The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-23
A WARM GREETING
TO THE GATE CITY
The Banquet Of the Tar Heel Club Might Have
Melted More Glacial Heart Than Fair
banks, the IcicIe of Indiana.

serve it with glory undimmed and
character unimDaired.
There may be difference as to the
means of accomplishing this grand
object, and I plead for generosity OF
Judgment on honest men, of whatever
political faith they may be who are
actuated by patriotic impulse"
At the conclusion of the speech the
whole house arose in one long spon-
taneous shout of applause and ap-
proval.
other speeches were made as fol-
lows:
Commissioner Yerkes responded to
the toast, Political Peonage in the
South"
After calling attention to evidences
of prosperity in North Carolina and
saying that the new structures all bore
the sign built since 1896, he con-
tinued:
Your ancestors, men and women,
broke away from servitude, rellglous
and political and sought freedom OF
action of heart, of heart and con-
science here. They flung away family
ties. traditions, inherited belief, an
cestral tendencies, when existing con-
ditions dominant and rational de-
lnanded the surrender. They obeyed
the call of their present, and met the
demands of that present. Yet many
of their children, men of high stand
ing and admirable traits, today are
Democrats not because, the present de-
mands it, but because phantom,
Spectre a shade political bugaboo
made and used for personal, selfish
political interests and called Negro
Domination, frightens them from the
path of known civic duty and honest
political action. The result is political
peonage-politica serfdom, thraldom
to a man of straw. That spectre, and
because some say it is not respectable
to be q Republican in the South, make
some of you dishonest politically.
Further on he said:
''You demand that the North and
East shall keep hands off and allow
you to work out certain problems
which, though national effect you pri-
marily. You say, Have confidence in
us. We know best But, gentlemen, do
you always do best? Don't you know
better than you do? Do you attract
confidence when you openly and boldly
vote against every principle and policy
which experience declares helpful to
the high interests of this nation, your
selves included ~
Congressman Joe Dixon spoke Of
Montana, spoke on THE Business of
Politics. State Chairman Thos.
S. Rollins "A Message from the Re-
publicans of North Carolina; !"
Charles j. Harris, Policies Demand
cd by the Manufacturing In
terests of the South" District At
torney Harry Skinner. what Republi-
can Politics Mean for the South; =
Thomas Settle, "The Party's Oppor-
tunity in North Carolina" c. A. Rey-
nolds, THE Opportunity of the Busi-
ness Man." Hon. r. M. Douglas, "Thc
Administration and the South" Stats
Senator VIM. S. Pearson, "a Press.
the Crying Need of the State;' Hon.
III. G.. Ewart, North Carolinians at
Home and Abroad" Hon. G. M. Ber-
nard, 1.-THE Emancipation of the White
Man in North Carolina" Hon. 1. NJ.
Meekins, What the Republican Party
Offers to the Young Men of the South
Inpromptu toasts were responded to
by ex-Supreme Court Judges ID. NJ.
Furches and w. p. Bynum, Sr., and
by many other distinguished members.
1t was in the early hours of the
morning when the last word was said,
the last toast drunk, the banquet hall
deserted. the guests departed and the
lights gone out. And the occasion will
never be forgotten by many who for
the first time feasted SO we'll and so
swell, and with the next highest Off
cial of the greatest government on
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