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BY Simmons Reiterates Charges Made in Original Statement Challenge to Senator Pritchard and Republican Leaders to State in Explicit and Un equivocal Terms the Purpose of the Republican Party With Reference to the Amendment The People Entitled to a Direct Answer to This Challenge Says the Senator. News an.! Observer, July llth. Senator Simmons yesterday gave out the following interview in answer to the statement made bv .Senator Pritchard : "After waiting a whole week. Sena tor Pritchard. in a statement charac terized by artful special pleading and more remarkable for what it does not say than for what it does say. attempts aud pretends to an swer my interview of the 3rd instant. Much of his "yiterview is devoted to a discussion of National politics and negro domination in North Carolina during the dark and stormy period when he and liutb-r ruled supreme, and but little of it is devotrd to the question at issue, and tlial little is cuticlied in general terms, selected with the utmost caution and hedged by equivocating ciualiticutiwus. The closing scnteuces of my interview was an unmistakable challenge to Senator Pritchard aud the Republi can leaders to state in explicit and uuequi vocal terms the purpose of the Republican patty with reference to the amendment. It invited and ci!I:d for a direct statemunt as to whether that party accepted the dual and seUlement of t,!B "eg question. "Leaving out of consideration the question of the alleged conspiracy, in view of the fact that the Republieen leaders had declared upon every slump in the State in the campaign of 11)00. that thev regarded the amendment as an outrage and uncou stitutioiial ami that they would ap peal to the courts if it passed, and that the courts would, without hesi lation, annul it. the people of the State were clearly entitled to have a direct and emphatic answer to that challenge. 'In the long, laboriously prepared and carefully worded renlv of Sena tor Pritchard, there is not one sylla ble, word or sentence which asserts that his party either accepts the amendment or that it will not, after it goes into effect, appeal to the courts to set it aside. On the contra ry, the only logical mierence mat can be drawn from his silence upon this subject, under the circum stances, is that they do not accept the amendment and have not changed their purpose, loudly proclaimed in 190), to invoke the judgment of the court upou its constitutionality. "What the people of North Carolina want and what they have a right to ask of the Republican party is a di rect and specific answer to this chal lenge. Upon the forthcoming of that answer roust necessarily depend the character of the approacbinjjeam-oaio-n, for it is as much the duty of the Democratic party to defeud aud safeguard the Amendment from an nulment by the courts as it was to pass it. "I am not of that credulous and complacent kind who supinely hug the delusive hope that the Republican leaders in North Carolina have aban doned all expectation of retaining the negro vote. If I had entertained any doubt about its purpose in this regard that doubt would be removed character of Senator Pritchard's answer, together with the character of campaign which the enemies of Democracy are making in North Carolina today a campaign an Til an ifeet.lv in harrnonv with the plan outlined in the information upon which ruv interview was based that no man who is not blind can fail to Sl'P. I re-assert tny coutidence in the Hcpumcv ol tne mioruianum utw" li inv interview wasba?ed. I re assert it, first, because my informant :o of ih. most nrominent men in the state, resoected by all for .Treat ab litv and lor nis umeisuuj - -- i . . , .- ... . n conceded high character, and because he was known to me to be in a posi tion which would enable him to se-r-nre information upon the subject i.rmt which he si)oke. Because he rd me he did not speak from iaohiro but from knowledge. And because there was no motive why he . ,n .1.1 mhlMd me. while there is the highest motive for the tirTii ini w i mis Republican managers. My informant U kwver ot the hijrhest standing in his profession and at the time he n.nimnn;potil this information to V. KJ ILJ Ui vtwi-"- ho exnressed the opinion that the the Amendment at the time agreed upon would be danj Sair "an to warn tnTpe to' the Z r he dot mteht bePthwarted. auty as j " i in the correctness of my information upon the ground that the plan of cam- paicrn already inaugurated by the ReouUicans is alone the lines indi- . m information IB me corrrauc53 u. TipniiVlieans is alone tbe lines inai- ShiNhecWe that they SrtheTmUdmrnt is in entire ac- conl with all of their declarations i i l tl a nrmrt to Jsftt with reference to iuai measuio upou- . . ... ; f lonn -f ro tw.tlmt assault was to be iv inaae in iu f-'b" .ti-. hnrt1v before trie elec- v. . . . s.. : t ! a L-Bonintr witn tne ..i.w. -j ..... r;,iBf.,rMh the leaders of that ... ,,t.,i 1 v. -ii snotor Will IIUICU (.uav . - n.tt.u.. s Ma arwwor ttiTirts but ' i4An . a nf Iha Q ppn 1 ' I ) 1 1 1 1 1 1 III: and that both of them are couched in iu ucumio .r. generalities of the most suspicious n.tnn Tn one he denies that the 'Uenublicans hare conspired or con suited as to the policy mentioned by Senator Simmons.1 In the other he denies anv knowledge of the 'propo- referred to by Senator Sim sition mons.' In the one instance it is a policy which he denies, and that is the 'policy' referred to by me. In the other it is a 'proposition1 which he denies, and that is the proposi tion referred' to by me. No one will contend that this is a specific or any denial of a purpose to attack the Amendment. No one will contend that it is an assertion of a purpose to accept the Amendment. "Now I charged upon reliable in formation that it was the purpose of ho l?orui til ina n landrc liv tho iica ff money (and I might have added Fed eral patronage) to stir up strife and dissension among the white people who vote the Democratic ticket and to encourage independeutism and promote bolting of Democratic nomi nations. The Senator denies this. Can we accept his denial? Has not that kind of a campaign already been inaugurated? Has it not made open progress in North Carolina siDce my interview was published? During the past week, on the 4th of July, two prominent men in NorthCarolina, both kuown to be out of touch with the Democratic party, one in the Western end of the State and the other in the Eastern end of the State, took advantage of that patriotic oc casion to criticise the uemocratic put ty and to make an appeal to the people for independent action. Does anybody doubt what they meant? Ia the last few days a well known gen tleman in the central part of the State has been approached by a lead ing Republican with the proposition to run as an independent candidate against the regularDemocratic ticket, with the promise if he would do so he would be taken care of.1 Taken care of how? liy being given a Fed erel ollice? Is there anybody in North Carolina who does not know the Republican party is using today all the resources it can employ to bring about a Democratic bolt of the nomination of Judsre Clark? Who dees not know that they are now aud have been for weeks industriously seekino- to get some Democrat to con sent to the use of hi3 name as an in dependent candidate agaiDst him? That has become an open secret. 'This part of the 'policy,' this part of the 'proposition,1 this part of tbe 'conspiracy1 deals with the pres ent. In the face of the situation in North Carolina today and the devel opment of the last week does anybody doubt that this part of the program is being vigorously put into execu tion? "The other part of the 'policy' or 'proposition1 or 'conspiracy1 re lates to the future, and for myself I have no doubt if, when the time comes, it shall be deemed expedient for the purpose of the Republican leaders, it also will materialize. The Senator also says in his an swer that the 'policy1 outlined by me or the 'proposition' made by rue with reierence to the amendment couia noi be carried out because of legal diffi culties. He argues that the poll tax feature of the Amendment is clearly constitutional, and says that 'any one versed in legal procecdure must be aware of the fact that no question can be decided in a law suit which is not raised bv the pleadings.' Exactly. Rut the shrewd lawyers who woum brino- this suit would of course not only allege in 'the pleadings1 that the complainant was denied tne rigui 10 vote because he had hot paid his poll tax, but that, the provision of the Constitution requiring the payment of poll tax was a part of the section of the Constitution which contains the grandfather clause, and that the Constitution provided that the whole should stand or fall together, anu that therefore if any part of the sec tion was in conflict with the Consti tution of the United Stab s, the whole was unconstitutional and that the complainant was being deprived ot his right to vote under an indis Mnuy cannected unconstitutional eunuu ment. Did we not amend the Amend ment because it was claimed that un less it showed upon its face that it was the purpose ot tne legislature that the whole should stand or fall together, a part might be constitu tional and a part unconstitutional, and did we not say ihat we would not leave that to inference, and thouo-h the legislative intent seemed clear we would so fix the Amendment that it would be impossible that any part of it could stand if any part of it was held unconstitutional? I do not believe