The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-22
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North Carolina. One is Speaker Can
non. the representative from the Eigh-
teenth district of Illinois, and the other
is Mr.. Joseph NJ. Dixon. the sole COD
gresham from the state of Montana
The latter will be transferred from the
house TO the senate at the beginning
of the Sixtieth congress, he being the
nominee Of his party's legislative Call
Gus to succeed democratic Senator
Clark, whose term of Office expires
/ March 3rd next.
! Mr.. Cannon was born in Guilfo7d
county on Mty Z, 1886. He has been
| elected to every congress from the
Forty-third To the Sixtieth, both in
elusive, except one-the Fifty-second.
While Mr.. Cannon's sketch of his life
in the congressional directory states
that he was born in this state that gen
tleman, since he has become a man of
national prominence, seems 10 be
ashamed of hat fact. Whenever occa-
sion arises he apparently takes pleas
ure in exhibiting luminosity toward the
state of his nativity. He seems eve
10 let an opportunity pass TO show his
dislike for his native state. We do not
his old home since he first left it for
the northwest, though he has had re-
peated invitations to do SO on public
occasions.
With Mr.. Dixon it is very different.
He has been back to his native state
and his old home a number Of times
since he moved to the far northwest.
He has not forgotten his old home mo
the friends of his childhood, o is be
ashamed TO acknowledge them. He
loves his native state and the old pee
pie among whom he first saw the light.
Whenever occasion offers he comes
back to mingle with them. The sketch
of his life in the congressional direc-
tory says that he was born in Snow
Camp, North Carolina. on July 81,
1867; that he attended Earlham college,
Richmond, Ind, and graduated from
Guilford college, North Carolina, n
May, 1889. He was then a citizen Of
Indiana but came back to his native
state for his final collegiate education.
He was no ashamed to let it be known
that he was a Tar Heel and he has
ever shown that he has an affection
for his state and was not too proud to
admit that this old state was the
place OF his nativity. He was elected
to the Fifty-eigbth and again to the
Fifty-ninth congress, and with the Six
tieth he becomes one Of the senators
from his adopted state. His has been
a career that the people Of North Caro-
lima calI be proud of. He is one of the |
Old North States sons of whom she
can justly be proud. How different is
his attitude toward the state and his
people from that of the speaker OF the
house. We, for one, say let Mr.. Can |
o forget, or if he wants to, deny that
is a North Carolinian. He has done |
nothing to make our people any more |
anxious to claim him as a North Caro-
liniadl than he is to claim to be one.
We hope the Statesville Landmark, |
has the following to say about
Dixon, will note the difference be-
is a man of whom the people Of this |
state should feel proud. Inere is nothing
in the conduct OF the other to bring
pride Or pleasure to a single citizen of
this state in the thought that he is a
native of North Carolina. The. Land
mark says of Mr.. Dixon:
"Mr.Joseph NJ. Dixon, who is d. ira
tive Of Chatham county, n. c., and
has for some years represented
Montana in the house Of congress-, has
been named by the republicans of the
Montana legislature to succeed Senator
Clark, democrat, in the United States
senate. 1t is always pleasant to hear
OF the success of deserving North Carr
oilnlanS abroad, no matter what their
hut The Landmark will wait
until 1t knows whether Mr.. Dixon en-
any affection for his native
state before it expresses any great
amount Of Joy on account of his cleo
ton. The Hon. Joe Cannon, for in
stance. was born in North Carolina
(Which fact we greatly regret(' ON ac-
count OF which some North Carolina
papers slobber over him on occasion.
this profanc old black-guard could
manifest less regard. not to say
consideration, for the state and its in
terests If. he had been born in China.
We hope Mr.. Dixon hasn't forgotten
rock whence he was hewn, wei
will wait and see"
The Charlotte Observer has this to
say of Mr.. Dixon:
He was one of the speakers at the
-eunion of dispersed North CaroliniansI
.hree or four years ago. was a speaker
1t a High Point banquet two years
lgo. and on both occasions spoke with
ender affection Of his native state. We
seem to have a recollection that he de-