The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
Gen. Davidson for Governor.

"Anat Lropuet Is not WAluvul nonor,
save IN own country. 10: nome.l
one Oh lac exceptions TO that iu-e III
tu4s state Is. -IreneIaI InevIoIe payIuson,
oI 4ASnSVlite, MIIonl tue Leo,,4e Oh tnn
Stale nave once nonored py maAing HIM
Al ,UriiSy -LeneraI WniCu poSlr4On ~
Injected creuIt anu honol, hot ohly 20
nAAnsei4, out 10 tne oldIe, in ms IaI,
Just, ana nberaI Interpretation of the
law. hIs no,ue people sent nlin 10 Ine
last LEGISLATURE as the best quantied the
safest AID most Conservative auIs
10 serve the wal and important interests
tnat iay cIose 10 near.s Iae keQ.,4r
or AsneNlIle, and buncompc coUnty--hl5
native iand and nome. MaAy olntr Truss
OF smaller nature, Dut vIL4l 20 t1e
lite. est ca MS nome people have been III
trusted 10 ms watcniuI Aeeplng, ana none
or tnem nave peen neg.ecIeu. Ie 40 IUse,.
and nonored Tor has puDllc spirit his
nopleness OF heart, and LurIty Oh cnaraC-
ter, and ms sense Ct justice ana llgnC
tn ougnout the State. he IS Almost as
Wen hhuwn and ioved throughout tae
State as he Is at home. hence, he
the exception to the rule, (not without
honor at nome.) hence, 1t is the men
That ale exceptions tcat are the grett.
lSdueIS III OuE CUuuiIJ. pollliNttA
| s.snd lolnt, and q legal standpoint, ne
is the peer Oh any mah IN the STATE, aAn
ms Icing the exception to the rule, gave
buncombe county democratic r.prescn-
tative in the last Leglslal 10 pat
pea a,lvn laws tuaJ a1re pushing ASheVllle
10 the front as the coming CITY OF the
o.ate. Now lnasmucn as our present noble
glorious Governor, who has been snIn-
in NnpTh n.
| Dut throughout the nation, by his rich
and brilliant record as a man OF greet
executive ablIity, commanding the atten
| ton of the press OF the nation as one
among these in the South, deserv
llng national executive honors, is to
! .elIe, and if the South could ever be
| forgiven for standing up Ike true ana
brave men, protecting their homer and the
sacredness OF their h.mcs against the greed
and tauatlcism of radicalism. our present
| Governor would bid fair to grace the
national capital as its chief executive,
so his successor must be q man that can
! step close in the trachs oI the aimcs,
matchless Aycock. / believe can
| take the liberty to use the plural wolo
and say that we or the western section
| and noun am ranges of North c; rOhEa
uelleye thee is no ADLER man to succeed
him and none that will more jealousy
keep UP the high standard OF educauona
, and public spirit he has set IN the
hearts of the people than Gea
era! Davidson Of Asheville. IT is no
use to eulogize him in his love and SER
vice TO the lost cause that Is dear 70
every southern heart, because it Is the
| resent with which we are to deal. and
not the bu. led but tenderly rememDeIeu
LAST. He wore the lull armor and
fought in the front ranks OF the bates
TO nelp the eastern portion OF TINS state
from The dalk SHADOWS and nopelee-
.,loom Of negro rule. He helped rescue the
state from the fusion OF radlcallSm, pop
uIsm and negrosm. And the old ship
I Of Democracy in North Clrollna is aga
..ng IA smooth waters today because
of men like Davidson, Craig and AycocN
tan exceptions TO the rule.) The east
ern portion of the State should have col
ceueu 20 the west Mr.. Craig for U. S.
Senator. He earned it by every Jaw o.
party rule. and was entitled 10 It. Not
that we have not got good and able
one and true Democrat so far as the
writer is able to judge in the homo az
Mr.. Uverman, but Mr. Ovarmans services
to the party in its second greatest s,rug
giles since the emancipation of the slaves
| can never measure up to that of NJ
Craig Mr.. Overman lived in the black
belt. where the odium OF its dark clond
year by year hung heavier and heavier
over that people, and no work was needed
there 10 keep solid the ranks OF white
Democracy, or win the votes of real Re
ubIicans, not Radicals. 1t was IN these
mountains that the work had TO be
done to win votes, to ctrry the amena
ment. No feac OF negro rule prevaile'
here He was not reckoned even as :
small factor in politics. Hence, it too!
the eloquence Of a Craig, the logic OF
I davidson, the persuasion OF an Aycock,
to convince these independent Republicans
and Democrats in the West that 1t was
] their votes, their work and their Chris
tian duty, regardless of party aTiliatloI
to save their brothers from negro domi-
cation in the east, and the conservative
Republicans cast their votes for the
| Amendment in the face of the Radical
that fought to the bitter end against TN
amendment There is as much differ nee
etween a clean upright Republican, and
| IN old John Brown, negro-lovlng Radlca
as there Is between SCOT and snow One
lis Republican, because he believes that
party believes in tariff legislt ton that
keeps down competition, and the right o,
the National Government to compel sub
mission from local and State Government
to the national head denying The old
| State right that was guaranteed to tbs
original thirteen States in the erganlz
! tion OF this Government. A Radical i
the South is worse even than a Radical
in the North He thinks the negro his
fu equal, socially and politically, (as g
theory.) until the negro wants to put tho
theory into practice then the negro hf
to flee to his Democratic friends TO kee''
from being lynched The Southern Rad
/ icals chief admiration for the negro, is
when he lives whe-e there are six neg
votes, to one white Radical, to beat the
white Democrats of the community thel
he is in his glory, for he fattens or the
Government Office, and makes the negro
black his boots. But since men like
Davidson have put their shoulders to the