The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-25
WHAT NOMINATED BOB GLENN.

WHAT NOMINATED BOB GLENN.
1.-THE country people have long
memories"
1t is chiefly to this fact that Hon.
Robert B. Glenn owes his nomination
of Governor. In 1892 the State Con-
vention nominated Charles b. Aycock
and Robert B. Glenn as electors fol
the State at large. That year the NOM
inee for Governor was a farmer who
was not an orator or skilled public
speaker The chief canvassing that
campaign, therefore, rested upon Mr..
Aycock and Mr.. Glenn. They spoke
in almost every county, and with other
eloquent orators temporarily stayed
the tide that was sweeping toward
Populism, and kept the State in the
Democratic column. When the Demo-
Gratis elected the President in 1892,
with one accord the people urged the
appointment of Mr.. Aycock and Mr..
Glenn as District Attorneys. They
were appointed. They filled the offices
with credit to themselves and the
country. Though Mr.. Cleveland in
1896 bolted the party that had honor
ed him, these two men in Federal Of
fees were as true to their convictions
and their party then as in all their
previous and subsequent careers. In
a day when many men, who owed the
party the duty to remain true to it
in supreme crisis, were fol-
lowing Cleveland into giving aid and
support to the Republicans, Aycock
and Glenn neither put paddock on
their mouths. nor followed the Presi-
dent as he went off after false gods
Because they were true to their con-
victions, preferring faithful allegiance
to their party than the approval of the
President, they strengthened their hold
upon the true and tried Democracy of
North Carolina In 1894, in the SUI
preme struggle, when for the first time
in more than twenty years. the enc
mics of Democracy won victory in
North Carolina, these two men
were on the stump speaking for
Democracy. But five cent cotton and
other causes made Democratic success
impossible. In 1896, when a deter
mined effort was made to rescue the
State from Re-pop-lican rule, Aycock
and Glenn We're again the two Demo-
cratic orators most in demand. In
1898 came the most momentous polit-
ical struggle in the life of this genera
fia,, Pan,hlioap .,aicr,Iln had haaoYao
intolerable. The leaders Of Democracy
resolved to rescue the State or die in
the attempt. That masterful political
executive, Hon. F. M. Simmons, was
made State Chairman, and he inaugu-
rated and prosecuted the most re-
markable political campaign known to
this generation. There were scores of
able and true men who. leaving their
offices and places of business enlisted
for the war" The name of that roll
of honor would fill every column of
this paper, and then the name of some
who made greatest sacrifices and have
a right to claim lasting gratitude,
would be omitted. 1t is no withhold
ing of due praise from other able and
eloquent men to say that the brunt of
the speaking in that campaign fell
upon Mr.. Aycock and Mr.. Glenn. I'm
fortunately for the cause he Champion
ed with devotion and eloquence that
stirred the hearts of thousands and
made hundreds of votes, the noble Cy
rue 3. Watson. candidate for Cover
nor was stricken with illness in the
midst of the campaign. From every
county and every neighborhood came
letters to the State Chairman for speak
ers to address the people. Those famil-
lar with those letters will recall that
at least eight out of ten read thus:
"Send us Charles Aycock or Bob
Glenn" or "Send us Bob Glenn or
Charles Aycock, and some local lead
ers wishing to arrange for a particu-
larry great gathering would write:
Send US Aycock and Glenn" The
history of that campaign is too recent
to be recalled. The speeches of these
two most popular campaigners stirred
the people from mountain to the sea;
they met the enemies of Democracy
in joint debate and routed them; they
convinced the wavering and brought
them into the Democratic camp. When