The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15
Political Chat.

FOlILlCdl NIldL.
Hon. Robert Is. Glenn has had many
| handsome introduCtiOns 10 the people
CT North Carolina, bot not one so
unique and striking as the introduce
ton to the people of Arson county
/ by Hon. Risden Tyler Bennett. The
! Wadesboro Messenger-I ntelligencer
prints Judge Benefits classic. which
! is as follows:
81 never came to a task with more
supreme satisfaction than now and
here
Forty -and-two years ago, AS the
shadow Of night fell upon the peaceful
face of BoOnsbOrO, Maryland four
stretcher-b bearers came out of the per-
ilous edge OF battle, bearing a glorious
| burden. 1t was the body of Chalmers
Glenn, captain in the Thirteenth
Regiment Of North Carolina Troops.
who had been shot to death upon the
fre-girted ridge of South Mountains.
THE burial place of Moses has been
concealed by the privity of God AL
| mighty since he viewed the promised
| land from the summit of the noun
tain. Chalmers Glenn rests in an nm
marked grave, despite the tears of love
and the cries of affection.
There is not in the tide of time
more striking appeal to the magma
| ton of the student than Byron's de-
scriptiOn of the dying gladiator
Il see before me the Gladiator lie;
He leans upon his hand
His manly brow consent to death, but
conquers agony.
Upon the distant banks of Danube his
young barbarianS were at play"
AS the pure soul of Chalmers
Glenn went up to heaven, this child,
now grown to splendid manhood pratt
tied Of green fields, unconscious of
his lrreparable loss. He has, by devo-
ton to sound principles, by friendli-
hess of life, by familiarity with plain
people, by manly virtues, by espous-
ing the cause of the struggling masses
of Gods creatures whose daily wants
crowd close upon the heels of their
daily earnings. builded q monument
more lasting than brass. | congratu-
late nim upon his high public estate.
He carries the mandate of great par
ty in which | had as much confidence
as ! have in ST. Peter-you have all
heard of him.
Fortunate man, rpulent in friends,
! deem you more happy in having as
your household god the most polished
soul in these States, Clement Manly"
Another good man has become
ashamed Of his company and refused
nomination. Mr.. G.. E. Crowel is the
second man to refuse the empty hoaor
OF running for an office on the con-
Slomerated ticket put out here a few
weeks ago.-Lincoln journal.
Col stephen Porter was here Fri
day to hear Governor Aycock speak
and remained till Monday He is still
In this county looking after voters. He
been 81 ri
this Senatorial district ana reports the
Democracy in good shape and is con-
fident of his election to the Senate
Franklin Press.
What did Hon. A c. Shuford. Chair
man of the Populist State Executive
committee. mean in his speech before
the Populist convention on October
3rd when he said the following: IF
man is Republican. Democrat or
Populist from principle and shows his
cOlOrs as such l admire him: but
when he wears a button on his coat
claiming to be a member of one party
but working for another in secret. he
is the man to be depised."
The words above are not exactly as
Mr.. Shuford said them. but the sense
is the same. We do not know who
Mr.. Shuford was striking at but we
saw small man sitting UP high in
the deliverance as if he was not overly
pleased by Mr.. Shuford's utterances
on rinciples.-Catawba News.
letter comes to this city from the
family of a Colombian Senator at Car
tagena asking if there is any chance
of Judge Parker'S election. Evidently !
they don't like Theodore Roosevelt |
down that way. and in fact the letter |
saws everybody is hoping for his de-
feat as that of a chief executive who |
longs to grab, as if we were bunch |
of savage people, Re-
publican.
Our Republican friends must have
heard about the Hon. Geo. G. Justice S
discussion with that matchless orator, |
Hon. J. T. Spainhour. in Polk county
last week II is said that Spainhour
never left a greasy spot of George
Rutherfordton SUM-
OF Hon r. r. Glcnn's speech at
Wadesboro, the Messenger and Intel
ligencer says:
"Mr. Glenn discussed the tariff,
President Roosevelts personality, i'm
perialis1n, and State issues. and made
a truly great speech. In the opinion
of many competent Judges it was the
most effective political speech ever
made in the county.
Congressman E. Y. Webb has been
called to Wake Forest to his Wife's
bedside. She is i'll.
j. ID. EGGLESTON, JR.. Ill.