The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-22

lol GROUNDS mas arrived. II was over
due.
Tho News and Observer has published
nearly all of the speeches nominating
the candidates for United States Sena-
tor. Representative w. A. Self, of Ca
tawba, who seconded the nomination of
Mr.. Craig, has put his speech in written
form and at the request of a number of
Mr.. Craig's friends and for the public
generally it is here published. Mr.. Self
said:
1T would i'll become a man who pro-
fesses loyalty to his State to attempt,
by indirection even, TO becloud the lustre
of any one of the galaxy, of great names
which, of late. have shone so much in
the public eye. Indeed it is ample and
just warrant for pride and self-congratu-
lation that there should be among us so
many of such as are deemed worthy to
sit in the most august parliament of the
greatest government known among men.
Champions of other candidates have
offered, and will offer. abundance of evil
dence in support of their several claims.
/ can not would not, IL ! couid-con-
t.'adiCt that evidence or explain it away.
They tell us of the marvellous struggle
for Southern independence; how that
the unsurpaSs cd valcr, the unqueslioning
devotion, the accomplishing self-sacri
flee, of those whom they favor, cGntribu
ted in so great measure to make the
memory of that struggle-the glory of
that defaat-eternal as the stars. To
all this l say amen. l yield to no man
in reverence for the sublime fortitude
and daring of the giants in that colossal
conflict. l have said-if you will pardon
Il personal allusion-I have said many a
time and say here again, that Willie it
is a source of some degree of pride to
be able to register my name under the
so-called grandfather clause of the Con-
stitution, it would be infinitely more
gratifying if 1 might have perpetual rec
ord made of the fact that I am a true
son of rebel sire.
But peace hath her heroes. as we'll as
war. There are bloodless revolutions.
Progress is warfare. Yesterday. the con-
fict was between the good and the bad
Today it is between the better and the
coed. Tomorrow will evolve the best
And 1 am come to talk of hero of
peace,-a great young captain in this
army Of progress from the good to the
better from the better to the best. True,
he has never been tested in the fire of
battle, amid the crash of musketry or
the volleying and laundering of can
non, but on more occasions than one. in
the far-away Businesses of the noun
tains, amid the smothered curses and
direful threats of lawless and hostile
mocnshiners and still more lawlcss and
more hostile internal revenue officials,
he has exhibited a cool and native cour-
age worthy of Napoleon or Jackson. Out
there at Big Ivy, I see him surrounded
by an rate and determined mob I hear
their coarse and vulgar murmurs, their
deep mouthed vicious oaths; / see the
cleaning barrels of twenty pistols as the
hoarse shout goes UP that the man who
dares to defend Democracy at that place
on that day, will do so at the peril of his
life: and then, as strong men stand in
breathless expectation, awaiting the fear
full crisis, l see the Little Giant of the
West rise in the lordly majesty Of Cour-
ageous manhood and hurl defiance in the
teeth of his would murderers He told
that mob that he had come there to speak
and that ne would speak or die in the
ATTEMPT. He spoke And if the gospel
of Democracy was ever preached, it was
proclaimed in all its purity and power,
at Big Ivy, on that day.
would you have a man who has made
great sacrifice for others? Mr.. Craig has
always placed the good of his party and
the welfare and honor Of the State above
considerable of personal interest. He
is Industrious. economic, earns money,
and vet he is a poor man. His means.
his physical strength, his superb intel
lectual movers. the feTvor and enthu-
siasm of his great warm heart. the labor
of his life, he has dedicated freely and
ungrudgingly to the cause fer which 7
stanl-for which you stand-the cause