The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-13
GEN. CARR's INTERVIEW,


The interview published with Gen. JUL
ian S. Carr yesterday is not what his past
record led his friends to expect. He does,
indeed, shut the mouths of those Repub-
licans and Assistant Republicans who
have been asserting that he would under
take to McLaurinize and Radicalize North
Carolina But he Joins in the baseless
hue and cry started by Herbert and other
1896 and 1900 boilers, when he says:
my only desire is to see the Democratic
party pull itself together, and purge it
self of its Populistic ideas and tendencies
and again become a great national party
He follows up that insulting declaration
against policy for which he is as much
responsible as any man in North Carolina,
by saying: I'VE must be done with guer-
lila warfare and declaring by inference
that he is ''sick and tired of the policy
that prevailed in 1896 and 1900. The great
Democratic party has conducted no "guer-
lila warfare" and it comes with poor
grace from Gen. Carr who sought the nom
nation for Vice President as Bryan's run
ming mate, to formulate such an indict-
ment against the Democratic party. 1T
made by Republican or bolter. 1t is
gratutious and wanting in loyalty for a
Democratic delegate to the National Con-
vention to make such charge. If Bryan
had won, would Gen. Carr have made
such a charge? Instead, would he not
have proclaimed his devotion to the policy
that had won and pointed with pride to
the part he had taken in shaping the par
tvs policy and naming it's victorious cam
didates? 1t is ungenerous to kick COM
rade who failed of success.
The day Mr.. Bryan started the Com
moner he eliminated himself as a candi-
date for the presidency in 1904. distinctly
declaring that he would not be candi-
date before the Convention. There has
been no suggestion from anybody at any
time that Mr.. Bryan was not frank with
the public Having eliminated himself,
does Gen. Carr think it very gracious to
proclaim himself opposed to his renomina-
ton?
The Democratic party in North Carolina
though it has the highest admiration to-
day for his ability, integrity and devotion
to the Constitution and to popular govern
ment In 1896 he was originally favored
for the nomination because he stood for
the principles which had been regarded
as orthodox Democracy in North Caro-
lima since 1S73-for the same principles Of
which Vance was the embodiment. To
call advocacy of free coinage, income tax,
and the regulat ion of transportation cor
pOrations "Populistic'' is to declare that
the Democratic party, certainly in every
"Populistic'' for twenty five years. The
people of North Carolina believe today
that the policies advocated by Vance,
Jarvis, Scales, Joseph ]. Davis, Walter L..
Steele, Robt. B. Vance, A. M. Wad-
dell, Thomas S. Ashe and other
like men are fundamentally true.
The party today stands for these same
principles. If the leaders who now
maintain these principles are not as
learned, as those giants they are equal
ly as able and as patriotic as those who
wish to change the principles OF the par
ty. A comparison of records, man by
man, will establish this fact.
Toward the close of his remarkable in
terview, Gen. Carr says he "favors ex-
pansion on reasonable lines" and ap-
proves the to decision of the Supreme
Court 1t is unfortunate that he does not
define ION reasonable lines" The Demo-
cratic party has always been the party
of trade expansion and such expansion of
contiguous territory, peopled by class
wish to enter the Republic, but it has al
ways opposed that expansion that is found
ed upon force and that adds a population
of Asiatics unfit to become equal sharers
in the blessings of liberty. 1t does not
believe in converting this Republic of
equal citizens into a conglomerate gov
eminent wherein the British colonial pol
icy and carpet bag government flourish.
The Supreme Court by a majority of one
has decided, in effect, that Congress is
all powerful in the government of colonies.
This being true, it is the duty of the
Democratic party. not to camp on the Re-
publican trail, but to stand against the
evils that carpet bag rule and colonialism
will bring to this Republic. 1t is the duty
of citizen to obey the law as construed
by the courts, but there is no law under
heaven or among men to compel approval