The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-03
THE CAMPAIGN IS OPP
By DEMOCRATIC ). uAKERS
And Republican Sophistries Begin to Crumble in the
White Blaze of Truth Thrown
Upon Them.
STRONG ADDRESSES On ALL THE ISSUES

high tribute TO GoYefnor Aycoch anu 'o'
ner for their great work in behalf or
the school children of the State. HIS
speech was well received and will do
much to help bring about a great Defo-
cratic victory in Alamance county this
fall.
Extracts from Judge Winston's speech
follow:
! Since 1872 when the Democratic party
came into power in North Carolina, 1t
has given US peace and law and order,
strengthened our free schools and given
| to each a four months term Our Gov
ernors, Senator's, judges, congressman
and legislators have been clean, honest
and faithful public servants. We have
had no strikes as in Pennsylvania, no
riots as in Hay Market in Chicago, no
| feuds as In Kentucky, and we have Just
and equitable laws.
North Carolina has an income tax.
Every cent above $1,000 man makes is
| taxed / per cent by the State. If l make
| Sc. 900 a year, / pay an income tax of $50.
/ So under Democratic administration in
| North Carolina the railroads have been
| taxed, and under a Democratic Governor
suit was brought, which took the Coast
Line Railroad from the free list and put
| it upon the tax list, thereby putting
thousands of dollars each year into the
treasury. and distributing the burden of
taxation
But the great thing this party has done,
in much tribulation hedged about by op-
position and bitter white enemies, Is to
| preserve Anglo-Saxon civilization In
North Carolina and in the South. You,
hot fSc MOS
You remember the day when the inso-
Ienee of negroes became unbearable.
You met, you organized, you swore
bloody oath The great Klu-KluX or
| ganization was born. 1t was decreed that
| North Carolina was to be white State.
You said that you would not run. and
! that you would not knuckle or bow the
knee-no, not to a dark and an inferior
race neither to a tyrannical and over
bearing political party-the Radical
party-and your boldness, yes, the bold
ness of men of Alamance and Orange and
| Caswen and Cleveland and Rutherford,
excited the admiration and wonder of
the civilized world. people so bold in
defeat had not appeared in history. And
yet some men say that you ought to de-
sert this old, good Democratic, con-
servative party.
The Republican party in North Caro-
lima has raised the specious cry of rings
and extravaganza They charge ex-
| travagance upon the Democratic, party
in North Carolina. and when asked to
specify they have not the nerve to say
what they mean. 1t is not the increase
of judges and the increase of the Gov
ernor's salary that they attack. They
know that if it requires fourteen judges
| to transact the business of one and one
half millions of people and one hundred
and seventy-five millions of money in
1892, it takes sixteen to perform in 1907
the same duties by one and three-quarter
millions of people and two hundred mil
lions of wealth. They know that if Gov
ernor Russell, who rarely left his home
in Raleigh, was worth to the State $4,000
| a year, Charles B. Aycock, the gallant,
l broad, Just educational Governor of this
great monwealth-spending his life,
his energy, his brain and his money for
the little children of Dare and Cherokee,
was and is worth the increase. 1t is not
these things that they attack, though
they so declare. 1t is really Confederate
pensions and school appropriations that
they attack. Do we not even hear Abe
Middleton, the negro door-keeper of a
Republican House. as he supplants a one
legged soldier, declare that the Confed
crate soldier has played out? Do we not
recall the fact that when they had charge
of our State affairs, they closed the
doors of the University and that educa-
tion languished?
There is indeed one item of expense to
which the Republican leaders in North
| Carolina do really and seriously object,
They object to the payment of money to
defend the Democratic election officials
in North Carolina who were indicted in
! the Federal courts for violating the cleo
| ton laws in 1890 These were the men
| who made possible the passage of our
| Constitutional Amendment. Had they
not been fearless and intrepid, had they
| but shown for moment the white
! feather, the hordes of negroes in North
Carolina would have overrun the poles
and driven the whites away, and the
same old question of negro suffrage would
be again in politics. If they really ac-
cepted in good faith the Constitutional
Amendment they would not now be
quibbling and quarreling as to how it
was passed.
The Republican party was tried in 1868
and in 1870 and was found corrupt and
Incapable. 1t made a bid for votes in
1896 and again it won. The people in
large numbers voted with the Republi-
cans, they said that the crimes of 1868
were barred by the statute of limitations,
and they tried the Republicans again.
With what result let the laws of '95 and
81 declare. l will not undertake to re-
peat that dark and terrible history. You
know it, and you will not again be fooled