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

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music of the bugles. At Perryville
1t Cumberland Gap, DIT Lexington, al
Chickamauga. he was in the fiercel5
lighting line when 'serried ranks were
broken and bloody fields were won
lie never laid down his arms until tbe
Lays had been furled and the Guns
lad been stacked at Appomaftox
~ thev who tnow him hest the,
with whom he lived upon the tented
field will declare today that there
never went from the bosom of the
Old North State a truer comrade, a
drawer boy-soldier imam Theo. f.
of her Young soldiery has encircled
the South with halo of Immortal
chivaIry and consecrated the cause
of Dixie with the blood Of a price
less sacrifice.
'After the war, when the South
was PROSTATE and bleeding, crushed
under the heel of invading armies,
Davidson stood with the men who de-
Tended the State from the ravages
of the despoilers and who believed
that inspired by the heroism OF the
old South, we could build a new
south with higher hopes and a grand,
II destiny. Party service! In 1866
lie helped to organize the Democratic
d
member In every campaign fol-
'orty years he has put forth his ut
most energy in her support.
Where is the man that has been
ruer to his state, that has rendered.
Ter nobler service, that is more in
ympathy with her people and with
Ill their hopes and aspirations! AS
itiZen as lawyer, as judge, as legis-
ator, as attorney general, he has
)een progressive and wise and just
md measured up to the highest
stration of the office of Attorney
General marked an epoch in the
states judicial history At this time
90, in just regard of individual and
Corporate rights and of the public
rood, the railroads of the State were
'equired to surrender their exemption
rom taxation. 1t is now the establish
ID policy of our law to tax equally
md justly all the property of the State
Individual and corporate, and David
son was the moving spirit of this
great reform. 1t was accomplished
wisely and without asperity. 'Equa
lights to all, special privileges &C
lone," is to him a practical vita
lxiom of government.
1.-THE past four years-the opening
years of the twentieth century-have
oeen the grandest in the history OF
he State. Schools have been estab-
ished, roads have been improved
railroads have been built, the music
OF machinery has arisen above the
roar of the cataract the land has
oeen robed III harvests of SNOWY
Whiteness and golden plenty. Peace
between the races, enlightened homes
Justice to all interests. Industrial de-
1elopment. Thirty on farm and in
factory A happy and a hopeful peo-
pie marching forward in the grand
procession of the States. Let us un-
;over and bow to our great retiring
Governor with the universal acclaim
Well done, thou good and faithful!
servant
THE next four years are pregnant
With momentous events. Mighty in
terests are at stake. We need a man
1T the helm of the ship of State with
moral power and mental equipoise. A
statesman, man acquainted with
pubic affairs, man with wisdom to
know and courage to do a North
Carolinian whose views and whose
policies and whose patriotism are
broad and comprehensive as the
state itself a man that will foster
and protect every legitimate enter
prise, and guard every right of the
-ICOpiC, HAL vi SOuIld augment, a
man who will stand for the sover-
eighty and glory of the Common
wealth, and guide her safely in her
onward career, a man equal to all the
obligations of this great epoch in our
history-+and such a man is Theo. F.
Davidson.
HE is a Democrat Not for per-
sonal advancement, but from abiding
conviction. He, believes that the only
Just government is the government OF
The people. That the universal con,
science must be the basis of all law.
He believes in the ideals of the faith
ers, in the republic that never re-
treats and that never surrenders it's
honor, a republic whose destiny is as
wide as the world, as comprehensive
and eternal as the human brother.
hood. But it must be the republic OF
the Constitution, the republic of the
fathers-not the commercialized re-
public of Hanna-not the imperial
republic of Roosevelt, but the republic
Of Washington and jefferson and
Jackson and Vance. The Declaration
of independence is our creed; the
1ollar mark is not the synonym of
our destiny He believes that the
fundamental principles of the gov
eminent and the honor OF this nation
are worth ten thousand times mora
than all the commerce of the world
and all the lands of, the Orient and
all the islands of the sea.
Far called our Navies melt away,
On Dune and headland sinks the
fire,
Lo! all the pomp of yesterday
Is one with Ninever and Tyre
'The one everlasting fact that rises
supreme is the integrity of our insti-
tutions and the honor of the nation
"A Democrat with these principles
/ present to you in the name of the
Transmontaine Democracy"
DEATH OF CAPT. WILLIAMS.
lie Was the Author of the History of