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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
Vol. 7,
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, H. C, larch 23, 1899.
NO. 21.
CAROLINA AGAIN
VICTORIOUS!
Georgia Goes Down Before Tar Heel
Representatives in Literary Con
test at Athens Last Friday
Night.
The third annual intercollegiate
debate between representatives of
the Universities of North Carolina
and Georgia came off last Friday
at Athens, Ga., resulting- in another
victory for the Carolina boys,
though it was only after a sharp
and animated contest with their op
ponents. For this magnificent and well
earned victory too much credit and
praise cannot be bestowed upon
Messrs. Bowie and Broadhurst-
Carolina's Representatives for it is
to their hard work, diligence and
perseverance that this great victory
is due.
The fact that each University had
been successful in one of the two
previous contests, caused increased
interest to betaken in the present de
bate. Mr. L. A. Cothran, of Rome.
Ga., officiated as master of cere
monies and introduced the speakers.
The judges of the debate were Hon.
Porter King, of Atlanta, Hon. W.
S. Miller, of Abbeville, S.'C, and
Professor H. W. Smith (a 'former
North Carolinian), of Rome, Ga.
It was a large and representative
gathering of students and visitors
which was called to order at eight
o'clock that evening in the Univer
sity chapel at Athens.
The Georgia representatives,
Messr. J. L. Tison and P. H. Doyal
supported the affirmative and Caro
lina's representatives, Messrs. E.
D. Broadhurst and T. C. Bowie,
the negative side of the query "Re
solved, that United States Senators
should be elected by a direct vote of
the people. ' ' Between the speeches
inspired the convention to adopt the
indirect method of electing sena
tors. He next showed that the
reasons for electing senators indi
rectly no longer exist. He main
tained that direct election is now
essential to the carrying out in its
completeness one of the great fun
damental principles of our organi
zation of government; that the
spheres of federal and state govern
ment are separate and each supreme
in its field of action; that power
and responsibility should go hand
in hand. The present method is
not only inconsistent with our the
ory of government, but inconsistent
with itself. Direct election wili
harmonize the fixed and fundamen
tal principles of our organization as
embodied in our written law theac-
corrupt Senators. Begin deeper,
and purify the people, and you will
purify the State. ,
"Direct election of President and
Vice-President, together with a
Federal election law, would surely
follow direct election of Senators.
In fact,; a direct attack is made up
on representative government. In
(placing them in close relation to
Washington we would strengthen
our tendency toward centralization
"Waves of popular excitement
more often affect the public actions
of direct representatives of the peo
ple, than those of men who are suf
ficiently independent ot popular
w ill
Mr. P. H. Doyai, of U. Ga.
delightful music was rendered by
the University ofGeorgia orchestra.
The Debate Begun.
Mr. P. H. Doyal opened the affir
mative for the University of Geor
gia, reviewing the motives which
Mr. E. D. Broadhurst.of U.N.C.
tual workings of our system as ap
plied to present creditors. The
charge has already been made in
our unwritten constitution and
I must be fully expressed in our writ
ten constitution,
Broadhurst For. the Negative.
The first speaker on the negative
was Mr. E. D. Broadhurst of North
Carolina, who said in substance:
"The present indirect mode of
election is in harmony with our sys
tem of government, since our scheme
of representative democracy is found
ed upon delegated power and indi
rect election. Direct election would
work all right in an absolute de
mocracy, but it can be nothing but
ruin to a government of seventy mil
lions of people. The present mode
of election always secures the high
est product of the politics in a State.
No one denies that Quay and Hanna
are the highest products of their
respective States. It is the rotten
ness of the politics and not the mode
of election that causes us to have
Mr. J. L. Tison, of U. Ga. :
breezes to be obedient to their own
unbiased judgment.
"Direct election would destroy
the Senate's conservatism that now
makes it the balance wheel to hasty
and vicious legislation. The Sen
ate was created to be a court of sov
ereigns, to represent the States as
equals. Direct election would
create a second House of Repre
sentatives. The State is some
thing- higher than a mere mass of
individuals. The territory, the
property, together with ' the geog
raphic and climatic element, help to
make up a State as an institution.
The legislature is the only true rep
resentative of a State."
Second on the Affirmative,
Mr. J. L. Tison, for the Univer
stv of Georgia, contended that the
present mode of electing senators is
experimental, and does not meet
with the demands of present con
ditions. He reierred to the corrupt
practices in state legislatures, and
how the caucus meeting controls
the senatorial election. Election
by state legislatures is a discour
agement to the independent vote of
the country. The legislatures of
twenty-four states have passed res
olutions favoring a direct vote of
the people in-the election of sena
tors. He pointed out numerous
dangers in the indirect method of
voting, and .''maintained that the
progress of the world is toward a
complete democracy.
Second on the Negative
was Mr. T. C. Bowie, of North
Carolina, who spoke in substance
as-follows:
"It is my purpose to show to you
the effect of the proposed change.
Change does not always mean re
form. The proposed change would
take the election of the United
States Senators from the State leg
islature, which is entrusted with
making the laws upon which the fi
nancial, social and moral status of a
whole commonwealth depends, and
place it in the hands of a political
convention composed of men with
no other responsibility, who are not
chosen in the pursuance of any law,
are bound by no oath of officeand
who gather in the morning and dis
perse in the evening. That the con
vention will be equally, if not
more susceptible to all the evil in
fluences brought to bear upon the
legislature. That the proposed
change would destroy the State as
a State in our national government,
and hence blot out the last vestige
of State rights. That the people,
taken in their mere aggregate force
of numbers, are not a State. That
the legislature is the only true rep
resentative of the State, represent
ing the State proportionally both
as to territory and inhabitants,
while the proposed change requires
the voice of the State, to be uttered
by themere mass of its citizens, re
gardless of local division. That
the proposed change would result
in proportional representation in the
Senate.
"That there are many cases no
doubt of fraud and corruption in
electing Senators. But is popular
election free from such? That if the
proposed change is adopted and car
ried to its logical conclusion, that it
will result in the overthrow of the
whole scheme of our national consti
tution as designed and adopted by
our forefathers."
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Mr. T. C. Bowie, of U. N. C.
Oak Ridge Shut Out.
Carolina defeated Oak Ridge by
a score 01 iom it-cn w ""'"b j
terdav afternoon. The game was
low. '
Lawson pitched well allowing no
bits but was a trifle wild in some
places.
Woodard played the oest game
for Carolina.
Malone pitched well for Oak
Ridge.
1st. inning-
Rovrs fans out. Winston scores
on hits by Lawson anu
Lawson, Woodard and Allison
r i.. .tt. . 'if
score on errors, udmucw
first, and Alston fans.
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