The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
REPUBLICANISM THE BOIL WEE
VII OF DECENT POLITICS.

No greater difference can be
imagined between two political FAR
ties than that which facts show exist
in North Carolina between the Demo-
cratic and the Republican parties.
The difference becomes cumulative
as the years pass, and time only adds
to the superiority of the Democratic
party in its relation to the moral,
educational and material growth OF
the State. Today there is no com.
parison between the two parties. Pc
publicanism is a blight and drouth.
the boil weevil of decency. Democracy
is an uplift. the regenerating influence
of a healthy life. sound mind in
sound body.
In educational affairs the Democ-
racy has not contented itself Will
pledges, but it has given perform
ances to back up its words. In this
State, under the benign influences OF
successive Democratic administrations
the educational growth has been phe-
nomenal. The advance of North Cara
DINA has attracted the attention OF
the entire country. 1t is considered
and justly so, as having outstrippe6
all competitors in the race to give
:ts youth the best of educational OPP,
portunities. It's record is quoted fan
and near and it is a record that is
made by Democratic administrations in
contrast with Republican admins
tration that stole school monies, closed
the State University. and placed ne
groes as the supervisors of white
teachers and white schools.
No such material advancement as
has gone forward in this State is TO
be found in the chronicles of Republi-
can rule. AS the State is today is to
be credited to the sane and sagacious
policy of the Democracy to justly
treat both the consumer and the pro-
Queer. With Democrats in control
property rights are guarded. The
Republican party is a free booter
Where it is not able to get graft. it
resorts to extortion. The business in
terests that are legitimate have
learned to fear it as miasma. The
crooks in every line look to It for aid
and comfort.
The Democratic party is the party
of moral courage and of decency. 1t
is the party that has dared to step
forward to protect the home from the
whiskey devil. 1t has said that where
there is no police protection the WIS
KEY vendor shall not ply his triff1e.
and make a hellish nightmare of eX-
istence for children and women. 1t
has said that in the rural districts
schools and churches shall flourish
while the still house and the coun-
try bar-room shall no longer menace
good morals and life.
The D amocratic party stands for
puritv. good morals, decency. 1t IS
the antithesis of the Republican par
ty. which with its now beSotted plat
form whiskey-soalked and lined with
falsehoods goes staggering ana reel
ing to defeat at the polls. Republi-
canism defics morality and decency
II sets the bar-room and the still
house above the school room and the
prayers OF women us elIlplelll 10 81
vhjskey bottle, and with this it calls
for support to those who for filthy
gain would send lives, decency, moral
ity, all to destruction in order that
a besotted party might scatter its
ruin, and reward its heelers.
There will be attempts, these al
WAYS under cover, to have the state
go backward in it's temperance poncy.
These will come from rampant Re-
publicanism or from enemies VINO
use the mask of party-ship to accom-
plish an undesired purpose. Both are
to he watched and to be foughted-
Progress can not be made by indlt-
ference. To go forward means that
livery defense must be guarded, every
act scrutiniZed.
Contrast the two parties, II yo"
please and by your contrast we VIII
he bound On the one side cream
handed and honest purposed De
mocracy, on the other the duphclty'
and deceit of a party whose RECORD
and whose purposes arise as stench
TO all decency and right living. In
truth and in fact Republicanism IS
the boil weevil of decent politics. TINS
black plague of morality.