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


marked graves, thousands coming
nome as gIbberlng idiots! God have
mercy on "a government paying for its
craze by Sdcrlnce OF manhood and
reason. One of its legacies in North
carolina is the small pox and the pest
mousse IN every county, brought back
from the terrible climate OF the Phil
ipplnes"
But that is not the worst" said
Mr. SprulIl, and he told of the war OF
determination carried out III the Phil
ipplnes with perndy as premium,
ana flnplno women sacrificed IN Dru-
! tai ueedS or lust by those VINO in war
Iof imperialism and empire make war
upon women. FROM such things he
Sald there was no relief except III the
democratic party and the success OF
Alton Is. Parker. (Applause.)
Here comparison OF the two candi-
uateS Tor President was made by Mr..
Sprulu. tie depicted Roosevelt as
| having been born to the purple, a
rlch man, and said that no man was
lit Tor President unless he had felt the
sung OF poverty and the need for
WORK by which to raise himself He
declared that in warp and woot Roose-
welt was not fitted as he had not
touched the life of the people. their
tolls and struggles, had not wrought
out his success SO as to know the needs
OF the people. Having had the check
/ OF a desire for a second term taken
! away, IL elected he will override the
law, he VIII put the constitution still
further underfoot and will be the un-
restrained dictator of the nation
Then Mr.. Spruil took up Roosevelt's
actions with regard to the negroes,
saying:
1T was not for social equality that
he had broken bread with negro, his
wife and children at the table 1t was
not that Booker Washington might
! sit at his table, but it was to Illuminate
| the South because it would have none
| of him. He insisted tht there must
| be a negro to second his nomination,
and he did this with the purpose to
! show the South he cared not for its
sacred traditions. And why the negro
| boy and negro girl side by side on
| the platform at Chicago? 1t was be-
cause he was stabbing our social con-
Gitions and our dearest traditions that
he might humiliate us of the SOUTH
Now the other picture. Whom does
the Democratic party ask you to vote
for? Why for a man who came from
mother earth and won his wa. A man
who has had to work and who is of
the people, for the people and with
the people. A man who wrought not
because of ancestry but by his own
might. A man who comes to you in
the name of the Democracy not the
autocracy in the name of the people,
not as dictator, a man who stands
as the exponent of law and order as
the interpreter of the constitution, a
man opposed to Imperialism, man
who stands for the white man. This
is the candidate of the Democratic par
ty. This is Alton Brooks Parker.
Whom will you have, Roosevelt or
Parker?
Then as Mr.. Spruill closed his able
speech there came great applause fol-
lowed by music. AS it ended President
Jones presented Mr.. Pou, saying that
there was no necessity for any intro
duction, as the speaker was known in
every home in Wake county. II pre-
sent to YOU he said, North Caro-
lina's gifted orator and statesman, the
Hon. Edward w. Pou, of Johnston"
the announcement being greeted by
cheers.
Pou's ForcibIe Address.
The, handsome young Congressman
from the Fifth district is no novice
before the public. There is confidence
in every movement he makes, and
there is confidence in his voice. He
spoke as he always speaks, ably, for
chilly, eloquently, his words burning
With earnestness, his eyes lighting
with the gladness of conflict against
the foe. In opening his address he
said:
Political parties ought to be the
servants of the people. A political
party ought to be an agency which
is employed to register the will of the
voters. There are now two parties in
wiling your votes, and the question be-
fore you is to which party you will
give these"
Here Mr.. Pou briefly referred to the
years in North Carolina in which eth
er Democracy and Republicanism had
been in the ascendancy and in contra
distinction to the disreputable
record of the Republican party
he declared that in the twentv-eight
years of the rule of Democracy in
North Carolina there was nothing for
the party to be ashamed of, but every
thing for it to be proud of On the
other hand-and he asked the uues-
tion-"Is there anything in it's record
which the Republican party ought not
to be ashamed of? Absolutely moth
ing" he answered. and then there was
applause and laughter.
He told of the record of Democ-
racy, of its work for education. for
the old soldiers, for the charitable in
situations. How it had made a debt
paying institution of the penitentiary.
and how it had built up the State.
The Republican record he showed
was one of debauchery and robbery.
disgrace to the State. Having done
this he declared that there is every
reason for a Democrat to be proud of
his party and every reason for Re-
publican to be ashamed of his. 81
ask you if this is not SOP" said he
and the audience nodded it's assent
most vigorously.
Here Mr.. Pou referred to the at
tempts made to have paid the thirty
million dollars of bonds once equitably
and honestly settled by Democratic
Legislature. In discussing this he re-
ferred to the temporary departure
from reason of the State when it
elected Daniel l. Russell &c ernrernnr