there is a lawyer in the State, including Senator Pritchard. who does not know that if any part of this Amendment be unconstitu tional, a voter who loses his right to vnt hi- virtue of anv other part of it can appeal to the court for protec Hon upon tne grounu ne . uctua i i i unconstitutional law. I have dis cussed this matter with three of the ablest lawyers in the State, and they all express the unqualihed opinion that tbe constitutionality of the Amendment can be attacked in this wav. Rut Senator Pritchard says his party does not propose to attack the Amendment in the way I have ind - i That. wav. n savs. ne WOUld be Deset Wlin legal Uiwuu.iica would be beset wun i, Tbe question is does attack it at all? H minds one forcibly of ..: : ua n,nnnM to is position re 1 Ha sr.-rv of the 'u'"uv r ,J Y i- negro parson who enquired of his I uuv lumen ot iiic v "MW week of his period of probation .. to whether he bad committed during --j -- --- I known to have been addicted to - . . . . , Asked tne parson: iutbjou any uujrs iuis wcck; vr i . i : , 1. Ol iV norinn I . .. .1 Inrl.ra this I Hav e uu siuicu auj v ' J week?' -No, parson.' 'Have you I stolen any cnicKensr -u, I A few minutes after the new convert - I remarked to his chum: 'De parson I nuAoAil ma miirKf If Vl O l-rl Tf hp. hd V 1 UI Uiluvi it . . . " , , , 1.1 u- just axea aooui uucks, ne wuuw u KOicneu me. lae apuiicatiuu . ay ipplicatio parent. Had I said srandfatner clause instead or poll tax clause, might have -kotched' him. "Senator rntchard intimates tnai I am reckless in my statements be - 1 cause Mipon information,' I hare ex posed an alleged scheme of his party j swered but they have no relevancy to to foment independentism and bolts the subject under consideration, and and to stir up strife in the Democrat- i they can wait until the time for their ic party in the early stages of this discussion arrives. Enough has been campaign, and after the Amendment ! said to show that his answer is a goes into effect to seek to have ii set shrewd dodge; that it in do way en aside by the courts. He intimates lightens the people as to tbe attitude that this is a serious charge and ' of his party on the suffrage question. 1 ought not to have been made upon 'information.1 It is a charge of a purpose to do what in part they have already done, and it is a charge of a purpose to do what they had boldly declared in 1909 on every stump in tbe State they intended to do. No one, so far as I know, complains of the exposure except the Republicans (and they were expected to complain) and certain Democrats who have re cently become noted for their criti cisms of the Democratic party and its leaders and who speak more often in terms of approval and commendation than in criticisms of the opponents of Democracy. Why are these people so stirred up over this exposure? Why should they be so cock sure to carry out their ante-election threat against the Amendment? Why do they go into hysterics when it is charged that the Republicans art fo menting independentism in North Carolina? 'But Senator Pritchard issued an address not long since to the people of North Carolina in which he did a little 'charging1 based upon 'informa tion.1 I refer to his address, issuod April 8, 1902, signed by him as Chair man of the Republican State Execu tive Committee and issued by the direction of the Republican State Ex ecutive Committee. In that inter view he used this language: 'I am informed that the leaders of the Dem ocratic party propose to try to induce the county commissioners in the va rious counties where they are in con trol to release from payment of poll tax all those who fail to pay their taxes on or before the first day of Mav, provided they agree to vote the Democratic ticket, regardless of the fact as to whether or not they come within the provisions of the statute which authorizes the commis sioners in certain cases to exercise discretion.1 "Here is a charge made by the Re publican chairman and Senator that the Democratic party proposed to try to induce the commissioners of the Democratic counties, in violation of law and in disregard of their oaths of office, to release from payment of poll tax all persons who have not paid their tax according to law who would 'agree1 to vote 'the Democratic ticket.1 Was there ever a more slan derous, outrageous and uu founded charge promulgated in the State, a charge of corruption against the whole Democratic party, a charge that it would attempt to induce the Democratic commissioners of the State to commit bald-faced perjury for partisan purposes, and this charge based upon 'information?1 That the charge was slanderous has been proved by events. I do not recall any very vigorous censure of Senator Pritchard for publishing this slander from those who are