The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-04


Mr.. Reynolds Opens.
Mr.. t. j. Cozart. a small, slick
looking party with black beard that
curled at the ends. introduced Mr..
Reynolds as the standard bearer of
the Republican party who would out
line the principles of the party to the
people. Il had hoped" said Mr.. Co
zart ito have introduced Mr.. Kitchin
to you as the Republican candidate.
but he hasn't seen the error OF his
way as yet. | hope Governor Rey
nolds viii! change him into a Repub
lican."
A voice: 'Kitchin don't change like
you do
Amid the yells and laughter
which followed this sally and other
voices of 'Sit down Cozart"! the in
troducer retired without having CON
cluded his speech and ex-Gov. Rey-
nold's arose to meet With considerable
cheering from a hundred or more Re-
publicans ana complimentary, if
subdued, claDping from the Demo-
Gratis
Governor Reynolds Argument.
AS Mr.. Cozart had said. he had been
nominated for Congress i'm the Fifth
district In opening the Joint debate
he desired to say that there were no
himself and he promised that no word
should fall from his lips to which Mr..
Kitchin might justly take exception.
He did not come in the guise of a
bully or a braggart but to talk TO the
intellect and to reason out
the policies of the two great
parties. Which is the best IS
bring to the people peace, happiness
and prosperity or is the Republican
PARTY the one best suited to usher in
these desirable things?
The speaker stated that he had
never voted the Republican ticket;
that he didn't know how; that what
he voted for was protection, for sound
money, for good government and an
honest ballot
81 am a sound money man, | be-
lieve in the doctrine of protection, in
an honest election law, and in local
self-goVernment"
The Democratic party had promised
that, if the constitutional amendment
were adopted. the negro would be put
in the background.
Here the speaker produced copy
of the News and Observer of Septem-
Der 14th, with a large cartoon of Ted
dy Roosevelt N war array, riding forth
to battle with a negro at his stirrup
leather.
That, said he. the Niger was like
the curtain in a theatre that hid the
stage. 1t was the Democratic drop
curtain. Roosevelt on horseback" he
eycla. med, his VOICE rising for the first
time--When the ubiquitous Mr.. Coz
art arose With a panied expression and
interrupted officiously with a com
mand to the crowd TO keep silence and
sit down: IL kairnt hear back thar"
exclaimed a long fellow hanging over
the rail among the bunch of Repubh
cans standing in front of the bunch of
old dark es.
I'm sort er deef myself" exclaim-
ed another voice.
AS nobody moved Mr.. Cozart slipped
back into his seat and Mr.. Reynolds,
who mad patiently waited through the
colloquy, took up again the thread OF
mis- remarks.
The purpose Is TO divert the atten-
ton of the people. Keep your eyes
on the negro and the mule, say the
Democrats, and while you are watch
ing all sorts of things viii be going on
behind the curta n, while the Watts
law will be so further amended as
to take away the rights of the people
to an extent not vet dreamed of.
Il am no honester than Mr.. Kitcn-
in went on the speaker. HE is like
q drunken man playino with a pistol
likely to send ball through your
brain without intending to do so. Per
sonally | like and admire him; politi-
cally he is one of the worst enemies
the Fifth district has ever had. Could
the votes that Mr.. Kitchin has cast
in Congress materialize every piece of
machinery in the land would stop and
poverty would stalk about the land
The speaker went on to compare
himself to Catalne when arraigned in
the Roman Senate by Cicero:
II do not arise to spend the night
in talk; let that plebein speak. Kitchin
is a talker. I've got no speech except
a recitation"
He noticed that Mr. Kitchin never
mentioned local self-government. and
referred to the fact that the people
of Granville had no voice in the Sc
lection of commissioners or magls-
trates. He denounced laws passed by
the Legislature which took control OF
affairs from the people in any way as
the worst form of q centralized gov
ernment. "If you. who haven't the
right to elect your own magistrates.
he shouted. "haven't a centralized
government, I'd like TO know who
has,"
Laws such as this. he said. were put
upon the statute books for the purpose
or at least they had the tendency
TO QGDauCn DuDliC oliltCl
When you lose your ballot. YOU have
lost control of the government.
He compared the State. nation and
county to grand corporation In
which the voters were the share-hold-
ers If YOU have a bad law at Rat
elgh, send a man there to right II.
He again referred to the local condi-
ton as to magistrates and commits
sioners and said YOU can right that.
He denounced the State election law.
"You don't have an honest election.
What / want is a pure. clean election.
an honest count, an honest vote.
He took up and criticized the fact
that the law did not specify the place
of registration. A registrar might
easily hide himself from men of the
opposite party Such man, he de-
clared, should be prosecuted and I'M
rrisoned.
He criticized the change by DEM
ocratic LEGISLATURE of the word
"shan' IN the fusion election law SO
that the clause reads. "the Judge of
elections NAV deposit the ballot FOR
the voter" claiming that when an lg-
norant man went TO vote no matter
how Wen he had been posted by his
friends the judges could shuiie the
ballot boxes so that the voter would
miss the proper box.
lie got into ancient history ana re-
ferred 70 the change by the fuSloniStS