The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-24

/ to "Step out from behind the cover
and get into the OPEN" Now, mind
you, that is the appeal to men to join
the Republican party. The charge is
plain that Southern men have been
skulkers and towards, afraid to fight
in the open! If they are such men,
they are not fit to belong to any party
and no fit leader would wish such
additions to his party Men who re-
fuse to 'get into the open" are
skulkers who would run to cover in
any party Why does the Republican
party invite such men into their party =?
If there are such men in North Caro-
lima in tile Democratic party, We may
tell Mr.. Yerkes that he is welcome TO
| them. Their proper place is in the
Republican party and he is pleading
for his own. Continuing Mr.. Yerl.es
says:
You demand that the North and
East shall keep hands off and allow
you to work out certain problems
which, though national, affect you pri-
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 the
nation, yourselves included? Let Us
have "a square deal.
Is there not yelled threat in the
above? If you will vote for the Re-
publican ticket, says Mr.. Yerkes in
substance, you can solve your own
problems. If not-is there not a clear
intimation that the South must make
deal" selling it's convictions to
save itself from a Force bill? If Mr..
Yerkes does not mean that, what does
he mean?
Beginning his appeal for recruits by
calling the men to whom it is ad-
dressed towards and the like, Mr..
Yerkes closes by calling Southern
men bigots and narrow-minded, for he
says:
''The day has come for the men of
the South to discard the traditions,
prejudices and passions of the past,
and with true nobility of character
and lofty manhood meet and right
fully solve the problems of their day.
he means that to do this they must
become Republicans.-Ed Editor. There
is a conservatism here, there is an
Americanism here, always stands as a
barrier and bulwark against govern
mental radicalism, it matters not by
what political organization this radi-
calism be proposed and championed
But there is a narrowness, a bigotry,
that should be cast out and trampIed
under foot, and / believe the independ-
ent honesty of the fathers transmitted
to the sons will work out finally the
salvation of these sons through politi-
cal freedom and independence"
Now that speech was insulting
enough, but we are told by the organ
of the crowd that Yerkes says ought
to come out in the open" that his
speech made lft and 1.-THE boys went
wild sure enough" 1t is bad enough
for a stranger to come into the State
and traduce its people; it is disgrace
full that native born North Carolinians
SHOULD approve such slurs and sland-
ers, upon their fellow citizens, their
approval being so marked that they
went wild sureoenough.'' All of which
is proof that thea much heralded Tar
Heel Club is the same vicious, South
hating Redicalism that Southern Re
publicanism has always been. 1t has
changed only the environment-has
come to town and gone into a club
instead of holding it's night meetings
in negro churches and inflaming the |
passions of newly enfranchised slaves |
for their personal benefit. 1T is the |
same old coon with one more ring
around his TAIL" The speech of Yerkes
could have beer more fittingly made in |
a Union League" negro church in |
James City than in the progressive |
city of Greensboro. 1t was an insult |
to the intelligence and character of |
the people of North Carolina.
In the same vein as the Yerkes and |
Dixon speeches was the opening speech |
of Toastmaster Spencer Blackburn. /
He declared that now Gin spite OF |
Spencer and the whole Radical party |
the negro had been eliminated the
time had come when men need no
longer be slaves to the party lash and
boosted party responsibility against
their own interests"
''Need no longer be slaves" declares
Blackburn. Who have been slaves in
North Carolina? Let all who have
been Slaves" stand up and pull or
their chains.
The trouble with Blackburn, Dixon
and Yerkes and the rest of that crowd
IS that they have been wholly misled
as to the convictions of the people of
North Carolina. They have been read
ing in a few subsidized papers a lot of
that so-called Democrats
ire getting ready to throw off the
yoke" and other like generalities, and
they think these papers reflect public
sentiment. AS a matter of fact, these
papers do not control even the votes
# their own employes Sometimes We
near that the manufacturers and the
mechanics are tending toward the Re-
publican party, whereas the truth is
hat they are more strongly Demo-