Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-01-23
CRAIG FOR GOVERNOR.
The Grounds Upon Which his Friends
Ask The Support OF North
Carolina Demo-
Gratis.
Roanoke Beacon.

Roanoke Beacon. |
The supporters of Hon. Locke Craig
do not claim that the party owes him
the nomination for Governor, but they
urge upon Democrats of the State the
consideration of his qualifications, his
record and his party service.
He is a Christian gentleman, Of ack-
nowledged ability, and of pure private
life.
Since 1886 his services in every cam
paign have been at the command OF the
Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee, and he has gone cheerfully
where he was sent and at his own ex-
pense. No man in the State has made
more speeches in any campaign since
1886 than he, except possibly Governor
Glenn and Governor Aycock.
He has held no public Office except
that of Presidential Elector and Mem
Der of the General Assembly,an these
involved expense and not remunera-
ton.
In 1892 he was Presidential Elector
in the Ninth Congressional District
and in 1895 he was Presidential Elector
for the State.
The battle-ground of Democracy is in
b West, where he is an acknowledge
ed leader.
But it is not in the West alone that
he has rendered service.
He was born in the county Of BERTHE,
where he lived until he reached man
hood, and knows of the troubles and
trials of the East, and he has always
supported and advocated those meas
ures necessary for the safety and well
fare of our Eastern people.
He is a friend OF education. In proof,
we point to the fact that in the Legis-
lature of 1899 he was Chairman of
the Committee on Education, n was
largely instrumental in framing the
present school law. He believes in the
supremacy of the white race. In the
same Legislature he was a member OF
the Committee on Constitutional
Amendment, and was one OF the most
active and influential members in
securing the adoption Of the amend
DQ0HC Oh 1SUU. Al LA0 SdLA0 SSSS1Oh VI
the Legislature he offered in the House
a substitute for the pending separate
car bill, which was adopted and is now
the law under which whites and blacks
ride in separate cars.
He is opposed to allowing foreign
corporations, doing business in this
State, to remove their cases from the
State to the Federal COURTS.
At the same session of the Legisla-
ture he introduced and secured the
passage of a bill seeking to remedy
this evil, and to prevent the remova
of cases to the Federal Courts. 1t is
true it was afterwards declared uncon-
stitutional by the Supreme Court of the
United States, but our own Supreme
Court had first declared it constitu-
tional, and in any event it shows how
MIR. Craig stood on the question before
the present agitation, and it is no new
thing when he endorses the stand tax
en- by Gov. Glenn.
He has been an earnest advocate Of
the Watts Law, and by his vote, in
huence and public utterances has
championed the cause of prohibition.
He has done this and is now doing this
in his own community where the anti
prohibition vote and Influences strong,
and at the risk of his personal popu-
larity.
The people of the State are o I'M
grateful. The names Of Simmons,
Aycock, Glenn and Craig are coupled
together as those of the four great ad-
Vocates of Democracy on the stump.
Simmons is Senator, Aycock has been
Governor, Glenn isIGovernor and Craig
Presidential ElectorI and a Member Of
the Genera Assembly. The people OF
North Carolina will make him the next
Governor of this greatIiState, and the
East is glad of it's opportunity to con-
tribute its part to the kjust recognition
of his man from thei ounta and
this able and unselfish Democrat.
H. WW nru1a - ~ ~