The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31

South in preference to white men, he
! said that he hoped no white man in
the South would vote for Roosevelt
whose acts with negroes are such as
to humiliate the South, and also to
gain negro votes in doubtful States. "
He sacrificed responsibility and sat
with negroes at his own table that he
might gain votes, and this being so the
white men of the Republican party
in the South should declare that he
can't have a single white vote in
the South (applause). Mr.. Pou here
lapplied the negro boy and white girl
incident at the Republican Convention,
and said that if Roosevelt wanted the
negro vote in the North he ought not
to have a single white vote in the
| South.
The speaker commended the dis
| franchisement of the negro and sale
lit ought to have been done in 1868, as
tthey are not fitted for the ballot. "They
are not voting now and we are not
going to let them vote any more II We
can help it," (Laughter.) AS to the
expressed fear by some that after 1905
| they would vote, he said there neet
| be no fear, as the matter would bt
| looked AFTER and said he, that edu-
Gated negro boy after 1908, if he get
too big for his britches we will atteno
to him at the proper time
AS to DISTINGUISHING, Mr.. Pou declar-
| ed it had to be done to protect South.
ern civilization. He told of how the
namelesS crime of black men upon
| white women had come since the ne
gro had been given freedom Ye
since 1865 there have been 5000 sucl
namelesS crimes committed by ne
[ groes. So it is when negroes, led OIL
| by INSCRIPTIONS white men, have be
| come a menace that we must contro
them. Yet Mr.. Roosevelt is the MAJ
who has had put in it's platform (
plank that will stir race troubles, anC
/ it is because we have dared to assis
our manhood and protect our civil
cation. 1t does seem that with tina
plank a single Southern white MAJ
would vote for him and thus step III
and kiss the hand that would smitt
him and his posterity forever.
| After declaring that North Caro-
| lima would be Democratic as tx IN.
ocratic party is right, Mr.. Pops dis
cussed the tariff question most ably.
| "A thing of duty and a jaw forever
| is what Mr.. Pou said an Irishman has
declared the tariff to be, and then h
entered upon a short discussion of tho
| Republican ideas, showing how the
| Dingley tariff was against the man in
| this country and in favor of the for
! eigners. From this he passed to u
plank of the Republican platform in
1900, omitted in 1904 in which home
| labor had been promised protection
against foreign pauper labor, and i'll
which child labor had been deprecat-
ed stating that now the Republicans
were for the big corporations VINO
wanted pauper foreign labor and
against the home man, and that the
plank was designedly omitted Next
he dissected Roosevelt'S declarations
that trust laws are being enforced
and showed this was not 50, citing the
beef trust. The stand pat" declara-
ton of the Republicans, he held,
suited them as it is a gambling phrase.
He also showed that RooSeVelt'S de-
claration that the Republicans had put
the country on a sound gold basis is
nonsense, as in 1888 the Republican
platform was for both gold and silver,
and the Democrats were condemned
for attempting to demonetiZe silver.
Declaring that it has been demonstrat.
cd that the American people were not
favorable to free coinage at ratio of
g to /, and that while neither he nor
his party were ashamed of its record
as it believed it was doing right, that
God in His providence had given the
gold to the world by which the matter
was fixed, though the Republicans, or
IdlDGE INOOSeNell, octiu uiu II, clS
they claimed everything good.
Then Mr.. Pou discussed the post Of
flee frauds and rascalities and the
about face" of Republican Congress
men showing that the frauds were not
Investigated and the raScalS shown up
because Roosevelt feared it would keep
him from being elected ''and thus ruin
ming the country" He portrayed
Roosevelt next as a bogus "civic righ-
49, ,.afF md oh IrNX
now he had become mere political
wire puller after money for his cam
paign, working the trusts for the
Doodle. THE man who buys vote
should be sent to the penitentiary, as
we'll as the man who sells one" de-
clared Mr. Pou amidst applause, and
added, 1.-The Republican party without
money is a minority by million
votes"
Here Mr. Pou showed how Democ-
racy lived despite its defeats because
it stood for the people, and how with
Judge Parker it had now hoisted the
flag of victory for it was the party of
Justice to all classes. He declared
that there must be work all along the
line and that the party now united
could do it. Then in North Carolina,
with "a clean and splendid admins
tration victory is sure, as 1T meets a
Republican party with a record of de-
bauchery and rascality, of which
it must be ashamed. He exhorted that
all abide with Democracy, for If they
wanted any good thing 1t was to be
had in the Democratic party, not in
the Republican.
with face to the rising sun and
hope in the future, let US go forward
with our best men. We will win in
North Carolina and the outlook is for
a splendid victory in the nation. Our
nominee for the Presidency is Alton
Brooks Parker, the greatest Democrat
put on the ticket since Samuel j. Til
den. He is a man true and honest, one
who is a tall man, sun-crowned, who
lives above the fog in public duty and
in private thinking"