The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-10-27
MIR. MEEkINS' STATEMENT.
His Effort to NJ Get Mr.. Glenn the Repub
iican Candidate for Lisutensn
Governor,

In an Open Letter to Chairman Roll
Inns, Describes His Offer of $500
for the Privilege Of Meeting the
Democratic GubernatorIal Candi-
date on the Stump-Mr. Glenn's
Reference to the ROosevelts Wri-
t.ngs the Point of Issue-He
Wishes the Public to Know Ex-
actly What Occurred.
The Observer is requested to pub
lish the following:
Elizabeth City, N. c., Oct. IA, '04.
Hon. Thomas S. Rollins, Chairman,
Republican State Executive Com
mittee, Greensboro, N. G.
My Dear Mr.. Rollins:
In public speech addressed to
my fellow-citizens at Clinton, Samp-
son county, N. c., on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 4th, 1904, l took occasion to
step out Of the record and remarked
as follows:
My fellow citizens, Hon. r. B.
Glenn. the Democratic candidate for
Governor OF North Carolina has seen
fit, for reasons best known to him.
self, to malign the President of the
President of the United States
through the medium of misquoting
him, thereby misleading the people
of North Carolina. Mr.. Glenn said,
as 1 understand, the President said,
"There is strain of coarse brutality
running through the blood of the
Southern people,"
"Now my fellow-citizens, what
the President said vastly differs
from what Mr.. Glenn claims he said.
I hold in my hand book from
which Mr.. Glenn quoted the Presi-
dent. Said book is entitled "Thomas
II. Benton, by Roosevelt" and is
one Of 80 volumes in the "Ameri-
can Statesmen" On page 161 is
found the quotation in question, and
it reads as follows: "Siavery WAS
chiefly responsible for the streak Of
coarse and brutal barbarism which
RAN through the Southern charac
ter, and which MARKED the Zero
cious cutlery instantly raised by the
whole Southern press against the
abOlitiOnists.' "NoW fellow.citi
zens, you can readily see the differ
ence between the two statements
According to Mr., Glenn, an unin
formed citizen would gather the ides
that President Roosevelt made thi.
statement but yesterday, in speaking
of condition which exists in tn,
Southern States TODAY, whereas
the truth is, the statement was made
by Mr.. Roosevelt as far back a
1855, and referred to period in tn
national history as far back as 1888
Now l submit in all fairness if siav
cry was right, then MIR. Roosevelt
was wrong; if slavery was wron,
then Mr.. Roosevelt was right.
there q man in this audience or i
the State of North Caolina who ha
: the nerve to stand up and face ~
and say, with his hand on his heart
and his conscience towards God, ths
slavery was right? l wonld like t
SEE the color Of the maps hair VIII
! has the nerve, in this enlightene
, age, to stand for such sentimen
Il "Viewing the situation in all {
, | its details, as / see it, but one {
: two things can be true; Mr.. Glen
either misquoted the Presider
l through q misapprension Of VIII
l the..President had said, or he did
with the intent to misiead the pc
and the extenuatiug circun
: stance consists in giving Mr.. Glen
Z the benefit of thu doubt, and to m
q mind the doubt is not worth Il
9 claiming.
Ell my fellow-citizens, I will gil
d $500 for an opportunity of facir
elMr. Glenn in q crowded hall fill,
. with intelligent North CaroliniaI
;, land discuss with him what dete
= miae to be an unfair attack up
Il the President of the United STATE
D. thus violating the injunction Of t