The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-17
JUDGE HENRY GROVES Common,
Nominee of the Democratic Convention for Associate
Justice from the East.

whose democracy was so pure and gen.
uine, as to inspire them to vote the Re-
publ can ticket, claiming the right to
choose for Democratic convention, here
or elsewhere, its nominees!
But they say that in the coming cam
paign we may be forced to wage a de-
fensive contest. Whence comes this fear ?
To whom addressed? We bring this as
surance. About Walter Clark, the SOL
der, the citizen, the lawyer, the judge,
the Democrat, the Christian, the party
will have to place no shield. nor in his
defence lift a weapon. All the shafts of
bitter revenge and unrelenting malice
now lie broken, shattered, harmless at
his feet. The last shot has been fired.
The ammunition is exhausted. The
enemy, with face turned to one common
camp, halts, dazed, confused, amid the
smoke of abandoned guns, without breast
plate or armor he has met all assaults
and stands today, as ever, untouched,
without bruise or pain and without
malice.
Fellow Democrats: Have no fears,
the Democracy that dominates today is
an aggressive Democracy. Militant
truth inspires it, The spirit that con-
quered, amid doubt and difficulty in 1898
and 1900, will, with hope and assurance
hold in 1902. If there be the timid among
us he has but to stand upon any spot in
North Carolina and look about him to
see the very air tremble with the glory
of triumph as he hears today this very
hall thunder with the voice of victory.
but Judge Clark, they say stands ac-
cused! Would that l had voice loud
enough for every man. woman and child
in North Carolina to hear when | assert:
That of all the wrongs and plumbers al
legged against him by his enemies, no one
has yet been reckless enough to charge
to him one wrong, one blunder, against
the peoples cause or in disobedience of
the peoples will. He has respected the
verdicts of juries and the judgments of
courts. His offence is, that he did not
condemn them. He has encouraged and
advised the enforcement of the law
against the strong as well as against the
weak. His offence is, that he did not
countenance and would not tolerate its
evasion by the strong.
''He has seen open and persistent vio-
Iations of the statutes of the State and
called the attention of the proper au-
thorities to them His offence is, that
he did not bandage his eyes and seal his
lips He has upheld and defended the
Constitution. His offence is, that he did
not ignore it. He has stood by the Leg
islature and obeyed its Constitutional
mandates. His offence is, that he did not
defy them.
''Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention, representing, as you do, the
wisdom, the honor, the manhood OF
North Carolina, he was a judge con-
trolled by his conscience and his oath.
His high crime is, that he could not be
controlled by men. He was accused, the
evidence was produced and man was never
given to behold a sublimer spectacle than
the people of a whole State rising, not
in the passion of Indignation, not in the
heat of excitement, but in the majesty
OF a calm sense of fairness and right,
gathering together in township and coun-
IL to do simple justice to this one fell
bowman They heard, they weighed, they
indicated. In this yindication the peo-