Established 1899
JUDGE WALTER CLARK AND
MR. H. S. WARD SPEAK HERE
Mr. Ward Says Simmons Lobbied
Against Railroad Income Tax
in State Senate
HE AND SENATOR BAILEY ARE TWO OF A KIND
Bailey Prompting Simmons When
Kern was Challenging Simmons
on His Lumber Vote Defence
Judge Clark Elabo
rates the Planks
in His Famous
Platform.
Ex Solicitor Hallett S. Ward
and Chief Justice Walter Clark
spoke to a good siz*i crow! at
the Thornton Academy of Music
Friday eveninir. The veterans
were out in full force t> greet
Judge Clark, and he paid them
and Catawba county a high trib
ute for service both in war and
peace.
It was virtually the christening
of the newly painted and re-ar
ranged opera house.
Mr. sDoke first and was
neatly introduced by Mr. W. A.
Self. Mr. Ward is a young man,
and evidently a coming man in
the State. He snaps with per
sonal magnetism like a live
wire. His voice is strong, his
choice of words discriminating,
his mind a store-house of choice
quotations, his powers of analy
sis keen, his knowledge of polit
ical conditions complete, and his
courage of conviction Bryan
esque. His Bp>e:h flows abng
like a river. He tells a story
well, and hib sttire is as cut
ting as Voltaire's. He is good
looking himself and can always
speak better when the ladies are
out. He never seems to lock the
house, and the latch-strings hang
outside all over him. His frank
ness and openness are refresh
ing. He looks you right in the
eye.
The next Governor after Craig
will come from the East. If that
neck of the woods should be gone
over with a fine tooth comb, a
more available man for the
place could not be found
than this young lawyer of Little
Washington.
JUDGE CLARK'S WAY.
Judtre Clark was "forceful in
his speech. He elaborated in iti
the planks in his now famous
platform. He is saturated with
progressiveism. Before Bryan
began his career, Judge Clark!
was advocating the initiative and
referendum, and the parcels |
post. He makes a great point of
compelling the Yankees to diyvy
with us on the enormous pension
money that has been such a
drain on the pocket-books of the
tax-payers, and doubtless if he
reaches the Senate he will be
able to get this scheme enacted
into law, for the Blue is in
clined to be generous to the
Gray in these latter days.
Judge Clark is a great thinker.
He will rank in our judicial his
tory with Iredell, Ruffin and
Pearson. It is good to look at
his good gray head as he speaks.
In his style of oratory his studi
ous habits of life assert them
selves, and >ou can see his words
racing like Olympic athletes
to catch up with his thoughts.
He is dead in earnest, and the
consistency of a life-time is back
of all his promises.
Mr. Ward spoke first and
said;
PARTY CAN'T EXIST DIVIDED.
I am up here tonight because
of the great division of opinion
and sentiment in the Democratic
party. his division is real and
nut imaginary. Nobody can fail
to see it. I am not trying to
make it wider, but to discuss it
as it exists among men who
nval each other in loyalty to the
Democratic party. We can read
nobody out ot the party for this u
ior Gov. ki.chin can no more
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
read Senator Simmons out of th?
p*rtv than a eunoch could have
read M->se.s out of the synagogue
Lincoln rieiKred that this, natioi
could not exist, slave ano
half free and the great truth re
verberated over this nation ana
shook it as no political proposi
tions ever shook it before I
declare with equal truth that the
Democratic party cannot exist
half reactionary and half pro
gressive and this impossibility
brings me here tonight,
4 T don't want to see the divi
sion we had in 1893 that drove
us into 27 years of defeat and
death. I don't want to see a
Democratic House sending over
Democratic measures to the
Senate, and a Democrati; Senate
as in '93, under the leadership
of such a valiant Democrat as
Arthur Pue Gorman, destroying
those measures, and a Demo
cratic President declaring that
"the people would mark where
the deadly blight of treason had
blasted the councils of the brave
in their hour of mighty
SIMMONS ADMITS n VOTES
AGAINST PARTY.
"This division is Democratic
opinion has kept us in defeat 22
years, and nobody will say that
Gorman was not a greater Dem
ocrat from experience and party
service than is Simmons, and I
declare to you that the differen
ces between Gorman and the
Democratic house were net half
so great as has been the differ
ence between Simmons and- the
Democratic caucus of the House.
Gorman voted one time against
a Democratic House and Sim
mons has voted 11, according to
his own statement, as 1 now
read them to you, and on pre
cisely the same character of
questions, directly against the
caucus of a Democratic House."
The speaker was quite caustic
by the way in his criticisms of
Simmons 11 votes wrong. Kitch
in had accused the Senator of
voting 19 times against his Dem
ocratic associates, and the Sen
ator replied: No, he had ONLY
voted 11 times that way. Eleven is
such a few times to vote wrong,
you know. Judas did not betray
his Master but one time. "1
don't believe Simmons ever ac
cepted a bribe," said the speak
er, "but there are influences
brought to bear upon our actions
so subtle that human perception
cannot even understand thein.
