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Page Ten THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Vaas, Ilorth Carolina. Friday, November 2, 1928 Strathers Burt S«es Opportunity KnocloBg at Door of Democracy (Continued from Page 6) President of the United States while Governor Smith lacks all these quali fications? Mr. Hoover has never held . nolitical position in his life. HeU utterly an untried quantity. For ^ years Gov'ernor Smith has been on the Llitical iiring-Iine in a principality of ten million people and for eight years he has governed this principality. Many of the greatest Presidents we have had received their political train ing as Governors of States; to men tion three of them, two of them Gov ernors of New York, Cleveland. Roosevelt and Wilson. What also of Governor Smith’s political associates, the men so utterly alien to Mr. Pag^ and myself, and who warped so terri bly Governor Smith's character? Has Mr. Page this fierce contempt for Franklin Roosevelt, Frank Polk, Van derbilt Webb, and so on, and so on? Democracy’s Opportunity. It is a difficult thing to leave a party under any circumstances when your family has been closely identified with that party. I know of what I am speaking for I have left my party. But I can tell Mr. Pag« that, in my opinion, it is a tragic thing to leave a party when, for the first time in eight years, that party achieves once more courageous and progressive lead ership; when it bids fair, unless de feated by those who should be its friends, to become for years the great and dominant and progressive party of the nation. Hundreds of thousands of progressive Republicans are now in the ranks of the Democratic Party working with all their hearts for this man who is not “our kind.” If the Democrats keep their heads most of these Republicans will never renounce their present allegiance, they will be* come in name as well as in reality Democrats. With their aid the Dem ocratic Party will assume a position it has not had since the Civil War. It will cease to be a minority party winning, here and there, an election by chance, and will, instead, become the majority party, remaining such so long as it dees not become stupid, cor rupt and arrogant as now its oppon ent has become On the whole, these Republicans are the flower of their party, in four years’ time there will be thousands more of them. And what has brought them over? Why, the courage, the personality and the leadership of this man who is not “our kind.” I don’t know who the ‘distinguished leaders of the Democratic Party” are who told Mr. Page that nobody in North Carolina liked Governor Smith, that nobody believed that he was fit to be President, but that none the less, now that he was the candidate of the Democratic Party, all good Dem- Confessions of a Maine Republican S. B. Richardson “Declairs” for Hoover, Seawell and U. L. Spence. To the Editor of The Pilot: In order that there may be no mis understanding and to avoid any pos sibility of being accused of having “flopped” or having fallen victim to the “personality” of a certain gentle man from the sidewalks of New York, who seems to have ambitions to occupy the White House, I wish to state em phatically that on the sixth day of November I shall cast my ballot for Hon. Herbert Hoover for President of the United States and Herbert Sea- well for Governor of North Carolina. In arriving at this conclusion I have not been influenced by the fact that I was born in Maine or that my ocrats ought to vote for him, but I grandfather was a Republican, but agree with Mr. Page that when they said that they were talking nonsense, only they were talking just twice as much nonsense as Mr. Page imagined. Of course no intelligent man should vote for a bad man simply because that these two gentlemen are better qualified to fill the high offices of President and Governor tha nthe op posing candidates. My purpose in indulging in the above prelude is two-fold; first to he happens to be the candidate of his state my position and second, to party, but in this case no Democrat is in that position. Instead of show ing their ignorance and narrow-mind edness these “distinguished leaders” strengthen my position in what is to follow. These are serious times, times when every god citizen should give his best ought to be down on their knees and exercise his best judgment; party thanking Fate that, after eight years, the name Democrat, because of “the experience, training, knowledge and acumen” of its present leader, his fighting qualities and his courage, has become once more a name to be feared and respected. And finally, let me add a word for the present Democratic administration of the State of North Carolina: I am not a citizen of North Carolina, al though I am a property owner and winter resident, I can assure all North Carolinians, however, that their State has an enviable reputation for honesty and efficiency in State poli tics. As an interested observer it would seem to me a dangerous experi ment and a piece of ingratitude to dismiss from office the party and the men who have served you so well. STRUTHERS BURT. Southern Pines, N. C. October SO, 1928. Wet or Dry the Paramount Issue Rev. Mr. Tuck Says Americans Are Neither Slaves Nor •» enemy and the devil’s best friend.