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Xl-. No. 2709
CONOOIUVNs C. TOES DAY, OCTOBER 18 1898
Whole No 11799
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SIR
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Im, Courteous, -Dispassionate
But Intense
ly Earnest.
roiicbes Upon the Judiciary and
ko CP the Lesislative Branch or
e Government-He Exposes the
cklcss Extravagance and Blund
ins ol the Fusloiiists-ne Shows
aat Another Fusion Body CTonld
3 Helpless to Amend-White Men
f.Vorth Carolina Should Be a Unit
n One Thinar, White Supremacy.
kr. Wiley Bash, the Democratic
minee for solicitor in' this, the
nth district, spoka in the court
use' Morday night. It is his first
ae to be inCabarrns.and he is prac
jilly a lew man. He makes a
od impression.. He has a strong,
inly oice, his sentences ar clear
t, hh language chaste and force
il and hs whole bearing is digni
Id ?nd maniy. He Lai fiery ens
ausicism tqnai to the occasion while
fee from personal abos- and yitu
eruon .
The speaker said that he had tried
in vain to get a j i'nt canvass with
Mr. Hoi ton and hid even gone to
him where he was holding court and
plead for a j 3int diusion and then
failed. He had refrained from
making any charges until he notified
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Mr. Hqlton of them.
Hf fcrid astors-. the drift of which
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wes for the benefit of tboae who ob-
i
j to lawyers, that Air. Holton was
U least not a lawyer to hurt. He
believed in joint canvasses.
A man that will not join his oppo
hent in a joint canvass either has a
bad cause or is unable to defend
a good' one. He did not make the
charge himself bat had eard the
charft in RAV?raI nnnntipa that. Mr
Holton had nol prosed cases for po
liMcal purposes.
The speaker said that while he
could give a number of instances
showing the utter unfitness of fusion
nominations for the judiciary he
I would pass them over and dwell
more upon the legislature, which
was paramount to every feature in
tbia campaign. He desired Demo
cratic legislature above atKthings
and would gladly suffer defeat- him-
self if such were a condition to sue
cesi for the legislative ticket.
Hone3t voters were not to blame,
he said, for sending what they
thought were honest -men to the
fusion legislature but were to blame
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it they repeated the" mistake. The
fusionists have probably nominated
not more than one man in the whole
State that was in the last legislature
tot the same conditions and envirs
oilmen t8 exist that produced the
terrible results then and it will be
possible to rid the next of the
8ame evils if it be a fusion legisla
ture. It is a combination for office
r
a&d it will be impossible to restrain
it from office grabbing.
The fusionists clamored against
Democratic extravagance and prom
ised to lower taxes, salaries and of
fices. Instead they attempted to
raise the taxes but failed to observe
the proportion required by the con
8titution that the tax on the pol
GREAT I
hall be equal. to the tax on $300
worth of property and the Supreme
court had to annul the act and the
Democratic rate stands, bat to gat
money they taxed everything they
could lay hands on, including board
log houses and dead men, for when
a man dies a special tax is laid on
the estate.
ttetting taxes frcm all the sources
they could, they spent more vthan
$200,000 above the income for the
State, and in three years of fusion
rale the State government cost $283,s
000 more than auy three years of
Democratic rule ever cost in the his
tory of the State.
The last two legislatures, said he,
cost $14,000 more than any two
Democratic legislatures. Here are
some offthe wajs it was done.
Fifty members of the senate had
70 attendants, all drawing salaries
from the State treasury. He re
ferred to the Swinson affair and the
lock breaking in the enrolling clerk's
office all to get unneeded negro
clerks a place at the pie counter. At
one time the expenses in this one
department were $70 per day for
copying the bills passecf by the leg
islature when doubtless there are
young ladies in Concord who would
gladly copy the whole batch of bills
or $100.
This iusion legislature, he said,
reduced salaries by cutting a $2,000
salarary to $1,500 and creating
another at $1,000. Such is the way
salaries were reduced. He said that
Dr. D Reid Parker, of hia county,
was made State lecturer on farming
at $1,000 per year and expenses,
which made him cost the Stale about
$6.00 per day. when Dr. Parker
knows nothing practically about his
subject.
This fusion legislature, he said,
had passed twenty to thirty bills that
a Republican Supreme court found
to be either unconstitutional or non
sensical and had to be annulled.
He said that every Populist speech
would have it in it that they offered
to fuse with the Democrats and
were refused. He called attention
to the exactness with which they
demanded of Democrats to subscribe
to certain principles laid down to
them, but when we declined they
fused with the Republicans without
any such demands. The present is
clearly a fusion for office without
principle.
He said the fusionists were ridi
culing the negro question but it is
to draw attention away from their
extravagance or rascality, and so abs
surd are their shif tings to avoid
their own record that they even try
to make it appear that the Demo
nratio party is the negro party.
The lesson of reconstruction, he
said, had staid with the Democrats
a Ion time and he, the speaker, had
advised some years ago that the talk
of negro rule be laid aside, but he
found that just as soon as the fu
sionists got into power the negro got
into office over the whites. In every
land, said the speaker, where the
Anglo-Saxon carries freedom, civili
zation, intelligence and Christiany,
he is the acknowledged subject for
ruling; save in North Carolina.
. The speaker avowed that he be
lieved it not only better for society
in general but even for the colored
race themselves that the white race
should rule. He would have them
enjoy all the privileges of complete
citizenship but not to rule oyar their
superiors, the white race.
The cry of disfranchising negroes
and poor white men if the Demo,
crats get into power was heard in
1876. The Democrats were in power
20 years and there was no diafrans
chisement of anybody. (
The white men of North Caroline,
said the speaker, may differ on many
subjects but theie should be perfect
unity for white supremacy.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Mr. Robt. Sappen field jcame
over from Charlotte last night!,
Mr. A M Brown is spending
today in Salisbury.
Poft master Patterson returned
from Washington this morning,
after spending about two weeks.
Mr. ML Ritch, of Salisbury,
came down last night to visit rela
tives.
Mr. Chas. Craven wenV up to
Hik?h Point this morning on busi
ness. ' - V
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Master Bennett Miller, eon ot
Rev. C B Miller, came home this
morning from Sumner, where he
has been visiting his grandparents.
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Concord to Lose Mr. Jesse Hamilton.
It is bad news, and a source of
regret to all who know him, to
learn that Mr. Jeose Hamilton, who
for a long number of years has been
employed at Johnson's drug store,
will now leave us. It has been kept
a secret for some time, but he has
accepted a position as traveling
agent for Burwell & Dunn, of Char
lotte. It is to be deeply regretted
that Concord loses Jesse, as there is
not a more popular man in town,
and not one who has more friends.
He wears a smile for everybody. He
takes charge cf his new position at
once. At this - time1 he does not
know where his territory will be.
At present no one has been decided
upon to fill his vacancy here.
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