The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-03
HON. ], M. GUDGER SPEAKS.
A Clean, Forceful Presentation Of Doctrines
and Issues.

Especial to the News and Observer
Robbinsville, N. c., Sept 2.-There
was a great outpouring of people at this
place to hear the address of Hon. j. NJ.
Gudger, Jr. His speech was powerful,
pointed and full of the earnestness that
is convincing He did not juggle with
words but went directly to the root of
things, showing so plainly the results
of Republican Fusion misrule on the
one hand and of Democratic manage
ment on the other that no one could
possibly need clearer light upon these
matters.
Mr.. Gudger said in part: In 1865 the Re-
publican party had complete control in
every department of the State govern
ment. Incompetency and corruption We're
the crOwning characteristics of the par
tvs history, and no man in this day will
attempt to defend the administration
from IS to 20.
The Democratic party has administered
the States affairs for a quarter of a
century, during Which time hundreds of
miles of railroads have been built, pub
lie institutions have been enlarged and
lew ones established, and in all this long
period not single instance of corruption
can be cited.
In 1900 a great crisis in the history of
the State had been reached The ten
dency If the negro TO demand his So
| called rights at elections endangered
| one third of the counties of this great
State and negro domination was immi-
nent. The Democratic party bravely ad-
vocated an amendment TO the constitu-
tion which eliminated this perilous dan
ger, and the people of North Carolina.
adopted this amendment by an over
whelnling majority.
The school houses dotted all over the
State with thousands of children gather
| ing together on the hillsides and in the
valleys are unmistakable evidences of
Democ"atic rule. The whistle of the
steam engines and the hum of the fac
tories heard everywhere speak in clarion
notes of Democratic prosperity The de-
velopment and growth in every part of
| this State is an assurance that the peo-
lle have implicit confidence in the wis
dom and integrity of the Democratic
party.
The Democratic party stands for a
| clean, upright judiciary for the protec-
tion and care of the unfortunate insane.
| iCE tue GQuCdliOu OI the uedI anu uuuiD
and blind of the State, for a longer
school term than has ever beer known in
the history of the State, for the main
tenance of the unfortunate and decrepid
| Confederate soldier, for the protection of
the weak against the strong, for justice
/ to all mankind.
The Republican leaders are attempting
to prejudice the people against the Demo-
cratic administration by drawing COM
parison of Republican Fusion rule-with
that of Democratic rule-in the way of
expenditures. They fail to tell the peo
pie that they had deficit Of two hum
dred ana fifty thousand dollars in the
State Treasury, and that they left the
| penitentiary in debt one hundred and ten
thousand dollars. The Democratic party
| has appropriated in three years for school
purposes 5000, 900, $140 900 for the insane
and 5000, 600 for the disabled Confederate
soldiers IN excess Of the appropriations
| heretofore made.
Mr.. Gudger then touched upon national
| issues the imrerialistic policy of the
! administration in the Philippines; the
vast and steadily growing power of
| trusts and combinations enriching the
| few and pauperizing the many and
| threatening the very foundations of our
system government; the reckless and
extravagant appropriations made by the
Republican Congress. He said in con-
/ clusion:
Let the people who believe in a pru-
dent, economical administration CT ouI
National affairs respond at the ballot
| box in November.
| Let the declaration be heralded to
every portion of this broad land that We
rnust not, and will not, have any more
billion dollar Congresses"