The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-25
FOR TEMPERANCE
AND EDUCATION
UnseIfish Labors of Wise
thoughtful Men.

Greensboro, N. c.. June 24.-At the
same time that in the convention hall
| the wild scenes were being enacted
which marked the naming of North
| Cardinals next Governor, there were
meeting quietly i'm n room at the City
| Hall the careful and hardworking
gentlemen We're gathered in almost
| hourly consultation in a work that is
really the most important of the con-
ventiOn.
The eyes of the State. in times of
| political excitement aroused by the
candidacy of strong and able men for
| high office, are too apt to be focused
altogether upon the lights, the noise,
! the trumpets and the cheers of the
| battling hosts that was upon the floor
! Of the convention. They are apt to
! forget, even that there is such a thing
as a platform until the nomination
| have been made and the convention
! stands adjourned
1t is then only that the average
| citizen, the exhiliation of victory or
! the string of defeats having subsided
| in his breast, sits down quietly with
| his morning paper to ascertain the
! principles for which as a partisan
! delegate he has lauded his favorite
! candidate to the skies and to which
! he, himself. by his attendance and
| endorsement has already been thor
| oughly committed.
1t is fine thing to shout and crate
and Law schemes upon the floor. 1t
! touches the deeps of the human sense
! of ambition and of SPORT. 1t tlckles
! the vanity and delights the senses and
quickens the heart beats of any nat
| ural man. But, earnest as he is,
capable and profitable as are the effect
1 nYlYa IN
| floor strives to no such end and ar
| riyes at no such important result as
the studious man who helps to draft
| the platform. 1t is there that the can
| didate must stand; and il is by the
| strength and wisdom of the platform,
or it's weakness and mistakes that the
| candidate must ultimately be judged.
/ SO this is a plea for the studlous
| man with the pen, for the man VINO,
with nerves for the fray, sits dlspas-
/ Sionately within the sound or the
! roaring tide of conflict and rightfully
! debates the value Of word. IhoSe
| who read the flowing sentences Oh
! the platform reproduced below mlghI
think that they are the easy product
| of q facile pen. a matter of fact
| there was scarcely a sentence that
| was not revised or a word that lack
| cd discussion The mechanism of
nlatforn is a wonderful thing, ii is
| mass of divergent thought, full or
compromise and mutual concesslol'
hearing the imprint or numerous
hands and vet hammered in The end
into the harmonious whole that slides
60 smoothly from the tongue and ap-
naals SO insinuatingly to the brain
i tbat we are apt to think instantly:
! seWhv. I might have done 1t myseH.
The ten quiet men at Greensboro de-
serve, in this particular case, especial la
nraise. 1t is we'll that they shoIlld De
here named in the introduction 10
+hai,. work that cannot fail to meet
With the approval of the thoughttbl
| ,nan of the state. They We're: Messrs
| r r. Winborn, of Hertford; Plato Col
| Iins of Lenoir: f. A. Daniels, OF
Wavne; r. b. White, of franklin; a.
w. Graham, of Granville; n a. SIN
clair of Cumberland; j. A. Locknaft.
of Anson: Theo. f. Kluttz, of Rowan;
w. c. Erwin, of Burke, ana w. i.
| Crawford, of Haywood.
These gentlemen met and elected as
chairman ex-Congr j. A. Lock
! hart-in every way a big ana 2 strong
! MANN body, mind and learning. lie
| is an able lawyer and politician OF
| the better sort--conservative, fearless
and resourceful. This committee went
into session Yesterday at o'clock,
continued at work until this MORN
inc. departed for a short rest and We're
| back again at their post by O'Clock.
The result of their labors speaks Tor
| itself and reflects the labor that Was
| SO carefully performed.
The Four Important Planks.i
| The four important planks are those
| on Education, on Temperance, on the
State Debt and on Illegal Receivership
The educational plank is a full COM
plete and enthusiastic approval of the
- - ~
/ ernor Aycock. It is without artifice or
equivocation and it met the hearty en-
| dorsement of the convention.
j On the floor this afternoon a reSolu-
| ton to commit the convention to the
! policy of education of the negro in
| proportion to his ability to pay taxes
was introduced and vigorously debated
by DR.. Faison, of Duplin, but was over
| whelmingly defeated DR.. FaiSon is q.
peculiarly forceful man, of the high
est character and the strongest con-
/ victions He speaks with fervor and
| the honesty of sincere belief. AL
| though the convention was tried and
anxious to adjourn, it accorded DR..
Faison a careful hearing-the highest
| compliment that any man could have.
from a convention just out of an all
night session.
1t will be noted that the Atlantic
| and North Carolina Railroad is twice
touched upon in the platform-in the
| planks upon the State debt and Illegal
! receivershipS.
Following the persistent attempts
on the part of certain holders of the
| repudiated bonds of the State all of
| which the commonwealth has opposed
to compromise, to force a settlement
by the State, it is repeatedly rumored
that an effort will be made at the
next Legislature to get a larger COM
| promise The plank shows in no mis-
| taken terms that the party will not
endorse the yielding of an ell to the
workers in the dark, whose specula-
tions in the discredited securities of
reconstruction days have been in the
past so fruitful cause of scandal.
The plank on illegal receiverships
is intended to point the way to a
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