The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24
| NAME STEDMAN
v. S. Bryant dominates
Him For Governor of
North Carolina.

Carolina, and therefore, the RESPONSE
bility resting upon us is great Our
choice should have eloquence, wis
dom, self-control, courage, character
md executive ability.
"He should have eloquence, because
he must canvass the State. but he
needs brains because he must guide
the State. He should have courage
and self-control, because experience
teaches, the office at times, calls for
firm and fearless action. He must
have wisdom and tact, for upon his
conduct may depend the welfare of
the State. and certainly. will depend
the future of our party. And he also
needs and must have character, for
corruption stalks abroad and the
tempter may beset his path way.
Il desire to present to you, one
having these qualities, and more. He
is a scholar, soldier an orator a
loyal Democrat and a wise leader of
men-braVe, VirtuouS, temperate and
Just, as modest as a child, and as
gentle as a woman but capable OF
liked resolutions; loved most by those
who know him best the foe of all
IS Charles Manly Stedman. of the
county of Guilford.
HE is the candidate of no clique
the partisan of no faction. the tool of
no person or corporation, but is a
we'll rounded son of the State. Born
in Chatham, reared on the banks of
the Cape Fear, educated at the Uni
versity, having lived in the mountains,
)y the sea, and in the great Piedmont
section, he knows our history, SYM
DathizeS with our traditions and his
heart beats in unison with the pulse
If our people. He has the wisdom of
ha
-asted of good fortune and adversely
He can obey, or he can command. AS
/ soldier in the ranks or a regiment
commander; as student or practi-
toner at the bar; as a private citizen
)r an official of the State. he has per-
formed well every duty and honorably
discharged every trust. When for
tune favored him, he was liberal, help
ed his party, the church and the
State, and lived in the manner be-
coming a gentleman of means. When
adversely, without fault of his. swept
away the results of his toll, he closed
the doors of his home behind him.
surrendered his own property and
that of his wife to pay his creditors,
and has since deprived himself the
pleasures or even an humble home,
l lay bare his life, because, under the
circumstances, you have right to
know.
Gentlemen of the Conventions
Major Stedman claims no lien or
mortgage on the Democratic party,
and if he had one. modesty would not
permit him to foreclose it. He has
rendered service to his party-not for
reward, or hope of reward, but be-
cause he loved his State and believed
by service to the Democracy he could
best promote it's welfare. But if this
contest is to be determined by party
service, no citizen of the State has
worthier claims than he. He has adj
vocated, and in all honorable ways
promoted the principles of Jefferson
and Jackson, in every campaign, from
the birth of his manhood to this
present hour. He has never held a
lucrative office, and never but one, of
any kind, but wherever the cause of
Democracy has been challenged
whether in local, district State or ma
tional contest-there he has enlisted
and fought where the blows fell thick
est and the battle Waged flercest. In
1874, when he was not a candidate,
nor an aspirant for Office himself. and
his means were limited, he contributed
from his own purse three thousand
dollars, to defeat Daniel l.. Russell for
the Superior court bench. Nominated
by the Democracy in 1884. for Litu-
tenant Governor, he closed his law
office and canvassed the State with
thrilling eloquence-meeting his OPP
ponent wherever he was to be found
Defeated in his aspirations for the
governorship in 1883, he never sulked,
but left a sick bed to open the cam
paign, and never cult the field as long
as there was a Republican in sight.
eff this contest is to be determined
nv in hal nf
State, we challenge all corners, for
knowing Who saves his country saves
all things, and all things saved will
bless him. Who lets his country die,
let's all things die. and all things
dying curse him. Major Stedman
early dedicated his life to the cause
and gave his time. means and blood
Although high honors awaited. he left
the University before commencement
day to enlist in the First North Car
DINA regiment in 1861. He was at
Bethel and at Appomattox, and waded
the fiery chasm of hell that opened
between. We are ready to advance
and ONLY await the command was his
WatchWord through the four years of
carnage and blood. Although he
fought on many battle fields was en-
gagged at Spotsylvania Court House,
the wilderness. Ream's Station and
to AppomattoX Court House, was three
times wounded, and once shot down,
he never faltered, and his record is as
soot,ess as a star.
Fellow Democrats: The glory of
the State has been her record in the
Civil War. First at Bethel, fartheSt
at Gettysburg, last at Appomattox,
was the proud achievement of her
sons. North Carolina gave one hun
dred and twenty-eight thousand SOL
diers to the Confederacy Forty-two
thousand were killed in battle or died
of wounds and disease. Eighty-six
thousand returned to the civic duties
OF life. The same devotion that
prompted them to enlist from 1861 to
1855, has since prompted them, with
rare exceptions, to stand by the De-
mocracy of the State in it's battles for
good government. Now hear me
while | tell you a strange. sad truth.
With twelve Democrats from North
Carolina in the present Congress of
the United States there is not one.
who was Confederate soldiers; there
will not be one from the State in the
next Congress. This can be said of no
other Southern State. In the execu-
tive department of our State, manned
by our party, there is but one Con-