The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-12
Gen. Carr For Senator.

To the Editor: Interesting article,
have been written for your widely reat
paper in support of the various candi.
dates for the United States Senate.
have patriotic pride in our representa-.
tive men. | have unstinted praise fol
The men who are in the public mind
These gentlemen threw themselves into
Inc breach when the peace. the honor
he life of the old North State were
tercely assailed. | am cutie sure thai
here is in reserve that need of praise
which each is entitled. 1t is a refresh
ng thought that negro domination is nc
longer an actual menace. We have
eurbed by peaceful instrumentalities that
dangerous power that lay hidden in the
Fifteenth Amendment. With the passing
Of manhood suffrage without limitation
mischievous ambition has been laid aside
mean that ambition that conferred upon
radicalism its apotheosis.
The track of our old State after ALL is
like a railroad. 1t is not a straight
level, smooth line for any great distance.
1t has its deep cuts and entertainments
20 run through and over; it's curves and
sidings, its defective rails and occasional
distractions. If the trackmen and
switchmen and engineers are experienced
md conservative, the dangers is nominal.
use the above as a figure. l could not
,e construed as insinuating that there is
4 gentleman in the public service, who is
not experienced and conservative. We may
now look complacently upon the past that
s buried with its irritating issues; upon
be rast that overshadowed us with its
oil h.
names of our representative men. We
can see aud know them as they are. We
zee our brave sons coming out of a cruel
bic of fire, heated seven times hotter then
it's wont. 1t was a terrible ordeal for
beings OF flesh and blood when the
scourge of God was riding down the man
hood of the South. but that line fringed
With fire and death was the soldiers
post of duty. Is not his eye still I'M
limmed and his natural force una
ated?"
am sure there IS no enc today derisive-
ly like the young men of Israel "The
second temple is not like the first"
1t seems to me there is an urgent public
plea for General Julian S. Carr for the
elevated position of United States Sena-
tor. His young manhood was hundred
times nut to the proof; his youthful
vigor. pride of country, love of the peo-
lc marched with our armies. In
that experience he lived a deeper
life than falls to the lot of ordinary gem
erat;ons.
His opinions have not been
settled into dogmatie stiffness He is
the same patriot today he was in the
holocaust of war. when all was lost save
honor" His benefcent hand is over and
upon every charity. Every interest Of
the State has been quickened by his pa
triotic influence. What man could have
done more for his people? Let us not
say against our conviction, yea. one heart
inspiring protest that as between the
old State and the new. between the old
epoch and the new our true, our brave
our patriotic men are constantly dwind-
ling minority; as between the living and
the dead they are passing alarmngly fast
over to the ma iority.
Let us be admonished that there can
be no more fatal blunder than by dis
counting the services and sacrifices of the
gallant boys of the sixties.
There is a moral power in numerical
calculation behind the boy who marched
with Lee. We see it in our legislature,
our reunions.
If that uncounted proportion of people
who from time to time have observed in
General Carr that development of charac-
ter in respect to the acquisition of knowl-
edge. readiness of action. strong will,
mental roise. which will enable him, a
distinguished son of the Old North State.
to represent her sovereignty with great
credit in the Senate, why not elect him? ?
1t is the only honor he has ever coveted
at the hands of State and people for
whose ACKNOWLEDGMENT he has labOred
with his money, with his experience, his
patriotism.
ID. WORTHINGTON.