The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-10

came out for A ~ cent railroad rate
and for freight charge ana
he asked Mr. DTeWTE not - simply
say that he stood on the D@m@lTaill
platform. but - mann" the rate thai
Drewrtts paper demanded the kllinG
| Of the Laughinghouse bill 70 reduoe
rates. but with the railroads was VII
ling for q three cent rate. "htsh IN
creased the rate for the poor man and
decreased il for tho rich man. For
temperance olive was emphatic ana
| declared tina when DreVTE was try
ing to get am Interpretation ~ XIII
the Ward bill by signing q caA Tor
the state Democratic COM
mittee to meet. that he vas interpret
ing things himself and voting for tenn
perance measures. Olive declared FOR
the abolition II personal work n Inc
roads and for the present DIVISION al
the dispcnsary fund. the change from
/ .he first division having been de
| nounccd as robbery" by DreWrEs pa
per. and his name fiys at the head Of
il. Olive declared for the salary SIs-
tom in place Of fees. good salaries for
good men in the county Offices.
Drcury Reads Written statement.
Mr.. John G. Drewry began his
speech without manuscript, but soon
announced that hc had written o1t
his views. so as to aVolG being ms
REPRESENTED. Despite this he de-
parted from his written statement re
| peatcdly. and 4 large portion Of ms
speech was in reply to questions
asked by Mr.. Olive, Mr.. l.. ;. Frank
| lin. and others. He declared it was
40 discredit to be an Insurance agent,
| he had been one all his life. n IS
| proud Of it. that it is next to the min
| istTy of God" and that in the Senate
| he wouId introduce a bill to sec II
! Insurance cpmDani\s in North Carroll
F.; ia We're doing anything wrong. lie
| said he is for temperance and read "A
statement from Raleigh citizens. Is
| for present dispensary fund division.
! Questioned by Olive declared that
people in Raleigh never objected or
kicked against present division.
while Olive asserted that the only
| agreement was that it was the law and
had To be accepted. Wants present
road law changed so as to have no
Work but by taxation and said Il have
never accused Olive with being the
| authO of the present road law nor
am / the author of the old law. Would
vote if in the Senate in insurance mat
tcrS for whatever the State Insurance
Commission and the Governor recon-
mends to the Legislature. Here Olive
asked. If Mr.. Young makes no recon-
mendatiOn n will o do?' TO
this DrcWry answered that Young
would certainly recommend n if he
did not hen he WOul introduce a bill
to Investigate the companies. Cues
toned by Olive as to whether he
would vote to invest most of the
! premiums in the state he answered
by questioning Olive if he would vote
to have North Carolina companies in
vest all their premiums in the state.
Olive said he would if this could be
legally done. DreWry declared this an
! impOSSibility. Then the matter went
into technical insurance matters. till
finally Drewry held that all insurance
companies should not be blamed for
| tho SING of some of thQn
Asked by J.. S. Franklin if he
would support William ] Bryan for
President, of nominated. DreWry
I declared he would.
Regulates His Papers Editorials.
Here Franklin asked. do you en-
dOrse the statement made in the Even
ing Times, of which you are preSi-
dent. in which Mr.. Bryan is called a
"snake charmer" and other things to
that effect? To this Mr.. DreWry an
SWered:
Il am glad you asked the question.
] own stock in the Raleigh Evening
Times. and [ am not ashamed of any
the News and Observer also. and am
not a majority stakeholder in the
Times and it is unjust to hold me re-
SpOnsible for its editorials. | am the
| president of the and am not
ashamed of it,
But Mr.. Franklin insisted on an an
swer 10 the question about the Bryan
"snake charmer editorial and Mr..
DreWTy said:
Il did not endors that statement. as
a great many other things appear in
it that | don't endorse"
Pledges No Specific Rate.
Here Mr.. Olive asked Mr.. Drewry
If he would vote for a 212 cent pas
senger rate. In reply Mr.. DreWry said
he stood on the Democratic platform
and WOuld vote for a reduction of
freight and passenger rates. Some
one called out you are lodging to
which DreWry replied that he was not
and that eff YOU hold your mouth he
would state his position. This was
that if the Corporation Commission
recommended a , or a ~ cent rate
he would vote for it. but that Il am
not here to tell whether | will vote
for a ? or a Y cent rate as | nave not
studied the question. and can't say
what is best for the people or the rail
roads, Further on he said that as q
business man he looked at matters
from a business standpoint. II III
the Corporation says a : cent rate L
. will vote for it."
Questioned by Mr.. Olive about sal
aries as against fees he stated he ia
vored reasonable salaries. and then
declared that Mr.. Olive had failed to
tell of his squirrel law. To this Olive
declared it was introduced and put
through by a Raleigh man, to which
DreWGy said if the Raleigh man had
! as little sense as that, that Olive
ought to have stopped him.
Douglass Charms the Voters.
Mr.. w. G. Douglass, candidate for
the House. next spoke and the audi
nee was evidently with him. With
sarcasm he referred to a charge that
he had once appeared as attorney for
Daniel l.. Russell and Seawell. yes"
| cold Ia I IL -.>l I I'll ---l
company appearing with me for Rus
sell. L admit it was q mighty bad
thing to do. and if the good Demo-
Gratis Will forgive me | promise never
again to appear for d Republican pol
itician."
Declaring that having taken from
carly bOyhoOd the disease of DemOc-
racy it broke out all over and advised
eternal vigilance against the Repub-
llcan party, a hydra headed monster"
lie then S~plendidly stated his position
as faVorIng temperance; strong vag
rancy laws. strict regulation of inSur-
lance COMPANIES reduction of n1cCpn-