now going into hysterics over my exposure. I do not recall any protest on their part upon the ground of its 'improbabil ity,' although it was absurd and ri diculous upon its face. These things are pertinent, these things are sig nificant. The people of -North Caro lina should reflect upon them, and they should ask themselves whether these things do not indicate that the Republican plan of campaign, as out lined by my informant, is already at work in North Carolina and far ad vanced. "In less than a fortnight after Sen ator Pritchard's address to the people, an extract from which has been quoted, the Republican commission ers of Madison county, where the Senator lives, sitting in Mars kail, bis home town, are charged to have done the identioal thing which he harged the Democrats intended to have done in uemocratic counties, and there is no other county in the Slate where this unlawful thing was done. The Senator savs in his interview that there has 'never been any negro domination in North Carolina as a State.1 That question has been de cided against the Senator by a ma- ority of sixty thousand votes. This statement of the Senator is, there fore, to use the now famous language of Senator Beveridge, 'unwarranted.' The Senator qualities his stateraeot that there has been no negro domina tion in North Carolina by adding the words as a State.1 I suppose he means there was none in the section of the State where he lives. More than any other man in the State, the Senator is responsible for the twenty- seven negro postmasters and the one thousand negro onice holders tnat his party placed in authority over the white people of Eastern North Carolina when it was in power. He and his Republican associates in the West had enough of the spirit of Anglo-Saxon manhood not to want in the part of the State in which they lived the horrible conditions tbey had helped to force upon the white people of the East, and it comes with, ill grace for them, to mock the white people of the East, on whose neck they put tne rutniess neei oi negro . . .. ... domination, with the statement 'we had none of it in our section of the State.1 The fact that the Senator appointed negro postmasters in the East and would not appoint then in his own section of the State makes his crime against the white people all the worse. The people of North Car olina have not forgotten these negro office holders and they have not for gotten who brought them into exist ence and placed tnem over mem, nu if, when the party which perpetrated this preat outrage appeals to the white people of the State for their votes they are overcome by the mem ory of those horrible days and cry nearo,' the Senator and his confreres nil o-ht not to be offended. 'The Senator in his long and rath er rambling stamp speech says some nthir tmncrs wnicu JUIilUl o an VbUVl KJ and that current events are daily justifying my statement as to the policy his party will pursue in this campaign.11 Don't Fail to Try This. Whenever an honest trial is given to Electric Bitters for any trouble it is recom mended for a permanent cure will surely he effected. It never faite to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, invigorate the nerves and nurif the blood. It's a wonderful tonic for run-down systems. 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Some of Senator Pritchard's admi rers have been praising him for se curing the passage of a bill through Congress which will give pensions to soldiers who deserted from the Con federate army and then fonght in the Union armv. We fail to see the credit he caa claim, or how praise can be awarded him, for placing a premium on per fidy and rewarding a soldier for de serting and fighting his own kith and kin! It is bad enough for a soldier to desert his colors and comrades. It is still worse for him to enlist with the foe and fight his former comrades. Bnt the worst of all is to boast of re warding him for such despicable per fidy and betrayal! No brave and honest man would or should sanction such conduct. Saves a Woman's Life. To have given up would have meant death for Mrs. Lois Craig, ot Dorchester, Mass. For years she had endured untold misery from a severe lung trouble and ob stinate coueh. "Often." she writes, "I con Id scarcely breathe and sometimes could not speak, 'till 1 used k. 