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i 1 ! REPUBLICANS AT MOREHEADDMER (Continued from page 1.) tfcat while be favored local lf-gov-rrnment, he was opposed to "local option" If that was what the talk mant. There was no cheer then, judge Koblnson spoke out though. .Senator Butler followed soon af terwards and came out strongly apain for local self-government. N tody knows yet what the banqueters iboupht all this meant. It is Impossible with a stream of running events to get on the Inside and keep up with everything. The Yartorough Hotel served the guests and did it handsomely. There was tut the barest wait between the serv ing and the speaking began exactly on the dot. ToaHtmaster Tom Settle In wel come Indulged but little of his large powers of speech. When he presented the chairman of the com mittee, a big ovation was given him. Mr. Morehead's Speech. Chairman Morehead toasted "Our Political Independence." He began by paying a great tribute to the par ty and declared that the country, onapproached In greatness, is his party's monument. Declaring that North Carolina is more independent than any of the States, and that there is no blind following blind leadership as once there was, he took up the question of party control. Slap at Bossism. Mr. Morehead continued to dis cuss the matter of patronage and said: "Seriously, however, this question of patronage has been, In my opinion, one of the hindrances to the growth of our party in the South, where, being a minority party, we have quite naturally engaged the attention and the consideration of the Na tional leaders of the party, not from the standpoint of electing Republi- cans at the polls, but the concern , of these leaders has been as to how the delegations from the South would line up at our National Con vention. We Republicans of the south know only too well to what has been practiced the exchange of the vote of Southern delegations for the con trol of Federal patronage. "We know too well that in practi cally every State South of the Po tomac when you find the man or co terie of men who can swing the vote of their State's delegation in the Na tional Convention, in him or in them you will find vested the control of the Federal offices in that State, and in that State you will find the weeds and thistles of bossim in their fullest and most luxuriant flower. "Convention vote was the only in terest we have aroused in the coun cil of the party and we have suffered and submitted trafficking in that. "Is it small wonder that we have staggered under this incubus and have failed to make our party domi nant, deserving and commanding the respect of independent thinkers, when we have bartered our freedom of thought and action to our craving for a mess of pottage? "Most truly it is not and it is a splendid tribute to the soundness of our principles that we grew in spite of our burden. "Gentlemen, what do we read In the great metroplitan dailies and even in our own State papers? "There is practically no issue of any important daily which does not in every article dealing with politics emphasize the fact that we Republi cans of the South are regarded as mere chattels led here, there, or any where by the halter of Federal pat ronage. "I have seen numberless articles and editorials in the leading jour nals, both Republican and Demo cratic, within the last month to the effect that the South will line up solidly at the dictation of Mr. Hitch cock, because forsooth in him was lodged the jobs, and this, too, in face : of the fact that the position of this something wrong down there. I nimble and shifty individual was t know it of my own knowledge, else Beriously questioned and practically my friend Butler would be in Con undetermined, gress. The speaker, responding to "Is it not a sickening spectacle to the toast, "The Third District," was all who belong to the party from principle that the South has to the slightest extent given basis of fact to this state of affairs? "That we have to the smallest de gree suffered ourselves to the capi talized as the personal political asset of some scheming, self-seeking poli tician and that we allow our man hood and independence to be so pros Btituted for the bones that may be thrown to us from the political board? "Gentlemen, I confess to a very sympathetic disposition and leaning to the old-fashioned theory: To the victor belong the spoils.' "This theory ' is entirely logical and natural to my mind and only in to abuse has it been discredited. "When we place our spoils ahead of principle we build an inverted py ramid, we fail and we deserve to fail; but when we reverse the or der, when we fight for principle, we are building upon a bed of rock and we will prevail. "I believe that the time has come for the Republicans of North Caro lina, where there truly does exist a Republican party founded on prin ciple, to resent this sneer and to re move this reproach from the fair nsme of the South, and let as say In this also, 