The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-10-13
wAT~uStS SPEECH AT NEWTON


toih.r things, on this We are togeth
er: We are all white men and "
would die for the white mans ~
premscy."
| Mr.. Roosevelt dined Book"
Washington. | shouldn't have don
dent | won't 10 il. But you know
now Roosevelt stands; ! have toll
you how | stand, tell me now hov
| Parker stands"
"Iou are the sovereigns and yoi
have = right 10 know. / am the onl.
one Of the candidates who ma
thought enough of the people 4
come down among them and tel
| them face To face where | stand
Judge Parker i silent OH this sub
ject; and whenever he speaks out h,
differs from Roosevelt III nothing
except he would like tn have Koose
| velt'- place"
He woke the house into thunder,
pf applause when he said, "Oh, ii
had more time 80 that | might
reach the people, Parker would have
10 get out the way, the gold Demo
crafts would rally behind the Repub
leans, and the great Jetiersoniar
Democrats behind man who l. not
afraid to fight!:''
The Democrats, he said, arr, Il,
usual, making great thunder out oi
the negro. "lf they should wake uI
tonne morning and find the negro
gone they would feel like the old
COW that had lost her cud."
And Yet Grover Cleveland, a.
Governor, signed the bill providing
Tor mixed schools in New York,
thus making social equality or ig-
norance inevitable for the poorer
classes. when | asked Mr.. Parker,
through the Associated Press, in
papers which he must have seen,
whether he would do the same thing.
he did not answer and he has not
answered yet, When he writes to
1t negro, how does he head the letter.
SIR" No. "Dear Sir:?n No. He
heads it "My-Dear-Sir,' the
words in which one gentleman, one
friend, addre sses another.
Mr.. Parker is an Eastern Yam
Izee. | am a Southern err" Here MIR.
Watson raised his voice to its height,
eant out over the crowd, ana the
scene was thrilling: Southern in
blood, Southern in ancestry, South
I'm IN sentiment and in ueathless
devotion to the best interests OF the
oOuth'\
"Why will you vote against a
southern man who tells you fiat
ootediy before the election that he
S with you, and for al Eastern Yam
Zee who will not speak out except
o negro, 'My-Dear-Sir?' [ am
With you on the race question, and
I'm Jeffersonian Democrat from
ny head to my heels, and if you are |
Jeffersonlan Democrat you must |
'Ote for me, ON the rest of the
was drowned by applause.
ot SO much, [ took it, of the sem
lment as of the oratOry,
THE POPULIST PLATFORM
After ne set forth the reforms of
ne banking system proposed by his
arty, he continued "What JEFF
7rson said, what Jackson said, what
'ryan said, | say. But the Demo
rats don't dare say it now--they
ave sold out to the national bank
rs.
81 am preaching the same doc
Inc now that | preached when /
Sed to come to North Carolina to
clip our venerated chief, l.. L.Polk.
ills me with sorrow that he is
)t here to welcome me. He loved :.
e as son, and l him as a father. !
I'd with his dying breath, in Wash
gton, he blessed me-" 9
During his discussion of the in.
me tax, said he: Theodore Roose-
lit could swallow Parker's plat
rm without batting his eye, and
srker could waltz barefooted over
oosevelts and never get a splinter
his fOOt.,'
"Let the people own the rail
ads" said he. That's good .Jeffer-
n'eh democracy. Henry
ay said, when the first Morse tel
raph wires were being stlung,
1T the government ought to own
telegraph The telegraph ought
De part OF the postal system.
''Oh, but you say. He's Wild
Is When 1 stood up in Congress and
vocated that the mails should he
tribnted to the country people. n
S laughed at. Now 10000 men 4
employed in the rural free de- i
cry of mail, and S27,OOO,OOO ex- \
aided. | have offered to give
oOO--and Pm able to do it, thank
d!-to any one who will show
L was not the originator of the
al free delivery Of the mails - !
cited The Congressional Record (
February, 1898.
No one can understand how i'm
sslve 1t was when he said, con
ling this subject, CATER | haa
q counted out and was not to he
congressman any more, Ire
and now, since
have the opportunity. are YOU
no to remember map,