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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AOWISTRATION
, f H .Tnkn M. MrrirA1 ;n !,. M c r
sncccn oi iiw... ww
lfi Platfnrm
tatlvcs -
igorous An
V igoiuu
fcrcc System
(Continued from
v . submit to the candid,
i patriotic people of my
. :. a Republican form of
' '.. . , ri:Harily controlled by
., jrs la, that the best re
, ;h, the best government
'. the people can be
h in the Nation and In .he
h tvins two strong, aggres
;'. n , f.irlng each other, con-
r. nly for the mastery, so
,, .;, party fails of its trust,
;i mofl'-rate degree, that par
imriiediately displaced and
. r i : j f at the helm. A strong.
.irry of opposition la abso
. - -fiitial for good government.
. : -hort ornlngs or faults the
Republican party to-day
. iruiity of are due to the fact
i!',-s not perform its functlonn
,ry of opposition.
: - in North Carolina to-day
; I.--.. of ratio party baa leen guil
:::;tny breaches of faith with
. -.,. Within the last few years
ease of crime, its failure to
. the law, its desertion of the
;t,i fundamental principle of
-elf-government, and its gen-i.-i'oiri
potency have been due
t. iy to the fact that its leaders
. felt they were secure In power
! :!i;if there was no fear of Demo
!; defeat and Republican success.
present Democratic administra
;, in North Carolina and its prede
,ors would both have given far
r government if the Republican
, . . An.w.r rn fnnrfr,m,n C t n ;
ty in the State had been standing worth and being able for a while to ; tIme- An yu' Mr. Lattimore, or any
Kuard with enough soldiers to 'market the finished product at some-!Dody else have to do is to go to them
-;. in and take charge at the first
: -rayal of trust by that party.
I submit that this proposition is
: ..- and that it is fundamental.
1 i; v being so, then should not every
!:...n who is a patriot before he is a
i .i isan, in my State, join hands in
.. iiiing out the twin evils which I
!; ! -. e pointed out above and which
!, io tended to make the State hope
Democratic and the South
l:..;.elossly solid?
I sulmit that it is the duty of every
:-ien to lend his efforts to accom
phsli and bring about those condi
tions which will insure the best re
sults from party government, no mat
ter whether that party for the time
lit ing shall be the Democratic or the
Republican party. It was this great
basic truth that President Taft had
in mind when he appealed to the peo-
lle in the South who believed in Re
yUCliean principles to align them
selves with that party and make it a
bold, progressive party; when he de
clared that the doors should be open
ed, and that the referee system
should no longer block the way. I
submit that no President ever utter
ed a more patriotic sentiment or
made a more patriotic appeal, or one
with a higher sense of duty and
friendship to the South and to all of
its people when so doing. Mr. Pou,
instead of criticising the President,
should be patriotic enough to stand
up and applaud his utterances and
uphold his hand in this respect, and
so should all Democrats and all Re
I'ub icans, North and South, as Amer
ican citizens.
Now, Mr. Chairman, another one of
my North Carolina colleagues, Mr.
Webb, of the Ninth District, has
within the last few days delivered a
speech in this House, which also pur
ports to be a reply to my remarks.
That District is one of the strong
cotton-mill districts of the State. Mr.
Webb denies that the cotton-mill in
dustry of his District is in a prosper
ous condition, and attempts to show
tibit it is actually suffering rather
than being helped by the Republican
tariff law, and contends that, if the
K( publicans can not pass a tariff law
'hat will be more conducive to the
success of the cotton-mill industry,
then there is no reason why a Repub
lican should be sent to Congress from
that District.
Mr. Webb overlooks the fact, or at
least fails to be frank enough to
s'ate. that the high price of raw cot
t"n has caused a temporary depres
sin in the cotton-mill business, and
! e also fails to point out the fact
' at this is not an unmixed evil, in
asmuch as this high price of cotton
: one of the elements that is con
! abating directly to the wonderful
prosperity of our farmers and indi
rectly to the prosperity of all other
f' asses. I admit, frankly, that the
present tariff law is not just what 1
would have had it be as respects the
ftton schedule as it affects the
South.
