The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-16
A Discussion Of the Candidates for United States Senator
CARR FOR SENATOR.


all the words Of approval and common
dation, elected by the late announce
ment of the candidacy of General Julian
S. Carr for the seat in the United States
Senate now occupied and misrepresented
bv Marion Butler. / feel that there are
very few men in North Carolina better
qualified, intellectually and morally, to
fill that exalted position than our beloved
"Jule"-a position once so ably and talth-
fully filled by the Incompatible and IN
corruptibe Vance. Many have urged, ana
we think very justly, political, educa-
tional and industrial reasons why his nj
ness for the position transcends that Oh
any other candidate now before the Peo-
pie more perfect knowledge or ms
character, in all it's varied ana ennoo-
ling traits, acquired from an intimate
acquaintance of nearly twenty years
during which time the writer has en-
joyed the honor and pleasant privilege
Of serving him in more than one Ca
pacity, has enabled him to form a more
accurate and just estimate of his quail
f1cations to serve the people in any POSI-
ton within their gift. We have had
dealings with many prominent men, IN
bushes as we'll as literary, political ana
educational matters, but we have never
met one who so thoroughly understood,
and who was in greater sympathy with
the condition and highest interests OF
the masses. In factory, field, office or in
the ranks of trade, in religious as in
secular matters, whatever concerned the
public veal, he has ever been found faith
full and assiduous in striving to subserve
The best interests of ALL
If we predicate his claims simply upon
partisan and political considerations, who
can name the patriot who has done
more. spent more-or even as much-in
fostering and promoting the welfare Of
the people, and especially of the Demo-
cratic party, than Julian S. Carr? His
indefatgable assduity and integrity have
been conspicuous amid the darkest as
well as the brightest hours of our States
history since he laid aside the beloved
gray at AppomattoX to lend helping
hand in building up the waste places
and infusing new life and hope in our
beloved Southland, and especially in the
Old North State.
But his political, educational and in
dustrial claims, have, perhaps, been more
ably enunciated and indicated than this
humble scribe feels competent to do; and
he would therefore touch upon matters
which are somewhat delicate, but which,
to his mind, are esteemed as the true
and best evidences of the sterling nobility
of his manhood; matters that get nearer
the hearts of the people than all the in
fatuating grandeur that could adorn the
life of the greatest statesmen. We es-
TEEN the proposition as aXimatic, that
true goodness is the foundation
of all true greatness. and the
God-Iike attribute is conceived and born
in the social and domestic realm of life,
and is widened by the little acts of
Kindness and self-abnegation, that silent
~ and without ostentation instI new
life, and light, and hope into many weary
hearts and desoate homes. 1t is easy
for men of great wealth TO do big things
that shall echo and re-echo through the
public prints, but there are comparatively
few among the affluent who bend the knee
of their elite pomposity and condescend
to do such little co acts as
feeding the hungry and clothing the
naked, and visiting the humble
houses of the widow and the or
phan, dispelling the sombre cloud of sor-
row and want For him-the subject of
heart, now cold and silent, has breathed
its latest prayer and in many a dark
ened home, from which some precious
jewel has flown, the memory of his many
little" acts of kindness and brotherly
love, well up in the desolate soul like
cool and sparkling springs amid the
simeon wasted desert of life. 1t is I'M
der such conditions in life that the no.
bility of his characteristic ennObling vir-
tues of head and heart-shine out most
effulgently. Like the blessed Master
whom he devoutly serves, his chief de-
light is in going about doing good ex-
employing that lofty principle, that car
injury to one is the concern of ALL re-
gardlcss of the political or religious
prediction of the recipients of his be-
nevolence and charity.
-eminently devoid of and above
aristocratic scclusionism-Gene Carr
is one of the people and is peculiarly
sensitive to all their needs. Having, ny
| interchangeable energy Of mind, heart ant
muscle come up from among the humble
/ but honest and stalwart yeomanry of OH
| State, he is better acquainted with. an,
understands best how to legislate fo
their mental and material welfare.
In conclusion, because of his plenar,
| fitness, the writer urges his promotion t
the position wherein he can be mos
useful to the people whom he loFes, am
! to whose highest interests he has eve
been faithful in the darkest as well a
brightest days in the history of the Oh
North State. H. V. PAUL.