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SPEECH OFHON. LOCKE CRAIG To Randolph Democracy Septem ber 7th. Ur. hairman, Ladles and 6entle men: I wish to thank my friend for 'he words that he ha8 said about me to this andlenpe of Democrats, I will ay Democrat" because I suppose you are all Democrats; but if I ld known what kind of reputation JSd In this community, or if he i Correctly defined that refutation ITtLeve I would have stayed away, would not have come here. I shall never live long enough to discharge the obligation that I owe to my friends here In the good old OQunty of Randolph for the great Ad loyal endeavor that they made four years ago to make me he gov ernor of North Carolina-1 I shall over cherish It as one of my price less ppsession8; I "hall never live long ertough either to discharge the Obligation I owe to all Democrats, regardless of differences ol opinion, regard tes of all previous tests i hall never live long enough to dis charge the obligation under which I am to the Democratic party of Nortsj Carolina for a unanimous nominal sj for he exalted ornce or governor- i know that I am all unworthy of this great honor and I tremblee wihen I think of its great responsibilities, be cssuse while the governor of North Carolina i8 not clothed with some f the constitutional powers! that some of the governors of other com monwealths have, yet, nevertheless, he Is clothed with great and extra ordinary powers, for he cannot only recommend and criticise legislation to Geaeral Assemblies, but, repre senting as he doe8 all the people of great commonwealth, he can, back ed by the sentiment of the people and with the prestige of his great office, be a great! instrumentality for good and for the upbuilding of his state and for the development) of the people moraly, intellectually and Industrially .My friend8, I 8ay I almost trem ble when I am about to assume the responsibilities) of this! great posi tion, because I think, a8 Mr- Page aid, I am inclined to think from the present indications of the times that I will be elected, and elected perhaps by an unprecedented1 major ity; and if I shall be elected and Feturn to you four years from now, snless i have measured up In some degree to the responsibilities! of the nlace In which you have put me. unless I have done something for V d wlfaro nf the noonle that have trus1 A -ma nrxA tliat Vl9VA hnTlOPPd TUP. S I say when I shall return to you fo-.i ears from now, unless I shall have at least dene my duty and done all my duty, i too shall deserve the con flemnation that was visited upon the unfaithful servant that took hi8 tal ent and hid it in a napkin. Ton too, have delivered to me a great talent, and it is my obligation; it is mv necessity to Improve it- Yo'u have conferred upon me a great hon-i or- But no place In itself can be an opportunity for service; and thi8 plac i8 an honor to me in that It) is an opportunity for the privilege of great service to the state that f love and to the people among whom I was born; and unless I discharge the duties of that place and render that service in a manner that 8hall be approved by the Justice of the people of North Carolina, the place wllj be no honor, but a dishonor to me- There is much to be done by he "Governor of North Carolina and by all the people of North Carolina aided by the governor as the first official of the state. We have be hind us In North Carolina a great' grand heroic past, but our inherit ance i8 not all of the conquests, the achievements and the glories of the nast. but Our great inheritance is the responsibility and the opportun ity of the present this great) pres ent in- which we live, for the poet has truthfully said that we are the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time, and our Inheritance, ' I say, is the great opportunities: of this geart day in which we live North Carolina has always ac complished much, but I believe that she is In he morning of the day of her greatest achievement8. We rejoice in the prosperity of our cltie and towns, in the growth of ouri mra facturing and commercial enterprisesieapsiand as long as we are satis-i but North Carolina is essentially an jried to live in a land of unjust) law. agricultural state- We have two mill lion five hundred thousand people in this commonwealth, and 80 per cent of them live in the country Eighty per cent of the destiny of this commonwealth must be based upon the farms of North Carolina In the old days of the state the prin clpal part of the highest life of the commonwealth existed in the country- The old southern home wa8 a synonym of culture, of patriotism, - of noble men and women- I believe that the time is coming, it ought to come, when he southern country home again Bhould be the home of highest development and of finest Hfe - and finest opportunity The country boy and he country girl are not subject to the temptations of the town boy and the own girl, and ail the country people seed Is an equal opportunity or the opportunity for the development of that strudy manhood and womanhood that com pose the citizenship of North Caro lina; and one essential thing for the development of the country districts or North Carolina one! absolutely necessary thing for he development M the farm