The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-10-30

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home, he said that Democrats had
talked that twenty years to his
knowledge and that he had heard |
General Ransom make the same |
claim in 1897. But he declared that |
if the American can pay freight to !
Europe and then underSell the Euro |
pean on his own ground, surely If /
there Wereno tariff and the European
were to come here with his goods the
American could undersell the Euro
pean here easier than he could in
Europe
Mr.. Hicks said he had felt that Il
protective tariff was an injustice to
IL farming community. but that DEM
ocrats had been clamorlng against 1t
when out OF power, since 1922,
longer than the oldest man can re-
member and it has been getting
higher and higher and higher all the
time; that it produced Il fiye-story
factory i'll the North for every gully
i'll the South, that New York manu-
facturpd $500 100000 more goods
every year than the - Southern
States; that Pennsylvania manUfac-
tured $50, OOO, 900 more than the 10
Southern States: that there were six
Northern States that manufactured
more than four times us much as all
the Il Southern States: that those
six had Il million more people than
all the South, negroes and all, and
that the other twenty-four States
were settled chiefly by Northern peo-
pie, and that Il bio majority OF the
people of the United States, including
a growing number of influential men
| in North Carolina. believed it was
| best to have law that would cause
us to make at home everything that
Il happy and prosperous people need
| so that in time OF war we would
| not have to resort to potato coffee
and wooden bottom shoes and such
| things. and would be able to diversity
our Industries and employ all our
people. He mentioned also that
| Democrats, after voting in Congress
| $50, OOO,O 600 to start the war with
Spain and hurrahing for Dewey and
Schley, and Bryan helping to ratify
the Spanish treaty by which we
bought the Philippines, began at
once to pull back and kick, and have
been insisting ever since that our
flag should retreat before those half
civilized people, or that if they had
to be shot occasionally they ought
not to be shot so hard, and Demo-
Gratis complained a great deal OF the
Republican party because the soldier
l ,n,,,.lt ,t in, hi
diseases in the Philippines. And he
stated that the National Democracy
is at war with itself, being rent i'll
| twain by the Cleveland and Bryan
factions and is thoroughly discred-
tied. and is now known as the party
of the tissue searchers,' that he had
tno sympathy for it, and had not
lspoken for it since Cleveland de-
InOunced it asguilty OF treason to the
icountry, on August 9th. 1894, and
that he had not been considered as a
Democrat by those who knew him
for several years
| Coming to State politics the
speaker said that the Constitution
! in 1860 permitted secession. our peO-
Pile were led to believe they could get
out of the Union. and five millions
fought twenty-five millions fOul
years, killing three hundred thousand
of them and leaving Il widow and or.
jphans in nearly every Northern as
| we'll as Southern home: that we had
| shown such resolute purpose to &C
| out of the Union. that Congress was
| for few Years thereafter. afraid tC
! | trust us with the relnS OF the State
, government. and there was nobody
; | much left to vote or govern but the
> carpet baggers and negroes, some o
} ! whom were no more fit to vote thar
: an animal that they acted badlva n(
( | issued Il large number of bonds which
: one or two big Democrats took tC
Y New York and got the money fol
a them and they were promptly re
!: pudiated by the people when they go
5 the reins again, and have never beer
V paid and never will be paid; and tn,
V Yankees lost that additional tifteel
5 millions. That perhaps every MAJ
il | who WAS in any way connected witt
0 or responsible for the doings an,
0 acts of the Legislature OF 1868 an,
d 1869 is long ago dead, and it ha
S never had any defenders. Yet Their
). are one hundred and forty-two Demo
r cratic speeches advertised in today
r papers to be made in the next fe,
/: days, and every one OF them will ii
d this dead corpse OF 1868 upon hi
+ war-horse and lead it i'll front of til
n battle to brighten people back int
o the Democratic party. And the
V will tell that one Hancock. "a rail:oa
V hand, hired by Governor Russell i
e 1896 was sued by a woman for som
W alleged misconduct; and not one {
ii them will tell that the suit fe
lie through and was abandoned. The
i will tell you of this because they hay
Y. nothing better to talk about. Ant
n why, pray, the speaker asked, are S
10 many Democrats out speaking