The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-14
Carr For Senator.

A strong quartet, in each of whom are
to be found strong points which appeal
strongly for support in the pending con-
test, but we cannot support all of them.
And yet we must render a verdict AS
the case now stands, one of these four
men will succeed Mr.. Butler. To thou
sands it is positively puzzlng and embar
rassing-painfully so. 1t will not be de-
MED that every one of them is a patriot
and worthy of the high honor. 1t is
conceded that every one of them has
| been unselfish and generous in effort and
| sacrifice for our standard. Nor will it
| be gainsaid that every one of them is
| fit and leading in this contest, because of
valiant and conspicuous services rem
| dered his State and party. For years
their white plumes have waved in the
white heat of the forefront of every bat
| tie for white rule and white supremacy.
With Carr's check and counsel; with Sim
mons astuteness and sagacity; with Wad-
| dells wit and eloquence, and with Jar
| Wis horse sense and logic, it has never
| been a matter of wonder that the enemy
| always wanted Federal assistance. In
| normal conditions with these four lead
| ers Democracy was ever triumphant.
| Deeply and securely enshrined in the
| hearts Of the white people of North Caro-
| lima is the remembrance of the self-sac-
| rifice, the faithful service and the glo-
| rious work of these four men. And as
! we recall and contemplate their records
| and accord to each the credit thereto due
| we are almost made to envy the negro in
| his freedom from such embarrassment.
and to wish that the primary had never
| been born. But what shall our verdict
| be? 1t is not cowardly to hesitate in
| the face of these considerations and
| weigh well the claims of each. 1t is
rather manly to accord to the claims Of
each the calmest and fullest consideration.
| We have sought to do this. 1t was an
| effort-a painful, but conscientious one
| with the result that our judgment and
! conscience tell us that Carr is entitled
| to the honor. We figure after this man
ner Each has done what he could for
| his party whilst laboring and contrib
| uting each in a different sphere. All of
| them, according to their means and abil-
| ity, have done their duty as party men.
! Here we count them equal. The next
| question is, who has rendered and who
| can render the greatest service to his
| State? The answer to this determines
our verdict 1t is known of all men that
no man in the history of North Carolina
!
his native State The record of almost
! every educational institution between
Murphy and Manteo bears testimony to
his liberality. Every enterprise project
ed, and every institution erected in the
name of charity for two decades in the
State, is in part an expression of his
philanthropy. The Institutions of the
church, without regard to creed, faith
| or name. are stronger in North Carolina
today because OF his generous and help
| ing hand. The Confederate veteran of
| blessed presence, whether in comfort or
| in rags, whether in the Soldiers Home
| or in his lOWly hut, is the unceasing Oh
| ject of his unfailing benefactions. Across
| and beyond the mountains, over and amid
| the Piedmont hills and along through the
| tide water belt, wherever promising boys
! and beautiful girls have been found
| cropping in the darkness of ignorance and
| poverty and fighting for life, light and
| hope, his nameless and numberless bene-
/ factions have been sown and streWn with
| mercy akin to that of Him Who hung
| and strung the nameless and numberless
stars across the face of night. This is
not fulsome eulogy 1t is his record
/ part, and part only, of the evidence--the
truth upon which our verdict stands.
| Nor is this all of it, All of it will never
| be paraded in cold type. Enough CT it,
| however, is before us to justify the be-
! stowal of any honor within our gift upon
| this peerless Carolnian. He could have
| planted his dollars otherwise and in other
| channels, where they would have multi
| piled and increased more than a thou
sandfold for his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
| the oppression of his fellows. But he
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where they would feed the hungry, clothe
The naked and visit the sick and suffer-
| ing and where they would bear fruit in
| the betterment and the uplifting of his
| fellow men and into the dissemination
| of those things which help, enrich, en-
| noble and bless humanity. In the mem
orable year of 1870, while Jarvis was
, planning and figuring for the Speaker
| ship of the House, while Waddell was
! doing the same for a seat in Congress,
and while Simmons was planning for the
! sophomore class at college, Carr, unknown
and almost penniless was planning and
/ figuring fer a place in Blackwell's tobacco
| factory. During these thirty years since,
/ Waddell has spent eight of these years in
| Congress, Simmons has spent six of them
| in Federal office and in Congress- and
| Jarvis has spent fourteen of them in the
| office of Lieutenant Governor, Minister
| to Brazil and Senator in Congress- while
| Carr has spent practically all of them
| in his factory. Surely we may award
| one honor to the man whose head has
| been covered with the snow that never
melts by thirty years of unremittng toll
| in the industrial and commercial field
in which he has wrought so wondrously
for himself, his fellows and his State.
Surely the legal profession-and we en-
terrain for it a respect second only to
| that We pay the sacred desk-cannot
| always hope to monopoliZe this great
| honor. Times have changed. New and
changed conditions now confront us. Com
mercial problems, problems of finance and
| problems evolved by our complex indus
trial and commercial expansion demand
for their solution the best talent in the
business world. Conditions have so
changed that we need in our greatest
| legislative body not only our greatest
lawyers, but our greatest and most sue
cessful men in the commercial world
Their training, their experience, their
keen judgment and their practical and
thorough mastery of commercial affairs
IND; bn ipal