The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31

be uD North Down here we will
hardly feel a jar of the campaign,
much less get any OF the campaign
money. Parker's friends won't have
to be coaxed that way to vote for
him; and Roosevelt's treasurer of the
campaign fund knows that money
sent down here would be like trying
to fiji at the spigot when the bung
is open. SO, / guess our part lii the
campaign will be like Sunday school
picnic; wen have a few speeches,
plenty OF lemonade and, perhaps,
few games of baseball along in the
afternoon. The South, which stood
so gallanty together in the dark days
of the sixties. will vote as an unit
i'm the Presidential election, without
making any fuss about it. But what
o racket will there be north of Ma
sons and Dixon's line, and away over
in the Great West and Northwest
God bless the Southland! | hope the
time may never come when we shall
be otherwise than a homogeneous peo-
plea people whose every heart pull
sation is for the common good, and
among whom mob violence shall be
forever q stranger, ana in whom
there Shall continue 70 dwell the
IIoftiest sentiments of patriotism and
the profoundest reverence for the
purity of home and true religion.
The South may not be rich in gold
and silver, stocks and bonds; but she
| is rich in all that goes to make
Ipeope happy. She has a sol! and
climate adapted to the growth of al
most every grain, fruit and textile
known in the world; and she has sea
shores, rivers and mountains and lands
which are as fertile as can be found
on the face of the earth; and, better
than ali else. she has God-fearing
| population, whose ancestry were
prominent in laying the foundations
! OF this government, and in fighting
| the battles OF independence. And
! then she has the proud satisfaction,
! that when fanatcism clamored
against States Rights-the very soul
! of the compact which cemented the
States-she gave Of her blood and
her wealth to maintain the sovereign
| ty of the State, as against centraliza~
ton. and monarchy, which is the al
most certain result.
AS the campaign approaches, my
! youthful feelings come back to me,
and / think, as the crops are laid by
and Watermelons are plentiful, and
candidates are a jolly set I'll spend
week or so going romN the county.
| ! know all the candidates, Wings and
! Democrats, as we'll as n great many
people in the county; SO. nothing can
! hinder me from having Il good time.
| w no are inc C1lltludleS JdfileS i .
! Marriott is candidate fer county court
clerk; Bill High is for sheriff; Rich
ard p. Finch is for superior court
clerk Running against these are $
NJ. Terrell. Maj. Wiley ID. Jones and
John G. Moore. 1t was as good as a
trip 20 the mountains. tapered off
with n weeks stay at Morenead, to
| hear thai crowd of speakers, for a
few days They did not discuss poll
1tics, but just made speeches, and ted
Jokes on each other. High used 10
tell the people that it was easier to
make him High Sheriff that it
would be to make his opponent; for :"
said he, I'm already High and
| there's nothing to do, in my case, but
add the word sheriff. In my friend
Jopess case it is different. He's got
to be made High as we'll as sheriff
and you all know that's double
trouble" OF course the High men
would yell at that
At one of the precincts there was
in those days an old man who wore a
hunting shirt and mocasins and gen
orally had n ROSTERS feather in his
hat. He claimed TO have Indian blood
in mis- veins and posed as a great fight
er. When ne had filed uD on apple
jack. he'd begin To dance around and
etagger this way and that. as IL he
! would tumble down. The people see
ling his movements would say: "Old