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THEHICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPT. 24,1908.
NO DECENT MAN CAN FOLLOW SPENCER ADAMS.
His Selection as Leader ih the Republican Party Dis
gusts Every Man Except Those Who Approve
of Judges Who Extenuate the Crime
of Rape.
In the ysar 1898, when the
Republicans and Fusionists con
trolled the Legislature, the Gov
ernor and most of the county
officers, Terror walked aboard in
North Carolina. No man or wo
man with any memory can for
get those days and nights of hor-.
ror. Women who lived in the
rural districts were . afraid to
visit a neighbor ana in some
ports of the State men did not
dare to leave their families af
ter dark, In the city of Wil
mington, wholly under Republi
can rule, white girls were push
ed off the side walk by negro
policemen and thieves and thugs
stood in no fear of the law. The
only protection men in North
Carolina had was in their own
right arm and they had to go
armed to protect their women.
That was only ten years ago.
In the midst of that Reign of j
Terror, near the city of Wilming- i
to.i where nothing but fire and
blood ended the nightmare of
Republican rule, in the county
of Columbus, in the month of
August, a Republican Suparior
Court. Judge opened court The
tension was great. The baser
negroes felt that they could do
as they pleased and meaner
white men. upheld them in their
deviltry. At that moment,
when every good man in the
State was straining every nerve
to end that condition of terror
and fear, Judge Spencer B.
Adams delivered a charge to the j
grand jury that outraged every;
true man in the court house and |
when printed stirred the indig-!
tion of every good man in the
State. As reported in the
Whiteville News that charge was
one of the culminating Republi
can atrocities that drove that
rotten par ty out of power in dis
grace.
In the year 1908—just ten
years later —the Republican
party, now claiming to have dis
infected itself, comes forward
and asks to be given .power.
What fruits meet for repentance
does that party which disgraced
the State ten years ago bring
forth that are meet for repen
tance? Here is what they offer:
They have chosen as State Chair
man the Superior Court Judge
who has the notorious reputation
of being the only judicial officer
in North Carolina who has made
a vicious political speech from
the bench, upholding the infam
ous Legislatures of 1897, culmi
nating in extenuating the crime
of rape committed by members
of his political party. The ele
vation of Spencer B. Adams
(who thus disgraced the bench
and dishonored the white blood
in his veins) as-Chairman of the
Republican State Executive Com
mittee shows that the Republi
can party leadership in North
Carolina in 1908 is the same old
gang it was in 1898 when Chair
man Adams was, as a judge, ex
tenuating the crime of rane and
praising the disgraceful Fusion
Legislature! No man who was
a voter in 1898 has forgotten the
crimes that caused the people to
rise up and expel Adams and
Manly and the other extenuators
of the crime of rape from power
and to declare that North Caro
lina should be free from such
vicious and unworthy, leaders.
The Wilmington people burned
Manly's printing office and drove
him out of the State. Spencer
Adams, whose charge was as in
famous as Manly's article was
outrageous, was allowed to re
main in a State whose errmine
he had disgraced. With what
result? The Republican party
ha 5 put Adams at the head of
the party. He is recognized by
the Republican administration as
distributor ot' patronage in North
Carolina. No man csin get a
postofßce unless he bows the
knee to Adams, whom Colonel
Bernard, the veteran of
the Wilmington Star, calls "the
rape extenuating judge." He
nominated Cox (the pass toter,
the man who opposes -fate re-'
gulaion, the head of the hobbin
trust and the Piedmont ; agent of
Southern Railway) for Governor
because Cox has boodle and will
out it up. He filled the State
ticket with men who either held
office with Russell and Jiin Young
and made a Reign of Terror or
apologized for them. He nomin
ated in a secret caucus Stamp
Licker Briggs for Congress in
the Raleigh district. He is the
boss of the North Carolina Re
publican party today. > He has
never apologized for his praise
of the corrupt Fusion Legisla
tures. He has never apologized
for voting against the suffrage
amendment when he wished to
keep every ignorant negro to
vote to continue his party in
power. He is the same Radical
politician today that he was in
1898.
It is because Adams stands for
the Radical party of 1894-1896-
1898 that disgraced the State
that the srang made him Boss.
