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J'' ' - - r ' j. r v-v '.V - l It.4-', , V ' v - - '-r " - ' V if rt . . - NOELL BROS., Proprietors. HOME FIRST: ABROAD WEXT. 0 1 .00 Per Year in Advance. Vol. XV. E0XB0E0, N0RTH i0i.R0LIN;I; Wednesd EvKNiNG-September 28i l898v NoV 39. HON. W. W. KITCHIN DELIVERS A STRONG AND IM PASSIONED ADDRESS -AT MT. TIRZAH. SIiowb IJp Judge Adams' Record Will Populists Allow Themselves to Be Sold Out? Strong Plea For White Supremacy. Hon. W. W. Kitchm candidate for CoDgreS3, on Monday spoke for nearly two hours to a lare crowd at Mt. Tirzah. His spe?ch was recieved with marked attention nl deep interest. After showing how the promised prosperity had failed to come, how cotton is to day more than $12.00 a bale less than .when McKmley was elected, and wheat 27 nents less per bushel than when he was inaugurat ed, and how extravagance had mark ed the career of the Eepublican party, he gave an account of his stew ardship and advocated Democratic success. Among other things he said: Mv first vote was for Bailev for V 90 speaker always a strong silver man who in 1893 voted with Bland and Bryan against the unconditional re peal ot tnefcnerman Law. JNo man attacks my record. It accords with our platform and mv declarations to the people. Against a large republi can majority I have advocated the right aud protested against the wrong. For you I cast the vote of this District against the Dingley Bill which added millions of profits to the Eepublican trust manufacturers who largely contributed to Mark Hanna's campaign fund, without chanerins: the tariff upon the cotton goods of the South. I voted for the Teller Kesolution declaring our bonds payable in silver as well as gold, while 180 Eepubli- cans voted against it. Only one Ee , publican voted for it and he declar ed that he was opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. I voted and spoke against the Internal Eevenue fraud fund, which the Eepublicans increased to $75000. Without power to check or influ ence Eepublicans, the Democrats and Populists sustained them against a foreign power in responding to the President's war message. I voted and spoke against the war tax bill with its vexatious stamp taxes, in creased tobacco tax, and bonds every Eepublican present at its final passage voted in favor of these taxes and in favor of the bonds. I never east a vote pon any question except in accordance with my best judg ment and conscience. This is known to every intelligent man who is informed upon my rec- ord, believed by every honest one, and doubted by demagogues alone. The Populists helped elect me be fore. My record entitles me to their uhaminous support this year. Many ol them tell me they will again sup port me against my McKinleyite op ponent. If the people of the Populist party express themselves my record will be endorsed; but a trade has been made and I warn you that there is a probality of my opponent's name being put on the Populist ticket contrary to the wishes of the Populist people. No Populist free from prejudice can vote for my opponent. I have invited my opponent to : all my appoint ments. On Sept. 5th, I asked for a joint campaign, in Eoxboro Saturday he refused to divide time with me. Did he desire to avoid charges against his party which cannot be answered? Did he wish to make charges which can be answered? He made them. Do Populists on one handjthink he is with them for silver and against trusts and for white supremacy? Do Republican campaign contri butors on the other hand think he is with them?. Do administration Eepublicans think he approves McKinley, - and Gage and his National and State platforms?" If for silver he should denounce them all. He is the nominee of the only or- dorsed the single gold ' standard, of the only party whose Secretary of the Treasury ever proposed to com mit our Country more thoroughly to the gold standard. If he should be elected his first would be for single - standard Eeed for speaker, against a silver man. Two years hence be will vote for McKinley against Bryan as he did two years ago. Should the next Presidental election be thrown in the House and he hold the decisive yote he would vote for McKinley. He is not superior to Linney and Pearson who voted with their Eepublican as sociates on all administration meas ures. If elected will he not vote just as would the distinguished and able Eepublican whom the Eevenue powers helped him defeat for the nomination? In his two hours speech Saturday he never declared his position 'upon these important matters;. He was once an Internal Eevenue officer. For years he has been the most prominent Eepublican in Cas well county, having been clerk cf the court several terms. Twelve years ago the Eepublicans of aswell elected him clerk and on his ticket they elected a negro to the Legislature. Ten and six years ago they elected a negro to