Thursday, June 16, 1310.
nit: C . V C A s I A s .
yiu. Mr.vixcirs PLATFORM.
Mr. - S. McXincIi, Nominee of the
j:-uHic.m Part j- for CongTTsvt in
the Ninth District, Outline His
Platform on Which He Will Stand
For Klection Thin Fall A Strong
Alvorate of the Ship Subsidy awl
Irttf ti'n Deplores Prejudices of
tlm Pa-t and Krpreses Helief That
,n Awakening is at Hand.
Mr. Samuel S. McN'inch, presi
dr rit and treasurer of the Charlotte
j r i f k Company, and one of the city's
jt-aiiinK business men, has issued, at
tf.. request of friends, the follow
ing statement of principles and poli
( ,n which he will appear before
th- v'.tfrs of the Ninth District, to
,,,;ifir their support on the Republic-:.
ti ket for Congress:
T, K-lifor of The Charlotte Ob-
-.rvr :
In a:;s-fr to several inquiries as
!,. . on different subjects of
K,, rnrii -r;tal policy, and in particu
lar r. the fJiip subsidy proposition, I
t;;,..,. to .-ay that if sent to Congress
'his District, it will be my aim
a:, i - . ious effort to represent all
?h ; - iiiufacturing and business ele
:, v-. believing that the farming in
ter are so interwoven with the
:r.;..' . facturing interests that if I help
-ne the results can only be bene
;i' i ll to the other.
Ily way of expression, I would feel
my duty to respond to the wishes
o( the cotton interests, going the full
limit of my endeavors to secure that
meed of protection as well as such
revision of the cotton schedules from
time to time as may be desired by
the different milling propositions,
hoping to be helpful to that industry
of our Southern country which
I conceive is the basis of almost all
our prosperity. Surely the farmers
know that their interests and the in
terests of the mills are interdepend
ent, and that their joint prosperity
means the life of the merchant class,
and all the artisans and mechanics.
South Needs Protection.
With the proper extension of gov
ernmental protection to our Southern
cotton mills as against the foreign
labor, notably so at this time, the
Japanese laborer, who works for from
nine cents to thirty cents per day;
with our shipping industry, which is
practically dead, revised by means of
ship subsidy, so that our merchant
marine would be the equal of any on
the globe, causing cheap freight rates
to all of the markets of the world,
thus Riving added demand for our
cotton and cotton manufactures as
wt'U as other products, I can conceive
a most happy and normal condition
ot .--ociety In this Southland of ours,
so long ill treated and so unfortun
ately served after that great calamity
our civil war. Led by our passions
;:nl prejudices from our best inter
ests, we have been in opposition to
those progressive policies, which in
a short time have built up the great
est nation on the globe, and have
proved a blessing to other sections
of our common country. The policies
our Southern representatives have
nearly always been since the civil
war, in direct antagonism to the gov
ernment in control at Washington
and consequently we have been un
able to demand our share of the ben
efits of protection, in order to
quickly build up our country as was
done by the representatives from the
other sections. The race condition of
course caused this, but that situation
in our affairs has long since passed.
Foreign trade aided by a subsidized
merchant marine will vastly benefit
us all.
Merchant Marine.
It is necessary to foster our mer
chant marine, just as we stimulate
our crops with commercial fertilizer.
I can conceive that the time will
not be far distant when the intel
ligent farmer can reasonably expect
from twenty to thirty cents per
pound for his cotton, and when his
lands would be worth $100 or more
per acre; I can conceive of that splen
did prosperity which exists in sec
tions of the North and West, which,
when I first traveled through it some
years ago, made my heart sad to real
ize how very poor the South was as
a whole, and especially so in the
farming sections. I can conceive that
almost every available patch of land
rom the mountains to the seashore
would be forced to give forth, be
cause of intelligent, ambitious, pro
fitable effort, a bountiful store of
cotton, wheat, corn, oats, live stock,
fruits and all the products of hus
bandry, whereas, today, as most of
us knowT, our farming interest is
not greatly successful, and it is large
ly because of ill-rewarded labor and
a condition of poverty, which is not
productive of ambitious and well-directed
effort.
I can conceive under proper condi
tions of an extensive activity in our
mines, quarries, etc., if that stimu
lus of a proper merchant marine, giv
ing life and activity, to all our possi
bilities, is accomplished.
