The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-24
THE OFFIGE-ROLDING AND OFFICE-WANTING|
PIE BRIGADE'S BANQUET AT
GREENSBORO.

made since 1868 to preserve their civil
ization from the attacks made by
| Yerkes and other Southern white men
| who have voted to condemn the South
to an intolerable government. In
deed, the speech of Yerk-ees CHATS
the way it is pronounced) is a rehash
of the plea to sacrifice principle and
country for the dollar, even if in
doing so the rule of ignorance and
vice should perpetually be fastened
upon the South. He is of those of
whom it has been said:
The jingle of the guinea helps
The hurt that honor feels
if he is to be judged by the tone of
the Greensboro speech. We make
room for a few paragraphs of Mr..
Yerkes' insulting speech, these para
graphs being interlarded with COM
ments upon the progress of the State,
publican administration, giving no
credit whatever to the industry and
intelligence of the people, and the
good State Democratic administra-
ton. We quote from Mr.. Yerkes:
authentic statistics demonstrate
that the greatest percentages of ma
terial gain and uplift under the pro-
tective and financial policies of the
Republican party have been made in
States voting solidly blindly, may
NOT ADD EVEN STUPIDITY AND
DISHONEST POLITICALLY, against
those policies
If the great majority of white folks
in the South have been voting
"STUPIDLYr and "DISHONESTLY,' =
why should Mr.. Yerkes want idiots
and knaves in the Lily White party?
Again Mr.. Yerkes says:
IF you looked out of the car win
dows as you travelled today to this
somewhat central city of your State,
you viewed a picture, panorama, of
State prosperity, of commonwealth
development, never seen here before.
Not seen in the good old Democratic
times of Jefferson and Jackson, nor
I'm the later Democratic days of CIeve-
land and bankruptcy"
What do the Cleveland worshippers,
who have been giving aid to the Re-
publican party think of this? 1t is
only from them that the Republican
party in North Carolina has received
any encouragement, and now they are
told that their idol is synonymous with
bankruptcy" whereas all know that
most of the 1894 financial disaster was
Dequeathed by the Harrison admins
tration.
Proceeding Mr.. Yerkes says that all
the school houses and academies and
factories seen by the men en- route to
the Tar Heel banquet" bear the
sign Built since 1896" and therefore
due, to Mckinley and Roosevelt. The
only record that the Republican party
has made as to schools in North Caro-
lima is that it stole all the school fund
and never built school house in the
State. Besides most of them were
built prior to 1895. Nearly all since
then that owe anything to government
are due to the inspiring educational
policy of Governor Aycock. He then
there are plenty of men "who, in 1896,
in 1900 and 1904 voted the Democratic
ticket, but prayed for Republican sue
cess. They prayed with the fervor
of Methodist camp-meeting, not
but in the silent solitude of
their closets. They hope one way, talk
the other. 1t is principally to men
of this class, to the conscience and
reason, the common, everyday coun-
try crossroads honesty of men, /
utes.''
AS matter of fact there are few
such men. There were some Demo- |
Gratis in North Carolina in 1896 who |
fearing that free silver might injure |
their business, voted for Mckinley or
Palmer and Buckner but it is an in |
suit to say that North Carolinians of |
character hoped one way and voted |
another" We don't raise that sort of |
in North Carolina. Pro- |
upon that hypothesis, and ap-
peaIing to the men thus described, Mr.. |
Yerkes appeals to them not to be |
towards tells them their ancestors |
we're brave men. and goes on to say:
yet many of their children, men
IF high standing and admirable traits,
today are Democrats, not because the
present demands it, but because a
phantom, a spectre, shade. political
Ougaboo, made and used for personal.
selfish political interests and called
Negro Domination frightens them
rom the path of known civic duty
md honest political action. The re-
suit is political peonage-political serf-
iOm, thraldom to a man of straw. That
spectre, and because some say 1T is
lot respectable to be a Republican i'll
he South, make some of you dishOn-
sst politically
Here you have it: A Republican
eader, loudly heralded, comes to
North Carolina, and addressing men
If ability and sense, says in substances
You are towards; you are dishonest
you are stupid; you are double faced,
yoting one way and thinking another;