The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-17
How Will Ye be Govern
ed? Asks GiImer.
.HEPOINTS ACONTRAST
Roosevelt With His Lust for Imperia
and Martial Power, Parker With
Reverent Gaze UpIifted to the
Banner of the Con-
stituti0n.
BY II. l.. GRAY.

Rutherfordton, N. c., Sept. Ia
Rutherfordton is set on one hill and
surrounded by many. 1t is IN touch
with the Blue Ridge and the air of it's
mornings and evenings is of that
quality which makes one want to run
for the pleasure of breathing the
faster.
Possibly because the heavens fur
nish a perpetual stimulant Of that
sort the people are to a mansalmost
prohibtonists; also they are Demo
Gratis of the straitest sect. These
two habits of mind and the practice
of travelling by horse back are the
most marked of the people
missionaries on the surface. More
deeply their character is honest,
frank, jovial and hospitable.
| watched the men of the hills rid
ing into speaking. They ride any
thing, from a Kentucky breed that
steps along as though the road were
paved with egg shells to quite the or
binary Wake county brand of clay
bank mule. In the saddle their at
titude is rather a comfortable SLOUGH
than that of the cavalryman or fox
hunter, but their seat has all the I'M
conscious ease of an old lady knitting
i'm a rocking chair. The appearance
OF the man and his mount suggests
the picture of a ship going with the
tide before a light wind: method
of locomotion that, without effort,
cuts down distance without worry.
Representing the Best
Mr. Gilmer, as / indicated yester-
day. filed Mr.. Glenns appointment at
this place today. While the crowd
was not a large one, it was as that at
Shelby, composed of q representative
body of the best men of the county.
The speech, while it necessarily dealt
to a large extent with the same sub
dow iC hnf
strong and original The speaker re-
fered to the majority which Ruther-
ford county rolled up in the last
election, which saved the tenth dis
trict to the Democratic nominee for
Congress, and calling attention to
the purity and high purpose of the
party's dominant policies, eloquently
appealed to the people not to rest on
their laurels or to rest on their arms,
but to work in this day of grace,
when salvation was happily no longer
an issue, for the continued glory of
the party and its righteous endeavors
AS on Yesterday he dwelt upon the
idea of the Constitution being the
bedrock as well as the lifeblood of
the Democratic government and de-
nounced the administration policy
in the Philippines as a departure to-
wards colonization.
He again took up the charges of eX-
I1aNdSlIlce,
platform and answered them by
showing the charitable channels in
which the money had been expended
by the Aycock administration.
In the course of his remarks on
this line he took occasion to refer
feelingly to the Confederate soldier,
and tenderly to the afflicted of the
State in whose care and maintenance
so much money has been expended
already, while SO much more is
needed.
Langley and Darius Green.
In referring to the national eX-
penditure of money for war purposes,
pensions and for political and So
called scientific purposes, Mr.. G1lmer
caught the crowd by poking fun at
Langley and his flying machine,
which he compared with the similar
contrivance OF the far sung Darius
Green Said Representative Robert
son in CONGRESS, mo government mas
appropriated two hundred thousand
dollars to Langley's flying machine.
Whereupon Mr.. Hitchcock, of Ne
braska, retorted: ''Tell Langley for
me that the only thing he ever made
fly was the money
Langley, said Mr.. Gilmer. was a
base imitator. Darius had already
patented the idea of being a bird. so
when he get ready to fly he hunted
around in old books and found a cut
of some prehistoric monkey and an
nounced that he was a pterodactyl
ornithopterida. While the govern
ment gladly paid 100000 for the
name it was noticeable that Mr..
Langley did not have the ner'Fa like
Darius Green to try his wings him.
self.
After treating fully the Watts bill,
which is highly popular in Ruther-
ford Mr.. Gilmer took UP Roosevelt's
letter and compared it with the calm,
judicial and upright character of
Judge Parker. who he declared,
would resign the office of President as
he had resigned that of chief justice
before he would abate one jot or title
of the liberties of the people guar
anteed them by the people He
brought out strongly the difference
between Roosevelt. the man. and
Roosevelt Incorporated. by contrast
ing his former statement that the
tariff was vicious in principle and
harmful in practice" with the state
ment in his letter that he regretted
that it should not be universally con-
sidered as a part of the settled poncy
of the nation.
Upon Which Pisgah?
After quoting again from Roose-
velt's saying that peace would bring
disaster and referring to the dying
injunction of Vance not to forSake
the shining banner of the party to
follow untried leaders into the wilder
ness, the speaker told of Moses on
Pisgah looking into the promised land
and in his heart of blood. desiring to
take it with fire and sword, and of
Christ on the mountain top viewing
the glory of the world and waving
temptation behind him. cat this
time" said he, "this nation is on the
mountain and hestating as to what it
shall do. The situation was we'll
stated in a poem which reads:
Upon which Pisgah do we stand in
this our year of grace.
With Moses near the holy land or in
Christ's lofty place"
At the conclusion of his speech
Mr.. Gilmer held an informal reception