The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-16

What Il Needed I'm North Carolina e
Purify and soiidify the Party-A New
National Leader and Abandonment
OF Populistic Tendencies-Hcn. J. 3.
Carr on the Situation and the Out
look.
Charlotte obseryer.l

July 1l.-General J. S. Carr
having just returned home yesterday.
your correspondent dropped in his
once today To inform MIN that the
people Of the whole state were very
much interested in his recent interview
In The New York Times. and to ask
him II he had anything further to say.
me general remarked hat he prefer
red not being quoted further, and such
nao oeen his intentions, but since his
mai contained SO many letters bearing
upon MS New York interview, perhaps
IL might be We'll to abandon his original
General Carr said:
MY only desire is t see the demo-
cratic party gull itself together, and
purge itself Of its populistic ideas and
leuoencies, AND again become a great
,Hu.aohai party. l am the same straight
iidceo democrat I have always been.
ana to remain so; I profess to
De Just as loyal to die democratic or.
lganlZatlon, n as much devoted to the
true principles of the party.
L have no desire or expectation of
becoming h MeLaurin of North Car
lollna. All such insinuations are wholly
igratuitous: still I have the courage to
speak my convictions. They may weigh
but little and they simply go for what
they are worth.
L smile at the thought that l am
preparing to Jump the fence or kick
out of the traces Rather, l am striv-
ing to serve my state and the demo-
lcraCc party, as l have in the past,
with zeal and fidelity. making the best
interest of each the interest
or Doth. Perish the thought that l
would surrender my party birthright.
NOW that We have eliminated the
Niger North Carolina democracy
must proceed with more breadth of
beam.' and If the promises of the last
campaign mean anything, they meant
as much, and l have an abiding faith
that eventually these pledges will be
faithfully kept.
Il have followed with unfalterine
step and answering loyalty the BAN
ner of DUR national leaders through
every campaign since 1868. I have
striven to live in the zeal o fdefeat.'
but am persuaded that both the good
of the democratic party and the best
Interest of North Carolina, and the
south, for that matter, demand a new
national leader.
daily journal recently said: The ten
ldency of the present conditions and cir
lcumstances is n has been for some
years to drive our best men from
public life n to find and bring to the
front a class of politicians whose chief
capacity seems to be leading to defeat
where success is possible
Il am not seeking to lead a new
movement. 1 don't think any one need
to trouble about the new movement.
Just wait until h next national DEM
~locratic convention, and all of us will
be in the new movement. True, some
will have to round a forty-five degree
curve, but I think they can do it.
Some will have to get to the left and
others to the right, but they will all
round it in good shape and get together
upon a wise conservative demo-
Icratic platform ready for the dero-
cratic victory which will surely come
in 1904.
9TH political situation in North Car
lolina in recent years has been an anon
ally. The populist party fused with the
democrats nationally and with the re-
lpublicans in state affairs. One head
and two bodies joined together. Sue
lceeding campaigns must be fought
upon entirely different issues. We
must be done with guerrilla warfare.
The time has come when our great
national democratic party must give
us a chart, safe and victorious.
mo man supported Mr.. Bryan more
Loyalty than myself, but the fact stares
III III lily loSS IiA"N liz NJ
states in 1900 than in 1896, and, be-
sides the eleven southern states, car
lried only thirteen electoral votes. II
would be madness to repeat such folly
For one I am sick and tired though
I followed our standard bearer twice
through a slaughter house to an oper
lgrave,' with a zeal and fidelity born o.
love.
81 criticise no democrat for differing
with my view. but I am persuaded tha'
conditions in North Carolina positivel,
demand a change in u party policy
My position is that n can be loyal. tt
Iparty principle, but, in entirely good
faith, dissent from party policy.
I'VE have rio ourselves Of h mig
lger,' now let a Great North Carolina
he the watchword.
There is no intention on my part
be assured, to line up the business in
lterest of HI state in support OF my po
lsition. During all these years / hav'
lexerted my influence to keep the busi
ness element OF the state in ouch witt
the democratic party, but 1 am franl
to say that 1 am apprehensive that un
less this element see greater safet.
land promise in the policies Of the dem
locratic party, n it's interest bette
lguarded. 1t will slip away from us NOR
rapidly in the future than in the past
Il certainly do favor the building o
1.-THE Nicaragua canal, and expansion
upon reasonable lines. Mr.. Jefferson
lmy authority for expansion. The de
lcision of the supreme court Of tn
limited States has made expansion a
iassured fact, and whether we like it o
not. we must accept. n u part.
must act accordingly. From the decis
lion of this tribunal there is no appeal.
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