The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11
WITH A BODY GUARD
The Humor of Republican
Nominee C. J. Harris.
How He Goes With '.Gne or More" AT
ter Admitting That He is to be
Defeated by a Big Majority
i'm November.

To the Editor: The Republican
candidate for Governor of North Caro-
lima is so much of a stranger to the
people whom he aspires to govern
that the unfolding of his personality
to them is likely to prove of at least
passing interest.
That he possessed any of the char-
acteristics of the fiumorist is surpris-
ing to those who to know him, and yet
his Inauguration of his campaign is
Iudicrous to say the least of it,
In an interview an intimation had
already been given that there was per-
haps nothing he less wanted than to
meet the Democratic candidate on the
hustings in a joint canvass, and now
when his list of appointments to speak
is published, the accompanying note is
calculated to excite the visibilftes Of
even the serious minded.
This note gives notice to the public
that the Republican candidate CHS
name is Harris) will run no risk of
running up against the redoubtable
Glenn alone at any point where he will
exhibit himself, but that he will al
ways have with him a body guard of
"one or more" of the best speakers in
his party to protect him in case of a
division of time being asked
The custom of a joint campaign be-
tween rival candidates for Governor
of North Carolina has rarely been de-
parted from in her political history,
and the people in the State do not at
all relish the idea of being deprived
of the enjoyment hoped for in the joint
meetings of the Democratic and Re-
publican candidates in this campaign
and they do not like it that the Re
publicans should have nominated a
stranger for the high office of Cover
nor of this grand old commonwealth
who is SO afraid to meet his opponent
on the stump that he not only declines
a joint canvass before the challenge
to meet him is offered but takes with
him on the town he proposes to make
a body guard to protect him in case
Of an accidental encounter.
Nobody not even the Republican
candidate himself who has recently
admitted that the majority against him
Will not be less than $4,000, has the
remotest idea that he stands any
chance Of election, and it therefore is
particularly hard that the people
should be denied the pleasure which
they anticipated from a joint cam
pafgn.
From the number of appointments
which Mr.. Harris has made in the
Tenth Congressional district it is evil
dent that he intends to do all in his
zone or more" Of his body guard, to
aid in the effort of his party will make
to capture this district.
When an examination of figures is
made and the fact disclosed that the
district should give q Democratic ma
jorty ofinot less than 1000 and when
il is considered that Congressman
Gudger's majority over the late Major
Moody was only 1873, it must be adj
mitted that the Republicans have at
least a fighting chance.
Judge Ewart claims to be confident
Of his election by u small majority,
and says that what he will lose in
Haywood ne will more than make up
III Henderson, his home county.
1t is certain that the Republicans
made no mistake in selecting Judge
Ewart as their candidate for Congress,
but Notwithstanding his personal pop
ularity nothing but the most fragrant
apathy and Indifference on the part of
tha Democrats would account for this
success in November.
That the Democrats can, with the
proper effort, carry the district and by
a good majority is an admitted prop
ostion.
That the Republicans will be allow
ed TO carry it by default is not among
the probabilities, and one of the best
evidences of Democratic determination
to win the fight is to be found in the
choice of that able campaigner, Hon.
w. r. Crawford, as Presidential cleo
tor. That he will do fine work for the
whole ticket, both State and National,
goes without saying.
f. A. LUCK. SIR.
Waynesville. N. c., Sept. 10, 1904.