The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-15
COX AND SETTLE SPEAK np.
LEIGH.
were greeted by a Large and Enthu-
siastic Audience-The Largest
crowd That Has Gathered for /.
speaking i'm Raleigh This Year.

HAS Oat0efed Tor q
speaking i'm Raleigh This Year.
a large and representative audi
ence assembled at the Academy of
MUSIC Friday night to hear some
sood Republican speaking and they
ala not go away disappointed. There
was brief preliminary address hv
Judge w. A. Montgomery, who pre-
SIDED over the meeting. He was I'm
troduced by Mr. w. T. BARROW
Chairman OF the County Executive
Committee. The Judge, in the course
Oh ms speech, paid his respects spe-
cialiy to the party attitudes on the
IarlH question in most lucid man.
ner' and delivered scathing denun-
cation OF Thomas Dixon for writing
Inc Traitor" and more especially
Ior bringing it as a play through the
south On the eve of National cleo
ton, as he believed, in league with
Democratic campaign MANAGEMENT.
10 fnf1ame the minds of the people
and quicken fast dying out race
hatred and memory of conditions
that have really no bearing on pres
ent political issues.
Mr.. Thos. II. Franks, Republican
candidate for Register of Deeds. in
troduced Hon. ]. Elwood Cox, the
next Governor of North Carolina.
Mr.. Cox is man of pleasing ad-
| dress, and his speech made a fine i'm
preston. He was literally applaud
ed by Democrats as we'll as by Re-
publicans. He pledged to the people
business administration for the
greatest good to the greatest num-
| Der. Mr.. Cox showed that he was a
| friend to the laboring man and that
| he was not in the lockout in High
| Point few years ago. He declared
that he has many friends in Raleigh,
always liked the city, and believed
that if the people vote their convic-
lions and the votes are honestly
counted as they were cast, he will
take up his residence here for the
next four years.
The whole scope of State issues
were treated in Mr.. Cox's address,
the radical disagreement of the
present Democratic administration
and last Legislature being especially
! emphasized and the decentralization
to business strikingly presented.
At the close of Mr.. Coxs speech,
Mr.. Chas. D. Wildes introduced Hon
Thos. Settle, Republican electorate
large for this State. Settle is Give
wire" He electrocuted Democracy
and put new life into the Republi-
cans.
Mr.. Settle discussed the tariff ques-
ton in a mastery way, declaring
that the Republican party is welded
to the principle of protection. He
sary to high wages and the success
Of the laborer. He said the South
was its worst enemy for voting solid
| He held up the New England
States as examples of what the South
could do-"when the people of the
South get sense enough to vote the
Republican ticket"
HIS said that it was impossible fol
the South to get anything in the way
of favors from either party, because
it was never doubtful" and "was
Democratic in spite of the world, the
flesh and the devil"
He attacked the Democratic party
as being changeable, varying, never
the same in two campaigns, a gooG
. battering-ram for tearing things
down, but can't build things up. He
said the Democratic party was {
common scold-one vast concrete
organized dam"
His denunciatiOn of Governor
Glenn and the last Legislature wa.
particularly scathing. He called then
all "two by four politicians" HI
jumped on Josephus "Orange Bios
som" Daniels with both feet and call
ed him the "real boss of the Demo
cratic party in North Carolina. HI
said that Josephus was up in Chi
cago trying to curry favor with tn,
negroes at the North and giving thu
boys here orders to howl "Nigger
niger, Niger"
In his inimitab1e way he drew thu
picture of Josephus Daniels hob mob
bling on the National Committee will
men whom he had denounced II
North Carolina. Then he said: "Oh
consistency, thou art jewel, but tn,
p space in the diadem of democrat,
is lump of mud!'
81 He praised Mr.. Cox as a "typica
exponent and representative of thos
principles upon which our Stat
must come into it's own" He close'
: amid great applause.
Just at the close of the speaking
= a Confederate soldier, candidate o.
the county ticket, unfurled his fla
: and waved it over Cox and Settle o.
the stage. This brought down tn
4, house.
Good music for the occasion wa
S furnished by the Caraleigh Band.