BaiJey and Simmons have voted
together on almost every ballot.
Bailey has just rolled Simmons
|up and dumped him into the lap
; of Wall street.
BAILEY PROMPTED SIMMONS.
"But the great state of Texas
has repudiated Bailey, since he
was caught with his arm up to
the shoulder in Standard Oil.
Yet when Kern challenged Sim
mons to prove that the North
Carolina Democracy had ever
repudiated the Democratic plat
form on the demand for free
lumber, Bailey sat behind Sim
mons telling him how to answer."
Taking up the thread of his
argument again, Mr. Ward con
tinued: "I want Wilson to have
a unanimous Democracy of his
own kind. Mr. Morrison and
Capt. Ashe say the platform
has eliminated free lumber and
therefore come over to Simmons.
I ask if it has, why has it not
come over to Bailey? And yet
Bailey says his party h«s left
him, as he is as lonesome as
Patience on a monument smiling
at Grief. But since Simmons
has been in the Senate he and
Bailey have been two minds
with but a single thought, two
hearts that beat as one. They
have voted together, have stood
together, have walked, talked
and prayed together, and how
then did Simmons keep up with
the procession and Bailey get
left? The Texas Democracy have
repudiated him.
WHO WOULD VOTE FOR CLARK
"I submit this test. Call up
Chas. Murphy, of Tammany
Hall, Col. Guffey, of Pennsyl
vania, Tom Taggart, Roger
Sullivan, August Belmont, Pier
pont Morgan and Thomas Ryan,
and go over to the race tracks of
HICKORY, N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15, 1912
" - . . U
Ireland and get Dick Groker and
let them vote for a Senator for
this state, *nd every Simmons
man in Catawba county knowt
that every vote would be cast for
Simmons! Put in Judgfe Parker
with his compromising suavity
and he'd split the difference and
vote for Kitchin!
4 'Now on the other hand call
up Wm. Jennings Bryan, Wood
row ' Wilson, Gov. Marshall,
Senator Kern, and Senator Gore,
and if I could summons the dead
here tonight I would add Zebulon
B Vance to the list, and every
vote would be cast for Judge
Clark, and you know it as welt
as you know which way a rabbit
was running when you have
seen his tracks in the snow!
"'Kitchin and Simmons are
charging and counter-charging
on theii relative virtues and
personalities. Everybody knows
both are telling the truth. North
Carolina never elected a Govern
or or a Senator that would tell a
lie on his fellowman, and half
either says of tne other woukL
disqualify him for this trust. I
proclaim both guilty on the testi
mony of the other.
SIMMONS LOBBIED AGAINST IN
COME TAX.
''l knew Simmons was a re
actionary when he lobbied the
State Senate 14 years ago to
defeat the income tax against
the railroads of this state. He
won't deny that he sat in the
seat of Senator Fields by my side
and asked me to vote against it,
saying that he as chairman had
pledged the railroads that the
Legislature would not do it. I
told him I would vote to redeem
the pledges of my party, and I
did so on that ground only,
4 'When he voted the 11 votes
that I read you he said he voted,
I know the people were not there,
but I know the lumber interests
of this state were in Washington
City, and we all know the lumber
interests got the benefit of that
vote.
KITCHIN AS A TRUST BUSTER.
"Gov. Kitchin is the trust
buster of the world and so far as I
know has busted only one, the firm
of Manning & Foushee. He has
failed in his promises to the
people of this state. If Woodrow
Wilson as Governor of New
Jersey had done exactly as he
has, you know he would not have
been heard of for President,
"Mr. Morrison and Capt Ashe
say the platform come ta
Simmons. Read the statement
of Simmons made through J. W.
Bailey of Raleigh and see that he
is in favor of a restricted parcels
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OUR TRADE WEEK EDITION.
The Democrat's 18 page Trade Week Edition has attracted some at
tention. It was the most pretentious effort yet put forth by the Democrat
in the interest of Hickory. We publish below two highly appreciated
letters, one from Mr. Mogford, who has put the circulation of the Progres
sive Farmer up to 144,000; the other from Mr. Herndon, a former resident
of this city, who is one of the ablest insurance men in North Carolina:
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
" Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 12,1912.
MJ. Howard Banks, Editor,
Hickory Democrat, Hickory, N. C.
Dear Mr. Banks: I have before me copy of your Special Trade Week
edition, and wish to congratulate you on same.
Your advertising directory on the first page, surely should be appre
ciated by your advertisers.
Trusting that the results of this advertising will be such that you will
be able to repeat k often, with best wishes, I remain,
JAS. L. MOGFORD,
Assistant Manager.