If our Southland, with its extensive
Atlantic and Gulf seaboard, was
properly cared for by Congress, and
it will be done only when our people
send Representatives to Congress who
are in sympathy with the progressive
element of the nation, the Republican
Party, there will be numerous har
bors, with extensive dry docks for
shipping, coming and going, all over
the world, as busy bees, actively lay-ing-by
the comforts and necessities of
llfe. Our Southern harbors, compa
ratively speaking, are dead now. aBS
can only be awakened with proper ef
fort. That very awakening rneao
prosperity to our farming element, as
it calls for a multitude more of peo
ple to be fed, and with it a ten-fold
Increase of our manufacture of cot
ton, our main staple, which, an we
know, br right should be. and will
finally all be manufactured at home.
Surely we must broaden our markets
by all means possible; we cannot
continue to feed on one another for a
much longer time, and if. perchance,
we do this. It will make the poor
poorer and the rich richer.
The Panama Canal, close by our
seaboard, close by our cotton fields.!
will be utilized for all that it is
worth. Are we to stand idly by and
see other nations profiting to our
detriment and great loss in not using
our opportunity? Surely our people
will think for themselves and demand
through their Representatives a ship
subsidy and all of its accomplish
ments, as well as a tariff, for the pro
tection of our Southern manufactur
ing interests as against the foreign
labor.
Should I light-About-Face.
Surely the great wealth gathered
together in the North and West does
not mean that the people there are
any better than we are. They lack
our advantages of climate and soil;
they cannot produce cotton, the basis
?
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IIOX. S. S. McXIXCH,
Republican Candidate for Congress from the Ninth Disctrict.
of our main industry but as for us,
we can produce everything that they
can. Certainly if we measure these
situations by fair comparisons we
will not admit that there are any
better or abler people on earth than
ourselves. With this as a clear-cut
proposition, must we not admit' the
whole truth, that our attitude in the
past towards Republican politics,
which has built up the greatest gov
ernment on the earth in a few years,
was wrong, and that it is time for
us to about-face before it is forever
too late. !
The truth is, there is no better
stock of people on earth than this
Southern mixture of ours. It is prov
en by the events of the past here and j
in Europe. Ours is the stock that
has accomplished, and we can and
will always control when we try to do j
so, if our efforts are wisely directed
without prejudices.
An Awakening Coining.
I know that the awakening is here,
but it is hard for some to understand
and still harder for some of us to '
act. I myself have experienced this, i
but from the assurances received ;
from many within the last few I
weeks, I know we are close to our ;
old-time usefulness. The full real
ization of this awful situation,
through which we have been going
for years, may be yet a little while
off, but I know yes, I know, that
our people are awake, and like a
giant that has slumbered, when
aroused, there will come a reckon
ing, which I fear will carry our peo
ple too far, when they have fully
realized the wrongs and how they
have been led so misguidedly in the
past.
Poverty may hold the mass in
leash for a while longer because no
one can think independently while
pinched by want, but when despair,
with full realization, does come, let
us beware of the extreme.
Must Not Blame Race Prejudice.
Note well my expression here,
which to make more clear, the mass
of the people must not be led by
race prejudice when there is no oc
casion. The time will come that,
when in their recklessness, if the race
prejudice is flaunted longer in their
faces without proper occasion, that
he who continues to do this awful
thing without good excuse will find
more measure for the deed than can
be estimated at a cheap figure.
Aid All Interests.
Unless we help our manufactur
ers and all interests allied with them,
such as famine, xnercaa&dlsi&s, etc.,
e vil) tery quickly rue the condi
tion arising. It has Urea long prov
en that the South cannot pro per oa
agriculture alone. I believe as a
fact that our manufacturing mutt he
done at our doors, and in doing this
manufacturing here under favorable
conditions from government, such as
secured for other sections, extensive
prosperity will come from it to our
citizenship, bringing happy homes
and contented firesides. Our farm
ers have had a taste, and only a
taste, of higher prices. They can
not much longer be held in leash by
the conditions, expectations and re
quirements of the past, because they
are rapidly learning what the Repub
lican party policies will give them,
provided the Representatives of the
South can demand from Congress a
proper participation in the progres
sive, patriotic, prosperous, govern
ing control.
I know that the laboring man can
not much longer be held in satisfac
tory condition of mind with his pres
ent environment, and that there is
no hope for him except the manufac
turing industries in the South are
put upon their feet in the most fa
vorable situation possible. All oth
er sections of the nation, except our
own. have been pretty well cared for,
and the South could have been, but
for the fact that the policy of our
Southern people has been to send
Democrats to Congress, who not only
were not in sympathy, but were in
antagonism to the splendid policies
of the Republican party, which rep
resents the best brain and effort of
the progressive element .of our na
tion, which element always will dom
inate in all the affairs of life.
liegin at Home.