life of North Carolina, i the establishment and improve ment of our public highways - We cannot get along without 1. We rould pret along , without it la the diva that' have jrone, but wa can't r t alon without it now. Toti take ec 'ry toy H a ri "-te ylaca cf - 'i t . ' v. I C i ' c - tow he looks-; I have seen them, no in this county but la my county, the country boy, wih the roof of hi" hat knocked out and the top wipa of hair waving like the plume of Heryn of Nevarre one gallus on, some time no aallus on because ha haB uo use -for a gallu, nothing for 'he gallu8 to hold up, I have seen that boy from the country, and im planted within the. bo8om of that be is jast as high and noble an ambi tion as in the boy of better oppor tunities, the town boy. If you plea8. And when you place that boy la the remote and accessible place and pat him to driving an ox car along an old road of mud, covored with roots and "tone8, when he come8 to town and Bees the tows boy coming along, not drivng an ox cart but driving niaybe a great machine with the speed and with the power of 60 horses In its engine hears the town way, and he has o get out of the way. and he has toe et out of the way or be run over, I tell you X don't blame him for being dissati8- tied with his condition; you cannot earoect otherwise than for the tal ented young womanhood, with the most exalted ideal8 by nature and the most exalted a8pirtaions, you cannot expec otherwise than that they will be dissatisfied whn ex cluded from, participation in the great current of modern life and the great opportunities of our modern civilization- I will tell vou what. If you will carry a great improved highway U the homes of North Carolina you wil have a better citizenship; it will put music in the home; it will make four ears of corn grow on the stalk that used to support one ear- I heard a fellow say the other day that he had 20 acre8 of corn and that the sorriest stalk in his field had five ears on it- I thought that was a pretty big corn stalk, I don't know whether it wa8 "o or not; but I do know that no such crop of corn as that grew otherwsle than on a finely Improved public highway- I will tell you what, it will give lhat boy a new aspiration and a rrew am bition and a new satisfaction in hi8 home, nad a finer culture in his friends, in old days we did not know how to build public roads; we didn't care anything about it Did you ever read Mark Twain's description of the intelligence of the ant? You krow the ant will load u with provisions, a whole wagon load of provilona, two or three times as big as he is, and he will come to a pine tree, and that ant, Instead of going around the pine tree will climb right s'raight up on one side and down on the other- That is the way he lays out a public road, and we used to lay out our public roads in the same way; 'we didn't! lay them out at all, we went Jut along the trail that the old cow made wh si be came up to be milked and '". a the man went that path and then -h wagon went that path and then we built what we call the public road, along that very same old trail- The time ha8 come when it is essential, when it is absolutely nec essary for the people, If they would attain to anything like their possi bilities; if they would anything like keep pace with the great' marofh of progress, they must improve their highways- You cant do it for noth ing; you have to pay for it when you get it- If you get i without paying for it, it will be no account, you would have had it long ago. I don't believe in steam rollers much; In fact I don't know anything about steam roller8. We in the Democrat! party know nothing about steam rol ler8 except the steamrollers of the public highway' We van t Not only develop roads but develop country life- My friends. North Carolina is in th- morning of her greatest and most gloriou8 day, and I do not care how much you build tfie public road8; I do not care how intelligent-' your farm, just government is essen tial to prosperity. If one man sow and another reap, the cure i8 upon him that sow8 as well as him that to live in a land whose governmen Is so manipulated that some concern or some man tht doe not earn a part of my money take8 a greater! part of it. I say I do not care how good the road8 are, how good he farming is, we cannot realise our possibility as a people- One great thing: is, it is what this Democratic convention mean" today; it is what thi8 great militant Democracy Is con tending; for from .Mains to Texan It Is what) the nomination and elec tion of Woodrow Wilson means it means that hereafter the people who do the work and earn the money shall have a larger proportion ... of what they earn; 8hall have Demo cratic justice In thi8 land- And when that day comes and the people of North Carolina are aroused Ithey will be, encouraged as they will be by Justice, which Is grander than benevolence and more august than T 111 r1Jt T i -Ml r have een the mountain eagle rise straight f orwaTd from its perch up on the crag, with pinion i wide spread, b.athe hi" golden too8om in the sunlight of the morning, scream his welcome to the sun in its coming- ' i I hall to flie coming of that day In North Carolina, and If I can be some humble Instrument la helping to bring it about, then