It is because the people of
North Carolina will not tolerate
a return to another Reign of Ter
ror that they will support no
candidates who have the "0.K."
of the "rape extending judge."
The man who could deliver that
charge is not fit to be trusted
North Carolina affairs, and
everybody know he been elected
chairman because the Republican
party of 1908 is the same party
whose evil deeds and debauchery
caused its defeat in 1898.
"Lest we forget." It is well
not to forget the infamous charge
by Judge Adums in Columbus
county in 1898. It was publish
ed in the Whiteville News, edit
ed by a man of high character,
and nobody has eyer dared to
deny its truthfulness. The re
port in the News printed in Aug.
1898 is as follows:
' 'The August term of the Su
perior Court convened in the
court house here Monday morn
ing at 11 o'clock. His Honor,
Judge Spencer B. Adams, arrived
on the morning train from the
South. Solicitor Scawell was
present representing the nominee
of the Populist and Republican
parties for judge of this district.
His Honor's charge to the jury
we will do him the justice to say,
Was the best (being the onlv)
political speech we ever heard
delivered from the bench. We
have been reporting court pro
ceedings here for about six years
and in that time a number of
judges have been here whose po
litical affiliation differed from
ours, but we have had no occas
ion to refer to any of them in
uncomplimentary terms. We re
gret the necessity for doing so
now.
But when a man clothed with
ihe judicial ermine takes advan
tage of his position on the bench
to abuse and to villify as good
people as there are in the State
and to mix his personal rancor
with his instructions of the law,
we think it our duty, as a faith
ful chronicler of events, to pub
lish the fact.
, The first point in his political
speech was to pay his respect
to folks who were going up and
down the country abusing people
about the way they cast their
ballots; This came under the
head of "intimidating voters."
and was evidently intended for
the Democratic speakers who
are now canvassing the State, as
neither of the other political par
ties have begun their canvass
yet. His second political point
was under the head of a defense
of the last Legislature, saying
that if it had done nothing else
but pass the law in regard to
embezzlement by public officials,
administrators, executors, etc.,
which he was then discussing, it
would have been worth all it
cost the Sta e.
He reach el the climax, how
ever, when he came to discuss
fornication and adtiltery. He
said that 'nine times out of ten,
if you will chase down the fel
lows who are going about trying
to stir up race prejudice, you
will find them sleeping with a
negro woman. When we con
sider that perhaps as good peo
ple as there are in the State are
going about stirring up race pre
judice, as he would doubtless
call it, his statement becomes a
most sweeping villification and
one which cannot he properly
characterized in temperate lan
lauge. And he said this with a
kind of remember the Maine ex
pression on his countenance,
which seemed to indicate his re
gret that there was not a law by
which Democratic speakers and
papers could be stopped from
telling the people of the foothold
which negro supremacy had ob
tained under the present admin
istration.
"And this was not all. Pro
ceeding to the question of rape,
he argued to the jury that it was
a lesser offense than seduction,
because the only difference was
he said, that one was committed
bylforce and the other bjr fraud.
It required some courage for the
former. He illustrated his posi
tion by saying he had rather his
puree was stolen by a highway
man than by deception. We
may not be surprised that as
saults upon white women by
brutes—the lowest crime in the
eyes of the law as well as of
men to which it is possible for
human depravity to descend—
are so alarmingly on the increase
when a judge on the bench at
iempt to minimize its heinous
ness and argues to a grand jury
that it is less a crime than one
for which the most extrerne pen
alty is a term in the penitentia
ry.
"We are informed that Judge
Adams never practiced law and
that he was clerk of the court of
Caswell county when he was
called to our 'nonpartisan judi
ciary.'
"His Honor received just a few
days ago from the Republicans of
his district, the renominated for
the position he now holds, and
this was, perhaps, his opening
campaign speech."
Men of North Carolina: In 1898
the man who made the charge
was kicked from the bench by
the voters of this state. In their
reightous indignation against
Adams and others who disgraced
the State, the men were aided
by the good women who knew
that they had the deepest stake
in driving out of power the gang
that made the brutes feel they
could do as they pleased.