Our first duty in politics, as well
as in all the other affairs of life, is
to begin at home. Of course, then,
all public men look after their sec
tion and without active, patriotic,
progressive Representatives in Con
gress in line with the Republican pol
icies of protection, and so on, we
cannot expect the full measure of
governmental friendship, and we all
know that we have not had it, and
have been falsely taught that we did
not want it. Oft-time our people have
gone into the legislative halls of
Congress moved by prejudice and
filled with venom, bised on the
wrongs and misfortunes of the past,
fighting an unequal battle without
occasion, and with evil results. The
day for such has long since past, as
I conceive it.
No man in the Southland is more
sympathetic with the conditions of
our country, before, during and after
the Civil War; no man has greater
regard for the heroes or more con
sideration for the sacrifices of the
past than I. My only material in
heritance is the sword which my
father captured from a ranking of
ficer at Manassas. I cherish it as I
ought; I would gladly give it up to
the rightful owner, if I knew of him.
But being filled with the fine holy
sentiments of our ancestors' ancestry
and its causes; being able to look
back on the wisdom and unwisdom
of it all; holding always in great re
spect the Southern soldiers on one
side and the Northern soldiers on the
other, I say that I owe to my country
the best efforts of my brain and
brawn, and that every one else owes
the same, for the upbuilding and the
advancement of our people who have
never yet been permitted because of
their misdirected zeal the full bene
fits of the greatest country on earth.
Land of Opportunity.
If we lived in some of the heavily
governed countries of Europe, we
could not expect aught else, but in
this splendid land of liberty and op
portunity, I have been unable in the
past to see the situation without
feeling and knowing that we are not
at our best. As time went by, grow
ing free of my prejudices, and when
this nomination was handed me un
animously In the face of the notice I
bad served oa ray npM!caa fris4s
that I coald cot accept, I said: "May
this Is an opporiasUy. waica.
Mle changing my plans. 1 thoU
undertake, boplsg thereby to the
able, eren though unsacceswfal la
the contest for election, to broaden
our people and aid is siartlsg them
forward on their natural, normal
course in life, the patriotic, progres
sive, ambitious, energetic court, free
of partisan prejudice, kindled by the
sacred past."
Some newspapers have chlded me
because of the seeming change of
political faith. I have not cared for
that. I have been used all my life.
In my small endeavors, to advance
the Interests of my community, to be
of ten-times misunderstood, cussed
and discussed. I have gone ahead
without hesitation, desiring only to
know the right "To him that know
eth to do good and oeth it not. to
him it Is sin." This applies not only
to myself, but to all other men who
participate in public affairs. The
fact Is. in our local municipal elec
tion and almost entirely so in the
county elections for years the Repub
licans have made no contest. The
primaries have been made open aed
all of us went in for a fight for our
friends, or, as we thought would best
benefit our local affairs, and all of
it was free of partisanship. Repub-
j licans have always voted in the local
municipal primaries as they wished,
and they were welcomed, the only
obligation being that they were ex
pected to support the men they vot
ed for, or in case they lost out, to
support the men with whom they
contested. This is a known fact
without dispute.
I never made a Democratic speech
in my life. I have made speeches for
prohibition when the issue was up.
Since the days of Cleveland, when he
was discarded by the Democrats, as
my personal friends know, I was
never in full accord with the Demo
cratic party, and they will give me
credit for this fact. I have often !
been chided by my friends because of
it, but my friends put up with me,
knowing that I was always loyal to
them, and that I was exceedingly in
dependent in all my actions and
thought. I love my friends. Who
doesn't? The criticism of my par
tisan and political enemies is a re
minder of the old, old days of my
sea pirate ancestry, roving the North
Carolina seas. It savors also some
what of the Scotch Clans who could
always fight their nearest neighbor,
if half an excuse was given. I can
not help but enjoy it all. It runs
through my veins for two thousand
years. But if I get into the minds
of the people of our Ninth District
that I want to help them, their wives
and children all the deviltry being
brewed to distract their attention
will be unavailing. When this at ran
dom letter has been fully discussed,
I will furnish even more later on.
S. S. McNINCH.
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"Five bottles," he writes, "wholly
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