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HOME OFFICE
North State Life Insurance Company
CAPITAL PAID UP IN CASH, $lOO,OOO 00.
Kinston, N. C., August 10, 1912.
Mr. Howard A. Banks, Editor,
Hickory Democrat, Hickory, N. C.,
Dear Sir: I congratulate you on your last issue. If you will be good
enough to let us know when yotl are going to get out special issues, we
wilLbe glad to help the cause along by occupying some of your advertis
ing §pace. ~ Yours truly,
J. A, HERNDON,
General Manager.
11 I'
post. Read Wilson's ipeech of
acceptance on that arrd see if
they agree, and if so vote for
Simmons.
THE PARCELS POST.
"We have had a parcels post
proposition in the platform four
years and yet Simmons has not
raised his hand or voice to re
deem the pledge, and that's
because of the express companies.
You can send 11 pounds to old
Jerusalem through the mails and
that for 12 cents a pound. -You
can't send but four poqnds from
Hickory to Greensboro and that
must be at 16 cents a poind, ai.d
you know that's because the ex
press company operates between
here and Greensboro, and don't
operate to old Jerusalem.
"Clark has long advocated a
parcels post. Judge Clark start
ed progressive policies before
Bryan was ever heard of in this
country and he is the strongest
type of progressive Democracy
in this country today.''
THE PUBLIC LIKE THE JAY
BIRD.
Judge Clark began by calling
attention to the deep unrest
which agitates the Republic to
day. While there has been an
enormous increase in wealth, and
JUDGE WALTER CLARK
North Carolina has doubled its
production of corn, wheat, cot
ton, tobacco, etc , in the last two
or three decades, the people Jiave
not shared in the increase in the
wealth.
The judge told the story of the
jay bird who got his friends to
help him lay in a winter supply
of acorns through the ridge-pole
of a deserted log cabin. They
worked days, weeks and months
and could never get it full. Fin
ally one of them looked tnrough
a window and saw the entire
floor of the cabin heaped up with
acorns, was hol
low! Applied to the American
people today. This story be
comes pathetic. The labor of
our hands has filled the money
vaults of the- rich, until it is
true that 3 percent of the people
own 99 percent of the total
wealth! Since Simmons and
Kitchin began their careers in
Congress 12 years ago Rockefel
ler's wealth has inci eased from
300 millions to 900 millions and
Carnegie's from 200 millions to
600 millions of dollars.
"You created it! They got
it!" declared the speaker.
"All we ask is that the $4,000,-
000 we now pay annually for
northern pensions be sent back
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
to us for our soldiers."
THE TRUSTS.
"There was wo country on th«
face of the earth more prosper
ous than the tobacco section of
North Carolina until the forma
tion of the tobacco trust. When
that trust was formed this sectior
was blasted and smitten as if -b:
the wrath of God. The trust
was formed, the profits which ii.
a free market would have comt
to the tobacco raisers throughout
the entire tobacco belt of North
Carolina. It was formed and
had been operated in defiance o!
the law. It has accumulated
wealth beyond the dreams of
avarice. What did either of my
competitors do during- the 12
years that thty were each in
Congress to-secure the punish
ment of the destruction of these
highway robbers?
"It is -true that one of my
competitors in his candidacy for
nomination as governor threat
ened to put these robbers of our
people behind prison bars and
make them weat stripes. Did
he do it? You be ieved him. 1
believed him? I supported him.
But the only Jegislation during
his administration in this matter
has been_to deprive the statute
against trusts which was pre
viously in force of most of its
most efficient feature rendering
it comparitively jnnocuous. It is
true he says that he could do no
more because did not have the
veto power. He was a lawyer
and should have known this
when he made his threats.
Should he go to the senate he
will find that he has no veto
power there. What the people
need as against these lawless
combinations of great wealth is
men~Who can do things. He did
nothing against the trusts during
his 12 years in the lower house.
What reason is there to believe
that he will do more in the upper
house?
REVENUE TARIFF.
"I also advocate tariff for reve
nue only. That is that the great
taxing powers of government in
fixing imposts should be exer
cised so as to produce the great
est revenue to the government
with the least burden to the peo
ple. The tariff as now bid is
oy to *"*"
importation ot an * article and
hence produce no revenue while
enabling the manufacturers of
those articles to charge the peo
ple up to the amount of the tariff
as additional profit. This is
practically the robbery of the
many for the benefit of the few
through the machinery of legis
lation.
"I also favor the election of
postmasters by the people of
each locality just as sheriffs and
constables are chosen. There is no
reason why a small coterie of
politiciansfin some back room,
shall assemble in conclave and
designate the postmaster for
Hickory or Charlotte who there
upon shall be appointed by a
man from Ohio or New York,
I "Mr. Simmons said he wanted
to get something for the south
while the north was getting so
much. Then he voted for a
tariff on lumber to help the peo
ple of North Carolina. His mis
take was in thinking the lumber
trust was the people of North
Carolina.
