The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-11

| ont the provisions OF the watts law.
! and the argument could not be ar
swered and the Democratic party
| vent GOWN at the hands of the 1iuuor
people in that county. The violations
! of the Watts law are stencil in the
/ nostrlls OF democracy that should be
| nut Il stop to. ! have received letters
! saving that their authors would ruin
| me politically if | voted for the Ware
| bill. but God helping me, | shall vote
! for the bill and know that | am doing
right Is it right for the Legislature
to create a fraud. as it did two years
l,5. aha nov wink at it, | ask for
the passage Of the Ward bin in behalf
of the people who have not yet bowed
the kue,. 10 i3aai or the Golden Calf
for riches bought with blood and al
the price Of wrecked homes.
Every man who loves his wife, his
children. his home. peace and happi-
ness will support the Ward bill and
defeat the substitute.
MIR. Scales said he regretted To hear
Mr.. Fleming speak in language winch,
un.un rtitectIou, ne could not mean,
Mr. Fleming said. he continued, III
they have courage and manhood,
of Scotland. who would seal"
the battlcmcntS of he'll Tor
tcmpcraucc. He also used the phase
to OPPOSE the Ward bill as man as
though no others were men, Dnt
he. | have a high opinion OF the men
forming this Senate. and there Is as
much manhood on the side Of those
who onpose the substitute as on the
other. He further said the Ware bill
is a fraud and deception, and To
whom is il Il fraud and deception.
He said that it was a fraud ON its
face, had created n false impression,
aud that it was coWardly. quote
him to show how utterly absurd and
ridiculous these cpithets usd by Mr..
Fieminc were. He said he was Il
temperance man, and am sur
priscd that ne should offer Il subSu-
tuta that would knock out all the
merits of the needed legislation. 'ic
smoke Of So-caled Democrats. | am
not one OF them, Mr. president. II
those utteranccs were temperance. l
would say. blast it out. He further
said the authors of the Ward Din dli
not. deep down intheir hearts, did
NOT mean good with this bill. But |
can not read tho secrets of hearts,
but down in the heart of Mr.. Wart -
blood beating for the good OF ihe
people. But We can see the merits
of tho bills. And the question Is
whether We shall have the Ward bill
or tho Fleming substitute. | ann for
the Ward bill II is good bill, andI
is no. In violation TO the DeInocrAtcl
platform or principles. ana no Soma l
tor can put his finger on one word OF
il that is wrong, or out of harmony
with tho party'S dcc!aTation3. ihc|
bill takes a. broad GroGhC, and pro-
yidcS that such towns only shall manu-
facture or sell Whiskey "tth0ut AIDE
Quatc police protection. Vt is cha"& al
that the Watts law has been violated.
Who did IL? but the very liQuorl
Takers themselves. Before the
Watts law had cut its teeth, the liquor
men came into the Legislature and
Incorporated such small towns AS
shore. Williams. Advance and Myrtle,
and tncy were the first to violate the
law. That's where the last Legis d
turc made fearful mistake. ona ,hat
cost the Democratic party thousands
of votes and cost il one representa-
tive in Congress. 1t is absurd 10
state that there was misleading on
The part of the state in Incorporating
those towns and | was here then
ana know that they had the most
powerful Hobbies known here in years.
and the Legislature then violated the
very principal, spirit and letter ot tnc
Waits law. They claim that the plat
fern opposes the Ward bill. -Nut one
word can be found in 1t in opposition
10 the Ward bill. Mr.. Flemins's
county may DE opposed TO ii, Dut if he
mas very greatly misjudgcd the tenn
pcramcc sentiment in this STATE. .,.r.
f@lcming said the Ward bin would not
bring to the towns police protection,
and The section requiring reports was
nugatory, and ridiculcd it. | say it
will be enforced as web as any other
law i'll North Carolina, and if the Off
Ger fail to perform his duty, he may
be indicted
Mr.. Turner said the rule of the ma
jority is the doctrine of Democracy:
that the ma jority of the people want
this law passed, and he would cast
his vote for the Ward bill.
Mr.. Mason. Of Northampton, said Il
great deal had been said in reference
to party, that this question, a great
moral one, is above the party, but he
would be willing to test it by the
standards OF the Democratic party.
, He had grown old in the service of
the Democratic party, and knew that
individual when he met it in the road.
| The first two provisions of the Demo
cratic platform are education ana
temperance. and when he announced
this at the last campaign the crowds
shouted him to the echo, and cried
they would follow the party to the
death. Education and good morals
are the ground works of our civiliza-
ton. and the party that stands for
them will be immortal. 1 have heard,
he said, the two bills argued. but
tho Senator from Pitt is mistaken, and
Mr.. Williams is mistaken. He said
stand still and entrcnch ourselves and
then go forward. but the law of prog
resS is that if we do not go forward
we go back ward. The descent TO hell
is easy but it Is difficult TO ascend
to heaven. The Democratic platform
demands adequate police protection:
the substitute Of Mr.. Fleming does not
give it. but the Ward bill does. and !
vii therefore support ii. Some per-
Sonal questions have been made.
This law is not striking at individuals,
but we must bow our heads TO the
will of the peoDe. and this law VIII
give those gentlemen who have in
vested capital in WhiSkcy an oppor-
tunity to Withdraw their aid TO this
traffic which is q ban to civilization.
Mr.. Stubbs said this is not n day
for sentiment, but should be mo-
ment for calm. deliberate and dispas-
Sionatc discussion. The sentiment of
the great mass Of the male popula-
ton in North Carolina should be rep
resented. When two years ago
certain legislation was passed. being
fought Vehcmcntly, yet the majority
,1-ille1 bowed OR heads in