The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-11
Gen. Carr for Senator.

Mebane, N. c., Jan. 10, 1908.
To the Editor: When five or six men
almost equally deserving of public favor
engage in a political contest, the right
solution is necessarily to chose that man
who would be--in his place-of the
greatest utility to the elective constit
uency. In the pending contest for Uni
ted States Senator it is a matter for
party and public felicitation that there
can be no attempt at personal detraction
On She part of the friends of any candi-
date at the expense of any other candi-
date. Such criticism in the light of the
character of all the aspirants is i'm
possible. The situation is a gratifying
one and one over which every good cit-
zen should rejoice.
Who, then--in the view of public util-
ity-is the, logical candidate?
We have in the Senate in the person
of Senator Simmons both an eminent
statesman and man who has graduated
with high honors from the fighting school
of practical politics; a man who will
take easy rank as a leader in shaping
party policies Should not his compile
ment in the Senate be a man who is in
touch with the business interests of the
State and who is familiar with its indus
trial needs? Such man is General Ju-
liam S. Carr. He has been identified with
the material progress of the State for
more than generation. He was pion
Ger and originator of the industrial re-
vival that has blessed the South since
the blight of the Civil War, and he has
continued leader of the more progress
sive policies that have followed in its
wake. The world knows man by his
works. Could not the father of great
business enterprises, one who is famil-
lar with the logic of supply and demand,
the laws of finance and the science OF
the promotion of manufacturing enter
prise, give the best value received to
North Carolinians in the Senate of the
Nation? Is there anywhere a man more
familiar with the progressive needs of
his State, more conscious of its inter-
ests and more capable of subscribing them
than General Carr? ~~.
1t seems to me, Mr.. Editor that if the
people could fully realize that in julie
Carr" they have man combining these
practical qualifications with an unblem-
ished character for honesty and sin
certy of purpose and a Statewide repu-
tation for both political wisdom and
ole-souled public and private philan-
thropy, the Senator to succeed Mr..
Pritchard could no longer be properly
symbolized by an interrogation point.
When in addition it is remembered
that General Carr was one of those who
gave up an education to follow the glo-
rious passage of the STARS and Bars,
when we remember his devotion both to
the Lost Cause" itself and its survivors,
which has been repeatedly recognized
by the Confederate veterans of the State,
of whom he is now the gracious head;
when we think that not one of the rem
rant of those magnificent Tar Heel troops,
| whose deeds and sacrifices marked an
| historical epoch, the memory of which
will thrill for centuries the innate chiv-
| airy of their descendants, now represents
| the State at Washington; when we
| further remind ourselves that the oppor-
| tunity to honor this heroic class is a
| feeting one, we ought to pray that Carr S
| white head shall go down at last in the
service of the mother State to which,
as boy and man, he has so open handedly
given both of the vigor of his youth and
the ripe experience and material accu-
| mutations of his rich manhood.
| BY the election of General Carr the
Legislature would both meet the desire
of the business interests and realize the
hopes of Confederate veterans generally
| T. NJ CHEEK,
| Ex-State Senator of Orange County.