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*iday, October 12, 1928. THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Yass, Noith Carolina. Page Five. Ralph W. Page Urges Support of Herbert Hoover and H. F. Seawell Men, Not Parties the Issue, He Savs in Letter to Pilot. r the Editor of The Pilot: Twice the people of this part of the * untry have unanimously endorsed a .'Tizen of Moore County for the posi- ;■ -n of Federal Judge. In both cases zne ability and character of their andidate was so outstanding and uni- risally recognized, that the most rrominent of our Democratic leaders and partisans vied with each other in ;:nqualified and enthusiastic effort to ]ace him on the bench. Both time we—all of us—were working for Her- . ert F. Seawell. So was I. So was fvtryone else. Such efforts as these represent i rout all the elation and satisfaction courageous, free-minded, independ ent American citizen gets out of pol- I make bold to write all this because Mr. Seawell is again a candi date before the people. It is a signal * vnor to the county, our neighbor- rood, and a credit to the good sense :f the Republican party, that at this critical period they have selected our neighbor for this difficult public duty. Personally we know him. He is our friend, he has for years been our counsellor and advisor. We know in timately his worth and his ability and we are proud of him, and fond of him. In God’s name then are we not to vote for him? Are we, his friends and neighbors of Moore County, to overlook the capacity we have here at home, and, discarding confidence and pride in our own and al friendly feel- to be told we have to vote for someone else? The Man, Not the Party. Democrat or no Democrat, Mug wump, Prohibitionist, or Ku Klux, I’d vote for my own that I knew to be true and tried, if all the politicians in the universe were to bawl me out at the same time. I wanted to say that I feel very strongly, and a very great many of my neighbors feel, that this county should give its loyal support to Herbert Seawell, the man, rather than any party war cry whatever. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s chances by appearing to have ideas of my own at a time when it appears to be scandalous to think at all. But since I’m at it I may as well add the reasons why one member of an old Democratic family is going to vote for both Seawell and Herbert Hoover. ♦4 :: The Nid South Resort Community —is a good place to own a winter home, or an all year round home. I have for sale for $500 cash and balance of $3500 on long terms a new six-room-and- bath home, modern in every respect and in a very good residential district. D. D. s. CAMERON Rentals, Real Estate and Insurance Southern Pines, North Carolina. Agent for Knollwood Heights, Midlands, Southern Pines Country Club, Pine Ridge and Piney Woods. H H The New York Style Shop Announces the arrival of The New Fall Merchandise including The Latest File Crepe and Chiifon Velvet Trimmed Dresses The New Winter Felt Hats Lingerie—Hosiery I The New York Style I Shop 1 East Broad St. Southern Pines. a H mm It so happens that Hoover is inti mately and personally known to h great many of the most capable men in the State. As Food Administrator under Woodrow Wilson, he worked in daily contact with the best men we had. To tell them, or anyone that knows him, the ordinary set of cam paign innuendoes—such as Mr. Dan iels’ favorite sly crack about how he is somehow mixed up in stealing oil —is nothing short of an insult, and in anything but the great American bunco game of politics, would be so acted upon. We need no ballyhoo; we know Hoover to be the very best type of American executive. We per sonally know that he has the exper ience and training and knowledge, in terest and acumen, to do this job. ^ Very well, are we to be hullabalooed out of this absolute information by talk about preachers, or bigotry, or drink or Thomas Jefferson or whisper ing campaigns or forgotten wrongs of ^ bygone era? Not me, anyway. I suppose I have as much right as any man to call myself a Democrat. There have been as many warriors in my family tree in the Democratic lists in famous old battles as in most. Then why do I desert the celebrated old wigwam ? Why not stick through thick and thin, mostly very thin, right or wrong, sense or nonsense? Mr. Smith’s Nomination. Here is what I am told by two dis tinguished leaders of the Democratic party, no longer ago than last Monday at the celebrated courthouse in the j city of Carthage. Words to this ef- I feet. We didn’t like Al Smith for j President. Nobody in North Carolina liked him. We didn’t believe he was ; H j fit to be President. We don’t want to be ruled by that sort of man. He has just exactly nothing in common with the old party we lived and died for, neither in inheritance, training, be liefs, association, appearance, or ex- I perience has he any common princi ple with the old stock American plant ers and soldiers and statesmen of the Jefferson, Randolph, Calhoun, Davis school, that constitute what we mean by a Democrat. But, bad as he is, he’s nominated, and so you must now forget, or pre tend you never knew, how different and unsatisfactory he is, and vote for him anyway, because we’ve pinned a badge on him. This changes his na ture. That’s no reason to vote for any body. My idea is that we should vote for a man because of what he is, not what he is called. Personally I think Al is a very able as well as enter taining Tammany politician. I don’t | hate clever and capable Tammany pol- j iticians. But many do. Personally | I wouldn’t care a cent if he was a j HOLY ROLLER, if he could do his j job. But neither can I possibly fool myself into thinking he has any con nection with the old South, or the new South, or any single one of the ideas and ideals we used to cling to under the name of Democracy.” He may be. I really think he is a good executive. But so is Mussolini and so was Li Hung Chang, the Chinaman. I wouldn’t want either one ruling over me. We want to be governed by our kind. Al Smith is not our kind. His whole life has been spent, moulded and influenced by a people and ideas utterly foreign to us. East side New York people, good people, but are not our people—Irish, Italians, Argen tines, Assyrians and Greeks, the great melting pot of Southern Europe. Many of these are splendid people. But even so I do not want them to govern me. Neither them nor their influence. Perhaps this is bigoted, perhaps provincial. But anyway it’s my right. On one statement alone I would condemn Al Smith as leader of my people. He wants to lift the bars and let in another flood of aliens, the people who constitute the only con stituency he has ever had. Freedom of Thought. The vital thing in every man is that he should think and act for himself. The distinction between an American as conceived by such men as Lee, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Aycock and a German soldier is, simply, that one is free to think and is able to think and the other obeys orders. The vital thing for the country is that from among our number, from among our friends and acquaintances we select the best to conduct our pub- j lie business for us. And anyone that I trys to herd people to the support of I any unfit man, no matter what Totem Pole or Party purpose is served, is an enemy of his country. And anyone that would compel free American cit-1 izens to abandon their minds to even j so unanimous and brillant a commit tee as that assembled recently at Houston, is undertaking to destroy the Republic. The day we are lined up like convicts, and are marched to the polls to vote in unison, the coun try will be handed over, bag and bag gage, to the politicians, and won’t be worth saving. RALPH W. PAGE. Aberdeen, N. 0. October 11th, 1928. BUILDING BOOM CONTINUES TO BREAK RECORDS HERE. (Continued from Page 1) chased. | tank which is to supply the village in A new building is going up in the very near future. Aberdeen for the use of the telephone | At Cameron dumg the past ye» company, and another large building! several new homes of the e*' is projected, announcement of which! styles in architecture have sprung up will be made later, it is said. Build-1 during the past year, and others a.r8 Talking Machine president, is plan ning the erection of a hunting lodge on the old Buchan plantation south | ing in Vass has been confined to the j in prospect in this thriving commun of Aberdeen, which he recently pur-1 construction of the huge new water ity. 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