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fAGt TWO THE FRANKLIN PRLSS i& THE HIGHLANDS IIACCIHA:! Li I I If L , in VJ. I i I THERE are at the present moment two . por traits of Cameron Morrison in the minds of North Carolinians. ONE of the portraits is a caricature a politic al cartoon for campaign purposes only. It will disappear as soon as the primary is over, and just men and women will regret that it was ever permitted to become current. His op-, ponents have for a year been painting him all out of perspective, all out of proportion and his friends have been so sure that the true pic ture of him would prevail in the hearts and minds of men and women who know him as he is, that they have not troubled to correct this caricature. They have confidently "smiled at the cartoon in a deep assurance that it could not last. THHEY begin now to realize that the passage of time has brought to the stage a new gen eration that does not know Cameron Morrison as he is. In the remaining days of this primary they realize an obligation to North Carolina to reveal the real Cameron Morrison to all who would make a choice between him and his op ponent on July 2nd. AMERON Morrison is at the present time in the full maturity of his powers after nearly 40 years of service of the Democratic Party and the people. He stands on our political skyline with a , great record for his background. He began so young that 40 years of public life have left him by no means old. FROM the days when as a young man he came to the front and fought in the very van guard for white supremacy an issue more vital to North Carolinians than any other in its his tory until the present hour, Cameron Morris on's activities have been incessant and devoted. He is one Democrat who has devoted his life to his Party and who has not counted the cost. In every campaign, always in the line of battle, for the space of a generation, moved by faith in his party and love for his people, he has pro claimed the great principles of Democracy with the zeal of a crusader and the power of an orator. OOW has it happened that this perfectly true picture of Morrison, the Party servant and peoples' advocate, has not been painted in the present campaign? Is it not because the thous ands who know him considered it quite un necessary, so sure were1 they that it could not be forgotten and no cartoonist of the platform could erase it from the heart of North Carolina? AFTER long years of service in the ranks, "Cameron Morrison was elected Governor of North Carolina; and it is conceded that he in terpreted public office in terms of public service in such a way as to justify the association of his name in our annals with that of Aycock. SIGH. ED: Judge J. S. Manning h Wm, Bailey Jones ; A A. - v CAMERON MORRISON The abolition of property taxes for State pur poses, the expansion of the public school system, the enlargement of the institutions for the af flicted, the insane, the blind, the orphans, the rebuilding of our institutions of higher educa- ' Hon, the great system of roads, the great and beneficient extension of the public health service, all these are monuments of Cameron Morrison's . passion for service of the people. Have boys and girls been better educated in North Caro lina these 10 years, have the afflicted been more abundantly cared for these 10 years, have farm ers had better facilities for moving their crops and supplies these 10 years, did the Common wealth spring forward in such a way as to com mand the world's admiration if so, is it not be- . cause Cameron Morrison as Governor gave each of these causes a leadership that could not be denied? XJOW is it that a sorry caricature of Morrison A has been suffered to erase from many hearts in North Carolina this true picture of Morrison, the public servant? How is it that beneficiaries of his service have so far forgotten the benefits they owe to him? Is it not because many of us were sure that the true picture had been so in delibly written in. the life of this Commonwealth that no exercise of political ambition, no amount of ribald jesting, no amount of secret slander could erase it? 1 jPAMERON Morrison has served in two ses V sions of the Congress as n. Senator of the State of North Carolina. Who has said that A Elizabeth H. Cotton C.L.Shuping Frank P Hobgood his voice and hit votes In I not been hue to 5iU rcco Governor? Who hai laid true to Democratic prlnclp! No one. And yet Hhls tr how been obscured by a littleness, of little atUckl great people, all far below atorship. Well did tht rer ' vention write in its recent dation of his rcccrd with from this Statt as'fallhfu I Ill t 1 tlHT are the faults o VV We are told that ht I But nis impulses art good es are for righteousness, with the masses of men, wealth. -So he has. Out good fortune has not spo the lot of the poor as oni good fortune could not af diminish his identification pathy for them. And w dared to suggest that ht rigibly honest? And wh he is not the speakingly to fellow men and worn ciples of his party, to all civilization? 5 " V I K ft Ml CO HERE is the trus Morrison which was the heat of a campaign f ribald jest, and light carl painted a picture of tht r true, utterly unworthy. r': I N THE sober second tl lit eral nnrvt (n tm t Anl ' wui w in iiviii V r forth. And it Is, wt ma? tj, of men and women who r .( see that it shall. Everi 'f ocratic party and of tr V mands no less of us. HTHESE are troubled ( & . of the hour demand proved fidelity, of tried y and human welfare, In tl V States. This is no tlmt K stand artists, no tlmt fa f ocratic Party in Nortl fa needed Cameron Morrlic C It needs him now no lo ever. T ET US then forget beyond it to tht ma' t vant, the advocate of p demagogue, no dealer 1 hut one whose private 11 have proved him worth j 1 whose very name Cam a of honesty, of candor, f f-, and nf t1 (e lk tmtvi H' i E. Delia Dif!- Walter General Alf 1L A
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