the Legislat ure. Four vears ago ' thev elected him clerk and on his ticket they elected a negro to the Legislature. Two years ago they elected a negro County Commissioner m his County and several Jnstice of Peace. These facts show his position upon the great State issues over which our people are struggling. For these and otner reasons I contend, no Populist who is free who owns his vote and loves his country, wants to vote for my opponent. If he should vote with the Popu lists in Congress, Eepublicans would despise him. But he will vote with his Eepublican associates. Intelligent patriots know this and such Popu lists do not desire to and will not vote for him, but will repudiate the trade which they never authorized and to which thev will never con- sent. My Populist friend, if the Eepub licans should offer you $5.00 for yonr vote you would be insulted. You would not trade your vote "for cash. Is trading your vote for office for vourself or another better? Is it better when yonr committee trades it for many offices? A ballot should be free intelligent and patriotic. A bought or traded ballot whether for monev or office bv. Potmlists or j ,,- - their committee for a party 'or an in dividual whose political life is avowed hostility to the voter's convictions is wrong. ; . i If . - -: i . The fact Jbat elsewhere Republi cans are traded vto Populists does not affect it. Two wrongs does make one right. - not Where men agree in principle thev should vote together in spite of the wrongs or errors of others. You had the manhood to leave us when you thought our party was going astray. Can you not - exert that manhood again and repudiate the deal by which - your votes are transferred to the Eepublican party, with its trusts, single standard doc trines and.negroism. with its nation al administration filled with wrong and oppression and its state adminis tration marked with scandal incom petency and corruption? ; -' My friends, you know that with Gov. Doughton and Mr. Daniels, I struggled at our State Convention to have a counter proposition offered to the Populists, but the Convention was against it. From all that sec tion where Populists had always helped the Eepublicans, in many in. stances permitting numerous negro officials, the Democracy was practi cally a unit against cooperation. Our platform is the strongest silver platform ever adopted in this State, and our entire organization is com mitted to it. The assertion that our Convention was dominated by gold bugs and Southern Eailroad attorneys is a gratuitous misrepresentation. Eliminate every delegate suspected of such views, and then our conven tion was overwhelmingly against co operation. No man who has made or circulated that assertion can name one tenth of the delegates to that convention who were single standard or railroad men. We have been criti cized for hot bolting. It never oc curred to ns to bolt. That conven tion represented four-fifths of the silver anti-trust, income tax, white supremacv men of North Carolina. x. a. Had a. bolt occured the Eepublican party would have carried this State and set its deadly fangs into our beloved commonwealth for the next twenty years, injecting its poisonous doctrines into the government of our children. In my opinion no man wr understanding the facts can condemn us for not dividing the Democratic forces unless Ue is a Eepublican at heart. Patriot! when will you quit helping the Eepublican party? WilL it be worse next year and disgust you? Can the Democracy have purer principles hereafter? Will there ever be greater necessity for white men voting , together? Will you eyer receive a gladder welcome? Will the lines between honesty and corruption, between respect and shame,, between right and wrong be ever more sharply defined? Will the women and children of the State ever send out a greater cry of distress? Shall you again be the instrument by which Eepublicans shall succeed? Shall you lay aside your nobler impulses and yielding to prejudice put the happiness and prosperity of your selves and your children under the curse of? .Radicalism? I have no abuse for, the negro. The ordinary negro prefers white officials. Even the negro politician' who stirs up his race for the Republican party against us is not to be condemned as much as those few white Republicans who for personal gain ? encourage,, him. Forty negro Justices of the Peace in" New Hanover: County, 26 m Graven, 31 in Edgecombe, 15 in Bertie, 16 in Granville, 7 in Caswell and others throughout eastern yarouna.' egro Deputy Sheriffs, vCoxsstables, Regia- ter of Deeds, County Commissioners members of Boards of Education and school Committees to supervise white sohools, Postmasters,, Legislators, Town Commissioners and Policemen too numerousto mention. The col ored man and white ' Republican first drew the color line. For twenty-five years they have not divided. . . Only