** Are you? EDW. A. TUCK. Southern Pines, N. C. October 30, 1928. prejudice should pve way to common sense. After all is said and done what we really want is the man who will serve us best. Rarely, if ever, has Moore County had the opportunity of securing the services of so able a gentleman to represent its citizens in the General Assembly as we have at this time in the person of Hon. Union L. Spence, Democratic candidate for Represen tative. Mr. Spence is a gentleman of un usual ability, especially qualified to serve in this capacity, entirely fa miliar with the needs of Moore Coun ty and the State and to whose public record we can point with pride. Great confidence should be estab lished in the motives of this good cit izen when we consider that his elec tion to this office will mean great fi nancial loss and sacrifice to his pro fession. I urgently request that all good cit izens of Moore County shall go to the polls next Tuesday with the firm de termination to elect the Hon. Union L. Spence, Democratic nominee for Rep resentative to the General Assembly S. B. RICHARDSON. To the Editor of The Pilot: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” teaches that political action is a religious obligation. A man’s religion should affect his po litical action just as it should affect .his domestic, his social and his com mercial actions. The liquor traffic is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best friend. The liquor business had become entrench ed in the government and had be come its greatest menace. It manu factured paupers, made men criminals and corrupted the very springs of government, and murdered presidents. *0 On January 16, 1920 the nation abolished the license system, which was “a sin against God and a crime against man” and adopted the prohi bition of the sale, manufacture and importation and transportation of in toxicating liquors for beverage pur poses. This was the greatest moral adventure ever undertaken by any government on earth. “The motive was noble.’* it was “to promote the gen eral welfare and to secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.” L Crime Reduced. On that morning the United States by the greatest majority behind any line in the constitution outlawed the liquor business. It was not put over on the people but it was put over by ■tha people. As a result of partial en forcement, crime has ben reduced 38 per cent, there are fewer paupers in the nation today than for twenty years, $2,500,000 have gone into legi timate business every year instead of being wasted over the bar for poison, and the procession of 100,000 men marching into drunkards* graves an nually has been arrested. It is a very significant fact that the sale of children’s shoes has increased 400 per cent annually since the adoption of prohibition. Last year the Federal Courts con victed 36,548 liquor dealers for vio lating the law who paid over $4,000,- 000 in fines, besides being jailed. Some people say it cannot be enforced. If we can enforce it, and dare not, we are cowards. If we would enforce it, and cannot, we are slaves. I do not believe that the American people are either cowards or slaves. The con test next Tuesday is not a contest be tween Democrats and Republicar.s, but between the “Wets” and the “Drys.” This is the paramount issue and I am going to put my belief into my ballot for God and home and na tive land, and against “God’s worst O Every purchaser of a new Ford is entitled to Free Inspection Service for the first 1500 miles ^QBSBSBSS •Ot CO The ^modern aatonobile is a finely built piece of ma chinery and it will iland a lot of abuse. Gmsidering the work it does, it gives sur prisingly little trouble. But there isn’t a car made that will not run better and longer if given proper care. 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Ford Motor Company Committee Democratic Friends:- Political Advertising Political Advertising Political Advertising a A Statement from the Democratic Precinct It « In this country we have party government. The Democratic Party aims to serve all the people. Its purpose in government is to give expression to the will of the people. When Democrats are in power every man and every woman has a voice in the government. It is not always possible for all the people to speak directly for themselves but they always can speak through their Party Precinct Commit tee. There are eighty-five Democratic Pre cinct Committee men and women in Moore County, five to every precinct. We, the Pre cinct Committeemen, have been selected by the Democratic voters of this county to act as your Precinct Committee. We offer our time and our energies to the Democrats of this county to see to it that their opinions and wishes are heard and respected by all Demo cratic officers. We believe that every man, woman and child in this County will have a better chance if we elect a Democrat for President, and Democrats for all State and County offices. We, therefore, most respect fully and most earnestly recommend to our neighbors and friends to vote in this election for Democrats from President to Constable. We ask you to co-operate with us and our poll workers on November the 6th to get every Democrat to the polls. We will cheer fully do all in our power to get our voters to the polls and back home, and will render any assistance we can to any who have not had previous experience in voting. We assure you that you will receive kind, polite and courte ous treatment by this Committee and our poll workers. After the election is over, we ask that you continue to co-operate with us to the end that those whom we elect may know and carry out our wishes. We have every reason to believe that our candidates will carry out your wishes if they know them. Yours for Democratic Victory, Democratic Precinct Committe of Moore County :: n n I H XI tt tt
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