Vol. Xi.. No. 2709
C0NC011DNC. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1898
Whole No 11794
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man it would be the same as vot-1 again immensely modified. He had
jYir. C B Aycock Conf ronts
the Wiley Dr. Cyrus
Thompson,
WITH VIGOR AND ELOQUENCE.
Thompson Comes Forward With Sar
casm and Innuendoes as If to Sweep
the Field Bat Tames Under Aycock's
llo joinder and Neutralizes Hts
Siroutfest Points. - J ' '. '"" ' ..
ing for the negro White. He took
special pleasure in taunting T J
Jarvis.
He touched on the school law
and declared there was no poli
tics in it but steered clear of the
committees that had to be formed
on political lines.
The 'negro Councilmen in
Greenville, he said, offered to help
to elect a white policeman toot
good care not to say he was
worthy and being refused elected
a negro.
(Continued from yesterday).
Like" Mr. Butler, Mr. Caldwell
and others of a feather, he claimed
that the Democrats showed them
selves insincere when they did
not accept fusion. He thought
that if Democrats had been sin-
i cere they would not have nomi-
! ncp TClnttz Vmt wnnld nil lmvA
voted ior Morrison Caldwell.
The j had forgotten the pepper on
Mr. Butler at Monroe and would
to admit that Mr. Batchelor, tbe
chief clerfc in his nredecessor'a office
whom he retained for some months,
showed and vouched for all the pro
ceeds of the office and that he be
lieved Blr. Batchelor to be truthful
and honest. He safd he had not
charged that money was misappro-
priated, but that the records did not
show it. He said that he had only
charged that there was slagging in
making reports and settlements.
He was completely turned from
the offensive to the defensive, and
declared that he was a Caucasian too
administration is the most decent
and sober that the State has had
He declared . that the present andthst tbe cry of negro supremacy
is only an old Democratic trick. He
brooght cheers from his side bv
for years. He referred to several Baying there are more disturbances
predecessor Damocrats who went in other Southern States than in
out of office to the Keely in- North Carolina, but he made no als
lowanee for greater numbers of the
negroes, and failed in his whole efs
fort to' refute the testimony now
common in all the newspapers of
the insoleiit, oppressive and unbear
able attitude of the negroes in our
stitute. His own office as he
found it was like a bar room, j
He charged that the Democratic
Secretaries of State did not keep
books and he gave a string of fig
pened
Today!
YOU FURNISH-THEFEET
VFE DO THE REsr.
That's all we 8sk yoa to do f
f An ! f A
OVER 600 P AI SS MEN'S tbe rest, but we will do it well for
PANTS, PRICES 75 CTS.
$2 50.
ures that made it appear that his
nredecessora had failed to account i Aaatern nnnntipa
-ii. t.: - . - - - i .
nave co-operaiea wun me iemo- for moneyYcoming Into their hands
crats but were rejected. He said and Baid he believed the Democratic
the Populists don't like toco- campaign funds, had been taken out
operate with the Kepublicans. No of the Secretary of State's office,
body likes to co-operate, but, said xho impressions Dr. Thompson
he, we have to fuse with the Dem- n8re thed to make were terrible in
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Mr. J G Heilig, of Salisbury, is
spending today here.
-Capt. A Thies arrived here last
ocrats or the Republicans. He thair nature, and if not disoroven night from Haile Gold Mine, S. C.
claimed the Democrats were gold WOuld make every honest Democrat Editor Dan Bivins, of the
bugs and the Populists had no hang his head in shame and seek Stanly Enterprise, is in our city to
body to co-operate with but gold- some decent party. day or business
uuy, auuiiLuug mat xi, juoi uu. u ne uiaimcu iuuuu iur iuc ouuxicwj Atlorney q Means returned
co-operaxe wim some partj. or ine preseni aaminieiraiiuu auu
He charged that the Democrats much against the intemperance of
were directed and bossed by A B preceding ones. '"
Andrews yet it was mean of us He defended the penitentiary af
not to fuse with them. He said fairs and said it never had been
"We offered to fuse on Democratic self -sustaining. Democratic papers
professions, we fight them now on don't publish the report, said be,
their actions, which show their hich is as good as any report from
insincerity." the penitentiary.