an occasional honest and intelligent and courageous negro has voted against the Republican, party, and received the criticism and ostracism of his fellows. At any 1 election for the past twenty-five years had a negro held aloft a Democratic ticket at thi4 precinct and announced his in tention to vote it, except for the presence of white people, he would have been abused and driven from the polls by the worst element of the negroes, approved' by the worst element of the white Republicans, : By pressure they have , urged- the negro to vote Republican' because he is black. We recognize this fact and face the issue. If they" can appeal to the negro to yote Republican because he is black, can we not' ap peal to the Anglo-Saxon to vote Democratic because he is ; white? Many white Republicans realizing that their party is not what it once was will vote with us and rebuke present conditions, for they have the same spirit that fills us, we have no abuse for them, we have a common cause and a common country, my friends. Let us lay aside, "every sin that doth so easily beset us," and come together in thia campaiga a& ihon of different parses go together in the jury box in order to find the truth and act upon it. Two years ago, Major Guthrie the noblest Roman ever - holding v their commission was condemned' by ' some Populists because he antagonized Eepublican candidates. Hon. W.ji'. Stro wd whose pure and patriotic I public service showed that his sword was not at the command of, Bepublb cans, in deference to Eepublican in fluence ha3 been defeated in conven tion, Hon. A. C. Shuford's Congress ional record forbade his final capture by Eepublicans, and their influeuce defeated him in convention. , Eepublicans will not build up the influence of a man unless he; is pledged against Democracy. As all roads led to Eome, so all Eepublican cotracts lead to the Eepublican party. You can not follow them in safety, conscience demands that you avoid them. - Can you advocate the people's in terest and . serve thri ..trusts? Can vou favor true nnnciDles and serve y - x . x. the enemy's leaders. "No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one ana love the otner; or else he will hold to the one and de spise the other." ' My Populist friend, You hold the balance of power, "and on you rests as great responsibility as voters ever have. Shall ; prejudice or y p triotism guide you? Shall you build up or only destroy? Shall conscience keep you or shall ; hate lead you? Shall Populist leaders who hold their position by yirtue of Eepubli can votes in the last": campaign and whose f ature depends r Don Republi cans compel you to a course of error, ''and force you to s bow the knee ; to Baal?" Remember that like Demet rius who made shrines ' for .Diana and opposed'Paul, it is by such craft they have their living. Shall . you turn, a "deaf l ear . to the j whispering T0?ce ot truth end riht and bo ca Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicloas. Absolutely Puro ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. ried away by a storm of abuse and disappointment? As you see your self by your executive 'committees bound to Republicans year afrer yearV you may exclaim in the language of tne apostle, "who shall" deliver;, me . from the body of this death?" Your -own manhood and mind must " break I the ties that bind. Like" sleeping Sampson bound with new cordc, , your locks have not been Shorn. You hear the cry, 'The Pbillistin'e3 are upon you." Let the . spirit of right kindled by the lov,e of country arouse your , sleeping energies,, and the new cords with which you; are : bound will fall from yourarms "and again you will bear aloft the banner, . of principle and patriotism V above party and prej ndice. , F . 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' ' - lhe xadies can do a great 'deal, to help the Fair, and I , am sure they will do so, there are many things to be found in' the Premium List which they can send to the Fain ' I am certain that there v are old relics, such as ; guns, ; swords, fifes, arnmSj'useain tne itevolution, Blex- ican and Civil War, which the old soldiers. have and can sendtov the Fair. ' . ' " , 1 5 - Indian relics of all kinds. Thcca things are very .interesting to ths thousandp of people who will attend the Fair. r r- -: Yours Truly, , ; ' HE. Thayer. Bucklen's Arnica Salve.'1 v . - The Best SAlte in the worla for Cut, , Bruges, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapp ed Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and nil Skin eruptions; and positively cure: Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to give perfect satisfaction cr money refunded.' Price, 25 cents p:r bottle For sale by J. De Morris. Umbrellas Repaired; , ; I am prepared to repair old nn qrellas on short notice and at reaccn ableprice3. 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