In short, the cotton schedules are
more favorable to New England than
to the South; but I submit that, if
the South would send Congressmen
to Washington who believe in the
sreat American doctrine of protec
tion, then we would he able to have
every schedule of the tariff as favor
able to the South as to any other sec
1"jh 01 the country. Whv should
the National Republican party force
le benefits of protection upon a sec
tion that insists upon sendine Con
gressmen to Washington who declare
,at tney do not want protection and
;no further declare that it is in
Jquitous and robbery?
Mr. Webb pours out copiously his
arcrimal sorrow over the depression
- "wuic 01 ixepreien-
PiAt-m IT . J t
-vw a-uacicu 1010 Law
wu opecen Iapf tie
last ek.)
In the cotton-mill Industry, and then
adds, How can a "near" Republican I
help cure this condition? My an-
wer to his Is, How can a fre-trade :
Democrat who votes a&alrift protec-
tion of all kinds and under all cir-
cumtances help this condition? It
la true that some mills to-day are
running on short time, but If we had
Democratic free trade there would be
twice as many mills running on short
time or not running at all.
Mr. Webb comments upon some let
ters which I hare recently written
to cotton-mill men In the State and
boasts of the fact that, out of all the
cotton-mill men In the State, there
have been five who have sent to him
copies of their replies to me. In which niore. 1 beg spare to make reply.
they express their disappointment at "Mr. Lattimore said he wrote be
the present depression In the cotton- cause he had nothing else to do. If
mill business. he is out of a Job. let him come to
Mr. Chairman, I am a cotton-mill the Henderson Cotton Mill, and he
man myself, and I am no more pleas- WM get one; also any others who
ed with the present depression in my may want to work, of whom he says
business than is any one of the five there are many. Mr. Lattimore tries
cotton-mill men quoted by Mr. Webb; t0 show that the Republican party is
but I realize that no matter how responsible for what he misterns lack
prosperous the country Is, yet It is of employment.
Impossible for every industry to pros- "11 m( say to you, Mr. Lattimore,
per equally at the same time. In- that the Republican party is not re
deed, it Is unreasonable to expect ; sponsible for the mismanagement of
such a condition. tne mill business, ut the Republl-
When cotton suddenly dropped to can I)ary bF Us policies has, and
four cents, under the Cleveland ad- does, provide work for anybody who
ministration, the farmers suffered ! reasonably wants work. Please look
greatly, but for a while the mills un-;in the Mill News and see the adver
duly profited on account of buying ! tisements every week for thousand
the raw material at less than it wasiof hands, and those mills running full
thing like the former prices. Just ' ana to work.
so now, the sudden rise in the price "Mr. Lattimore, the Demosratic
of cotton has for the present serious- ; Congress under the Cleveland admin
ly handicapped the mills, because j istration of 1893 Is what drove me
they can not make a profit paying j to the cotton-mill business. We were
fifteen or sixteen cents a pound for j getting four and one-half cents per
cotton until the general upward trend ! pound for cotton, and when I got to
of prices would enable them to sell I the cotton mill I got twenty-five
the output of their mills at a reason- cents a day, but I wsa merely a boy
able increase above former prices. then; my father and my grown broth
These apparent inconsistencies and i er fot forty and fifty cents per day.
hardships occur every now and then j Since the G. O. P. has resumed the
in every business, even under the j direction of the Government's affairs
most prosperous and favorable gen- j my father has gone back to the farm
eral conditions. This is fully appre
ciated by nine-tenths of the cotton
mill men from whom I have received
letters. I will read an extract from
a letter which I have just received
from one of the most thoughtful and
progressive cotton-mill men in the
State, which shows that he holds
practically the same view. The ex
tract is as follows:
"Long Island, June 17, 1910.
"Hon. John M. Morehead,
Washington, D. C.
"Dear Sir: Your letter of the
14th at hand. I have received lit
erature from you from time to time,
and all of it was well worth reading,
but your last argument in urging
that we give Mr. McNinch our vigor
ous support is one of the best rea
sons I have read on present condi
tions and why we should support
the Republican party. - I have be
lieved in a protective tariff ever since
I have been able to reason for myself.
