The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-23
.ST|RS THE VOTERS
SpruilI to Immense Crowd
at Winston Salem.
Delivers Vigorous Speech That Erinus
Great Applause For the Splendid
Record Of the Demo-
cratic Party.

NopeCldI 10 News ana observer
Winston Salem, Sept. 22.-An i'm
mense crowd greeted Hon. Frank S.
Spruill, of Louisburg, Democratic
Elector-at-Large, who spoke here to-
night with splendid effect.
Mr.. Spruill makes a strong, abla
and convincing argument, such THAI
no one can gainSay. He is vigorous
and he is eloquent. Round after round
of applause greeted the many strong
arguments presented by the speaker
First he discussed the tendency to-
wards Capitalization in National af
fairs saying in this among other
things:
The greatest menace to our Ma
tional existence today is our tendency
towar Capitalization and imperialism.
The circle of federal power has
Evidenced until it embraces in its
periphery the individual rights of this
citizen.
Roosevelt in the, White House is ar,
autocrat more unquestioned than Will
liam of Germany or Nicholas OF Rus
STA.
Acts of federal interference with
State SoVereiontv that a hundred yea.'a
ago would have caused Impeachment
are now not noted Or if noted at All
cause alarm to only a thoughtful.
few"
Then he took up the matter of the
conduct of the National Republicans
party in its treatment of the Philip
pines some OF his vigorous rena@Ka
being:
1.-The blacklist page in American His
tory is the record Of our dealings with
the Philippines.
Under our constitution we cannoi
not own b colonial dependency, nor
could we If we could acquire by puc-
"In the ~rosecution of our war with
these poor helpless jewellers in the is.
land of the sea, we have been gai!ly
of conduct compared with which the
dealings of the North American IN
dian with our large colonists wash
shining virtue.
1--WE are paying for these false ideals
not only in the blood but in the rea
son of our American soldiery.
God pity a government or an adj
ministra ton that pays for its false
ideals in, the reason OF its adherents;"
The third point which he discussed
was the tariff and its effect in produce
ing higher price for the customer
here at home than is asked of tho
foreigner over the sea. Among other
things he said:
81 denounce as unworthy OF q pa
triots support any political party that
enables the manufacturer to make his
consumer and customer here at home
pay more for the products of his
factory than that manufactures re-
uures of his customer and foreigner
beyond the sea.
THE government has no right to
take Of my toll and sweat to make
rich one of its faVOrites.
81 ask no favors at the hands of the
government. but I demand in the
name of every manhood an even
chance and a fair start with everyone
else
In concluding his magnificent adj
dress Mr.. Spruill devoted his atten-
ton to discussing the danger in
Roosevelt as man. In the course of
this he said:
''In warp and WOO. Roosevelt is not
a lover of Republican institutions.
Born to wealth, with no wish ever
denied and no desire crossed, what
can he know of the strivings and
wants and needs and requirements of
the great plain people.
mo man is fit to be the President
of Il great republic who has not at
some time in his life felt the sting and
strain Of poverty, or has not known
the warmth and glow that comes
from hard earned self wrought sue
cess.
ct was to f1out and sheer alto
show his contempt for the Southern
people-to trample beneath his feet
the sacredest article in their racial
creed that Roosevelt had Booker
Washington to dine with him.
''In the hearts of all the thinking
men in this republic there is a
nameIesS dread of impending evil. 1t
has it's cause in the lawless conduct Of
him who should be by reason of his
very literal obedience TO the land. the
first gentleman in America.
with lofty disdain for the limi-
tations of the law. Mr.. Roosevelt,
where he deems the laws exactions to
impunge upon the free exercise of his
wishes, sets at naught that law, and
declares it suspended.
(which will you have, an empire
or a republic; an Emperor or Presl-
dent; an autocrat or Democrat?
Choose We this day whom we Will
serve"
MISENHFEINEl{S ON TRIAL.