The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

it certainly indescribable, and l know OF
no better example than to refer to the
chairman of the Fusion Committee
have no hesitation IN saying that there
is not more estlmable man personally
in this community, in this country, and
| believe in this world than Mr.. Fulton
Cutting | know him. L am proud of
being admitted to his acquaintance, and
vet, while his disposition is excellent
his practices are reprehcnslhle IN the last
degree (Laughter.) And though repre-
hensible as they are, by his own con
fession he is utterly unconscious of 1t,
and processes as loudly as every other
man his honesty-if is nothing short OF
graft, of plumber, OF wee perpetrated
against the honor of the American people
and the prosperity of the American
nation.
Now. let us see. My friends we must
not exaggerate; we must be careful OF our
statements. Mr.. Cutting, as you know,
is an officer of the beet sugar company.
He says 50 himself, and that | may net
in any way misrepresent him, l will read
frc-- an interview. It says:
81 am a trustee of the Amerl-
can Beet Sugar Company, and do not
believe l shall ever have cause to re
greet the share | have taken IN the
introduction of new and great Amer
lean industry, but the American Beet
Sugar Company IS not opposing re-
ciprocity, and has therefore no need
of the services of Senator Platt in
Congress-
Now l pass over the prevarcation
about the beet sugar company not Beng
opposed to reciprocity. But let US ask
what has Mr. Fulton Cutting done to in
troduce this new and great American
Industry Has he worked at it? laugh
teri Has he directed the labors of otn-
ers in it? Has he invented any machln-
cry to reinforce the productive power
of the human hands engaged IN 1t? L
don't think he pretends to any OF those.
What he has done is, he went down to
Washington and there he resisted the re-
ciprocity measure recommended by the
President, by which the honor of this
country was pledged, and resisted it SO
successfully that the real reciprocity
was defeated.
Now the effect of that was that MI.
Cutting and his company were allowed
to plumber the people of Cuba with one
hand and the people of America with
the other. And this plumber amounted
to millions of dollars, and that plumber
is graft according to Democratic con-
ceptions. (ApplauseD Yet Mr.. Cutting,
am sure, is sublimely unconscious OF all
this. Now do him justice.
know him well. am sure
that much of this graft he
would expend in charitable enterprises
but that has been a feature OF great
since the beginning of the world. Grafters
have never been just, but they have al
ways been generous. Uaughter)
They never respected title to property,
but they often bestowed their neighbor's
property upon deserving objects Caughr
teri 1 haven't any doubt at all that Mr..
Cutting is the last person to suspect that
he himself is a CRATER and a CRATER OF
millions. But either this operation of his
in Congress was honest or 1t was dis
honest; either it was service to the country
or it was plumber of the people, and If it
was plumber, why we Democrats think 1t
was graft. even if it amounted to millions
daughter and applause), for we believe
that crime isn't lessened by the magni-
tude of its profits (applause)
OPPOSED TO LOBBY.
Now that is a plain statement of the
facts in this case, and just conceive how
the public conscience has been dullcd.
Here Mr. Cutting, with graft amounting
to millions openly in his hands, denounces
as CRATER as a candidate OF gratters,
the man who resisted his grating enter
prise in Washington (applause); who re-
duced some of its profits, and that man
who voiced the honest sentiment of this
community reflected by the spectacle OF
this greed for grating, represents now the
Democratic idea before this community.
(Applause)
He stood upon this platform tonight;
he is the candidate of the Democracy for
Mayor, George B. Mcclellan. l have been
asked what service he has rendered to
justify his election. l say that service IN
opposition tc the grating enterprise OF
the beet sugar lobby and the other Re
publican favorites, that service was enough
to make lis service illustrious. and as we
must judge man by the work he has
done we judge George B. Mcclellan He
has shown that he is FAITHFUL TO
THE OBLIGATION OF OFFICE, faith
full to the people, and fit to be trusted
with graver responsibilities at the hands
of the people whom he has served. Cap
plause.)
why, my friends, everybody here can
remember the conditions that existed ten
years ago, some of us can recall the panic
of 1S73-both were alike in the suddenness
with which they came and the disastrous
results which they produced. Here Provi
dence was smiling upon us, in good har-
vest when there was no diminution in the
yield Of the earth. When every condition
of prosperity was ours a panic appeared
like a dark cloud in the sky. 1t settled
down over the length and breadth of the
country, wrapping in its sinister folds
countless thousands of American homes
and sending the. wolf that we call famine
stalking through American highways and
knocking at the door which sheltered
American labor (Applause)
SIGNS OF DISTRESS.
1--WE all remember the disgraceful day
when there seemed to be a market fol
everything under the sun except the work
of mans strong arm, when in every
great city, day after day, workmen throng