The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-13
HON. J. ID, GUDGER, JR,,
DOES UP ]. n, MOODY.
De nocrats Delighted and Say That Gudger is
The Man TO Defeat
MOODY.

Especial to the News and Observer
Robbinsville N. c., Sept. 12.-The open
ing of the Tenth Congressional district
campaign between Hon. j. NJ. Gudger, Jr.,
and Maj j. NJ Moody began here We'd
nesday A large and enthusiastic au-
dience greeted the candidates, and many
ladies were present.
Mr.. Moody opened the discussion and
occupied the major part of his time in
attempting to show that Mr.. Gudger was
not the nominee of the Democratic party
for Congress, and incidentally touched on
national and State issues. He vainly
tried to justify the cruel and inhuman
treatment of the Filipinos by our soldiers
in administering the water cure etc.
Moody was in bad voice today and his
friends here were disappointed at his
opening speech.
MIR. Gudger spent but little time in re-
ply to Moodys charges regarding his
nomination, and in most ludicrOus man
ner portrayed Moody as 'the nominee Of
the revenue ring doodlers" reading let
tiers charging him with interfering and
trying to dictate the nominations in the
various counties, and in ringing tones
asked Moody what business he had in
interfering with the Buncombe county
Citizens ticket. The silence at this
point was painful and the thrusts admin
tered by Gudger will long be remembered
Ky the Major. Mr.. Gudger then pictured
in eloquent words the bravery and hero
ism of the Confederate soldiers, and the
appropriations of pensions by the Demo
cratic General Assembly for the disabled
soldiers and the widows of those who
were killed on the battlefields This
evoked storm of applause. Turning to
Moody he said: Your party has opposed
the pensioning of our Confederate sol
diers and yet you are trying TO get
pension on the ground that you got your
big toe mashed by a big middling OF
meat falling on it,. and that you caught
the distemper while in Cuba This pro-
voked much laughter on the part of the
audience and evident discontinue on
the part of Moody. Mr.. Gudgers sar
castle reference to the chief glory of the
Republican party and the acts of Mr..
Moody in the Senate by electing Jim
Young, a negro as a director of the white
deaf and dumb asylum of North Carolina
and carving his name on the corner stone
Of the building to thus perpetuate his
name in history: the adjOurning of the
Republican Legislature in honor of the
death of Fred Douglas, a negro, and re-
fusing to adjourn in memory of General
Robt. e. Lee; the forgery by the Of
ficers of the Senate of Moody's name to
bills that had not passed, and the John
Smith Penitentiary scandal were all
knock out blows.
Mr. Gudger's arguments on the Philip
pine war and the forming of trusts and
combinations as result of the high pro-
tective alws were clear and convincing.
1t was admitted by the Republicans them
selves that Gudger was far superior to
Moody as campaigner. The Republi-
cans were greatly disappointed and
chagrined ut the many knock outs re-
ceived by Moody and his Intellectual eff
forts to stay the blows. The Graham
county Democrats expressed great salts
faction with Mr.. Gudger's clean cut and
able defence of Democratic principles.
That Gudger is the right man to defeat
Moody is the universal expression of
opinion by the Democracy today.
Graham county will be in the Demo
cratic column in November.
The many friends of Mrs. J. M. Gudger
Jr., We're pleased to have her again visit
our city