The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-17
Fuquay Springs has a Feast
of 0ratory.
RUSS The FUN MAKER
The Canvass Goes on With Vgor and Many
Hear the Candidates who Hold
Meeting at RoIesVle
Todav
(staff correspondence

was a time of campaign activity and
campaigning oratory here today. De-
mocracy's truths came in eloquence from
the lips of Democratic speakers as pure
and as invigorating as do the healing
waters that gush from Fuquay's famous
spring.
For nearly four hours over two hun
bred voters gave earnest attention TO
the speakers, and words of approval
alternating with frequent applause mark
| ed the progress of the speaking.
The canvassing party, with number
of friends, arrived here on special
train from Raleigh. and after mingIng
with the gathering audience assembled
in the pavilion near the spring shortly
after twelve O'Clock when the first
speaker, Hon. f. w. Pou was pre-
scented by Sheriff M. w. Page.
Mr.. Pou began his splendid address
with a guessing contest in which every
hearer won first prize. He said that he
would speak of two parties, one which
stood for justice, the other for injustice,
one for equal rights to all, the other for
| special privileges to the few one for
education, the other for ignorance, one
which stood for the white man, while
| the other had elevated the negro. One
| OF these, he said, is the Democratic
party the other the Republican, and to
his hearers he gave the privilege OF
| Judging which was which.
/ He discussed national issues first, and
with his facts swept away the false
claim of Pritchard that the young men
| of the South We're too sensible TO be
! Democrats, showing that they would be
| foolish indeed to desert Democracy for
| the hypocritical Republican party, boss
ridden by machine masters, as bad in the
nation as it was scandalous in North
| Carolina.
With this party he placed in contrast
the Democratic party, showed what 1t
offered as a remedy for the evils OF Re-
publicanism, and pointed out that its
success meant a greater prosperity for
all the people as against Republican
prosperity for a privileged few. He de-
clared that all signs pointed to Demo-
cratic House after this election and with
a proper Democratic candidate for
| President to the defeat of Roosevelt in
1904 The men who deserted Democracy
now, he exclaimed, were either hoping
| for Federal job or hoped to be present
when Mark Hannas barrel was opened.
Issue by issue he took up the chal-
| lenge of Pritchard, whom he described
as the Republican party of North Caro-
lima, and showed the sophistry used by
him in his arguments, and proving that
+ the Democratic party was the party
that would put corporations on the same
| basis as individuals
| Closing his mastery discussion of the
tariff and the trusts he denounced the
/ horrors created In the Philippines by
the Republican party and prophesied
that if these islands were held that the
cheap labor there and the vast cotton
| crop that could be raised would prove
a curse to the South, and not blessing,
as Pritchard, with his false assertions,
predicted.
| Having covered national questions he
| spoke on State issues, and after pic
/ ture of the sad state OF affairs in North
| Carolina under Republican and Fusion
rule, with negroes in office and terror
in many sections of the State, he showed
the progress and improvements made by
/ Democrats. In doing this he told of the
vast impetus give to education, OF the
aid offered the afflicted, of the pensions
to the Confederate soldiers, closing with
a splendid appeal for united and har-
monous white race to stand shoulder to
| shoulder, and with the Constitutional
Amendment as their shield, to march
onward to a glorious victory.
| Register at once, do not delay" was
the closing theme of his powerful speech
that touched upon every point at issue
in State and National politics, speech
that won votes and strengthened Democ-
racy.
Following Mr.. Pou the next speaker
was Solicitor Armistead Jones, Demo-
cratic county chairman. He compliment
ed Mr.. Pou upon his magnificent ad-
dress and then discussed and showed
the falsity of the charges of eX-
! travagance made against the Democratic
| party He compared the condition of the
finances under Republican and Demo
cratic administrations, and showed that
it was the Democratic party which had
built up on the ruins made by Radicals
and Fusionists Schools and asylums
! were shown tc be the products of De-
mocracy while the striking down of the
county government which gave white
rule in the east was told of as Republi-
! can work. lie urged the pSOpiC W lelSS-
ter and to watch out for a Republi
can sneak ticket at the last movement.
Then came Mr.. Herbert E. Norris,
candidate for the State Senate whose
recent illness prevented him from maxi
ing an extended speech. He spoke of
the loyalty of the people of Fuquay to
him and urged that there be no division
among the white men because of minor
details on party organization which did
not suit. He discussed as two of the
most important things to be done by
the next General Assembly the election
of United States Senator and the pro-
per adjustment of taxes so that corpor-
ations would bear their share of the bur-
ders equally with the individuals. AS
a pledge of the trust the people might
repose in him he cited his life-work
amongst the people of Wake and pledged
his best endeavors in their behalf.
Mr. John c. Drewry, candidate for the
Legislature spoke next, and in the
course of his earnest remarks thanked