The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-06-22

to nominate Capt. Alexander. When it
VAS certain that Capt. Alexander would
not accept the nomination, the Convention
was at Sea. There were no candidates for
the place. The friends of Col Holt asked
him to accept the place. He consented
and was nominated. 1t is clear instance
where the office sought the man. Now
that he j. nominated Col. Holt desires to
be elected, and from now until the elec
tion / he rule will be reversed and th,. man
will seek he office. Col. Holt believes
and the CHRnNICLE believes that after
man Is nominated he owes it to his party
to use his best endeavorS TO secure his own
election aEd the election of the other nom
inceS Of the party. Col. Holt has already
spoken twice and will shortly enter the can
yaso TO fight for Democratic success until
the close OF the campaign.
Col. Holt Thomas Michael Holt
born III Alamance cOunty-it was then
Orange July 18th. ls3l-and is there
fore ). years old same age as Judge
Fowle. They are equally yoked together
Col. Holt was reared on farm and was
afterwards prepared for the University at
Caldwell Institute He entered the nj
yerslty in 1S49. He did not graduate there,
but went into wholesale dry goods house
in Philadelphia to learn the business. hav-
ing determined to be a business man. His
father was a successful business man and
built the first plaid mills South of the Po-
tomac. In 1851 Col. Holt returned and
went in business with his father which
partnership continued until 1860. Then
Col Holt purchased the Granite Cotton
w h1H
it has s, IA spndles and 43i looms 1t
consumes daily from 10 10 II bales of cot
ton and furnishes support to 1900 men,
women and children. 1t is the largest
factory in North Carolina owned by one
man.
Col. Holt is eminently successful man
Whatever he has put his hand to has sue
ceeded Whether as manufacturer, far
mer, railroad President, or legislator he
has been a success. Men don't "happen" to
succeed in these days of sharp competition
along all lines. Col. Holt had good oppor-
tunltieS to make himself a success. aud he
has used them to the very best advantage,
All his life ne has been industrious and
prudent. Trained by his father to work,
he has never learned now 10 rest. His
life is work. His being is to labor. He
knows how to plan and to carry out his
plans to a profitable issue. Men who are
successful in their own affairs may be
trusted to serve the public.
When elected Lieutenant Governor, Col.
Holt will not be a new man, or unaccuS
toned to public life. Like Judge FoWle,
Col Holt was reared a Whig and held the
Office of Chairman of the old County Court
in Alamance When the Whig party had
/ no longer an existence, Col. Holt became
a Democrat. In 1872 he was elected Coun
! ty Commissioner. In 1876 he was elected
to the State Senate. In 1882, 1884, and
! 1886 he was elected to represent his cOun
/ ty in the House of Representatives,. In
/ 1884 he was made Speaker of the House
/ At this session important legislation, at
feciing the Western n. G. Railroad. was
THE subject of interest to Western mem
bers. The fight was made against the aid
the Western members desired and the re
suit was in doubt. So close was the vote
that on two occasions there was tie VOTE
aud as Speaker, Col. Holt cast the decid-
ing vote in favor of the aid desired by the
| West. This fact, as well as his constant
support of every proposition looking to
the completion of the Western N. c. Rail
road, makes Col Holt a particularly strong
candidate in Western North Carolina
AS President of the North Carolina
Railroad for number of years as Preoi-
dent of the N. g. Agricultural Society for
over twelve years: as member OF the Board
of Agriculture for long term of ears,
Col Holt has ever shown such capacity
as to give him high place in the estima-
ton Of those who have known his ork.
AS President of the State Fair, he gave of
his time and money to make it success,
and no man has done much for il pros
perity.
Col. Holt while a many sided man and
equal to all emergencies is a manufactured
and farmer He owns besides his farm
in Alamance, a fine farm in Davidson
county upon which he makes as excellent
wheat, and as much of it per acre, as any
man in North Carolina He can plow as
straight fu1rOw as any man, or do any
thing else that a good farmer ought to do
His interests are large, and his time i,
necessarily divided. Two weeks ago he
was at his Davidson farm to attend cut
ting his wheat. He is good farmer, and
while many men have failed at raising
| crops he has always succeeded.
Such man is the Democratic nominee
for Lieutenant Governor He is a man o
strict integrity and high character. He il
above reproaah. Loneot nen and men who
believe in honest work and honest meth
ods, will be glad to give him their suppo t
Col. Holt does not think he is a goOt
: SPEAKER, and says he has no talent in tha
direction. we neard Il prominent pOlItl
, clan say that his speech, accepting the
nomination. ought to be repeated in ever!
county i'll North Carolina Col. Holt, We
observed in the last legislature, is not wha
would be called an ornate speaker. He il
too practical and direct man TO Use man,
words, but he is a strong and rigorOu
talker, and when he speaks, men hear him
In the Legislature he did not speak often
l but when he did speak, his words hat