The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-04
The Elaborate Tariff Edifce
Pritchard had Built.
A STORM OF ENTHUSIASM
This Closes the Democratic Campaign in Gull
ford and The Fifth Districs---The Shad-
Ows Of Coming Republican Defeat
Already Gathering.
Already Gathering.
Especial 10 News and observer)


Greensboro, N. G., Nov. 9.-The cam
paign in Guilford county and the fierce
fight in the Fifth district closed here to-
night in the midst Of a whirlwind of
Democratic enthusiasm and in a blaze of
victorious glory. 1t had been so ar
| ranged that United States Senator F. NJ
Simmons should make his closing speech
in the city where his first speech of the
campaign was made on July 10th at the
assembling of the State Democratic Con-
yention. The meeting tonight was held
| in the same hall in which the State Con-
vention was held, the Grand Opera
House.
The large hall was filled with the sturdy
men and handsome women of GuilfOrd
The crowd was an index of the coming
victory which will crown the work of
the unswelfving Guilford County De-
mocracy. When the shadows of tomor-
row afternoon shall have fallen around
the mountain home of North Carolina's
| retiring Republican Senator, this Democ-
racy will have rung out the era of Pritch-
ardisru in this State and rung in the
day dawn the bright era of complete
Democratic control. 1t pointed to the
political shadow of Senator Pritchard as
he descends from Senatorial heights and
disclosed an elegant Overman, a stall
wart Watson, talented Craig, a sturdy
Alexander, a genial Hoke or a noble
Carr marching up to don the Senatorial
toga.
Senator Simmons was introduced by
Mayor Chas NJ Stedman in one of the
most graceful, brilliant and touching in
troductory gems OF eIoquenee that has
been delivered here or elsewhere. 1t was
a splendid audience of the yeomen of the
city of Greensboro and the county of
Guilford TO which the great and eloquent
Stedman introduced the distinguished
young giant of Democracy the brave the
heroic, the logical, the powerful Sim
mons.
The speech of Senator Simmons was
the speech of a statesman, the true and
sincere utterances of a patriot the pow
erful plea of a popular leader, a con-
vincing, logical and forcible discussion
of economical questions by a student of
political economy who has come near
mastering the science of the political
control of State and nation. He spoke
for more than an hour on the tariff ques-
tion and discussed every feature CT pro-
lection as it fosters trusts, aids in build |
ing up combinations and Oppresscs the |
masses of the people, and when he had
closed on the tariff question, the prOtec- |
tion argument of Jeter G. Pritchard which
he has preached throughout the State, |
was torn into disgusting tatters. He
took up Senator Pritchard's argument on
protected wool and showed that while the
advance in wool, admitting for arguments |
sake that it was due to the tariff tax, |
had brought into North Carolina sixty |
three thousand dollars, it had taken away
from the people of North Carolina more
than one million, two hundred thousand /
dollars because the people of North Car |
olina bought twenty three times more +
wool than they produced.
He, with few well aimed shells of I,
truth and logic tore down Pritchard's |
Moro Castle of protected lumber and when |
he touched on mica the entire audience |
broke out in laughter He declared that |
coal. iron, copper and other like material |
North Carolina bought thirty times as |
much as it produced and he would not /
vote for high tariff tax on all these peo- |
pie in order to enrich the coal barons, |
iron manufacturers and other trusts.
with fervor and with powerful effect He !
spoke plainly, so plainly and practically |
that every man could grasp his argument |
and yet rounded up his points with such |
force of elouuence and power as to thrill |
his audience and stir his hearers to Wig |
orous applause. In his short allusion to
State matters he almost lifted the roof |
1t was like a great and successful rally |
~. nf no frJn nt q
with the following stirring sentences:
"The first vote l ever cast was for |
Zehulon B. Vance in the memorable year !
of 1876. 1 heard the thunder of his !
Olympian eloquence commanding the /
tempest. which had ragged here for ten |
years. BE still At his all-compelling |
command I saw the dark cloud, which j
had hovered over our beloved father |
land during all these years, break and i,
roll away. and out of the storm l saw |
the sun of Democracy rise and with noon
day effulgence shine upon a happy and |
contented people. 1t was amid these stir |
ring and alternating scenes of gloom and |
redemption that my soul was baptized |
in the faith of Democracy.
''In 1894 I saw the political skies again !;
darkened. In the whirlwind of passion |
and nreiudice. which misguided agita' |
ton had famed into a tempest, / saw
the old Ship of State again wrenched from
its Democratic moorings and tossed an
chorless AID rudderless upon shoals and
breakers. Looking at this pitiable sight /,
the fires of patriotism, kindled in my |
bosom in reconstruction days. were
stirred to white heat, and deliberately
resolved that, temporarily forgetting pri-
vate interests, l would devote my ener-