The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-14
cOHDrrIoss UsDER RADICAL
REGIkg YoECIsLY PORTRAYED
Honorable D H Mclean kax-. q Speech at
Burlington That VII! Nc, Seen se
forgotten
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Especial 10 News and 3b#FrNer III
Burlington. y. -. pet. III. Me-
Lean spoke 20 a large crowd ~ Demo
Gratis in this place tonight. aud Isl. ~ha
heard him pronounced his address an" 81
the best ever delivered IN tins CIV
He began by stains that h. MAS elal a.
b. present al sl,h a gathering. b., aae
glad that he did NOT come A. . .audlaat,
but stood before The people Is adI.,ss
them on important issues. They say this
Is an OF year in polit.es. bui instead
il Is one Of IN. most Important ever u
the history 81 Our country IN ls~, rhs
people. unCcowned kings Of > mighty ge-
public. rose up in Ia maj,~t, Of Their
power and drove the Fusion party from
power. and IL was glad 10 s4y thar NJ
was in TIE iight when ia, Democrat,
parry assumed control of this Stat.
They promised tnat they would maxi. Il
impossible for this crowd 10 eN,r again
rule the country by anarchy. and II by
driving the negro fcm power would ag-
complish il they have fulfilled every
pledge. They have given rs al amend
mcnt that DISTINGUISHES no white man.
dethrones the negro AMI his forces.
they have given lis long .hool terms
ana an administration that is an honor
10 any country.
He said there were hut two partiee in
North Carolina today the Republican
and Democrat. Tn" Republicans III sol
ia phalanx fought the amendment and
declared that the negro and poor whites
would be d~isftanchised aud they alNays
chased the poor white man with The
negro. There's only one way to judge
a party, ard that's by It's record. ana
each parry must be tried by the people
,.Io r,,G Oft IN fl,tppaApt In 1858 ,flr
people had just emerged from the md
night darkness OF the civil war to be-
e~nshrouded in the more awful darkness
OF negro and carpet Dagger rule. Re
turning from the war with nothing but
their glorious record and a r-1llection
OF former happiness, our people faced a
crowd whose blackncss could not be
eaualled in tho lower regions OF hell In
the form OF seventy-fve negro slaves in
the Legislature and seven scallawag
CARPET baggers who held high carnival,
DISTINGUISHING the brave men who had
dug from the bosom OF mother earth
their honest bread and erected their
homes in the sweat of their face and
orked 10 feed these slaves. who were
now sitting as lawmakers over them.
voting themselves seven dollars per day.
Everything was under the control Of the
1tCpuDllcdn party IA III mp WI 't"fi
in the shapes OF negroes and carpct ha2-
gers made a bonded debt of twenty null
lion dollars to build a railroad and stole
the money themselves. The Democrats
drove this crowd out and prosperity
ragnea for thirty years Of good govern
ment and happiness. Then III" Repubil-
cans again cane III power and the Pop
uiiste. who organized 10 destroy this rul-
ing turned tail and went over 60 them
bag and baggage and hell broke loose
again.
Again in 1900 we wrcstcd from them
the State and nave again got il on solid
legs. In 1868 We had not a single public
school, now we find school houses every
where. When we came into power in 1925
we found j debt OF over two million dol
lars. The Republicans had had control
Of all the legislative powers holding hj2h
carnival.
The speaker was on a committee 10 In
vestisate the conditions OF the p%enitcn-
tiary. lie found everything b~ankruptcd.
The cattle were dy ing Of hunger and The
penitentiary board too poor 20 buy a
pound Of meat. and he was willing to vote
to turn the board into the pcnitcEtiary
and look them up with the rest Of the
poor devils.
The first thing the new board did wa
TO buy fifty thousand pounds of meat.
The p~enitentiary was in deDt one nan
drol and twenty thousand dollars.
Mr.. Mcean then paid his respects fo
pritchard and his attitude towards IN"
old Confederatns and brought tears TO
their eyes by his descriptions. and also
scored the independents" He said:
When YOU scratch an Independent You
make a radical bleed
His speech ought 20 be reproduced in
full as il made many voters Tor our
party.