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You have come together from all parts of our State as her chosan representatives to promote her welfare and to achieve her highest good. You do not repre sent all the people of North Carolina, and yet all. Democrats and Republi cans alike, -are vitally interested in the results of your deliberations. You hold in your hands her destinies. Twelve hundred men are acting for two million citizens of a sovereign State. Who are you and by what authority are you clothed with such power? The answer to this question shows how near "is the Democratic party to the people. If it were pos sible the Democratic plan of organ ization would provide a vast amphi theatre where all qualified citizens could assemble and act for themselves on all questions oi government. As this is not possible, the next plan is adopted and in countless precinct primaries, the Democratic hosts have met and every fifty men have selected a man to act for them in the county convention, and at 97 county conven tions every 150 men have selected a delegate to represent them in this, the General Assembly of the unterri fied. The plan is as nearly perfect as man can devise, and if this con vention should not fully represent the ideals and aspirations of a major ity of the people of North Carolina, it'would be the fault of the people themselves. There is no place in such a plan for ring rule and boss ism, of which wo sometimes hear, and in nine cases out of ten the ring exists only in the imagination of some disgruntled candidate, or some citi zen who never attends a primary. To take an active interest in politics is not only a citizen's privilege, but it is his sacred duty. What right have I to shirk the primary and convention and leave to my neighbors the duty of maintaining for me and my chil dren the blessings of liberty and good government:" In time or war we look with contempt and abhor rence upon the man who skulks and refuses to light in the hour of his country's peril. Shall we forget that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" and that peace has her war fares, which tax the courage and fidelity of the citizen? The excuses which men make for their failure in this great and important duty are numerous, but we will have time to consider only a few. Some men say that politics i3 a dirty business and that they will not have anj-thing to do with it. This sentiment we hear only too often, and that too among good men. God save the State and nation where such a sentiment be comes dominant. Then indeed would politics become a business and doubt less a very dirty one; with the men of character standing apart, wrapped in their robes of righteousness, and care lessly watching tbe spoliation of their country. If it is a dirty business, it is the fault of these very men, who, instead of going about and speaking of the evils and corruption of the politicians, should do a man's part in correcting the evils and stamping out the corruption. But, say some, we would be in the minority, and would be outvoted by those who are in it only for what they can get out of it. This is not true, certainly not in North Carolina. I am one of those that believe in tbe saving morality and common sense of the people and am certain that as long as the people of North Carolina take an active in terest in their politics, corruption J cannot permanently exist As another excuse for failure of dutv, we hear men say that they do not'go to tbe primary and convention because some man may be nominated or some measure approved which they cannot vote for. These men leave out of consideration the fact that a Republic must necessarily be governed by parties. If a man be longs to neither party he is forced at election day to throw away his vote, or to the narrow choice ol one of two candidates in whose nomination he had no voice. The wiser course would seem to be that of going to the primary where his vote and influence will have some weight. If his choice wins, he has helped to make possible the election of the candidate, who in his opinion, is the best man. If bis candidate is defeated for the nomina tion and he is forced to vote lor a man who is not so well qualified, or who is nos eveu a good man, he has th satisfaction of knowing that he fought him where fighting is needed and where there is some chance ol success. The true position is to always bow to the majority of your party, bnt see to it. if possible, that the majority is on your side. A generous fight for nrin pinle. however vigorous, if made inside the party, will never perma nently injure it, and every Demo crat has the right to fight for prin ciple. It mav not be necessary to urge j upon North Carolina Democrats tbe datv of being loyal to their party it ry t ... i . j r . would seem not. nea we siuuy n. history since the Civil war, we won der that a true son oi Carolina coma be anything else. A plundered State pros trate in nnserv. v nil was jeit by tbe wreck and rain of war had been gleaned by the greedy hand of the scallawag and the carpet-bagger bankrupt, degraded and humiliated she lay. Her credit was trailed in the dost, while the ignorant negro and the shameless interloperand alien cocked their feet upon the desks where statesmen had