'North Carolina shall be first "I say to Republican. North, South, East, and West, that no long er will the party in the Old North State permit Itself to be led as a dumb thing, without will and with out conviction. "Absolutely without prejudice to any man, who aspires to the ap proaching Presidential nomination, I say the time Is now for North Caro lina Republicans to fling back these aspersions and to decline to send to our Chicago convention in June delegates tied hand and foot with instructions to vote for any man. "To give the lie to these oft-repeated assertions that any man can get any Southern delegation who has the price. As remarked. I take this position without prejudice to any candidate and I maintain that it is indisputably sound and right even were there but one name to be pro posed at that convention and the nomination proceed by acclamation, as I think it will. "The time is come, gentlemen, for the Republicans of North Carolina to declare that they at least cannot be corralled like cattle. "It is high time for us to now as sert our manhood and it is the duty and obligation of our party in this State to select, as delegates to the next National Convention, represen tative Republicans in whom we im pose entire confidence who we know will exercise intelligence, patriotism and fidelity to their trust; men whose every act we know will be for the best interests of their party and to the final end that their country may be spared the calamity of a free-trade Democratic administration. "It is my deep conviction that, if we pursue this policy, If we dem onstrate our freedom from the clutches of selfish politicians and bosses, we will command the re spect and confidence of every citizen who believes in sound government and constructive legislation based upon the eternal principles incorpo rated in our country's constitution. "In behalf of the State Commit- tee and its chairman, again I bid you welcome and I glory in the ef forts, which I am confident we all will make, individually and collec tively, to upbuild a successful party in which each and every voter is an equal partner and which shall be without even the semblance of a boss." Following the address of Mr. Morehead, Colonel Harry Skinner took up "The East." It was a speech full of the classic and brought a big hand when it call ed for local self-government. Col onel Skinner opened the way for fur ther discussion of this issue referred to elsewhere. He was discreet, dodged the pitfalls and made an al together pleasing effect. When Mr. Iredell Mears, of Wil mington, was presented for "The Whole State," he was applauded. He was rather unacquainted in the con vention and had lined up recently. It didn't make any difference. His address was free from the rancor of the newly-made convert. It was pitched high and pleased the people a great deal. The banquet began under the most trying conditions and It kept up. When Mr. H. T. King arose to tell of the First District, It was Impossi ble to keep up with him. He referred much to the condi tions as they have been charged. He said that the Democratic party now has the colored voted and that in the section from which he hails, now has a colored postmaster by the grace of the Democrats. It was im possible to hear in the general noise what town has the honor. Mr. J. R. Gaskill was introduced to tell of fishing in Tar River. He told of the old system of carrying counties in black districts by great majorities. He spoke for the estab lishment of an aggressive Republican party in Raleigh. He said the Re publicans have as much right here as any other people. Toastmaster Settle introduced Ma- jor George E. Butler. There is given a great ovation. He arose and pitched into the Democrats. He said that in the country from which he came they sometimes "proved our doctrine orthodox by pugilistic blows and knocks," and that they follow up this course by voting at the polls. Major Butler brought a lot of ap plause when he told how Sampson has steadily increased her Republi can majority, and does this when there is no Democratic year. His district, he said, had polled more Re publican and fewer Democratic votes than any of them. Mr. W. J. Andrews, of the Fourth District, said perhaps fifty words. Colonel Council S. Wooten. When Mr. Wooten arose to tell of the glories of the Whig party and confessed himself the oldest of the men, yet the most heavily laden, he began an apothesis to the party. He hit the heavenly rafters, soared into the empyrean and drank nec tared concoctions by the hogshead. "Fine English, fine English," Col onel Walter Henry shouted from the side-lines and bleachers. Mr. Wooten went into a history of the parties. He told how his tastes had always been literary, bat tha all the things that he h4 written that struck the popular fancy, were those that were addressed to the ani mal appetite of North Carolinians. "Dot for those good eatings of tht East. I would have lived to be ISO. I am 7 1 )ean young now," he