more than ever I shall feel everlastingly eratefvi to you for giving tne the We live in the greatest) age of the world' history the great? date of trusts and cordblnes; the great day when the public conscience is becoming awakened, though. I sup pose you are all Democrats here to day; all look like Democrat. I see some old Democratic faces here to day that I saw here four years ago. I want you to understand that I have no been canvassing North Car olina a8 long a8 Mr. Page said I had- He said I'd been canvassing U as long as he could recollect. I thought hi8 memory had always beof good, and J thought be had Deen canvassing It as long as I could rec ollect- My friends, I want to say this to you In the good old counfy o Randolph- I say It because I know it is o- There never lived a race of sturdier manhood in this state, there "never1 came from her loins a breed of finer men than the flv son8 of old man Frank Page, who liv-d ed in the county of Wafce and1 who sent forth o the state and to thi8 nation great scholars and men who moved the thought of the world tht me desMnguishea saesman wno rep' resent8 in Congress the Seventh Congressional district and the coun'jf of Randolph- I have seea his proph esie8 day after day in the newspa-! per8 and I always look at with care his diagnosis of a political situation,1 and I have never known him to be wrong yet; when he predicts Dein-i ocratic vcitory today I know that he is right- He stands four side8 toi every wind of heaven a Democrat, safe, trustworthy, upon 'the Demo cratic platform- He has been a member of that great Congress! that ha8 brought harmony to the great Democracy of thi8 nation and given it hope and encouragement and the assurance of vktery- It was Robert N. Page that was one of the leaders; it was he that helped to build, not to declare in conventions, but helped to build day by day the platform upon which the Democratic party stand8 today and the platform upon which it cannot be shaken, be cause it is a platform of Justice and light. Democrat8 Proud of Their Party- Every Democrat in North Carolina knows where he is today. He re joices today that he belongs to the old party. This old party ha8 seen; the rise and fall of all the politi cal parties that have been born in this Republic- The old Democratic ship has weathered the storm- Her keel was laid by Thome8 Jeffer8on, he gret apostle of human rights, and Andrew Jackson and Jame8i Monroe and Zebulan Vance and Wm J. Bryan and Woodrow wilBon are her great builder"- She has wit noseed the destruction of all of the parties; he ha8 stood the upheaval of this Republic in the morning of its exlstance; she has stood the storm of civil war and the defeat ft foryt years, and she comes out to day purified and glorified and en nobled by her defeat- Any other party in Randolph County today except the Democratic party? I heard Charles A- Webb, the chair man of the Democratic executive committee, do sometime ago up in my country a pretty rash thing: had a great concourse of people there, larger than this, in a Republican community out of doors and he held a ten dollar bill in his hand sald he would give that ten dollar bill to any Republican in that great crowd that would get up and claim that he expected the election of either Taft or Roosevelt- And, my friend8, if he had made such a props sitioni as that ten years ago every Republican in the crowd would have got up and claimed it whether he thought it or not; he would have said be thought it. The Republican8 In my country are improving. In fact there l8 no Republican party up there. I will tell you that you couldn't find the supporter8' of President Taft in my country by "the naked eye. The "de struction of (the Republican! party reminds me of that old colored preacher up in my country- He couldn't read, but he pretended that he could read, and he heard a white preacher on a Sunday morning read the scripture8 and then at night ae would get up in his church and read .but had to do it from memo ry, and he did it pretty well, but sometimes he got it mixed- He got up on this Sunday morning and woman Jezabel 8at upon the window sill of ,that temple, and sa she she sat there she nodded and slept and while she slept in her 8in she fell upon the stones of the pavement below and was dashed into ten thousand piece8, and the dogs came and licked up her sore8, and they picked up of the fragments that were left twelve basketsfull; and now, my friend, the great Question Is, whose wife shall 8be be in the resurrectioni-" , My friends, where shall this Re publican party be? Where is 1 now, because , there is not going to De any re8urreciion7 in this great day the destruction of the Repub lican party i8 no accident- The de struction of the Republican) party ha come because it was founded upon injustice and wrong- Whau wa8 once, yes, what two years ago was the great victorious Republican par- ly has gone u piece8 today until yo" couldnt get twelve basket8 full of ;the fragments- Why, in this great day of trusts and combines it did not stand for the people. Talk about . ..v--, a .