toiled and filled with loud, swelling words the halls where once true eloquence was wont to ring. The children of the State were untaught, in order that scoun drels might hold high carnival upon their ill-gotten wealth. By herculean effort and by the providence of God, who was unwilling that virtue, in telligence and character should alto gether perish, we conquered and snatched from them the reins of gov ernment. e cleaned out the Augean stables, purified the fountains of jus tice, and substituted integrity for thievery, honor for treachery, moral ity for vice, intelligence instead of barbaric ignorance and statesmen in the place of cunning demagogues and their empty-headed dupes. I pray God that my heart may never become so callous that I should cease to honor the men that wrought that victory. From the humblest patriotic worker to the magnificent leaders of the tight let us enerave their memory upon the enduring: tablets of .our hearts. They fought a bloodless battle, amid discouragements and criticisms pos sibly from Democrats themselves; the men who organized the forces for the battle were doubtless called the "machine;" but they served well their beloved State and worked a miracle. Under its fostering care, the State arose and girded herself. She repair ed the waste places, replanted the barren fields, rebuilt the burned homes, and redeemed her lost credit. In the midst of her dire poverty, she established schools for both races, and gave an exhibition of magna naraity unexampled in the history of the world. She climbed slowly at first but with increasing speed; she toiled patiently and reaped the sure reward. She fostered education, as sisted the orphan, trained and sup ported the deaf, dumb and blind and with the tenderness of a mother nursed and soothed .those who dwelt in mental darkness. No scandals marred the administration of the party during all those years, for men of character and honor were at the helm. Finally, however, there was dissatisfaction in tbe ranks. Dema gogues stole away the affection of some of the sturdy yeomanay, and by an unholy alliance swept from power the party which had for so long pre served tbe State from disgracs. The old leaders were set aside, and the rest is familiar history. Only too well do we remember when as a little band, saved to the party as brands from the burning, we sat in the Legis lative halls and heard the chief bene ficiary in his inaugural address gloat ing over what he in his shortsighted ness thought was the grave of the Democratic party. "Whom the gods woud destroy they first make mad." Drunk with excess of power, leaders and tin- derstrappers alike abandoned all re- straint. Scandals became the order of the day; extravagance and jobbery were only too frequent, cities were turned over to negroes and incompe tents, and again the State hung her head in shame. Then it was the old State looked around for a strong man to lead her out of her confusion and troubles. All predicted defeat, and success indeed did seem far away. It required a genius for organization, a matchless skill and tact, a brave heart, an inflexible will, a keen vision and cool head to lead the defeated hut unterrified Democracy to victory, but such a man was found and the li;ht was won. He was slandered and abused by the enemy, and he be came the best hated man in the State, but with sledge-hammer blows he drove them to the wall. I can wish no higher honor for F. M. Sim mons than the enmity and fear of those who would humiliate our State. Again the seas arecalmand the winds are fair. Our projrress along all lines of industry is wonderful. We rejoice in our factories and mills, our farms and mines. Tbe Democratic party believes in fostering and encouraging them all. A campaign of education is in progress, led by our eloquent (iovernor. How different his admin istration from that of his immediate predecessor. The latter marred by scandals and vacillations, and con trolled by whims and caprices; the former noted for its purity, ability and the steadiness of purpose to ad rance the State's best interests. Of such a party every Democrat may well be proud, tor such a party we may well make concessions for the sake of harmony. Iet us present in State and Nation a solid front to tbe enemv and titrht for the enduring principles of the party. And al though the thoughtless may impugn your motivesand tbe enemy carp and backbite with their tongues, tbe peo ple will rejoice andyour children will rise up and call you blessed. THIS WILL INTEREST MANY. To noickly introduce B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), tbe famous Koutbern blood cure, into new homes, we will send, abso lutely free, 10,000 trial treatment, lkrtanjc Blood Balm (B. B. 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