The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-30

republican nominee for CONGRESS- in he
Ninth North Carolina District, that last
year vast the worst in the cotton mill
industry.
The following is the affidavit of Can
didate Hiss referred to:
AFFIDAVIT OF GEO. B. HISS.
15S) United States of America in the
Circuit Court Of the United States for
the Western District of North Carolina.
At Greensboro.
Robert w. Bingham, ct ais.
The Worth VS.. Manufacturing Co.
Geo. b. Hiss. being duly sworn, de-
poses and says that h resides in Char
lotte, county Of Mecklenburg and State
of North Carolina; that he, from cbser-
walton and information obtained from the
cotton manufacturers in this State, has
no hesitation. in saying hat THE LAST
YEAR HAS BEEN THE WORST,
MOST DISASTROUS TO SUCH BUSI-
NESS HE HAS KNOWN IN RECENT
YEARS, but he believed an Improvement
in the business has now begun. That
he has no interest whatever in the mat
ter in controversy
GEO. B. HISS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this the Sth day of January, 1902.
(SeaD FRANK F. JONES,
Notary Public.
ENDORSED.
Filed in this office January 10. 1902.
SAM'L. L. TROGDEN. Clerk.
He emphasized that he was for tariff
fer revenue only and was opposed to pro-
lection under the Dingley tariff as this
was a trust-fostering tariff.
With regard to Senator Pritchard's ar
gument he said it would be applauded
~ I n,,n,II nfGnnrc nrncpnr That
Iritchard did not want the record of his
party discussed. for in it was the negro
and with these jim Young, the negro
now in the revenue office, Pritchard's
/ chief lieutenant until the negro was dis
franchised, and still kept in office.
He discussed the falsity of the Repub-
leans charging that the amendment dis
franchised illiterate white man, said none
would be and that Pritchards claim or
prosperity and Of twenty-five thousand
white men ~disfranchised for non-pay-
mcnt of poll-tax did not go together. and
urged amidst applause, that the men tenn
n~orarily disqualified by n~on-payment OF
tax should not vote.
He showed that it was for payment
Of the stealings of Fusion officers, the
education Of. children and the paymen
of pensions that the Democracy had been
forced to borrow money, and That THIS
was wise, IN that the Democracy thought
if wise to borrow that they might fulhll
the pledge of Aycock and educate the
children of North Carolina, and pay the
pensions to the old Confederates. inns
reference was heartily a%pplauded.
Then came burning words of eloquence
for the grand old Confedcrates, ana a
statement that Democracy was their
g. f;o,I on6 fO11nwinU his were words
Of vitriol in condemnation OF the De-
eerter bill of Senator Pritchard, de-
ronncino it The name of the lnsulted
manhood and womanhood of the State,
and for the honored dead. For senator
simmons he stated he was authorized 10
cav hat he never condonod or acquleScen
in it. as Senator Pritchard had stateu'
He condemned it in the name OF Saeco'
md said that when Pritchard sald ina,
Vance had authorized men to be tea an"
,raeaad into Confederate service, that II
was false, and could the silent lips VI
Vance in the picture in the nail spedh IL
would be worse for Pritchard IMAM oouoin
ana Comorrah. Then the audience went
800 ono great and glorious burst or ap-
plause.
Turning to the amendment he denlahu-
+hat pritchard axe a stand, and say
if he was gong 10 otdhu Wy -
,,o,+ and q hand primary taken showed
+t.t the audience wanted an answer diso'
~ ovcoriatad the Republicans Tor lheli
.ooo,a with reference to their thfustlhe
,ooro unon the State and Tor the ~
a,nrto ar force bills. He called on Prltch-
"a 10 reoent and said. he did not oiahhe
49,, for not wanting to talk OF the past %
tho Republican party, with its ol"cA g
orG of misrule and negro.
He depicted the glorious redelnpeion "
tbo state under it's great leaders aho
[,hen he named Zeb Vance WIN 'htse
,,oro soain rang salvos of applause. II
aid oven Senator Pritchard ha' 49, e.
hroueht into a redeemed lana ana ~. ne
,ranted to be a leader rlght now "nu -
inviting white men into the ho'S1 :" .e
'pepublican party before the s"'ei u