The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-10
UNITED STATES SENATOR
WHO WILL BE CHOSEN MARION BUFFERS
SUCCESSOR.
The Claims of General Julian S. Carr, of Dur
ham, are Ably and Earnestly Presenteds
by "A Voice from the West"

as never DelOIe III a quarter VI Il Cel-
tmy the people are going to exercise
their constitutional and moral preroga-
tive, and they are going to begin the
practice of that prerogative III the Sc
lection of their agents-their servants.
They will put the criterion i'll the
choice of United States Senator to-
succeed Senator Butler. That he have
learning or elOquence, a scant or tull
purse will not be the test, but rather
that he have Overwhelmingly ener-
gy and common sense Speaking not
i'll the least sense disparagingly OF either
of the gentlemen who now occupy TINS
exalted trust, yet honesty will compel
us to confess that when the immortal
Vance. in childlike obedience to the in
exorable, laid aside his mantle the first
tribune of a great State had left his.
office, so long and ably filled, vacant,
and to this good day it has not been
fully, completely satisfactorily occupied.
The people from the mountains to the
sea feel keenly the aching void. They
care not from what section their Sena-
tor may come. They know that pa
triotism is not measured by degrees of
latitude, by the shadow of mountains,
by the banks of rivers or by the ocean
shore.
Addressing the citizens Of Rochester,
New York, Daniel Webster said: Gen
tlemen of Rochester, / am glad to sec
you. / am glad to see your noble city,
gentlemen / understand that you have
waterfall here $50 feet high That
is Il remarkable fact, gentlemen.
Greece and her Demosthenes and her
PericleS, but Greece never had wa
terfall $50 feet high. Rome had her
Caesar and her Cicero, but Rome never
had a waterfall $50 feet. Go on, gen
tlemen, you are doing well. No nation
ever lost its liberties that had a water
fall $50 feet high"
The people seek a man in whom they
can coniide. That man, among score
or more of great, good citizens of the
State, thoroughly equipped for the
highest trust, they may easily find. Let
us refrain from all formal, personal eu-
logy and nonsensical gush, and take
man through the examination. Let
us try him, measure him and see if he
is of the stuff Of which a United States
Senator might be made.
Let us take Col. Julian S. Carr of
Durham. He is now in mid-life-50 odd
years of age-the dangerous wire-edge
of youth worn off and the deadly dull
ness of age waiting in the distant flu
ture, if waiting at ALL an eX-COnfed-
crate soldier in fact and not merely IN
name, whose patriotism has WlthStood
the supreme test; SpotlesS, CHRISTIAN
gentleman who never sought Office, but
who has constituted one of the refresh
ing few who have persistently declined
it: u polished civilian who, turning his
talents into the avenues of business mas
amassed fortune and consecrated it to
humanity; a man Of prodigious physical
and mental energy he began life at the
close of the war for Southern independ-
ence, a poor boy and today scatters ms
magnificent benefices with a wide but
careful hand, and whenever he opens his
mouth the multitude is charmed by
the sound sense and noble spirit that
weigh down his words.
To the church, regardless of sect,
true and tried friend. there is scarcely
representative religious soGty in the
State that has not felt the thrill of his
warm, fostering hand, and education,
that other handmade of civilization,
cherishes him as one of her warmest
friends; and wherever the widow, the
orphan or the INDECENT or distressed or
the MANNED or invalid soldier may be
found in the remotest corner of the State
there the name of Col. Carr is blessed.
| Simple, honest, courageous, philanthro-
| pic very prince among men.
Measured personally, from the char
adteT standardization the standpoint
of physical, mental and moral fitness
we have examined him. Will he pass!
But what are his political convictions,
and what is his political record?
On these latter | am prepared to
speak from observation and from per-
sonal knowledge, and,
/. On the great question of money,
Col Carr is no new convert but a life
long, conscientious himeta1list mt the
ratio of 16 to /. He was the only
| man of wealth in the United States who
bad the courage to stand up before the
bankers convention of 1898 and defend
/ this system, and reaffirm his support
Of this plank of the Chicago platform.
=. On the no less important question
Of trusts he is equally conscientious,
candid and outspoken. In a speech
and great speech it was-delivered
| the 4th of July, at High Point,
| this State, the occasion of the unvcil-
| ing of a Confederate monument at that
| place he delivered phiiippic against
trusts which. for eloguence and plain
ness of speech, has seldom been equal
ed and never excelled by Mr.. Bryan
| himself. He has had holdings in some
of the largest corporations in this coun-
| fry, but just so soon as these were
| merged into trusts, he disposed of his
| holdings IN the same, withdrew from
| them and would have no NOR, to do
| with them. This is the severcSt test to
| which men at this day arr put. 10
| successfully withstand such onsiauEhts
| ON the delicate pocket nerve" requires
as genuine moral heroism and self
| sacrifice as that which nerved Luther to
| show up at the Diet of Worms: and
| If Will not fail of it's recognition and
reward at the hands of a long-suifering
and grateful people.
3. On the next and last Of the para
mount questions, that of Imperialism
and militarism, he is thoroughly cn
rapport with Mr.. Bryan amid the mass of
the American people. He does not be
lieve that few plutocrats and wild
adventures should dictate a policy for
orr government that it at variance