The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-30

velt's giving offices to negroes in the
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
gair 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 III
the South (applause). Mr.. Pou here
anplied 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
10 have a single white vote In the
South. IT.:
The sneaker commended the dis
franchisement of the negro and said
# ought to have been done in 1868, as
they are not fitted for the ballot. Ihey
are not voting now and we are not
going to let them vote any more IL we
can help it," CLaughterO AS 10 the
EXPRESSED fear by some that after I9uo
they would vote, he said there neeu
be no fear, as the matter Woulo pe
locked after and said ne, tlal euu-
Gated negro boy after 1908, II ne gets
to him at the proper time
AS to DISTINGUISHING, Mr.. Pou declar-
ed it had to be done to protect SCUM
ern civilization. He told OF now the
nameless crime of black men upon
white women had come since the ne
gro had been given freedom. Y ct
since 1866 there have been 3,oOo Such
nameleSs crimes committed py ne
groes. So it is when negroes, led on
hi a.
come a menace that.we must control
them. Yet Mr.. Roosevelt is the man
who has had put in its platform a
plank that Will stir race troubles, ana
ii is because we have dared to assist
our manhood and protect our .civili-
zation 1t does seem that with that
plank a single Southern white man
would vote for him and thus step up
and kiss the hand that would smite
him and his posterity forever.
After declaring that North caro-
lima would be Democratic as the DEM
ocratic party is right, Mr.. Pou dis
cussed the tariff question most ably
"A thing of duty and jaw forever
IS what Mr.. Pou said an lriShman had
declared the tariff to be, and then he
entered upon a short discussion OF the
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
plank of the Republican platform in
1900, omitted in 1904 in which home
labor had been promised protection
against foreign pauper labor, and in
Which child labor had been deprecat-
ed stating that now the Republicans
were for the big corporations who
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 SO, citing the
beef trust The stand pat declara-
ton of the Republicans, he held,
suited them as it is gambling phrase.
He also showed that RooseVelts 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.
md the Democrats We're condemned
for attempting to demonetize silver.
Declaring that it has been demonstrate
d that the American people were not
favorable to free coinage at a ratio of
Is to /, and that while neither he nor
his party We're 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
rather Roosevelt. said: Il did it, as
they claimed everything good.
Then Mr.. Pou discussed the post Of
ice 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
aim from being elected land thus ruin
aing the country" He portrayed
It, Il,
teousness reformer and showed how
now he had become a mere political
wire puller after money for his cam
paign, working the trusts for the
Doodle. THE man who buys a 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 minority by a million
votes.''
Here Mr.. Pou showed how Democ-
racy lived despite its defeats because
t stood for the people, and how with
Judge Parker it had now hoisted the
lag of victory, for it was the party of
Justice to all classes. He declared
that there must be work all along the
inc and that the party now united
could do it. Then in North Carolina,
with "a clean and splendid admins
.ration victory is sure, as it meets a
Republican party with a record of de-
0auchery and rascality, of which
t must be ashamed. He exhorted that
III abide with Democracy, for if they
wanted any good thing it. was to be
lad in the Democratic party, not in
he Republican. 49,
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
| splendid victory in the nation. Our
lominee for the Presidency is Alton
Brooks Parker, the greatest Democrat
put on the ticket since Samuel ]. Til
len. He is a man true and honest, one
Who is tall man, Sun-crOWned. who
Ives above the fog in public duty and
n private thinking"
NJ 4 I'LL a.