"Lorimer was attorney for the
lumber trust. He came down to
North Carolina at one time and
saw Senator Simmons. Simmons
said his conscience made him
vote the first time for Lorimer,
who he said was the peer of
any man in the Senate. Then
his conscience made him vote
the second time against Lorimer,
yet the evidence was the same.
THE PENSION INJUSTICE.
"Then there are the veteran,
soilders of this state who bared 1
their breasts to the storm and
shed imortal honor upon our his
story during four eventful years.
On public occasions eloquent
tributes are paid to their valor
and endurance. But what has
been done by either of my com
petitors during their twelve
years in Congress in behalf of
chese deserving men.
"For Federal pensions since'the
war has been paid out $4,500,000,
000, $1,500,000,000 coming
from the South and $112,000,000
from North Carolina,
"Our war was not a rebellion.
It was a war between the states.
The soldiers from Massachusetts
and New York fought on that
side not because the United
States ordered them, but because
their own states sent them to
the front The men from North
Carolina and Virginia and the
south fought on this side not
because the Confederate
states ordered them to do so,
but because their own states
sent them to the front. The war
being over the states are equal.
For fortv-seven years we have
been paying money into a com-
mon treasury. From that com
uoii t' tfiisu iJT pensions should not
>e paid without discrimination to
the soldiers from all the states
*nd their widows*.
"This is probably the last oppor
tunity that North Carolina will
have to send one of her soldiers
to the United States senate. I
shall do all that ii? in my power
in the senate to secure this act
of justice to my old comrades,
for I in sympathy with them
and vill endeavor to stop this
enormous drain of money out of
this state which does not come
back to us. What has Kitchin
or Simmons done to prevent this
iniquity?
TELEPHONES AND TELEGRAPHS.
"I advocate the public regula
tion of railroads and all other
common carriers, but the opera
tion of the telegraph and tele
phones by the post office depart
ment as is done in the 48 other
civilized countries of the world,
ours the 49th, being the only
one which is so regulated. With
us the powerful influence of
those great monopolies have
prevented the adoption of this
measure. AlO word telegram
in France and Germany costs
10 cents; in England 12 cents.
From Hickory to Chicago it costs
75 cents; to San Francisico prob
ably $l.OO or more. The United
States did own the telegraph at
first, buying it for $240,000 but
afterwards allowed shrewd cap
italiots to take it from her. In
all $545,000 is all the telegraph
and telephone companies have
ever paid the Government.
These companies are now de
claring 8 percent dividends on
$300,000,000 of waterd stock.
SCHOOLS AND ROADS.
"The next matter which I ad
vocate is:
- "The extension of our public
school system and of good roads."
"The highest tax that any
people pay, except which the
American people pay to the
great trusts and monopolies
which control our government,
is the tax which we pay to ig
norance and the 'mud tax.' If
relieved of the enormous extor
tion of the trust and monopolies
North Carolina could in one
year place our
school system and roads on a
par with the most favored com
munity on the globe, and could
pay our public school teachers
salaries many times larger than
they are now paying. The aver
age pay of a school teacher is as
low as $250 a year in some states
and average only $5OO in the
whole Union. This is simply
iniquity. There is no other
word for it.
VI advocate the enforcement of
laws regulating the hours of lab
or and prohibiting child labor
and requiring safety appliances.
"On the one side of these
questions stand the public wel
fare and the right to the reason
able enjoyment by the people of
'life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness' guarded by the-im
mortal Declaration of Indepen
dence at Philadelphia in 1776.
We should have a longer lived
and a happier race. As to safe
ty appliances, we would by their
use in one industry (railroads)
alone save yearly the lives of
10,000 men and the wounding or
crippling of 100,000 others. Sta
tistics show that in England,
i France and Germany, in the
railroad business alone, the num
ber of men crippled, wounded
and killed in proportion to the
number employed is less than
one-twentieth of the number so
killed, wounded, or crippled in
this country. We may again
ask: Why is this the case? And
there is the same answer, that
the great corporations in this
country use vast sums in con
troling the elections and in the
control of newspapers and in the
maintenance of lobbies. Shall we
always be thus subjected, not
ouly to robbery, but to the loss
of life and limb by the wealth
creator of our country, in order
that the privileged few may
grow still more inordinately
rich?
"A further proposition that 1 main
tain is to put an end to this control of
our government through the election
of public servants by a statute which
shall strictly 'limit the purposes and
amounts-for which candidates or any
others for them may expend, money
either in the primaries or in election,
! and the fullest publicity, both before
and after, of the items for which all
, money has been expended on those
' occasions."
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