The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24

cf the State. for their instruction and
Board of Health of the State for the
protection Of the lives of its citizens
against disease: that it maintains a
Corporation Commission as a means
# securing fair treatment of the peo-
ole at the hands of the corporations;
that it supports a Bureau of Lator
Statistics: that it is conducting an
insurance Department for the protec-
lion of the people against eX0rbitant
'ates of insurance and against fraud
Ilent companies and infamous incen-
liaries: that it supports an Orphan
Asylum for white children and one
or cOiOred children. that IL conducts
our Normal Schools for toe training
# negro teachers: that we are Siip-
PORTING a Soldiers Home. which cares
annually for more than 100 old Con-
aedcrates, that it is paying out lhou-
;andS of dollars to defend a SUIT
against the State brought in the name
Vt the State of South Dakota at the
nstigation of persons who are SEEK
ng for more than appears in the suit.
n which suit the last HepuDilcln
Governor and a Fusionist Senator APP
bear against the Stata-no one 81
which expenses did the State have to
rear in the great administration Of
Governor Vance. but many or Whlch
expenses have come to pass by reason
# his wise provision and on account
his recommendation.
Ii may be remarked in passing that
seems strange that our Republican
'riends should go beck to Governor
JanceS administration TO find or"
18th which to compare mine unfaVnr-
bIv-they arc manifest!y paying me
high compliment by associating me
even by contrast with the greatest OF
I'll our Governors. | thank them for
their consideration in forgetting GOV
aronr Russel's administrators when
talking about mine.
We've Spent Much: Twas Needed.
This administration has spent much
money and it is glad Of it. There
was need for expenditure of money.
There was Il demand for it and W.
have met it. 1t undoubtedly appears
cheaper TO neglect the aged, The fee
BILE, the infirm, the defective. to for"
get the children of this generation
but the man who does it is cursed Of
God and the State that permits it is
certain of destruction. There arn
people on tive face of the earth who
take no care of the weak and infifm,
who care nought for their chiliren
and provide only for the qualification
Of their own desires, but these peO-
pie neither wear clothes nor dwell in
houses. They leave God out of con-
Sideration in their estimate of life
and are known to us as savages.
The Republican party in this State
i'm their platforms expressly declare
themselves in favor Of the education
of the masses; in favor Of generous
public aid to all charitable institutions
of the State and the enactment OF
pension laws more liberal and just t
the old Confederate soldier. If they
do favor these things. then they must
vote the Democratic ticket this year.
for what they favor, we have already
accomplished and so far from being
satisfied with our work. we stand
ready 10 obey the command that we
go forward.
The Common Schools.
Speaking of the Republican plat
form reminds me that it taxes Occar
sion to denOnnce the practice of the
present Democratic administration in
it's effort to make common schools
part of the Democratic machine. t..
be run for partisan purposes. / have
sought diligently to find out to Whar
PARTISAN purpose any act OF this ad-