the school fund
amounted to eleven hundred thOuS-
and dollars, and yet Pritchard con-
| demnS the Democratic party for not
doing more for common schools dur
ing the time they were in power
from 1875 to 1895. And then when
we returned to the control of affairs
in 1900, said the Governor 'Ewe in
| creased the school attendance per
cent the first year and will increase
it over 10 per cent this year"
He spoke ofthe extra expenditures
on the part Of the present admins
tration for schools, charitable institu-
tions and pensions for old Conteder-
ate soldiers, and then read the Pritch-
ard platform declarations favoring
liberal aid to them all. Pritchard
and his crowd had been converted
along this line sooner than he had
expected. He then showed up the
inconsistencies Of Senator Pritchard
in his declaration for pensions for
old soldiers. He told how the Sena-
tor, in the Legislature of 1885, had
voted agalnst,a billappropriating the
pitiful sum of .$3U, 900 for Confeder-
ate pensions and how, after voting
against the little mite for the old
and feeble men who wore the gray.
He had fathered bill in the United
the expenditure of five million dol
lars as pensions to those who first
wore the gray, but afterwards dis
carded it and donned the enemy'S
uniform. The effect of the Governors
speech along this line was electrical.
In describing Mr.. Pritchard's atti-
tude, he arose to splendid heights of
| telling pathos and burning elo-
quence. Tears came into the eyes of
Silas M Stone, the venerable one
| legged veteran, who occupied front
seat, as we'll as many other in the
| crowd, both old and young; and
| when he asked if this was one of the
reasons why some Democrats were
| straying off after Pritchard there
| was a seeming tremOr that swept
| through the crowd, and there were
| dozens of determinations on the part
! OF those who were Wavering to stand
firm, as was plainly evident by de-
monstrations and subsequent declar-
ations made.
1t was one Of the happiest of the
Governors hits. 1t struck home and
sank deep into the hearts Of these
loyal, brave and patriotic people. It
was killing thrust. 1t tore away
the mask from the turn-coat of Rad
icalism, and held him up before the
vast audience, poor, quivering, tot
| tering, political sham.
The audience cheered and cheered
and cheered, and a voice was heard
| to rise above the din and exclaim:
"That's right, give him fits.'
E'Shall we educate the descendants
of Valley Forge? Shall we furnish to
the sons and grandsons ofthose brave
men who followed Jackson through
the Valley, an opportunity to learn
to vote under our suffrage amend
! ment? Shall we redeem our pledge
to give these boys and girls who are
thesons and daughters and grandsons
and granddaughters of that match
less soldiery that followed Lee from
Bethel to Appomattox an opportun-
So ~ Ho sp+aITinoof NOV, o,,I