said. When Colonel Wooten told how the good Uquor of the old days tatt ed and the banqueters put up a great shout. Drunks on the new booze, he said, lay one oat. Mr. I. B. Tucker, for the Sixth District, raised the roof. He con gratulated the oSce-bolders. He had seen them at many conventions. "I like their looks," he said. "They appeared to be well fed, rather than bled. (Great applause.) "And if you want to be fed and not bled, stick to Mr. Morehead, and I am not a poet." This sally at the Duncan it es caused a great cbesr. Mr. Tuck er declared that if the party would come over to help them and they didn't win, the district would be will ing to be annexed to Governor Blease of South Carolina. Mr. Clarence Call, of the "State of Wilkes." spoke for the Seventh Dis trict. He told how the county Is hated, swung from ocean to Tennes see, now tagged on to the Seventh. He said it would carry that district just as it had done all others. Mr. Call raised a great cheer when he said Wilkes started Settle into politics and made him the boy Solici tor over R. B. Glenn, "And I hope to help make him Governor of North Carolina, 'he said. ; Mr. R. C. McNeill, of Wilkes, spoke for the Eighth District, spoke for that bailiwick in the place of A. H. Price, who was absent. It is worth mentioning that Mr. Price was with Congressman Cowles in the contest for Salisbury's postmastership, Mr. Price being a cousin of Mr. W. H. Hobson. Mr. McNeill declared that the fine assembly that is transacting business here and dining, is one that must command the respect of the people. A speech that brought the great est applause was that from Colonel Thurston T. Hicks. He was discuss ing the "Non-Partisan Judiciary." It was an exceedingly bright one, and when he referred to a non-partisan judiciary's coming in North Carolina to mean "a Democratic judiciary," the applause was tremendous. He caused another outburst when he re ferred to the policy of Governor Wil son to publish the endorsers of Fed eral judges, he said: "We will wait till Mr. Roosevelt steals that plank from the 'Peerless One' before we adopt it." The speech was an ex ceedingly clever one. Mr. Charles J. Harris spoke for the Tenth District and he prophfe sled the continued growth of his party. . District Attorney A. E. Holton toasted, "We Can Win Again." Tak ing as his text Democratic inactiv ities, the exceeding great interest in passenger rates which they had to correct, he declared, and their fail ure to urge and secure freight 'rates. Mr. Holton declared an article in this paper a few days ago criticising the Corporation Commission in this matter, got into the paper because of the illness of its editor. It didn't cause much of a ripple. It happen ed to be a mistake on the part of the speaker. Mr. Fred W. Thomas, toasting "Back to the Constitution," made a most dignified address, almost free from partisan references. He ap pealed for the rule of the courts against the mob. Former Lieutenant-Governor Chas. A. Reynolds, on "Our Debt to Our Papers," said: "We owe a great debt to our Republican papers, one we can't pay. We owe nothing to some papers pretending to be Repub lican, but which deserted our party's principles. They died and deserved to die. We owe nothing to them and God knows nothing to our Democrat ic papers." He complimented the school law of the Republican Legislature, charg ed Democratic extravagance and asked "where was Aycock's mocking bird in the New Bern trouble?" He is a good story-teller and had some that rattled the dry bones of the crowd. He thought some of the Democratic papers as fair as they knew how to be, but "they need much educating," he said. Mr. T. E. Owens introduced at midnight, came out for a big morn ing daily in Raleigh and a county pa per in every county. "If we had a justice (referring to Mr. Reynolds) in every county, we'd carry the State Republican. "The Lawyer in Politics" was the toast of G. Sam Bradshaw. He had the crowd continually laughing. He said he had come In late, having heard that Mr. Holton had taken his dress suit, "I had to go back to get mine. I never had seen him in such costume before." Mr. Bradshaw made a mo3t earn est appeal to the banquet board to credit President Taft. Mr. Bradshaw had regarded a great lawyer as the salvation of this nation. He said President Taft had always ignored Mr. Bradshaw's recommendations, but said Taft was right. Yells for Taft. Mr. Bradshaw assailed what he called the dangerous theories of Mr. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. There was applause, unsteady, nerv ous and uncertain. Then Roosevelt yells went up, not boisterous, not rowdy, hut it could have been made big tfeaoastrattoa with a Uttlt couragrnent. Mr. Bradshaw footed Jodre w. f. Brnass as a Taft can who thought a taessage to the basqnttm a good thing to discuss. Urn hJkd daa i! gave "Postmasters May Help. The young oScer has the blggst vole of them all and told a good story illustrating how a postmaster may overdo the thing. Mr. Ragan para phrased a doggerel, which caused a lot of laughter. Mr. J. 13 wood Cos. Mr. J. HI wood Cox was Intro duced about 12:25. He discussed "Currency Reform Mr. Settle, in troducing him, said the people re jected a great business man, who j defeat meant disaster. j Mr. Cot's speech was entirely J technical, and was directed with a 1 view to showing how panics may be ! averted. He declared thst despite the fact that the muck rakers have been after Senator Aldrtch's plan, he believed it a good thing and that Mr. Aldrich had an eye to justice for the South when he planned it. Mr. Cox trembled at the thought of a "Democratic House, Senate and theorist for President," who might destroy such a bill as thl. He phrophesied a great Republican vic tory. State and Nation. Judge W. S. O'B. Robinson, Judge W. S. O.'B. Robinson was introduced "at the witching hour." and had the crowd howling. He quoted Mr. Dooley as author ity for the sentiment that a man's mouth may get him in trouble. He promised not to say anything to of fend the occasion. He said he "was a Radical from Radlcalville at the head of Radical Crick." He got out of the Republi can party and jined the Radical. Judge Robinson said the distin guished Chairman had said there would be no political references. He would not follow those who had done so. "Cries of hurrah for Robinson!" "We'll prove that to the people la ter on." (More applause.) The Judge declared himself willing to do any thing for the party but "tell lies and go to hell." Colonel Logan Harris on "Raleigh Not So Dry," said the table gave an swer to one part of the speech. "I don't know whether it is local or In terstate traffic," he said. "And I sup pose it won't be any drier May 15." Colonel Harris said he was a Re publican at seventeen. He came from the West. The Republicans had done their work there. "More attention should be paid to the East," he said and he was happy to have the convention to come to Ral eigh. Secretary Grissom. "A Few Details," was the toast of the secretary. He pledged his whole life to the party, which he said he loved as he does nothing else on-earth. He spoke handsomely of his chief. "A man who asks nothing and gives everything," he said. This brought big applause. Mr. Grissom declared that within twenty-four hours he will be back at Greensboro and send ing out 50,000 letters calling atten tion to the coming election and to prepare for that event by paying poll taxes. He read a letter of regrets from Sylvester T. Everette from Brevard who could not come. When Toastmaster Settle intro duced former Senator Butler, pre senting him as a man "loved for the enemies he has made," the crowd went wild. It was the biggest dem onstration of the night. Mr. Butler complimented Secre tary Grissom on his work. He said "Principles Will Win," his toast, if they are properly presented. "They fail if left to incompetent or dishon est men. Mr. Butler brought down the house on the "local self-government" issue. He said more blood had been spilled on that issue than any other. He said he was born into a party which he had to leave for "its treachery to the principle of local self-government." This renew ed the discussion of the local self government issue sprung by Colonel Skinner. Mr. Butler called no names, but when he discussed the wresting of the State Chairmanship from men who were trying to dictate to the people of the country, the crowd appeared to understand to whom he referred. He Invited the people to come back here May 15th and finish the job of house-cleaning begun two years ago. He referred to the "dirty pie-counter parceling jobs' and caused a great yell. "Our Presidential differences we can forget," he said, "let us finish house-cleaning; and let us stand for John Motley Morehead for State Chairman and local self-government." (Great applause.) Mr. Butler spoke after 1 o'clock, hut the crowd jelled for him to con tinue. At 1:30 a big clamor for Set tle began He arose simply to say a few words on "Our State and Our Party." He spoke of the quadrennial signs of Democratic life which he declared to be "dying convulsions." He ad mitted the Republican troubles, but said they are nothing to those of the Democrats. "Whatever they are," he declared, "I do not believe that God Almighty hates this Republic so badly as to afflict it with another Democratic administration." : Mr. Settle dfclar4 thai th Dt craUc ny had for a Wag Us ?a cwaied the eiffrr-ac, tml r?rr4 to the Wllsos-&ryanWatrssn-itar tey-Wilsca iroasit as showing tfee lark of harssoay. He loe4 at I: IS with sa ass-tal for opttsaissa. Ilorml rm IViitrrr aaS IV. Lincoln TlseaJ As lose as the rcral fr 4trry of mail lasts It will b a staples moaacseat to the Bscs f Marten Iluiler, who srsrrd th rt appro priation for this purpo Sow w are to have pare Is post, whkh is another grrat reform la mail senile for wbkh Mr. Ostler labored hl! la the Ssste. 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