The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-24
FEARS THE TRUTH
Radicals Put a Paddock on
Patterson's Mouth.
The Pos'mastr, Revenuers ard DocdI4rs
Mike Certain That The People Shall
Not Hear the Truth.
(special to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro n. c., Sept 2S.If the fool
proceedings OF the Republican Conven-
tion held here on Monday do not COM
pleteIy kill Patterson it will be because
he is already dead. Past Master Rey-
nolds, Revenue Agent Starbuck and
Doodler Peace controlled the convention.
BY the way it is the same Starbuck who
offered the dam Cone resolution Saturday
in the Republican County Convention. 1t
VIII carry Guilford Democratic by 5000
majority.
The pie-eaters, who controlled the con-
vention, put a paddock on Patterson
mouth, passing resolutions forbidding him
to accept Pritchards challenge for
joint discussion In order to show how
scared the Radicals are of their record
and how they feel they. deserve the con-
demnation of the voters, below is given
verbatim the speech of Postmaster Rey-
holds He virtually tells his fellow
suckers at the Federal teat that Kitchin
can wear Patterson out by telling the
truth about the record the Radicals made
in North Carolina in 1896 90, and there
ere Patterson is to avoid coming within
dare not meet the Democrats either on
he State record of Russell or the Ma
tional record of Roosevelt. and therefore
hey have ordered Patterson to speak his
little piece only when it is certain NO
Democrat. can make reply.
Postmaster Reynolds, Of Winston said
that the question of a joint canvass be-
tween Patterson and Kitchin ought to be
settled by the convention, for the time
had come for aggressive earnest action
ny Republicans all along the line and with
the proper effort ne felt that pros
poets for success were bright
Zone thing | can assure you Of" said
he Mr.. Patterson is an excellent man,
and Mr.. Benbow has not said one word
TOO much" Now as to a joint canvass
between him and Mr.. Kitchin, I believe
it is the thing in some places and at some
times and not the thing at other places or
at other times In Forsyth our county
candidates will have a joint canvass with
Democrats this year and it is all right,
while it was not the thing TO do two
years ago and we did not do it. Now
there are places in this district where
joint canvass between Kitchin and our
candidate would help us, while in other
places it will not, and we cannot pick our
ground.
The Republican party represents the
best principles I honestly and sincerely
believe, and so do all of you or we would
not he Republicans, and more than this
l believe our candidate will be able to
show it, for he has the ability there is
no doubt about that, but it would not do
for him to cover the entire district with
Kitchn, and to avoid joint canvass at
all. for <itchin will be certain to chal-
lengc him. think it would be best for it
to go out to the people from this con-
vention. instead of from Mr.. Patterson
that we have instructed or advised
against his acceptance of any challenge.
Joint campaign would develop the old
line issues that ought to be considered
dead and buried, along with the racial
issue
1--WE want the people to hear discus
sions on better more progressive, prac-
teal questions of the day, and to get as
far away as possible from the old ghosts
of the past Democrats will not let you
discuss the new important questions with
out injecting their everlasting hobby of
the negro. Why, over in the Tenth dis
trict. where Moody is having a joint dis
cussion with Gudger, when Moody asked
Gudger about some great question of
governmental policy, Gudger lodges and
fools the crowd by referring to Moody's
being in the Legislature that refused to
adjourn for General Lee and that did ad-
iourn for Fred Douglass (Which you all
know is one of them Democratic cam
paign les), and then asking him about
Republican legislative committee hav-
ing jim Young's name chiseled on the
cornerstone of the blind asylum as if
that had anything to do with the cam
paign of 1902. Our candidate. l know
wants to talk about new matters. We
wish him to discuss taxation, the evils
of the present management in State fiscal
affairs and the broad questions of de-
velopInent and encouragement of our in
dustrial and manufacturing enterprises,
and we do not wish him to have to waste
his time over the past that ought to be
considered dead and buried. And it
ought to 80 out as the sentiment of this
convention that there shall be no joint
canvass between Mr. Patterson and Mr..
Kitchin