The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-27

| and Observer was not booming him.
He did not forget to give boast to the
| Pritchardites who were Confederates, and
said that he did not apologize for his
Deserters' Bill. This he declared that
Senators Cockerell and Simmons ap-
proved while Joe Daniels and Craig dis
approved, and that the mornings News
and Observer would say that Craig just
| eat him up
| He declared that the amendment was
| settled, because neither he nor Craig
could personally bring suit against it, as
| neither had negro blood in them.
| He closed by denouncing the Democratic
| plans for taxation under section thirteen
| of the revenue act.
MR.. CRAIG'S REPLY.
AS Mr.. Thorne roseto introduce Mr.
Craig he was greeted with applause and
hits swelled as he arose and said it was
"the belted and plumed champion of bed
| mocracy," who would address them. In
the audience was the mother of the speak
er, and before her he seemed to become
more able as Democracy's champion. In
opening he portrayed the Democracy as
being for all the people. and Republican
ism for the few, saying that Democracy
was marching to certain victory in 1904.
Announcing that the Republicans stood
for the trusts, the destroyers of trade
and the enemies of the people, he showed
their evils and fixed the responsibility
upon the Republicans fer this, because
, OF the tariff.
Hecleverly turned the laugh on Prtch-
ard, who had accused him of being the
trusts as he appeared for a man in Ashe-
vile who sold ice too high, by saying
that under such argument Pritchard
would have to be accused as a cherry
tree swindler because he appeared in the
Amos Owen case.
He devoted some time to arguing that
this Richardson bill would control the
trusts, but that the Republicans would
not adopt it.
Turning to Pritchard's claim of debt
producing national administration under
| Cleveland he showed that it was the Re-
publicans under Harrison who created the
debt and prepared the plates ready to
draw up the falling gold reserve. Pros
perity came despite the Republicans ana
it was because men labored and toiled and
not because of the Republican party
which gave its prosperity to the trusts.
Then he told of Pritchard's wonderful
claims for the Dingley Bill and showed
that despite his claims for it President
Roosevelt and Republican platforms
were calling for a revision of the tariff.
Passing later to the amendment, he
showed now Pritchard denied and squrm-
ed, but never agreed to stand by it. But,
I've got corkscrew in him and I'll pull
an answer out of him yet" he said.
HARD NUT FOR PRITCHARD.
Laughing out Pritchard's joint claim
of prosperity and thirty thousand men
disfranchised because too poor to pay
poll tax, he asked Pritchard If he did
not even now have bill in Congress to
declare the Amendment unconstitutional
and Pritchard would not answer. He
justified the increase onf the Governors
salary the borrowing of money for edu-
cation and then paid magnificent tribute
to the Confederate soldiers and the need
for pensions During this he tore Pritch-
ards record on pensions to pieces, his
claims of Fusionist's building Confed-
crate monument and denounced in terms
that burnt, the Deserters Bill introduced
by Pritchard.
g His closing words told of the grand
struggle under Vance and other great
Democrats in later days by which the
State was redeemed from it's horror of
negro domination and Fusion misrule and
predicted Democracy's success by
great majority in the coming election.
Great applause was given him and
beautiful bouquet sent forward by the
ladies'. EDWARD II. BRIl lON'
CO Gnntamhpr 27th
Mr.. Craig and Senator Pritchard will
as follows:
Pittsboro, September 20.
Oxford, September 80.
Greensboro, October 1st.
I.enoir, October End.
Statesville, October Sth.
Charlotte, October 9th (night.
Hickory October 10th.
Asheville, October 11th.
To show how the Republican. who is
reporting this debate for the Charlotte
Observer, ingeniously serves his party,
tie following extract from his report of
the Wilmington meeting is given mere:
BUSINESS MEN CALL ON PRITCH-
ARD.
'It was known early in the after
noon that the Democratic business
men of the city would attend the
meeting tonight and insure Senator
Pritchard an attentive hearing, and
these assurances became doubly con-
vincing, when, just after supper, a
number of citizens came to the Sen
atOr's room to pay their respects.
1t was a sight to gladden. the heart
of those who have longed for that
era when the brotherhood of man
would be uppermost in the minds of
men of the political world. But 1T
would be an abuse of Wilmington's
hospitality to say this with view to
conveying the impression that the
whole army of people here are ready
to embrace the political principles
enunciated by Senator Pritchard.
Aside from the fact that these men
have principles of their own, it is
still fact that the passage of the
amendment has by no means eradi-
Gated the fear of the negro from the
public mind, generally speaking.
Hundreds of people will have to OBJ
serve the practical workings of the