The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-05-28
JUDGE CLARK FOR EICE-PRESl-
DENT

The name OF Judge Waller IialK,
of North Carolina, is being suggested
in connection with the nomination for
Vice President. From the NeaOs and
Observer we take the following:
More than ever is there sugges-
ton of the wisdom of nominating a
Southern man for Vice President,
and if the silver men control at Chi
cago, as is now probable, there is every
reason to believe that Western and
a Southern man will be the nominees.
In this expectation, North Carolina
can present the best known, most ag-
gressive, aud most accomplished advo-
cate of silver in the whole South (al-
ways excepting Senator Morgan) in
the person of Associate Justice Walter
Clark, of the Supreme court. He has
given the money question much study
and research and his contributions
in the Ar<na and elsewhere are rec
ognized as among the unanswerable
presentations of the need of free COIN
age.
We have other able men, who are
| we'll fitted to become the successor Of
Hendricks and Stevenson, and who
are as sound on the money question as
Justice Clark, but at this crisis he is
the most available because his contrl-
buttons have made him the most wide
ly and most favorably known. His
reputation is as broad as the Republic,
and he stands with such men as Bryan,
Morgan, Vest, Harris, Jones, Stone,
Carmack among the Silver Democratic
leaders. A gentlemen visiting the
Northwest recently remarked: Judge
Clark is the only Tar Heel the people
in Illinois and Minnesota seem to
know"
North Carolina has had no incum
bent in the office OF President or
Vice President. Their exclusion has
not been because the State has had no
competent or worthy sons, but mainly
because there have been divisions
among us that have prevented our CIV
! ing hearty and enthusiastic support
to our most available men. The OPP
portunity seems to have arrived when
the State can secure the recognition in
the person of a jurist that the people
in North Carolina have signally hon
ored, and one who is in accord with
the overwhelming sentiment Of the
State. Let US present to the conven-
ton for Vice President Justice Walter
Clark, and let the people Of all sec
tons of the State, with one accord,
help to give him such an endorsement
as will be felt in the national conven'
ton.
As the News ami Observer well
says, one of the chief reasons North
Carolina has not received greater rec
IGNITION in connection with the Of
fees of President and Vice-Presiden
has not been because the State ha!
had no competent: and worthy sons
so much as to the fact that there have
been divisions among US that have
prevented our giving a hearty ane
enthusiastic support to our most
available men. If we hope to accom-
plish anything in this direction we
must he united in effort and determ
ined in action-ot one mind and one
purpose.
AS another says, the necessity o
carrying North Carolina and the be
lief that Judge Clark can solidify tn
silver vote in the State and hold it
eleven electoral votes, makes it highl
probable that with strong backing
from this State, fortified with a resolu
ton of instruction from the State con
vention, the honor Of the Vice Presi
dency may come to North Car olina
TO be effective it should be a
nearly unanimous as possible ano
be backed at Chicago by an earnes
delegation in its favor. The oppor
tunity now offers to honor our State b,
the election of zone of its citizens 70
this high office if there is an earnes
support given by our people.
The Northeastern States will Civ
US no electoral votes, and there is n
need in wasting a nomination upo
them. Let us have a Western and
Southern man at the head of the tickle
and victory will be assured. TIL
time is opportune if it ever is to be.