The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-25
PritChard Now a Trust i'm
Himself.
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while the Republican party looks on ant
approves.
Il am making no campaign for the Sen
ate in these speeches, but am uphold
ing Democracy in it's fight on the trusts
Pritchard says that there is $2S.75 now
per capita, but I tell you it is not per
pocketa. It's the trusts and the rich
men who have the money. Pritchard
says the Republican party has put it in
your pocket, feel there and see if you
have it. The Republican party is wor-
shipping the dollar and the rich few to
whom it panders, the Democratic party
stands Cor justice ard for manhood
Senator Pritchard says / inject the
negro issue. The negro is out, but it is
because the Democracy has said that no
longer shall this fair land be cursed with
the black pail of negro domination. No
thanks to him or his party, but if | were
he | would not have kicked out the peo-
pie who had served me for thirty five
years, but would have given them a kind
word. The claim of Pritchard and Rol-
Inns is that illiterate white men would
lose their votes. but it is not So They
took part and left out part of the Con-
stitutional Amendment and had their fol-
lowers b ,lieving this was so. Pritchard
says twenty five thousand white men arc
disfranchised because they did not pay
heir poll-tax. They get all the protec-
tion and benefit of the laws, have their
children ed lcated. for the Democracy will
see to this, but if they don't pay to help
run the government they have no right
to assist in making it's laws. He cries
and yet says that twenty five
thousand men arc too poor to pay a poll
tax. Omit one story or the other Sena-
{ tor, these Two don't agree. He says
oh. Lord, I thank thee for the condition
of affairs now prevailing in North Caro-
lima but his prayer ought to be oh,
Lord. give thanks that the Democrats
nv party and made this thing
possible
Would you, Senator, have '9S and tho
days before it when you and Marion But
Ter and Jim Young and a hundred thous-
end negroes stood in array together, re-
turn9 You won't answer. Do you peo-
pie who are here want the time to re-
turn when women refugeed from Will
,nington and when a thousand negroes
held office, to return?"
At this question there went up q
mighty cry of mo" from the audience.
It rose and rose again in a mighty
chorus. Then Mr.. Craig showed that poll
tax payment was made for May to keep
Pritchard and Mark Hanna and others
from paying the tax so as to vote the,
men.
In discussing State officers he told that
the money borrowed by the administra-
ton was needed to pay for larceny OF
public funds by Fusionist, to keep open
The schools and TO pay Confederate PEN
sons.
In speaking of education he believed
with Senator Vance that the correct
training for him was not in the latin
'hic, haec, hoe" but in the practical
gee, haw, buck"
Mr.. Craig paid a magnificent tribute
o the old Confederate, the hero of the
wreck of war, and said that if necessary
he State should borrow and provide for
him. Referring to the charge that Zeb
3. Vance tied and handcuffed men who
that secession was wrong, in
order to put them in the Confederate
Army, he repealed the charge. At this
The applause was terrific and lasted
ong.
against Confederate pensions, and for
he Deserters' Bill, declaring again that
he party that rewarded men for such
conduct should be eternally damned. He
ore to tatters the plea that the fusion
SITS had erected a Confederate monu
nent, and said it was the hypocrisy of
he Scribes and Pharisees who wanted
heir deeds to be seen of all men, and
t was a monument within which they
wanted to hide their own misdeeds. II
I'm sorry for you, Senator" said he,
because in this Deserters' Bill you have
lone that which no Southern heart can
orgive.''
Before closing his powerful speech, Mr..
craig referred to the attempt of Repub-
leans to have Civil Rights Bill. their
laving bayonets at the poll, their at
empt to renew force bill, and in closing
,aid magnificent tribute to the men
Who followed the great Vance in his
to bring the peope into re-
ieemed land. In this land, he said, SEN
ltor Pritchard wanted to be a leader
light now, but that the people would
zee to it that the great work begun in
1898. continued in 1900 would gloriously
eliminate now in driving off the last OF
Republican misrule, and that North Car
olina would have recorded great and
glorious Democratic victory in this cam
1aign. EDWARD e. BRITTON.