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SOLID
VOTE FOR HIM
FOR U. $. SENATE
Otr PRIMARY DAY
Saturday, May 27
WILKES IS OVERWHELMINGLY FOR HOEY FOR THE U. S. SENATE, BUT YOUR VOTE AND
YOUR ACTIVE SUPPORT IS NEEDED TO MAKE WILKES COUNTY SOLID FOR HIM!
BE SURE TO ATTEND THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY SATURDAY, MAY 27, IN YOUR
PRECINCT AND VOTE FOR HOEY. HE^
Honest - Able - Sane - Progressive
A Vote For Hoey Is a Vote For the Best Interests Of All the People of Wilkes County... North Carolina... and the United States
A Worthy Tribute to Ex-Governor Hoey By J. Gordon Hackett
Following is the introductory address de
livered by J. Gordon Hackett, pioneer Wilkes
citizen, when Governor Hoey addressed a vast
throng of people who had gathered in North
Wilkesboro on July 4, 1940, to celebrate the
city’s fiftieth anniversary:
“I come to perform the high duty which has
been assigned to me and undertake it with
pleasure and unqualified pride. It is eminent
ly appropriate that the gentleman who has
been chosen should address you. The com
mittee could not have selected a more fitting
speaker. He is a true, genuine, thorough North
Carolinian, bom, educated and has lived here
all his life—a representative of our character
and sentiments, of our habits and the customs
of our people. He is able, learned, and wise.
There is nothing false iy his nature; he is af
fectionate, devoted, and grateful. He loves
his country, his friends, his home; he never for
gets there is a God who niles the world with
justice and mercy. He is endowed with the
destiny to do good and make happiness. He is
gifted with the eloquence to vindicate the
truth which he loves; he is inspired with the
courage to defend the right to which he is de
voted. He is blessed with all the qualities and
faculties which constitute a Christian states
man. He is a fearless defender of public edu
cation, because he knows that intelligence is
the support of liberty. He is a manly example
of public and private morality, because he
knows that virtue is the shield, health and or
nament of a free people. He loves labor, be
cause he has learned that work—labor—is the
foundation and necessity, the first law of hu
man happiness and prosperity. He approves
all public improvements because he desires
improvement and elevation of the State and
wishes all its resources developed as a field
for the energy of her people and an opportu
nity for their genius, talents and efforts. He
is confronted by the dark problems of the day,
and has determined to face them with courage,
intelligence, and justice. He loves the people
and cannot do enough for them and is always
trying to do something more. His simplicity
—without arrogance, vanity, deceit, or osten
tation—^is the charm and excellence of his life.
He prefers the plain, simple home, the home
of the pioneer and the patriot; the home of
purity, of industry, of frugality, of Christian
life, to the palaces of a prince. He can never
forget that liberty perished in the palaces of
Caesar and that the vestal fires of the virgins
themselves were lost and obliterated in the
splendor of Rome His heart, his life and soul
are devotedly dedicated to North Carolina,
but his heart is large enough and his mind
great enough to comprehend in its grasp the
whole Union, from ocean to ocean, from the
Arctic circle to the Equator. He is a worthy
countryman of Washington, Jefferson, Jack-
son, Macon, Vance and Aycock. He wishes
the country to love Noi*th Carolina and North
Carolina to love the country, and rejoices with
patriotic eyes to behold the star of North Car
olina, unerased and unobscured, blazing on
. the Star Spangled Banner of sister states and
a perpetual constitutional Union. His daily
prayer is that all disputes and discords be
tween the people of the United States may
perish from the earth, that we may be one peo
ple, with one mind, with one fixed pilose,
walking before God in the light of the living.
“I present to you the Honorable Clyde R.
Hoey, governor of North Carolina, your broth
er countryman.”
This Advertisement k Contributed to Ex-Govemor Hoey
By Friends Residing In Wilkes Goun^