The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-01

who saved the sack from the miller, they
got only what was left.
The Republican party. he declared, had
for its god the dollar, and regarded the
| dollar mark as their sign of salvation,
while Democracy stood for humanity and
manhood.
Reading rom the present Progressive
| Farmer, as edited by Mr.. c. H. Poe, a
| Chatham county nan he presented MT.
Poe's argument that the tariff was the
shelter of trusts, and was a menace to
the best interests of the people of this
| country
! Quoting the prices of cotton during
| Cleveland's admin STATION he agreed that
| this was low in 1894, but showed that
| under Mckinley in 1898 It went even TO
| a lower notch, the lowest in the history
| Of the cotton business, and cited other
cases in which Republican administra-
| lion had been marked by falling mar
! ket.
| The Dingley law he denounced as an
| iniquity and a wrong, behind whose
provisions the monster trusts had IN
creased, making the people at
home pay the highest price for their
products, while the foreign trade was
given the same goods at the lowest price
| Turning to State issues he denied Sen
| ator Pritchard's charges of extravaganza
| Agreeing that it was a new day in North
Carolina, and that it had begun two years
ago when negro domination had been
swept away despite the efforts of Senator
Pritchard and his party, he declared that
for these conditions the Senator should
kneel and return thanks to Democracy
because it had brought him into so happy
a day.
In discussing the efforts of the Repub-
leans to have the people misunderstood
the amendment. and have them believe
that the illterate white men would be
disfranchised along with the illiterate
negroes he showed the utter falsity and
righteousness of the Republican claims,
which would be exploded as soon as reg
istration began.
He declared that the first of May was
the best time for payment of poll tax,
because it prevented the Republicans
from paying the taxes of men in order
to secure their votes, and said that this
was one of the reasons for the first OF
May being made the limit, though all
knew that two years notice of the time
had been given and any man who wished
to do so could have raised the $500 need
ed by that time.
Again he questioned Senator Pritchard
as to whether he would stand by the
amendment in the Senate and defend It.
But Pritchard answered not, while from
the audience came the words, answer,
answer, answer" 1t was no use to call,
for Senator Pritchard only smiled, and as
he did so there deepened on all the i'm
preston that in the Senate of the United
States when PritChard's resolution re-
garding the amendment came up that he
would be fighting to have it declared I'M
constitutional and would then be ready
to call upon the negroes to again serve
as vassals to him and to his party
Coming to the question of State affairs,
Yes said Mr.. Craig, We've spent more
money in North Carolina than ever be-
fore, bat we had to spend it to meet
debts made by Republicans, to cover
Fusion larceny. to educate the youth of
the State and TO pay the pensions to the
gallant old Confederates, for whose COM
fort the Democratic party will go to
every length and will borrow money if
it is needed to pay their pensions.
1t was with words that must have
cut and stung that he described Senator
Pritchards attitude. and that of the Re-
publicans to the Confederate soldiers He
denounced the bill pensioning deserters
from the Confederate army, who joined
the Union forces, :. the Deserter Bill of
Senator Pritchard and in answer to the
letter of Capt. Weaver, of Asheville, read
by Senator Pritchard commencing this
bill, he read the resolutions passed by
the Confederate Veterans at their re-
union in Greensboro. which denounced in
unmeasured terms the bill which Pritch-
ard declares he is proud of, and which he
affirms is but just In the name of the
Confederate father of Senator Pritchard,
lying in glory in a Confederate grave, de-
notnced Ms an outrage upon the South the
bill for which Mr.. Pritchard claims
honor
Then the eloquent speaker portrayed
the dark days of North Carolina in 1898
when the negro was in the saddle, and
when the women of Eastern Carolina
cities refuged from them in terror. His
closing remarks were a description of the
glorious victory won by the Anglo-Saxon
party and a portrayal of these happy
days when peace and rest were the por-
ton of the people rescued from the
terrors of the days that tried mems souls,
and as his time expired he called upon
Senator Pritchard to repent, but not in
this early day to demand to be leader
in Israel.
There was great applause as he closed
and many bouquets were sent forward,
a tiny little girl bringing one. For these
Mr.. Craig returned words of sincere
thanks. =
Mr.. PRITCHARD'S REJOINDER.
Senator Pritchard began his rejoinder
in far more better humor than usual.
He said that the argument of Mr.. Craig
about calves being lower in price now
was not so. Said the Republicans were
trying to get a market in the Philippines
so as to put up price of cotton. Declared
that Republicans had prepared the plates
on which the bond issue of Cleveland was
made, because they knew the Democrats
would need them, because they did not
know how to manage the government.
He read from some newspaper which
had printed that Morgan said Roosevelt
should not beselected as he was against
the trusts and said that the National
Democrats were getting money from the
trusts, and that Hon. E. w. Pou was re-