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the permanent control for many decades Q
one political party.
Democrats for Federal ofaces.


| one political party.
Democrats for Federal On1ces.
do not wish TO seem ungracious but
| must be candid. In my Judgment. tho re-
publican party OF North Carolina would
be much stronger as voting party II all
| the federal Offices were filled by demo-
| Gratis. OF course cannot deny that q
| wish to I'LL public Office II an honorable
aspiration. whether by appointment or
election, but when all hope of choice by
the people Il abandoned. and everything
| IL given over to influencing distant APP
| pointing power to choose particular men
to perform Official functions In a commu-
nifty politically hostile to those men. tho
result is not good for the men or the
community.
The struggle for federal political Of
| fee producing, as 1t does, jealousies and
strifes and disappoint:acnts. paralyzes
united effort to make the party strong
at the polls and worthy of success. Tho
men upon whose change of vote success
in the election depends are not particu-
larry interested in the success of one fac
tion or another, but they are fntereste
that their votes shall be cast for those
candidates for local and state Offices
whose character. devotion to duty. intel
ligence and ability will assure good To-
cal and state government, and for those
Representatives in the national Congress
who will faithfully and courageously car
ry out the high principles of the national
icpuLHiGdn pdfty Win d uuc regard 10
the particular interests of the district
and state they represent AS long, how
ever, as the republican party in the
southern states shall represent little save
a factfonal chase for federal offices in
which business men and men of sub
stance in the community have no desire
to enter and in the result of which they
have no interest. we may expect the pres
ent political conditions OF the south to
continue.
Plans for Strong Appeal.
I accept with confidence the assurances
of your representatives that you expect
to appeal to the business interests of your
community to the men who read Alright
the signs of the times and who UNDER
stand that the real hope Of the south is
in having a number Of her states break
from the democratic column and assert
their independence of past political ira
ditions in order that this section may be
accorded that Importance in national
matters to which her population, her
wealth. and her intelligence entitle her
Republicans of North Carolina. in this
great work Of redeeming your state and
your section from the present incubus of
iron democratic rule your fellow republic
cans of the entire country bid you God
speed.
And. now, leaving the subject of poli-
tics viewed purely from the southern
standpoint, / invite your attention for
short time to the national issues involved
In the coming congressional elections. In
November, 1904 the American people, by
an overwhelming vote, both In the cleo
toral college and at the polls, continued
the republican party in power under the
leadership OF Theodore Roosevelt. For
eight years previous we had enjoyed I'M
exampled prosperity and the wealth of
the country had increased in colossal pro-
portions
For more than three years and a half.
Mr. Roosevelt had discharged the duties
of the high office of President and now
submitted to the decision of his country
men whether he and the party which sup
tinued confidence During that three
years and half he had again and again
by word and act manifested to the peo-
pie his determination to pursue the mid
die, just end impartial course by which
the rich and the poor should en-
joy the equal protection and suffer tho
equal and just enforcement of the laws.
He recognized this as the platform of the
tility of important financial interests by
his action in directing the prosecution to
q successful issue OF the so-called North
ern Securities suit, which prevented
merger for the purpose of suppressing
competition Of two great lines of railway
In violation of the so-called antitrust
law. Both the republican platform and
Mr.. Roosevelt pledged the further
forcement of the antitrust law and the
interstate commerce law to prevent dis
elimination against the shipping public
and to prevent oppressive combination
and monopolies in business pursuits. and
promised additional legislation, II found
to be necessary, in order to accomplish
the objects Of these statutes.
The Railway Rate Legislation.
Only a year and four months have
elapsed since Mr.. Roosevelt took the oath
of Office under the electoral vote cast for
him by reason OF the election of 1904, and
yet in that short part of his term Of Office
the republican party in Congress of the
United States, inspired by Mr.. Roosevelt's
! recommendations, has adopted a railway
rate bill, which greatly increases the power
of the interstate commerce commission,
and which. taken together with the rebate
legislation enacted by the republican Con-
gress before his election, will certainly have
much to do in the abolition of the viola
lions of the unjust Determinations and
abuses in the fixing of railway rates by
the railroad companies in this country.
During the same period prosecutions
der the antitrust law and under the re-
bate law have been numerous and have
been conducted with energy, and with a
success unprecedented in previous admin
istrations. The Investigations Of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor have
shown the method by which the Standard
OIL Company has maintained it's monopoly
of the oil business. and prosecutions have
been ordered In many of the federal courts
Of the country In order not only to vindi-
cate the law for past violations, but to
bring about condition of things in which
the managers of prosperous and success
full corporations of the country shall pay
heed to the injunctions of the statutes and
not allow the temptations OF Immense
profit to blind them to the necessity for
obedience to law.
Organization has become feature OF
modern life. The organization of capital
has reduced the cost OF production and
has therefore contributed greatly to the
material prosperity OF the world. Organi-
zation Of labor has undoubtedly bettered
the condition and raised the wages or
labor. But In the power which organiza-
ton has placed in the hands of particular
individuals. 1T would be unreasonable TO
expect that there should not be tempta-
lions to abuse and oppression. When these
are yielded to by the few as compared win
the many exposed to them. and the law 10
violated, 1t Is no reason for hysterta or q
destruction of the whole social order "
is no reason for giving up the system OF
private property. or forbidding the 1orma-
ton of corporations or preventing the or
ganization of trsdes unions. It fs no
ground for the advocacy of socialism
Must Take Up Present Abuses
We must take up the abuses In the gooo
old Anglo Saxon way. adjust our statutory
remedies to the fitness Of the thing. place
our confidence in the public servants VINO
show themselves alive to the public needs.
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