For the life of me I can not see why
any man in the cotton-mill business
can believe in free trade or low ta
riff, and really they do not, bnt on
account of past affiliations they are
not able to overcome their prejudices,
but are deaf to their own interests
and vote the Democratic ticket when
they must know that the policies of
the Democratic party, if enacted into
law, would be disastrous to' tfce cotton-manufacturing
business. Some
of them are now saying that" Mc
Ninch ca not help mill men of the
South that have voted for free-trade
policies are not in positon to speak
of hard times and attribute it to the
policies of the Republican party,
claiming that times could not be
worse, etc. If these Democratic mill
men had supported the Republican
men to Congress, then, no doubt, we
would have some influence.
"In framing the bill we would no
doubt have gotten more protection
for our products, but as it ia vot
ing, as the South has been doing,
for free-trade politics we have not
been in position to ask any consid
eration from the Republican leaders,
for we voted against protection, and
why should they be concerned about
the South, who have been their pol
itical enemies? I am very sorry it
has been that way; I have not been
of that kind, but have voted for the
party of protection. We have been
in this section since 18 S, coming
from New Jersey. We were told up
on our arrival that all the best peo
ple in the South voted the Democrat
ic ticket. We reasoned the matter
this way: We believed in a protec
tive tariff when we were North, and
inasmuch as we were engaged in the
cotton manufacturing business, we
could" not see why a few hundred
miles should change our views on the
tariff question. We took up the then
seemingly hopeless task of contend
ing for the idea of a protective tariff.
At that time we did not have more
than three or four Republican (white)
voters at our precinct not enough
to fill the offices at the polls. And
as late as when McKinley was first
elected we had but nine Republicans.
In the last election we cast eighty
nine votes for Cox and the Demo-
crtt can forty-frrrta for KltcJbla.
This b?s yoti jo of f& fcti
erX that sr fcs d tor life rtla-
ttp'.f aJoca!4 by lb nPbUraa
party Is this tSs of conetry,
I am itoinc to cit MeMsfi all tfc
trench teat I bae la fimeal ay
from
tsow on to lis di cf r!tios
j I am $tlti sure e will bold our s
I a tbi precinct And siiouH tsas
i some gain fa the costity as a wbo!
7oa remmfcr carried our co-t-
ly ,n tht Ux i,rtioo-M
1 hoM in mr hme3 e of lt
ClTn9h0ro rlly Nw of Saturday.
,Slh whkl1 Pblthe a letur
frora " totton-rolll man, ta reply to
on ot th eoUonral en quotrd fey
Mr' wbb whlch u
"Wliy Mill Man Will XW t!- I-
publican Ticket.
. Tl v.
To K'JUor of Dilljr Ni:
"Having seen two letters la the
News and Observer of Jutse Mh, writ
ten In regard to the textile Induitry
of this State and complaining of the
mills runnlog short time and shut
ting down, signed by a Mr. I-atti-
to raise 15-cent cotton, and I am in
the mill getting $1.50 per day. And
there are plenty of boys that get any
where from $1.75 to $2.25 per day.
Suppose we dont work but four days
of the week we get as much now in
one day as we got In a w.eek in those
'good old Democratic days.'
"But you may ask: 'What , was
the price of meat and flour then?'
I don't know; I didn't have the
money to buy them then, so there
fore I didn't ask.
"You seem to think that you. can
fool we mill folks by telling us that
the Republican party is the cause of
all the mills not running full time.
We well know that there are mills
all over this broad land of ours that
are running full, and some overtime;
they are advertising for help in this
week's Mill News, and see for your
self, Mr. Lattimore.
"If the voters in the country are
like those in the mills, you can bet
Mr. McNinch will be the next Repre
sentative in Congress from the Ninth
District. I am certain the farmers
will not vote for a Democrat to go to
Congress and vote to cut the price
on tobacco, cotton, and peanuts. But
you say that flour and meat are so
high that the farmer can ot afford
to buy it. If the farmers themselves
d onot make the flour and meat, pray
tell me, Mr. Lattimore, where it is
made, and do they not get higher
prices for hogs and cattle and wheat
than were ever known before? An
swer this, Mr. Lattimore.
"Now, Mr. Lattimore, if you are
not going to start up your mills, do
not try to fool the people by telling
them that they can not get work
anywhere else, for it won't do you
any good, and you know it, Mr. Lat
timore. "Do you think that I would vote
for a party that came within one
year of disfranchising me? I was
just old enough to vote in 1908. 1
could not have voted had I been six
months younger, because my father
was unable to provide me with an
education, and Democratic State
management did not provide the
public schools where I lived.
