The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-27
GOVERNOR
A Maine Paper on North
Car0Iinas' Executive.
bob Glenn, a Southern Governor Who
Will be at the Central Maine Fair
in September" and His Advice
to the Northerners.

The following from the Waterville,
(Maine) Evening Mail shows what the
New England folks think Of North
Cardinals Governor. and of his efforts
to build up this State and the South.
1t is an appreciative article, hits the
nail on the head and in the article
which it heads, Bob Glenn" says:
1.-The peoples governor, as he is
known down in the old North State.
North Carolina, is one OF Tie 4i~-A
dozen governors from Dixie that are
to visit New England and spend the
month of September mingling with
the people of the hills and valleys or
New Hampshire and Name, ana Is 10
be the honored guest at the Central
Maine fair in Waterville, September
10 20 %.
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina
is one of the home folks down in his
State. He is frankly called by his
people Bob" He is high hill boy,
one of the sturdy mountaineer stock.
He is Democrat. of course all South
ern Governors are Democrats, but ne
believes in honest government at home
and abroad. He is not afraid to tell
his friends of their faults. He is
young man, "a captain of industry,
that our country by united action is
capable of leading the world in enter
prise aud all that goes to make peo-
pie not only powerful and wealthy, but
good and noble.
Governor Glenn wants the New
Englanders to go to his State and
make home for the writer so to bring
into use the idle lands that are suit
able for the cultivation of early fruits
nd h lnC b1f paI1 no
and West for SALE He believes that
they can better their condition bodily
and financially and at the same time
aid him and his people in the develop
ment of that part of the Union by
bringing into use the unused lands.
water power timber and minerals. and
as an evidence that he is correct he
cites the fact that New Englanders
have gone to North Carolina and built
up the prosperous and beautiful towns
of Southern Pines, PiaehurSt, Pine
Bluff, Lakeview and RoSeland, and
these towns and communities of New
EnglanderS and Northern people says
Governor Glenn have been located in
what we consider the poorest part OF
our State, and if the New Englanders
can convert the poor sand hill lands
into prosperous gardens and fruit or
chards / can hardly conceive of the
success they would make on more
fertile soil i'm the East, middle and
western section of North Carolina.
Governor Glenn claims they have il1
his State the finest undeveloped water
power in the country and that they
are available the winter through,
that at no time during the coolest
weather are water mills stopped on
account of the freezing of the turbine
wheels. In an interview with Presi-
debit Mayo of the Central Maine Fair
Association recently he told of the
mammoth scale on which New Eng
land and other Northern capitalists
are developing the water power on the
Yadkin river in his State and said:
What these Northern people are do
ing on mammoth scale is and can
be duplicated at a hundred places In
North Carolina, and we welcome to
our State you people who have the
capital and experience to build up our
idle resources. What we of North
Carolina can offer to the thrifty New
EnglanderS can be offered in other
parts Of the South from Maryland to
Texas, and the men and women of the
South extend the welcome hand of
fellowship to all good people who will
come in and make their home among
us. And / am coming to- your Central
Maine Fair in September to meet
with your people face to face and as
the governor of one of the Southern
States to invite them to come and see
u.s."