The doctor made an effort at a Mr. Ay cock cook up me anairs oi
Capt. Coke and Capt. Cooke, the
doctor's predecessors and showed
that settlements had been made m
We have everything in Oif adz
TO $00. except your feet.
OPENED YESTERDAY
ANOTHER NEW LOT OF
NECKWEAR, THE VERY
LATEST NOVELTIES.
IMMENSE Ql'jiNTI
TIES NEW GOODS AR
Rl VING DAILY ON DRY
1 - S T ci n T -r ry -- nrt n -r-t -m r
BER WE GIVE YOUR
MONEY BACK IF YOU
WANT IT-
home from a northern trip last
night.
Mrs. S E White came in from
Fort Mills, S. C., last night to visit
her father, Eeq.R W Allison who is
in bad health.
Cannon & Fetzer
Company,
An ounce of satisfaction is worth
a ton ot talK. catisfaction goec
with every pair of shoes 'we sell.
Respectfully,
Dry Miller,
. Shoe Furnishers.
reply about legislative expendi
tures but we could not catch it.
We do not know whether he be-
A FRESH LOT OF
- . , n- ffood faith and in intesritv. show-
muddiea it on purpose or noc. ner - , , , L "
, , , ji-i. . mg a cheok endorsed by Dr. Thomp-
J 4- j if WS V II ' W A w A w
creased in the years of Demo
cratic lule but he failed complete
ly to show where economy or re
duction of salaries were made to
conform to 5 cent cotton and 40
ancy
son that accounted for amounts t" at
Dr. Thompson insinuated were unD
accounted for . This was a stunner
for Thompson,
He replied on the subject of tem
perance, citing instances like Judas
likes
AT-
He tried to excuse the expend!-
GR0CER5
tures of the legislature on the too it could be 8aid that they were
ground that the appropriations 8ober men. He here poured into
were made on the recommenda- the doctor return measure of sar
tions of Democratic heads of the cagmj By'mg it was necessary for
institutions. He said Jim Young the doctor to keep sober to hobnob
did make a kind of general inspec- with the gold-bug Republicans, while
tion, he for the colored and Prof, professing to be more anxious for
Meservft for the white, and that
Snnt "Raxr AA not nnmnlain. ?ri 0 .Qoof;rt waw fof Judge Kobt. Paine Dick, LL D.,
Democratic Montague appointed delighted the men of his side taunted ex-Judge of the United btates
Jim as inspector, he said. Mr. Aycock with holding on to a District court, died at his home in
The outrageous negro domina- public office under Mcfcnlev worth Greensboro Monday night, the
tion in the east was all iustified or about $6,000 per vear . This Mr. u
tf i ,.r ,
JUDGE DICK DEAD.
A. Noted Jurist Snccnmbs to Brlgrht's
Disease at His Home in Greensboro.'
atoned for by Mr. Thompson, Aycock said was absolutely false,
with some instances where Demo- He resigned the office under Presi
crats had appointed some negroes dent Cleveland to take an active
to certain positions. Lee S Over- part in politics, advocating free
man, he said, appointed a negro coinage, and that the office was made
member of the legislature to in- a salaried office instead of a fee
spect asylums. He said tnat a ne- office, and that he consented to a
gro has been Register ot Deeds in W00 salary, assuring the govern
Warren county for 20 years bond- mentthat $4,000 was ample p.y.
ed by Democrats. Here againhe He asked Mr. Thompson what he
asked thft bvnnori'HVoi nA u haU aone or cam iavormg less man
J f VA VUg
Democrats to fupe with the'Popu
lifits if tnev were afraid of negro
domination.
He answered Mr. Aycock that
Lloyd would not betaken down
and if the Democrats put up a
$6,000 for the Secretary of State;
Mr. Aycock closed with an elo
quent appeal to the patriotism and
the dignity of the race to restore the
State again to its better days.
Dr. Thompson came on the stage
The Judge, it will be remem
bered, was led to resign his office
last spring on account of that fatal
malady, Brieht's disease, against
which his powers fought to be over
come, as above stated. The end
came peacetully amid the circle
of loved ones.
The Judge possessed attain
ments that may well be the envy
and the emulation or succeeding
generations.
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