"What I have been able to learn
since is due wholly to the system of
education provided -by the mill dis
trict. MILL MAN.
"Henderson, June 15, 1910.
The facts and-fguments stated in
these letters speak for themselves
and require no further argument on
my part in support of the view held
by an overwhelming number of the
cotton-mill men of my State and of
the whole South.
Mr. Webb states in his speech that
the operatives of the cotton mills in
his district are running on short
time, are out of employment, and are
tramping the streets looking for
work. Indeed, he paints the condi
tions as appalling. He uses such ex
pressions as a "fearful stagnation,"
and says that "the greatest industry
of the South, the cotton-mill indus
try, languishes nigh unto death." .
Mr. Chairman, I can not refrain
from observing, in this connection,
that a Democrat never seems to be
so happy or so eloquent as when
ih Otsseer!!? jarty ilmlS rrJSt
fetr t n vt&i sjosi
tsit fed -Uaitr,
Bt, Mr, Clsalrmaa to s3mw tfcaft
ie rtt 4rri-Q In t.fe ' .$mt-tllr . XVa-4 ts ffjrtM m
sll! l-titltrtd f el oft!y tssjefry. :-1 at t?tt-f tf; H
fct last it alrrady fJMite ar.- 4rwntJ t to kt a 4m&t
afid tta? c?5tt3fc art Wctsalai; to : prr; Wi4t at Imlis. jisfc4 f?f
'S?rte. I call attvetiea to far? lVif Coatty tk Ul ifttf !!
that is as fadsttrtal r5r. t& JIU1 ' farsc aalf 4y rlcr t tk WU
a fo;.y of whirl t &ae tfore lefts isaf seta. Jtfeatai. t-l!-;
tse, afc.4 hkh it Mlt4 at C&ir-; aa4 twtl all fet th .m
lott. S. C . is Mr. WtVs dutrtn. ttory to tJl
there are to olJ4 eolames cf ad-1 "Did ptm alto te liti uigl fc
fertla6f fmta cttotj-tsill am r ilea 4 4 ttH etry ta tfe
sderti:s,jt for il?. er!oys f all 5US bo15 l-e mrei4 f a
kinds, to work in cotton eaiils. atr.4 'trta of s ort r anotfcrr fct tfe
' ' annouficemetifi of improt ewrnts asd rlted are ass-1y -aCrtftt to iadkata
eclrrc2:3t of mills, and the stsrt- ste d!rcik ia mtt ta ti5 is
Ins up of Kstlift. x ampl fs f Mtttlnf. tle 14 ?st!e w!LSc& it teslit
of to of the adterti?SB'&u Is sc
fol!oi
WANTKD -A No I ctrder
for
S-ooo-tpindle Kiill on Rse
worV. Mutt be able 10 get pro
duction and rot. No excuse.
Mm! f. and keep help af
fStlent for above results. Ad
drt .s -Heults.' care Mill News "
'Announcement Marling up New
.Mill.
"On or about June 1st we will
start up our new mill, and will
need cotton-mill help In all de
partments. We expect to start
the mill on a good grade of
ginghams, and all the looms will
be new, and of the automatic
type. We are now booking ap
plications for help. Our tene
ment houses are all new and
equal to any in the South. All
houses are quipped with electric
lights in every room. All drink
ing water Is furnished from deep
wells, and is guaranteed pure.
The health is equal to any mill
town in the State. Please ad
dress your applications to
"PATTERSON MILLS CO.,
"Roanoke Rapids. N. C."
How can Mr. Webb's district be
full of idle men wanting work in cot-j
ton mills in the fact of two columns!
of advertisements appealing for morel
cotton-mill employees? The elo-I
quence and the logic of these adver-j
i ,Tv a'eauns Ior more iaDor!
