The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-28
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1t has been shown by the evidence
DR.. J. ]. Mott and Romulus u. Linney
that the Republican State Convention
was dominated bv Federal pap-suck-
ers and the Congressional Convention
that named Blackburn was dominated
by plugs and thugs who rode over tine
wishes of the Republic IN masses.
Day by day the news columns OF
The News and Observer show that in
the several counties the same gang
that was in control under Russellisn.
is still in control. In Wake county
RusselFs two chief satellites were Col
Julius Caesar Logan Harris ana Col
Jeems Henry Young. They are the
men who are bossing the outfit seeking
now to get the votes of Wake citizens
In the First district, eX-Rev. ThoS. w.
Babb, who was expelled from the Bap
fist church for drunkenness and in.-
morality, and was a shining light as
Russell office-holder, is the Radi-
cal candidate for the State Sem
ate. In Wayne county-(poor Wayne.
it suffers more than any of its
sistersD Hiram L. Grant and John
r. Smith are debating the policy
of the opposition TO the Democ-
racy If you wish to know anything
of how these - men helped to de-
fraud Oliver H. Dockery out of the
nomination for Governor in 1895, read
the papers of that wear. If you wish
to know their rotten public records,
read the true story of Grants Senate
rial career and John " Smiths mis-
management of the penitentiary and
his subsequent odorferous career on
'the States manure pile What have
the good people of Wayne done, that
they should be thus sorely afflicted?
There is a joint debate on in Cum
berland between the Democratic tick
ct and it's ring-tail opposition, ma lie
up of ali elements that oppose de-
cency In government. The debates are
pretty snapr~ and the Democratic cam
didates led by n. A. Sinclair and A.
ID. McGill. are pouring hot shot INTO
the ring-tail crowd. Cumberland has
been cursed by Radicalism. Because
of some unfortunate division about
local matters, the Radicals have hoped
TO gain some advantage this year. -
thew had been able to induce men not
connected with Radicalism and Rus
sellism to accept their nominations,
the might have made some Roadway.
But their ticket is composed mainly
of men who helped to fasten the Rus
sell administration on the people. and
that is a crime which the people OF
North Carolina viii not forgive in any
man unless he repents and bathes
seven times in Pigeon river.
The chief debate in the Cumberland
canvass is between A. H. SlocumD,
the Republican boss of the county.
and Mr.. n A. Sinclair, the Democratic
candidate for the Senate. To show
how Mr.. Sinclair is dealing out the
blows, these extracts from his spec IN
are taken from an account of the de-
bate reported in the Fayetteville tb-
server:
Mr.. Slocomb was plai IL i'll at ease
and disregarding the rules OF the de-
bate kept interrupting the speaker
with questions, which were readily and
forclbly answered, the New York SIN
being named as the Republican paper
publishing advance information of the
proceedings of the Chicago convention.
Here the speaker pitched into Mr.. Slo-
comb for saying Cummings, the negro
who seconded Mr.. RoOSeVeit'S nominal
ton, was almost white and about The
little bit of negro blood N Il. WASH
ingtom Mr. Slocomb could be ex-
cused. he said, when IT was recalled
how he had banded the lie with ne
groeS in convention at the Market
House, and when he lacked the in
stincts born in a Southern white man,
that his record was so black that Ii
had made him color blind who"e ne
gro was concerned; bu. that in the
South a negro was negro and frac-
tiOnS did not make any difference.
Somebody suggested that a bee haG
stung Mr.. Siocomb, he was SO ndgety.
but most probably It was only
cuckleburr.
Replying to Mr.. Slocomb. he said,
Yes, | am going to vote for Francis
D. Winston; | am a Democrat. and /
have more respect for a man who was
once degraded but is now sorry for his
sins. ashamed of Ills former conduct,
and who has become clean. thdn i
have for a man, once clean (pointing
to Mr.. Slocomb) and who should have
known better, but with full knowl-
edge, sunk into the cess pool and stays
there until now he is so covered with
the slime of negroism that, with his