The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-29
The Governors Graceful
Speech of Stewardship.
ELOQUENT DEFENSE
Governor Takes Up Expenditures and
Policies of His Administration and
Shows Wherein They Have Been
Based on Sense of Consci-
ence and Desire For
States Progress.

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The Governor of the State last night
gave to the people of Raleigh a speech
which abounded in wisdom and grace
OF delivery which was, in effect,
defense of the Democratic admins
tration of the last four years.
Governor Aycock is a speaker who
talks with the confidence of an orator
who gets his eloquence from nature,
mixed with the frankness of utter
ance of a man who has nothing to
conceal, who does not attempt TO pal
late, conceal or "Sluff over" the
things for which he or his party has
stood.
In the course of his short speech
which did not take more than an
hours time to deliver-he dwelt
chiefly upon education of the masses
of the people, insisting upon q strict
obedience to the constitution, upon
the purposes for which his admins
tration had spent the money of the
people, and i'm drawing a contrast be-
tween the administration of State
affairs under Democratic and fusion
rule.
Incidentally he made a strong de-
Tense of Judge Francis d. Winston,
candidate for Lieutenant Governor on
the Democratic ticket, on charges
brought by Republicans, stating that
the Democratic party never forbore
wrong but had an infinite power of
forgiveness TO those VINO sought 10
take the right path.
There could not be a more pleasing
sneaker than the Governor, in plat
form presence, in the personality
which gives a speaker control of his
audience, he is postmaster
of his art. There is nothing firing
about him or his speech. His hearers
follow on his words with bound
attention. The look of the man on
the platform is itself majestic AS he
speaks. his words roll out in the
modulated sequence that charms. His
utterances are forceful in themselves,
not needing the appropriate frame of
the gestures with which they are
framed. The Governor speaks as to
friends. and the frank intimacy and
reason of diction is winning in its sim
plicity, so, that he is instantly enrap-
port with his hearers.
With every seat in Metropolitan
Hall filed with people, the Governor
was introduced by Falk B. Arendell,
who said:
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Fellow
CitiZens-It has been said by some,
that the day has passed when the
minds of men may be Swayed by the
Gift of oratorv or the power of elO-
quence. This may or may not be true
i'm q general sense Mr.. Chairman, but
the day has not yet dawned when the
minds of we'll meaning men may not
be guided into healthful and whole
some moral, religious or political
channels b. the calculating and illum-
mating of great truths b. men whose
hearts and souls overflow with honest
convictions, ornate eloquence and coa-
'incino logic.
1t is my privilege to present
you this evening such a man
man who, whether in public station
n in private thinking has at all times
laced truth above trucking, principle
nd patriotism above political expedi-
ncy courage above fawning. honesty
bove trickery, a product of that ma
i've North Carolina soil so conducive
TO the development of splendid mel
and more splendid women. | come
to present a man who has learned
life in the great school of life itself
n man guided by honest convictions
and unmoVed by an glare or clamor
from what he believes to be the beaten
path of public duty. The pleasure /
derive from performing the distln-
guished duty that you have assigned
of my hioh personal regard for the dis
tinguished gentleman who is to address
Won upon this occasion. Need | name
him? Have | not already in my feeble
way described that giant of moral in
tellectual and political strength, that
Prince of honest men, the childrenS
Governor of North Carolina. Honor
able Charles b. Aycock.
After expressing his appreciation or
Mr.. ArendeIl's remarks and wittily
comparing himself to woman who,
looking in the glass; did not know her
beauty until assured of it by her lover,
Governor Aycock said that he pro-
posed to speak as one representing the
democratic party and the administra-
ton of which he had been the head.
What he. had done was what the Dem
ocratic party had done In the 1900
campaign. said he, had made one
hundred and eight speeches, and in
every one he had spoken one sentence
which he was at this time willing TO
nave live; that if he was chosen as
Governor. his every endeavor and all
the power which he could bring to
bear would be exerted towards the
education of the children of the State
That sentence he had spoken from
Hanging, Dog to Chicamicomico
rnd. when he thought of the fact that
if the State were swung around on
Hanging Dog as an axis it would
reach to Chicago, his pride in the
fact OF the unprecedented majority Of
60,354 votes that was given him was
intensified by the magnitude of the
people and the section which he had
been chosen to serve.
Proceeding, the speaker said that
i'm times past the people of North Car
olina had been a lazy people-he con-
fessed that he himself had been born
tired and because lazier with each
recurring day-North Carolinians had
always differed from the people of the
North. They did not know so much
about making money and less about