The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-22

come Mugwumps-but free to spell;
out and use their efforts to make their
party responsive to its best ana
| highest sentiment.
! During the campaign of 1898. as
| a member of n committee to solicit
funds, | met on the street a barke aDc!
| in Raleigh. and asked if he wished to
| contribute Yes he said put me
| down for So. I know that the passage
/ Of the Constitutional Amendment VII
! put me out of business. but | ana a
good enoug Democrat to vote tn.
/ ticket even if it denies me any occi,-
| patton I told him that / did not like
his business and would put him .ui.
but that he had shown a party fealtI'
! and Loyalty worth to be held up as
an example TO all Democrats And
even today / feel like uncoverng be-
fore Il Democrat of that type!
NO sooner was the Constitutional
Amendment safely on the books than
the temperance sentiment began to
assert itself. 1t poured out like pent-
up lava. from q Volcano stream that
was as sudden and so terrible as to
almost overcome those who had taken
no note OF the long pent-up sentiment
that now found vent in the agitation
CT which the Ward bill is the culmi-
nation. Strong men cSsayed. like the
the ocean, and found the tide as ire
siStib.e as the waves that broke upon
the shore.
Two years ago the Watts bill ana
the London bill demanded the atten-
ton of the General Assembly. The
fight was dramatic at times and
dangerously close. But success was
with the temperanca forces. Then we
heard predictions that it would defeat
. I, to 49, 10
good men and many timid men trenl-
| bled before these prophets of disaster.
Were their pro- hecieS fulfilled?
To-day we hear from the same men
the same Jeremiads. Some of them
predict party disaster merely because
they think it fetching argument
some become prophets of i'll because
! they really think there is disaster il,
| legislation of this kind. We cannot
give heed to the first and the last arr
! mistaken in their diagnosis. They
simply have not taken note of tht
newer and better conditions that pre-.
vail. and they have failed to correctly
| interpret pubic sentiment"
Then after discussing features VI
he bill Mr.. Daniels continued:
THE men for whom | speak-anJ
their name IS legion cone to YOU
with no prophecies Of disaster. 10
threats OF dcsesGon. no condemnation
of the great party TO which they be-
long. They were Democrats when
| they were impotent 10 close Il saloon
or still in North Carolina. They !. III
be Democrats when "Ichabod" is writ
Zen over the door Of every distillcry
:,nd bar n North Carolina. If HoI.
taVCTably report the Ward bill ana
make il Il law. they Will thank God
and take courage If YOU report il
unf;,Vcrably and YOU rcf,iSc to grant
their petition, they wiII be the same
Democrats they have always been
They VIII return to their homes re
gTctfliN, and they Will take UP The
fight with renewed determination 10
Win t--aud they will win. i3ut they
viii wage all their battles within the
Democratic party and hope for victory
nowhere else. They recognize thai the
only hone for wise temperance lcgi.-
| ton. rs for all otber good Legislation
rests with The Democratic party. Thcy
viii seek to make il more and more
the vehicle of civic righteousness. But
they Will abide in the ship
"ThcN believe with jefferson and
with Vance that democracy is inn
fmortal." and that the great Democrat
ic party in North Carolint has too
! much Vitality to be killed because it
eXtinGuiShcd the Gre under some big
he'll kettles as it extincuSshed the
fire under fou" hundred little he'll
kettles two years If thouGht
the Democratic fartv would be killed
by chat. I could not regard it worthy
the devotion Of life time and Tic
condolences of the thousands who To-
day follow its banners.
AS Mr.. Daniels closed with an earn
est call FOR Il f3vorable report on tn:
bill there was AZ storm OF appla ;2st
a1d then silence. No. one seome.
ready to speak for The opponents G
tia bill. Mr. Mitchell. of BERTHE. rose
10 say that if no ether speeches were
to be made he would move for d ~,
cradle report on the bid Then Hoo
c. r. Watson. Of Forsyta arose ana
spoke in opposition TO the bill.
Wa:S Against tho Eli.
sIr. Watson declared, that he did
not Two in Raleigh where he had the
opportunity of button-hoiing the
members of the Legislature. He said
he came from people who did not
approve OF the Watts law. but that
they had stood TO it. As to temper
ance legislation he insisted that it had
not been lc,d shat following The enact
meDt of the constitutional amendment
there you'd come sumntuary leSis!2 :
| ton and inSistcd that IN newspapers
tho talk OF I'VE temperance pconie'
/ Was wrong. that he had talked for
! temperance and advised young men
against 1T. His position, he declared.
WAS in opposition TO prohibition aud
j than moro t,lan , majority OF ti,e
counties Of the State were Of his view.
| He declared With emrhasis thas the
! Democratic BART" and prohibition
should be iSent separate.
! Then Mr.. Watson SAID that a sheer
| has been made here today ag1if,s;
i ncmlpers Of the Democratic state
/ Executive COMMITTEES as to tho meet
| ms called. and that that sheer has
| como from tic editor OF q paper IA
! whose calTmns Gictfitoriai articles rs
To Legislation had appenrcd durill