' tell the story and are unanswerable.;
r r .. -v, 1 t 1 , i ii..t
no matter how great has been or is
inow the depression in the cotton-mill
business, that it is a historical fact
I that no one industry can long lan
,suiau m luc uiiust ui seuera. prog-
, : w : 1 : .
ress auu prosperity. uesiues mai
'the effect of the policies of no party
can justly be measured by the pres
ient or temporary condition of any
lone business or Industry. It can
uuu liguiij u juuseu uj lUe cueci
1 .1L1I- V - i 1 3 1 . V.
upon me Doay pouuc, mciuaing ev-
ery class of our citizens and by every
nne 01 inaustry taKen as a wnoie. 11 j
we were to admit that everything j
which Mr. Webb has said about thej
demoralization of the cotton-mill j
business were true, then I submit
that it would be simply the exception
to proe the rule of general pros -
perity.-
I also have a copy of the Char-!
lotte Observer of June 19th, one of
the leading daily newspapers of my
j State, and published in the largest
i town in Mr. Webb's Congressional
District. That paper a Democratic
paper is so impressed with the gen
eral prosperity of the State, as shown
by the local and county newspapers
from mountain t osea in giving a
j picture of what is actually going on
in each community, that it devotes
! nearly a column editorial to com-
menting upon the State's progress as
! indicated by its exchanges. That ed
itorial is as follows:
"Moving Onward.
j "Any man or woman who is so
J fortunate as to be a citizen of North
Carolina and to feel any particular
pride in the State will find little ex
cuse for pessimism in this present
year of grace 1910. True, rains and
threatened floods may cause uneasi
ness in various sections, and market
conditions may not be all that could
be desired in many lines, but such
shadows only serve to emphasize by
contrast the really bright prospect
which beckons our people. A very
brief list, taken at random from the
Observer's exchanges of a single day,
will afford a concrete demonstration
of the soundness of the optimistic
view-point.
"The Thomasville Davidson calls
attention to the excellent condition
of the Daidson County schools, a con
dition which the county named is by
no means enjoying in lonely isola
tion. The Fayetteville Observer
features a report of the library com
mittee of its city which shows that
the Institution th.ough but eighteen
months old, is in the best possible
condition; this, too, is typical rather
than exceptional. The Thomasville
Times records the fact that a new
church and dozens of new homes are
in process of erection in the chair
town. Schools, libraries, churches,
homes what more substantial evi
dences of growth could be asked?
Changing the view-point to things
somewhat more material, the Raleigh
papers bring word of united elfort by
citizens, of the State capital to secure
improved union depot facilities, and
it may be remarked that effort of
this character seldom fails to make
the desired impression upon the rail
road companies. Our Hickory con
temporaries carry stories of con
tracts awarded for new streets and
cement sidewalks, as well as of plans
: cftl 4ittfert 4f &cr MeMt
: Wir CJ ta ts:aa it t
:Um cT lr yt a-4 1
pftMBt tm tfaajury sf
?our.d the tsutttsl i&'t-rdtpes-icfec
. af the tx.43r aid I fee RMfSBWra ea.ct
'F arpllrs ia thu itatlo&. Nftnj
Caroiitts i unit to ta rjtrtst that 1
,hi!er directly hpm esse roty
; indirectly fcelpt all the rent Char
lotte it proprly Utcrrtrd Is a deep
er rbmriel for WSltnlnctotj; WUtaic
tn is cot In JiUrreot to the itscrea
of trtli'.e lndutrlS to t cn r?ery
year in an4 around harlotte lkttttid
together by sticb tie ttse entire Com-
monwealth face the brichtot pru j
pert it has ever know n. and thU i
but the dawn."
t Here we see, from the ettrsrts
made by the Charlotte Uterfer from
the representative newspaper all
over the State, a picture of wealth
; and growth and progress. substan
(tial and widespread, in every torn-
jmunlty and with every class of our
j people. And yet la the face of this
the professional croaker continues to
j croak for campaign purposes. When
J c a 1 t a a
we see au maiTiausi w no oas mis
disease we call him a dyspeptic.
There fore a fitting designation for
the Democratic party would seem to
be a "political dyspeptic," In capable
of enjoying the good things before
it and thereby incapable of see.lng
or appreciating them.
WITH Till: EDITORS.
After the politicians at Wrights
ville get surfeited with politics, they
can then pot rnnl1 n1t In f Vi o curf
Wilmington Star.
Republican State Convention, it won't
j be the fauU of the Greensboro N
W8.
! Lincolnton Times.
j The nepublicaM may have their
, wrangieg In tne primarjeB, but ,t la
all over when the convention is over
Durham Herald.
j rniintv nniit. in iiam.t t
"
, Ung to the front now There are
nIne candjdateg for treasurer and six
j for 8heriff a contest for every coun-
ty office but clerk of tho court
xews and Observer,
J
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