The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-04
ALL OVER BUT SHOUTING
de Says the Victory is Won and Needs
Only to be Registe ed.
CARR AND DEMOCRATIC ORGAN zATloN
1t is Suggested That Sentiments of DeIicac,
Should Have Caused Mr.. Simmons to
Resign as Chairman Before
Making Race for Senator.
To the friends of Julian S. Carr:


candidate for the Senate, l send you
greetings on this day. BY your untiring
devotion to the cause, and the efficient
help which you have rendered, it has
come to pass that the next Senator from
North Carolina will be Julian S. Carr.
man with clean hands, pure record
and one whose heart beats in sympathy
with the manhood of his native State.
Prior to the August election, Mr. Carr
discovered that in some counties too ac-
tive partisans of his chief opponent were
endeavoring to press the claims of their
candidate for the Senate, thereby en-
dangering the Constitutional Amendment,
and the safety of the State. Friends of
Mr.. Carr at that time urged him to en-
ter the list, and to prepare actively for
the fight. With his usual magnanimity
Mr.. Carr refused to do so, and subordi-
mated his own candidacy to the good OF
the party until after the August election
was passed The people of North Caro-
lima admire the man who subordinates
his own ambition to party success.
No sooner had Mr.. Carr announced his
candidacy for the Senate than the lead
ing business men of all classes sprang
hdnuIdCIuT6BS, farmers,
educators, men Of learned professions,
and particularly the laboring men, recog-
nized Julian S. Carr as the foremost
champion of their rights. They saw that
he was no time-serving politician, that
he had not heretofore held office, and
that his life had been devoted to the
upbuilding of his native State, and they
well understood that with him in the
tn MOI
given to the industrial and educational
life OF North Carolina. Can it be won
dered at that when this tribune of the
people visited Plymouth. Williamson,
and Greenville and Wilson, tremendous
crowds greeted him, attesting his hold
upon all the people Of the State?
The Confederate veterans of North
Carolina see in him a man who has re-
fected honor upon them. and upon their
cause. The farmers regard him as the
foremost opponent of trusts and indus
trial combinations. The educators believe
that his life is an earnest of his love
for the rising generation. Ought not
such a man and such a cause to succeed?
One word as to the proprieties of the
campaign: Did not delicacv REQUIRE
that Mr.. Simmons should have resigned
as chairman of the executive committee
OF the Democratic party before making
his canvass for Senator? Will not all
men concede that the State had been
saved to the Democratic party by the
August election? If Mr.. Simmons loved
the party so much as he processes to do,
ought he not, after that election, to have
pulled off the armor which encased him
as chairman and fought a fair fight
on equal terms with his opponent? He
did no such thing. His management has
sought to ensconce itself behind the
Democratic organization, and to say If
you do not vote for. Simmons you are
against the Democratic party. This is a
specious plea, my friends 1t will fool
nobody. Mr.. Carr was voting the Dem
ocratic ticket when Mr. Simmons was
wearing his bib and tucker. Mr.. Carr,
a private citizen was spending thou
sands of dollars for William J. Bryan in
1896, when the executive committee was
looking to Carr, and to Carr almost
alone, to furnish the necessary snews of
war, while Mr. Simmons, a Federal office
holder, was drawing fat salary as an
internal revenue collector.
The attempt has been made to put Mr..
Carr in the light of fighting the Demo-
cratic organization, but it has failed. He
has demanded as a right that the Dem
ocratic organization, called into being to
fight the enemies of Democracy. should
not be used in the interest of the State
chairman against any other Democrat
The justice of that demand has been
recognized by the Democratic voters who
have resented the policy of diverting the
Democratic organization from the pur-
pose for which it was created. Instead
of fighting the party organization Mr.
Carr and his friends. have shown them
selves to be the best supporters of
party organization by demanding that it
represent all the party, and not any
faction of it. 1t has been gratifying to
see that, in spite of misrepresentation,
the true position of Julian S. Carr is
understood and endorsed.
In war and in peace, at home and
abroad, without yariableness or shadow
of turning, Julian S. Carr has been a
consistent, true and loyal son to his
State, to his country, to his party, and
to his God. Despite the unfair advantage
which his chief opponent has taken as
chairman of the Executive Committee.
and despite the fact that he seeks to so
mix his cause with the cause of Democ-
racy as to hoodwink the unthinking, he
has totally failed of his purpose. Mr..
Carr trusts the people, they know him,
and they love him. Prosperity has not
turned his head, wealth has not chilled
his veins, honor has not separated him
from the humble men who know him
best nor will the Senatorship change
one iota of the life and character of this
generous hearted Carol.nian.
The note of victory comes from all
sections of North Carolina. Reports
based upon thorough canvass show that
Carr will carry at least So of the 81
counties of the State, including nearly
all the counties containing the largest
Democratic vote. The ides of November
will witness the election of Julian S.
Carr to the Senate. When he gets there
he viii be proud and the whole State will
be proud of these words spoken by him
on the 18th of August, 1900: I'm this
contest, shall not attempt in any way