-3 vaailL- tun- JO ity to the people. My friend8, ev ery port of entry in thi8 great na- tion wa" guarded not against the nosnie fleets and armies, because none were approaching, - but every por of enry of this government wa guarded by a custom house. hacked by the republic and all the forces of this government, not to keep out the foreign, enemy but' to keep out the merchant vessels; of ine world who wibea to come here not for the deR,roction of our Wit- lma'o lndutrie, but who wished to come here" to sell to the people e8 this land the necessities 0f life at a reasonable price in reasonable competition- But these merchant ves sels of the world were kept out be cause if allowed to come in they would lessen to some extent the il legitimate profits of the great rob ber combines of this country- They wouldn't come in. at all anyway.but it they were allowed to come in, if the tasiff was put low enough so they couR come In, the trusts and the combines" of thi8 country would be forced to sell the necessities of life farming nfensils and clothe8 and everything, un. something like reasonable price k the American citizen. When we buy any of the necessities of life, there is no mutui.fr ity of contract; there is no bawain 1 aboilt it- The price has already bet si made by a board of directorB.who sit around the table in the office of some csmblne that was organized In defiance of law and in violation of common right- They fix it all, and we have to pay 1. It is Justi the power of monopoly ThB ftn ol(1 fllo country who was washing some green8 in hi8 eool spring by she road) side and a man from New. York came along and said: "My friend, what are you going t do with those greens?" And he said he was going to soli them in Ashvilln. Anri ha aRked ntm what he expected tot get ror them and he told him- He says "You ought to - have better sense than to sell those nice greens at that pricen if you had those green8 in New York you could get such and such a price for them-" The old fellow looked up and sajss: "Yes, my friend, that i8 all so, and if I had thi8 spring in hell I could get a mlilion' dollar8 for it" Dives, in torment, would give all his millions for one drop of water out of that spring- It is the pow er of monopoly- When the mononol has it to sell and I have it to buy- he can charge what price he please8 and I mustpayi t- The individual can't protect himself against the power of monopoly. How could you start at it now? Now the price of everything la already printed on the article. , Competition used to pro tect us in the old days, but there i8 no competition now: it l all con- trolled by a trust; and the govern ment ought to protect its citizens. It is the great, high obligation of this government to protect the In dividual against the criminal con cerns of this country, but it has not only failed t do that, but by Re publican tariff laws it has protected the trusts against the legitimate course of legitimate business- This great American eagle that we boast about and make great patriotic speeches about, hovers aloft on the Fourth of July in mid air, not to protect the liberite8 of the American people but .under the dominion and control of the Republican party, for the protection of the great flock of vulture8 that prey upon the vital3 of the American people- They have got what we have made- The American people are the most in dustrious people in the world- I know you think now about some lazy fellow that lives in your neigh borhood, but as a race they are the most lndu8trious people in the world They make more than any other people in the world- This American people is the most intelligent people in all this earth, and they create more wealth; and claim to be the freest people in the world. But, my friend8, I say this, that the Americas people enjoy and have for themselvcf a smaller part of what they make by their labor than any other people that ever existed under any other government on this earth, under the operation of this Republican govern ment; a larger per cent of what the, make and what they earn have been taken from them by unjust law than from any other people. under any other despotism of the'Vorld. You may consider that day when there went forth the decree from Ceasar Augustus that, all the world should be taxed and when publicans and sinner8 gathered the tax, and the publican8 and sinners have been gathering just such a tax ever since. xou may consider the time when the province8 were overrun by the savage armies of the North! and the exaction8 of war that were levied up on them- You may consider any des potism in the world, any great tax that wa8 levied upon the people of the earth, and it is all paltry, it is small, it i8 almost insignificant com pared with the enormous money that is taken by unjust extortion from the industry, from the earning8 of ninety million8 of American freemen And we boast of our freedom- And every Fourth of July we march and we blow tin horns and wave flags and buret firecrackers in honor of the time when our fathers went to war before they would pay tax on tea and horse-shoe nail8- My friend, we pay more tax on the tin horns and the flags and the firecrackers than our fathers went to war, about No wonder that this country got tired of it; that a free people.when they came to the realization of it, got tired of it and determined to have no more of it, a hey have determined- ; Did you ever hear of thaf man who waked up