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PAGE FOUR (POLITICAL ADVERTISING) CAMERON MORRISON - —f- - ' 7" •' • ' . ' f ' % • - • V ■ /' e ■' 7 • '* -r *"' i«• •* "* """ - -'' • * ■' - —-mW. . —"' ' 4 y " " • H' ten 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? - ; Cameron Morrison has served in two sessions of the Congress as a Senator of the State of North Carolina. Who has said that his voice and his votes in that great forum / have not been true to his record as citizen and as Gover nor? Who has said that he has not been true to Demo cratic principles and to the people? No one. And yet this true record has somehow been obscured by a strange campaign of littleness, of little attacks, all unworthy of a great people, all far below the level of the Sekiatorship. Well did the recent Democratic Convention write in its recent platform a commendation of his record with that of his colleagues from this State as "faithful" and "true." v■. \ • What are the faults of Cameron Morrison? We are told that he is impulsive. So he is. But his impulses are good impulses; his impulses are for righteousness, justice and sympathy with the masses of men. They say that he has wealth. So he has. Cut he is one man whom good * _ fortune has not spoiled; who had known the lot of the poor Cameron Morrison is at the present time in the full —————i aa Qne t^em so j on g t^at fortune could not affect maturity of his powers after nearly 40 years of service o public health service—all these are monuments of Camer- nor j n any degree diminish his identification with and his the Democratic Party and the people. He stands on our Qn Morrison - s pass i o n for service of the people. sympathy for them. And who will say, who has dared to political skyline with a great record How js u that a sorry caricature of Morrison has bee* »«««". that he is ** hon ""' incorrigibly honest? And He began so young that 40 years ot pu suffered to erase from many hearts in North Carolina this who has insinuated that he is not the speaking soul of loy him by no means old. true picture of Morrison, the public servant? How is it alty—to friends, to fellow men and women, to the great that beneficiaries of his service have so far forgotten the principles of his party, to all the high ideals of our civi v ~.o« hp rame to the benefits they owe to him? Is it not because many of us ? From the days when as a young , UDrem . wer e sure that the true picture had been so indelibly writ front and fought in the very vanguard for wh.te suprem aC y a n issue more vital to North Carolinians than any go here is the true portrait of Cameron Morrison which other in it% history—ivitil the present hour, Cameron Mor- WHy M QRRISON SHOULD BE was forgotten June 4th in the heat of-a campaign of per rison s activities have been incessant and devoted. He .s . RETAINED IN SENATE sonal attack, or ribald jest, and light caricature which one Democrat who has devote'd his life to his Party and somehow painted a picture of the man in lines utterly un-. who has not counted the cost. In every campaign, always j n every important period of American history true, utterly unworthy, in the line of battle, for the space of a generation, moved wc ave een f avore j by having men of ability guid by faith in his party and love for his people, he has pro- j„ g ,he Government. The Nation to-day is facing its . In ' sccond tho ht t|)e tue icture wi „ come claimed the great principles of Democracy with the zeal greatest cns.s. More .mportant questions are now be- (c , h( . front _ the real man will atand , orth . And it it , we of a crusader and the power of an orator. fo " ° ur Government than ever before. The welfare >d solemn o{ men and women who ,eek of a crusader ana p and happiness of our people (wh.ch has been w sadly , nd love truth to see that it shall. Every intereat of the neglected by the Republican Party for nearly twelve Democratic Party and of this Commonwealth demands no How has it happened that this perfectly true picture yars lnr ltß m i ß -rule) should be, and is, the desire lof leM o{ ug of Morrison the Party servant and people's advocate, has thinking men and women everywhere. No tint says , campaign? Is it not be- that Morrison as Governor did not measure up to the not been paintec in t e P r ® 5 onsidered it quite great responsibilities of the office. At all times he These are troubled times. The difficulties of the hour cause the thousands who now im c acted for the best interests of North Carolina, ahd his demand more of courage, of proved fidelity, of tried devo unnecessary, so sure were they that it cou no courage in the trying days of 1921, in securing the t ion to human need and human welfare, in the Senate of gotten and no cartoonist of the platform could erase it passage of the highway acts, which gave employment the United States. This is no time for play-boys or grand from the heart of North Carolina. to thousands of our people, and renewed again this stand artists, no time for clowning'. The Democratic Party courage Aid hope. As Senator his every action has fcn North Carolina has always needed Cameron Morrison, . . , , r , m . fnn Mnr been for the betterment and advancement of our peo- an j has always used him. It needs him now no less but After lone vears of service in the ranks, Cameron mor- * AiteriongyM.au ple even more than ever, rison was elected Governor of North Carolina; and it is _ conceded that he interpreted public office in terms of pub- The Nation and State today need its ablest sons li service in such a way as to justify the association of his who will fearlessly face the issues which will not be Let us then forget the caricature and look beyond it lCserV Is with that of Aycock. The abolition avoided. This is a great Democratic year—North to the man, the loyal public servant, the advocate of the name in our anna s Carolina should sdnd to the Senate Cameron Morri- people's cause—«io demagogue, no dealer in impossible of property taxes for State purposes, e expansion o SO n, whose ability and character can not be attacked, promises, but one whose private life and public service public school system, the enlargement of t e institutions , - an j w^oße sincerity is not by any one questioned. have proved him worthy of a great trust, one whose very for the afflicted, the insane, the blind, the orphans, the re- name—Cameron Morrison—speaks of honesty, of candor, building of our institutions of higher education, the great J # HASSELL. of courage, of capacity, and of seal for the service of fel system of roads, the great and beneficent extension of the low men - FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR . ft- , - - • • r • ' •. ' ". ' . * ' •fV — —;■ ■ ■ ■ (This advertisement paid for by Martin County supporters of Senator Cameron Morrison) THE ENTERPRISE
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