The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-06-27
Ashley Horne for Gov
crnOr.
His Record as a Confederate Soldier
Without a Bemish.


Spirited and Patriotic, He Leads
in all Progressive Movements
for the Public Good.
To the Democrats Of North Carolina !:
Ashley Horne, of this place, is a
candidate for Governor, subject to
the action Of the Democratic State
convention.
| have known Mr.. Horne all of his
life aud feel that it is not out OF place
lor me. OF my own knowledge, to state
what manner OF man le is He is Il
native OF johnston county; is 50
years Old; had IL common school ed
uCatiOn. but in early manhood vol
untcered rs IL private i'll the Confeder-
ate army and followed the fortunes
of the Army Of Northern Virginia for
four years, Hnd surrendered with it
at AppomattoX. His record as IL
soldier is without blemish.
After the war he had neither the
time nor ability to complete his edu-
cation. Necessity required him to
go to work. The first year after
going home he cultivated IL crop,
then clerked i'll IL store, and in 1867
began merchandising for himself. He
iprOspered, made friends OF his Gus
TONERS; and many Of the men who
began to trade with him forty years
ago are still his customers and
| friends.
AS Il farmer and us q business man
he has been successful, and lie has
also embarked in other lines of busi-
ness. Now he is regarded as one OF
| the most successful men in the State
| While he has other large lines and is
engaged iii banking, insurance, man
ufacturing, merchandising, he is still
an active farmer. He is not merely
IL farmer on paper, but every day
| during the crop season a visitor
would be apt to md him in the field,
actually carrying on large, active
and successful farming operations.
And so we'll informed does he keep
himself on market prices Of farm
products, that many will recall that
during recent years lie has published
cotton letters that contained whole
some advice to the farmers with re-
gard to holding their cotton. This
advice has proved to be well founded
and there is no estimating the
money it saved the farmers of the
State, and they were not slow in eX-
pressing their gratitude to him. In
fact, he is on all business PROPOSE
tions Il very practical and wise coun-
sellOr
He was one of the officers OF the
Cotton Growers Association, and he
has established warehouses some.
what on the plan of the bonded
warehouse system now advocated by
that Association.
| He has always been a strict, regu-
lar and organization Democrat. He
has voted the Democratic tickets as
they were printed.
In the early 90's, when POpulism
was making such headway among
the people, he opposed it, but he
understood the hard conditions
under which the farmers were suffer
ing; and, instead of denouncing theil
movement as many unwise men did
he treated them with kindness anC
sympathy, dissuading them from
leaving the Democratic party, but
never denouncing them. In the
country Immediately contiguous tC
Clayton, Popuiism never made any
headWay, and one OF the reasons FOL
this was the wise and kindly manner
in which the farmers were treated by
Mr. Horne and other Democrats
After the fusion of populism and Re
publicaniSm carried the State, anC
when many Democrats felt that il
would be best for us to make some
arrangement with the POpulists by
which the State could be redeemed
Mr.. Horne was outspoken in his de
nunciatiOn OF the movement. Six Of
eight years before he had been mod
crate and concilatory in dealing will
the Populists, for he understood tht
burden under which the farmers Wer,
then staggering. But in 1898 h
had no sympathy for any mOvemen
looking to Il fusion with Butler, Rus
sell and Thompson. He was out
spoken in denouncing any such prop
ositiOn. He came to the State con
vention 1898 and threw his who'll
influence in favor OF IL straight fight
Ii there is one idea in Mr.. Horne
mind, or ii there is one motive in hi
lie which predOminates over al
others. it is his opposition and ha
tired of monopolies and combines
He has ALWAYS stood for the individu
al and in favor of the freest cOmpetl
ton. He does not believe in any lay
which gives one man an advantag
over another, and he believes tina
any agreement between two or NOR
n.en. or two or more companies t
restrict competition. or to create
monopoly, is crime against huma
rights and ought to be punished /
the severest manner. He is pract
=, cal trust fighter. Not a trust-buste
on paper, but man who has sys
! tematically and earnestly Tough
| monOpolies in the only way he foun
1 it practical to fight them.
When the cotton oil industry bt
| came important he was one of til
men who organized the first cotto
| oil mill in Raleigh. When he ascel
1 tanned that the American Cotton 0
! Company had obtained control {
I that mill he sold every dollar of hi
] stock and retired. Whenit appeare
| that the fertilizer business was goin
| into the hands OF large concerns L
! was one of the men who helped to O.
| ganize the Caraliegh Phosphate an
j Fertilizer Works near the City {
- Raleigh.
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