The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-11-01

bring to their aid the great name OF
/ Senator Vance. for Senator vance mas
: nut N biaci, ard white his opinion OF
General Carr. IN 1851 the nemocrauc
: STAKE convention adopted a pIatIo on
TIE tariff which met with the nearly
1 approval OF the party and particularly
n Senator Vance. Why the delegation
went to the National convention It was
unanimously decided that the \oF'h
. Carolina plank should be insisted upon
as the blank for the National con en-
ton. General Carr WAS the member
Of the platform committee from orth
Carolina ana was instructed TO present
the North Carolina TIA form to the pat
form committee of the National conven,
tiOn Instead Of doing 50. he nteriined
words il The platform which changed rs
entire meaning. giving the Whole case
away which would have made US ue-
clare for protective tariff.
After the convention q controversy
arose in regard to Gen. Cars conduct
4 and Senator Vance wrote letter IL re
gard 10 it. from which we make the TO-,
low ing extracts. The letter en- bG found
Of Sept. -tth. 1884, in the fourth column
The words intcr,ioei in the North
Carolina platform by Carr. - far rs l
can remember were, 50 as 10 pnco"E-
a"c domestic industries (or home indus
tlN ana fi!ttH'bt ANU i So ''''''-' >
is vorw Hcarlv he exact interIneatlon.
Il welded the whole question, and | 50
told Carr. IL promised not to lnteT-
line any more c0ni,s. Whether he Pre-
':.ed TIC fnterltncd co~lcS 20 the com
m5iae or the ORIGINAL. I DON'T know;
"Le Grand told me hat Carr told nm
he had done wrong in voting for Con
verse. and was anxious 10 a'oHe fer It.
I saw Morrison and he said the COM
mittre would meet again at III" Tor
QuoiS Club at $50 that night and the
question Of chairman wonll AGAIN come
np and Carr could set himself r,Sht II
he was sincere. ! searched for Carr in
vain and finally found le Grand. re
ported the case to him, and he promised
to find Carr and tell him what MorTl-
son said. Before I went to bel Ln
Grand saw mo and reported that he had
told Carr and that all would be rl2ht.
Next morning Morrison said to me the
words YOU quote.
(Thc Observer makes the following
THE words which Mr. Morrison said
to Governor Vance We're: y ance. Yo!lr
-- - referring contcmptu Husly
70 Carr. stuck NJ to me Ike a good fell
low this time BY this Governor Nanea
understood from ~. Morrison, thaI
under the whio Of the delegation. Carr
had changed his vote to MorriSon'S side
though whether in 4 vote for The chair
mAnshir, or unon a question involving
the real issue. the tariff, does not signi-
fy.D
There is no doubt hut that Carr start
ed ont to miSrcpreSent the Delegation
and the party. and only backed under
the indicnaton his du1licity excited.
He gave to one gentleman the excuse
that he didn't know Converse was the
man who killed the Morrison bill: to an
other that he was against Morrison be-
cause WatterS0n was for him. etc.
It wOulG appear from Senator Nance's
letter that Gen. Cars conduct on half
occasion was va"y much of the same
character as his making a srppch for
free silver and State banks on December
10Th. 1897. 1T the Southern Bankers As
ISOLATION and a three days time after
wards writing letter to the secretary
of that association declaring himself
in favor of the scheme tThe Fowler
Financial Bib which would have made
free silver and State banks an impoSsi-
hility. Senator Vance declared that
Gen. Carr "onlv backed under the in
dgnation his duplicity excited"
If Senator Vance is appealed to, can
we send a man to the Senate who
started out to miSrepresont the de'ega-
ton and the party. and only backed
under the Indignation his duplicity ex
cited:'
TIIOS. 3. WOMACK.