one moring and found himself the fortunate, father of two fine, bouncing boys, and he went down town and his friends and acquaintances gathered around him and laughed and shook hands with him ' and congratulated him; and he said it was mighty fine to have twin boys- Thev told hm hnv W the wa and how prosperous he was, he too their congratulations and they asked him what he was going to name those boy8- Well, he said he thought he would name one Peat and the other Repeater- The time rolled away again and lo and behold,, here came to that household two beautiful little baby girls all at once; and he went down town again and hi8 friend8 and acquaintance gathered around him and shook hands with him asd laughed and he. 3 Used in cprer maneawng rSr put oa 26 yearaago .leue1 as jC good Ifcs new to-day, and hare JZ,- -Y ?Jjr never needed repairs. f '$rM'ftt'i ffl Dort ut on that roof fS ' until you see them jftyflh FOR SALE BY McCrary-Redding Hardware Co. Asheboro, N. C. HO ! FOR HENDERSONVILLE ! The St. John Hotel, (FORMERLY THE GATES.) The mountains of Western ortk Carolina hare long been accorded the invigorating, strengthening and life fiving qualities incident to a high and dry atmosphere. Here Summer life is about as ideal as can be imagined. Good pure zir, fresh spring water, newly pared streets and perfect sanitary conditions. At the St. John everything modern and up-to-date. It caters to a refined and select clientele. Modern in all its furnishings and equipment, it is just the right place for one to spend a vacation most enloyable. The Orchestra, under the direction ot Miss Charlotte Erson, turnishes music of a high class. For rates apply to Invitation to Attend Speaking of Senator Simmons Next Sat . urday Night, Sept. 21 Senator F. M. Simmons will speak on the political issues of the day at the court house in Asheboro at 8 o'clock on Saturday night, Sept. 21st, 1912. We believe there has been no man who has done more for the moral and material upbuilding of North Carolina than Senator Simmons. His public life is clean, his private life is above reproach. He was the leader in the white supremacy campaign, and in the Senate he has worked impartially alike for the busi ness' interests, the farmer and the workingman, and his labors for each have brought material results. - Come out to hear him. (SIGNED:) D. B. McOrary, W. H. Moring, W. J. Armfleld, Jr. J. O. Bedding, -W. J. Soarboro, Arthur Roes, Hal M. Worth, 0. 0. Granford, J. A. Spence, T. H. Redding, N. T. Hinshaw, J. T. Wood, B. P. Newby, O. R. Fox, W. A.. Underwood, E. H. Morris, W. W. Jones, R. O. Johnson, A. O. McAlieter, laughed the best he could, but it was a sort of a dry grin that tithe but he enjoyed U all he could ,&nd 'aid he was lucky and prosperbus. They asked him what he was going to name them. Well, be say8, I have decided to name one of , them Kate and the other Duplicate. And the time rolled on and, lo and be hold, one morning wa8 a great! big boy and a great big girl all at once; and he went down' town, he took the back stree tthia tlme.tried to get to his place ofbusinesa without any body seeing him, but the new had gone ahead and they got around hii and shook hands with him and con gratulated, him oni hla prosperity an good luck- He grinned aa best 'he could". They asked him what he waa going to name them- Well, be 8ald he wa8 going to name one Max and the other Climax- And the time rolled away, and, lo and behold, hew - hi c vig gin ana sm other girl together, and the old fel- kjew tore out of his house without a nas aown ree, and 8aid he didnt wan any more congratulations; that iney - naa come again and be had named one More and the other : No More-' , v . . , My friends, on the 6th day of Aoreiiioer we are poms iq name ttl rtepublSoRu ire :r::'jt ei ti: ST. JOHN & SON, Hendersonville, N. C. J. M. Betts, E. 0. Pearce, E. L. Anman, Clarence Rush, J. V- Hunter, Virgil Presnell, Geo. W. Hilliard, J.A.York, H. B- Hiatt, J. B Bobbins. J- M. Hammer, s W. P. McDowell, Z. P.Rush,Jr, A. E. Bums, W. J, Moore, Sam'l A. Henley, B O Kelly, W. D. Spoon, J. S. Ridge, M W. Parrish. Henry T Oaviness Republican injustice "No More-'' We have enough of it. The Democratic party has always stood in at measure for equal justice among men, special privilege to non:hnt this timo mom than ever it ha' come out of its con- - venMon purified of all suspicion of; special nrivlle&ra unA Wrnnri . mr suspicion of government by bosses or dominion Dy tnoe who represent any special interest in the world- " All elorv to thin Democrats dft-r when a Democratic victory means a uemocraMo victory, and the election of Wnndmw WHBrtn m.inl th a K Meiuuxug ur a uemocrauo justice m lthi8 world. Whv the old sXaUt of aJVertnont, the old rock-ribbed Repub lican stale that never railed to elect year, It has failed; they have 8een the light among the remote.benlght ed hill8 of Vermont. My friend8, the kingdom of China that wa Re. puDiioaa ror nree : inousand year uh guns weBiucrB-uc, 1 Know 'aa the county of Randolph will go Dem ocratic and that the state of North Carolina will go Dmeocratlc, espec ially when one of the Republican cadidates stand for Rooevelt and what) he represents, and the plat form of the other Republican can- (Contlaucd oa pns 7-J, .J