The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-01
Hicks Boomerang Knocks
Him Silly.
Continued from First Page.)

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campaign purposes. Great applause
when Democratic orators talk about
schools, ask them if the Fusionists did
not appropriate money for veterans and
for schools.
II you would stop your old soldiers re-
unions and your speakers quit cussing
the Yankees, very prominent Federal
soldier has said, that the government
would very soon pension all old Con-
federate soldiers"
These two expressions were about the
last made by the speaker. and announc-
ing that ne had used up an hour and =
quarter, he would resign the stand for
Mr.. Watson to do him up bringing =
round of laughter by saying he did not
feel comfortable if he was not done UP.
MIR. WATsON's SPEECH.
Mr.. Watson, after the applause follow
ing his appearance Git was more like a
Rebel yell had subsidized, pitched i'm
mediately, to the embarrassment of IIr
Hicks. at the "black rip-riotous" an
plause of those con the left. the section
from Guinea" and said Mr.. Hicks had
not expected them to be here. but BEING.
an open meeting, he had forgotten to
send them word that they should not
be present at open meetings as well as
private nominating conventions Of his
party, the truth of the business these
negroes knew all of the "Iilly white"
talk was a sham.
Then taking up what ne alleged was
the defense made by Mr.. Hicks of trusts
and the Dingley tariff, Mr.. Watson
quoted a leading Northern business man.
who said the tariff schedule was so mi
quitOus to the South it seriously crippled
business there and embarrassed Re
publican business and public men North
in explaining it,
"No man or set of men," said he.
should have the right to say 4 am
made prosperous by reason of special
laws passed for my benefit at the ex-
pense of my neighbor,' and when they
do, the time is ripe for readiustment
of legislation" Great applause.)
mir. Hicks says you negroes are no
more fit to vote than animals, and yet
he voted against the amendment two
years ago that elipinated what he calls
no better than cattle from ruling over
him and u.s." was the exclamation OF
the speaker as he began an exposition
prejudicial to railroad development and
industrial progress along all lines in the
South, and charged that Mr.. Hicks, ac-
Cordng to his own admission, was will
ing that past conditions of negro domi-
nation, proving constant menace to
stable government, should continue. He
said that Mr.. Hicks would himself have
been of the burnt cork color had it not
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washing that had been administered to
him while he whined and cried in pro-
test claiming that Democratic amend
ment soap hurt like thunder" and at
this sally the audience arose in Wild APP
plause. Mr.. Hicks, turning pale. look
ed suddenly up at the speaker but said
not a word.
Referring to the fact that Acock's
salary, was raised, Mr.. Watson quoted
Governor Russell as recommending the
increase to keep a poor man from getting
irretrievably in debt.
Mr.. Hicks: That's the first time
ever heard a Democrat approve any
thing Governor Russell said" Cap
plause)
Mr. Watson: HE said the set of men
you have just been defending were
thieves and scoundrels, and that in five
more years there would be nothing left
in North Carolina for them to steal, and
[ believe he knew what he was talking
about, and here quote him as a refuta
ton of your assertion" Great applause
and laughter)
Next taking up the question of recon
struction, the speaker replied to Mr.
Of Nv
carried through by Furnishing men who
fought for homes and friends, denying
them a voice, but giving it to slaves
and to white men who could take
solemn oath that during that four long
years of bloody travail their hands were
raised against the State or remained
listless by their sides. Great applause.)
''Now, how does that sentiment strike
you when it comes from the man who
has Just been abusing the Democratic
party for eliminating CATTLE as he calls
it. from the electorate, and who refused
to assist in it," (Applause9
LAUGH, YOU OLD DONKEY"
"They say the negro question has been
settled, and yet every negro knows that
if they ever succeed in dividing the
people,,
Republicans will turn the scale" was
another exclamation, and when the rattle
of applause subsidized an old negro in
the audience broke out in a big guffaw,
Yes, you old donky, laugh and enjoy
that prospect and that is one part of
my speech you thoroughly comprehend"
Great laughter and applause.)
Starting out with the assertion that
the Republican party in North Carolina
was made up of men who did not sym
pathize with the South. he took up the
claim of Mr. Pritchard of assisting Con-
federate veterans by showing that in all
legislation the Republicans had in
variably failed to assist when called
on to do them justice.
"You cannot turn over the affairs of
this State to the Republican party until
two generations of men are dead. >" IL :
THE remnant of those who robbed
her under reconstruction will have to
pass away in the course of nature and
those, who, under Fusion, after thirty
years, led another eohort of black voters