The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-06
Gen Carr for Senator.

Especial to The News and Observer
Washington D. c., Jan. FL have been
very much pleased during the past few
days to see in your paper some just and
appreciative references to my old friend,
Colonel Julian S. Carr, as prospective
United States Senator. After an expert
ence of eighteen years in Washington
during part of which time l correspondent
for thirty-five newspapers, l ought to have
some idea of the qualifications that fit
man to serve his State most effectively
in the upper House of Congress. North
Carolina needs a business man rather
than a politician just now. She ought
to send man here who can induce CAPT.
tai to invest in cotton mills, tobacco fac
tories and make her waste acres blossom
with the varied harvests her matchless
soil and climate produce. She needs
man of Julian S. Carrs energy, ability
and financial standing.
Location should have nothing to do
with the choice of the man, in this in
stance. North Carolina was never better
represented in the Senate than when both
Senator's Graham and Mangum come here
from Orange county.> Today no Southern
State is more ably represented in the
Senators are from the same town! Julian
S. Carr belongs to the centre, so both
the East and the West can claim him
equally.
The eyes of the business world are
turned on North Carolina, and now is
the time for a man of first-class bust
ness ability to be put to the front A man
who can manage his own business can be
trusted with the affairs of the State.
When Julian Carr as mere lad DOTTED
his Confederate uniform to put on the
garb of a working man he was poor. His
section was desolated by the war. He
amassed a fortune and no man ever dared
to impeach his honesty. He did it by hard
work and good judgment. Twenty years
after he took hold of Durham's big
tobacco factory the golden tobacco belt
of North Carolina" was famous through
out the world. His advertisements were
scattered over every part of both hem
ispheres and many a struggling news
paper owes ITS first step towards pros
perty to a liberal advertising contract
signed ~. s. Cart" With his fortune
came a lavish generosity. He offered to-
send me mis- check for as much money as
needed to remove 108 North Carolina
Confederate dead from Arlington to- Dur
ham. He gave 30,000 to Chapel Hill,
1000 to Trinity College, is the main
Prop of the Confederate Soldiers Home,
and has given more money to the Demo-
cratic party and papers than every 9TH
er Democrat in the State combined!
There has been a great deal of talk
about brave and honest and able Sena-
tor Pritchards influence with Mckinley
and Roosevelt, and the necessarily good
influence such cordial relations had as
regards North Carolina. Well, / am in a
position to know there was and is and
always will be a great deal in it. Jeter
Pritchard was and is and will continue
to be strong at the White House Theo-
dore Roosevelt trusts and respects him
and one judgship and two cabinet
positions have been declined by Senator
Pritchard in the past, from a patriotic
sense of duty to his State and his par
ty he will not suffer in the future.
But there is reason why Julian S.
Carr will also have the entree to the
White House. Julian Carr's mother was
Bullock, of Granville county. Theo-
dcre Rooscvelt's mother was Bullock
from Georgia, and both were descended
from Hon. Archibald Bullock, one of the
staunch old pioneers of the South! Julian
Carr is blood kin to Theodore Roosevelt
and North Carolina know 'blood is
thicker than water" Ir North Carolina
elects Mr.. Carr to the Senate, it will not
be many months before North Carolina
will have another son here who can walk
into Mr.. Roosevelts office, command his
attention and secure patronage There
are many millionaires in the Senate with
money ready to invest. No two men in
the State could excel Mr.. Carr in con-
vincing them where they could place it to
get the best returns.
There are many worthy arpirants for
the chair my honored friend Senator
Pritchard has ably filled, and from which
ne will be called up higher. The am
bition is a noble one and every gifted
man has a right to cherish it. The woods
are full of dark horses" too, some Of
them being represented here now in Con-
gress, but if a patriotic wish to serve
our dear old State, from the mountains
to the seashore dominates the next Leg
islature, after the ides of March it will
be Senator Julian S. Carr.
MRS. G. w. HARRIS.
The crowned heads of every nation,