"Lest we forget"—lest voters
who were boys then—do not re
call the infamious charge of
Adams and the conduct of lead
ers of the Republican party, the
above extract from what trans
pired in 1898 is printed here. No
man who could vote in 1898 and
who voted against Adams and
the others of the gang will vote
the Republican ticket in 1908.
Young men who could not vote
then should know to what depths
Adams descended when he was
appealing to the horde of ignor
ant voters in the State. Because
of these young voters the above
disgraceful chapter in our judi-
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
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Hon. John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for Vice Presi
dent, who will speak it the Great Piedmont Fair on Wednes
day, Oct. 7, 1908. He will be Introduced by Governor, and one
hundrd of the most distinguished men in the country will be
seated on the platform with him.
cial annals is reprinted this year
to show the young voters that
THE leader of the Republican
party today is the man who soil
ed the ermine by his "rape ex
tenuating charge in 1898."
If the Rebublican party in
North Carolina had reformed
the£r would not have put such a
man as Adams in charge of their
party. When they kick 041 1
Adams and every other leader
who helped to make the Reign of
Terror when the Republicans
were in charge in 1895-'99 then
the Republicans may make some
claim to trying to be "respec
table." But as long as they keep
Adams as Boss and name the sort
of cattle who compose most of
their county tickets—as long as
the odor of Fusionism is on their
garments as the stink shows is
the list to day—just that long
will the decent people of North
Carolina know, to quote Vance,
that "the Radical party now is
the same old coon as in 1868-'69
except it has one more ring a
round its tail."—News and Ob
server.
A Trust-Ridden Party.
Of course the head of the Steel
Trust makes a speech lauding
the President. Of course young
Goelet has been named by the
Rhode Island Republicans as a
candidate for presidential elector.
The trusts are for the President
and the party is glad enough to
bestow its honors upon the scions
of the millionarie families; it
needs campaign funds, and it
does not limit to SIO,OOO the a
mount it will accept from one
person,
Republican Value of Money.
The most self satisfactory argu
ment of Rebublican organs and
orators with which they back up
their assertion that Bryan can
not get votes enough to elect
him is based on the allegation
that he cannot raise the neces
sary money. They do not appear
to care for the implication of cash
control that follows this line of
controversy.
Mr. Kitchin aptly says: "If it
happens under a Democratic ad
ministration it's a panic, but if it
happens under a Republican ad
ministration its a financial dis
turbance.
Do you take the Democrat?
How He Got in the Circus.
A certain negro boy loafs
much on the streets of Statesville
but now is employed by a States
ville gentleman to take care of
his horse played quite a trick om
some negro "crap shooters" the
day Robinson's circus was here.
The day after the show the ne
gro told the gentleman'for whom
he works, how he got in the
show, related in the following di
alogue:
Negro- "Boss where was you
just before the show opened
yesterday?"
W— "I was over at the show
grounds, but why do you ask?"
—"I just looked and looked for
you to get a half dollar to go ifi
the show but I could not find
you and I did not see nothing of
you till I got in the show,"
W —"You got in there did you?'*
N—"Yes, sir, boss!"
W —"How did you get in?"
N—"You won't tell anybody
if I tell you will you?"
"No." ; .
—"Well sir boss, I knew where
three negroes 'shooting craps' in
the bushes on the other side of
Mr. Kincald's factory and I knew
where there was a shot gun, so I
went and got the shot gun, slip
ped up in the bushes near the
negroes and shook them a little
and those negroes jumped up and
I hollowed 'halt!' just like Chief
Connor. ?
"Those negroes started to run
and I shot up in the air, then
they just fairly flew, then I
walked on down where they were
playing and I found $1.75 and
went and put up the shot gun
and went to all the show,"—
Mascot.
. That is good news that Rev.
W. B. North, who has been a
member of the St. Louis Con
ference for eighteen years, is to
return t% North Carolina. He is
a scholar, an author, and a
preacher of ability. He is the
best North Carolina stock and
will be warmly welcomed back
to his native State.
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tains no opiates nor harmful drugs and
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everywhere. Conforms to the Nation
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C. M. Shufordand W. S. Martin.
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