The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04

eral office-holders are supposed to cx-
ercise in the nominating convention"
Mr.. w w. Hampton, a very prominent
citizen of Surry county, the morning
after the convention, was interviewed |
| and stated: 1--WE are not going tol
| submit to any such treatment We
are tired. and the decent Republicans
are tired. We have been talking
about the Democrats cheating at tnel
poIls and here we have been de1raud-
| ed all over the district by the man
who could make the longest speeches
against the disfranchisement or any
of us. My Republicanlsm Isl
we'll known to everybody who knows
ANYTHING at all and every one VIII
know how it pains me to see these
things going on.
Dir. Mott. Old-Time Republican, Con
denim Party Methods.
DR.. John j. Mott, for many years
chairman of the State RepuDncan
Executive Committee, was member
| of the committee on credentials OIL
that convention. In published STATE
ment he has criticised the Wllkesporo
convention in the following language
He (Blackburn) has adopted the
methods of a desperate at the tead
of an organized clan of paid myrmid-
! ons officers of this Government. Near
| ~ every Federal officer in the district
was at the convention ready to shoot
| their way, as it was said to nominate
! Blackburn. They were ready to assas-
sinate, SO it was said. Intimidating
| tactics We're reSorted to and were
| kept up in the dead hours of the night
| to force the committee to make an
unprepared report. A raid was made
! on the committee room during the
| night and it was rammed and damned
until not another man could enter, and
| the outside passages choked with the
| bowling mob. Inside the room it APP
peared as if the county asylum had
| been emptied and the committee room
| filed with insane people. The click of
pistols were heard Federal officers
with commissions in their pockets
shook with rage as within the throes
of commissions lowered on the COM
mittee, lisped like snakes and cursed
| like devils. There has been no lawful
nomination of the candidate for Con-
gress in this district--that is certain.
1t has been prevented by the officers
of the government breaking the
written law of the party from work
ing in the primaries
Free Thought In Democratic Party.
The Democratic party is the party
| which encourages the widest liberty
of thought and discussion. 1t is not
prospective; it is not hide-bound. 1t
VoucheS to it's members the largest
| freedom of opinion and it permits on
all essentials a striking diversity
| of opinion. This year it has nomi-
mated men who represent every di-
verse school of opinion in the party
1t has nominated men who differ on
the currency, on the Philippine ques-
| ton, and on many others. On the
| essential principles of Democracy the
! party expects unity; on the non-es-
sentialS It permits a freedom of
| opinion and of action which no other
! party in the State ever dreamed of
permitting. This has always been So
| Before the adoption of the amend
ment the danger of negro domination
was omnipresent and overwhelming.
All other questions were made insig
nificant by this danger. And Demo-
Gratis did not discuss other questions
when this danger was imminent. 1t
has now in a large measure passed
away Gf we can believe the Republi
canS), and Democrats have begun to
discuss other matters within the party
with a freedom which must be amaZ-
ing to the Republican and POpulistS.
At the last Democratic State Conven-
ton at Greensboro the platform pre-
/ scented by the committee on platform
was discussed for several hours. The
INtelnOcfallc party wants the IulleSl
discussion and the freeSt action on
| the part of all of it's members. The
plan of organization guarantees this;
and it even guarantees q hearing and
| representation to tie minority. 1t
only asks that Democrats make their
| fight within their own ranks. Amy
man who believes in the rule of the
majority must be a Democrat 1t is
the only party in the State that is so
Onuprnn6 nI1n of orCaniZ9tiOn in
vites the frest expression of the voter
on the subject of platform and can
didates. The Democratic party is most
| watchful of the opinions of every
voter, and has given simple way
to ascertain the wishes of the people.
Primary Election Plan.
The plan of primary elections pub
| lished in this book is simple, plain
and effective. Under it every white
Democrat in North Carolina can eX-
| press his choice for candidates. Such
an idea could not obtain in the Re
| publican party The voters of that
party are few in number, yet they
have no voice in making platform or
| naming candidate.
All Independents After Republican
Votes.
1t is usual almost universal, for an
! independent to claim that he is a bet
ter Democrat than the regular nOml-
nee. This claim is SO common that it
has become a set formula of all indie
pendents. Some really delude them
selves into believing this to be true.
| Yet there is not a single Independent
| in the State who stands the remotest
| chance to be elected, unless he shall
get the bulk of the Republican vote.
Go over the list and you will not find
one who stands a ghost of a chance
without the Republican vote. The Re-
| publicanS know this and at the prop