The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-06
CLEAN MEN ARE DEMANDED.
The Leaders of Today Must be Men Who Are
Pure and Upright.

Pure and Upright.
To the Editor: Realizing what
a powerful agency for the pu"i-
flying of government your paper
has ever been, and noting with
JOY the increasing demand on the
part of the people to this end, |
thought it not amiss to write as fol
lows:
The planting of government OF
whatever form upon any other than
the basic principles enumerated by the
Christian religion, would by the
very act but bespeak the impending
doom that awaited it. Our tribunals
of justice are the offspring OF CHRIS
tianity. since our high state or en-
lightment is entirely dependent upon
the continued upholding of its cardinal
principles; indeed they have been the
most cogent factors in presaging The
path of our nation along all lines OF
progressiveness. Hence the truth is
easily discerned that an aspirant for
a seat in any of the legislative bodies
in the nation should be at least one
whose moral as well as mental facul-
not better still Christian. 1t has
been well said that law without love
is unlovely. Hence of necessity it
follows that one is better fitted for
the performance of the duties incl
dent to such a position, who in adj
dition to intellectual attainment is
dominated by that lofty conception OF
duty to his fellow man that is found
ed upon that scriptural injunction:
~ new commandment ! give unto
YOU that We love one another. This
holy mandate has come laundering
down the ages, excluding all forms OF
vice. and espousing the cause of true
benevolence. Upon its teachings the
erandest minds have rested their
mode Of dealing with humanity. Amid
political strife the hand which has
behind it the spirit of the Lowry
Nazarine, grasps with more safety
the tiller that shall steer the ship OF
state into the harbor of peace and
prosperity Study of the divine is
elevating, and that one whose
thoughts dwell in that condition in
which the Cody live, has the best con-
ception Of what constitutes justice,
because of the greater nearness TO
Him who is its source. England's
Gladstone promised his greatest deliv-
FRANCES upon the Holy Writ, and the
wonderful influence he welded for the
uplifting of humanity, found its pow
er in a soul charged with a Christian
faith The scholarly jefferson; com
prehensive in mind; possessed Of lof-
tiness of purpose. though denying the
divinity of the Christ, and thus great
~ limiting the scope of his ability
for the furtherance of the best in
terests of mankind. yet in the main
accepted His teachings, and accom-
plished good.
And Buncombes noble son,
the worthy Vance, was an arduous
student of the scriptures, and in his
Kindly heart were embedded its fun
damental truths. which armed him
with fearIessness in the doing Of right.
AS has been written:
"There is no buried dead,
No grassy mould can hide from view
The peerless forms of those we love,
The sanity ones, so good and true,
Before the spirit ever move
With beauty new,
And stately tread.
Memory thus recalls our dead states
man, so sadly missed.
In the W OfIu = best NIdLlOl ny
Mr. Justice Brewer we find a sketch
of George VIM. Curtis, in which it IS
said that scholar rather than states
man. gentlemanly by instinct, essen
tally gracious, he was seemingly lln-
fitted for the rude drawings and con-
tentions of practical politics. but that
such men have determined the coarse
Of events in America at gerry crisis.
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ticians, and asserting the omnipotcnt
supremacy of that higher intellect
which can begin and operate only un-
der the direction of sound and com
polling conscience. Mr.. Beeclier in
the closing sentence of his eulogy Of
Mr.. Lincoln said: "Ye people behold
a MARTYR whose blood as 50 many ar
ticulate words. pleads for fidciitv, for
LAZY. for liberty"
And now upon the hustings comes
Chas b. Aycock Wayne's gifted adj
vocate of white supremacy, a most
exemplary character. May his voice
continue to ring out over hills and
plains of Carolina, calling men to
join the forces of law and order.
Slumbering in the breast of the de-
termined masses is a desire for men
in office who have clean hands and a
pure heart. 1t is Of that momentous
character that will not brook defeat
This smouldering fire should be fam
ed into Il consuming fame that shall,
as far as possible, wipe out every yes
tage of political corruption.
In the campaign that is opening
let Democracy put on the armor
of truth, and with the indomitable
energy Of GARRISON, Mecklenburg'
late representative, work for a most
signal victory.
w. X. YATES.
Durham, n. c.
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