The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-10-05

Township - On Prohibition
"The People Have Ruled
Democrats Appealing to the
Record.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Raleigh, N. c., Sept. 30
Speakers of national reputation
have been assigned to North
Carolina during October, which
will add much to the life of the
campaign Democracy is waging
with every assurance of success
in the State and in the nation as
we'll. Probably the most prom
inent feature of the State cam
paign will be the appearance of
Hon. Jno. W. Kern, Democratic
nominee for Vice-President, at
Guilford Battle Ground, near
Greensboro, Oct. 9Th, which is
to be made a great national oc-
casion. He speaks also at Ashe-
vile on the 9Th, and on the 7th
during the Piedmont Fair at
Winston-Salem, Mr.. Kern is
measuring up to all that could
be hoped for in Vice-Presidential
timber, and the morehe is known
the more he grows in public IA
vor. He is making a fine cam
paign that will have it's effect.
Hon. John Sharpe Williams,
Leader of the Minority in Con-
gress and nominated by his State
for Senate, will speak at New
bern Oct. 3rd. Hon Ollie James,
who made more fame for him
self as an orator in the Demo-
cratic National Convention than
anyone else, will make some
speeches in the State. Hon.
Henry D. Clayton, Of Alabama,
will speak in North Carolina Oct.
3rd, and Hon. A. O. Bacon,
State Senator from Georgia, has
been assigned to the State forOct.
5th to 10th. Their appointments
have been fixed by national head
quarters.
The Democrats are taking
nothing for granted, and are
prosecuting a fine campaign
throughout every township
They are not trying to run thiI
years campaign on past years
. votes. Even upon the settled
question of nrohibi+ion dissan
. tons are vanishing. The Nortl
Carolina sense of fair play i
evidenced, as it is explained, fo
instance, by Hon. W. A. Self
? that it has been settled in &C
cordance with the over-shadow
ing issue of the times, 'Sha
. the People Rule?" 'On thi
question the people have ruled,
i says Mr.. Self, who opposed pro
=, hibition, and although | wa
defeated on this question, I wa
y defeated by the properly express
ed will of the people Of the State
and with me that settles it.
- intend to show that I am as goo
a Democrat as any man wh
, voted for prohibition. and (hun
:, orously) expect to confir
my resentment to refusin
my prohibition friend a drin
when he is thirsty, by tel
ing him he has made it too har
to get" =" It is doubted if Hol
= Cy. Watson has even that muc
feeling left, while Hon. Waite
Murphy is entertaining lare
! gatherings with discussions {
> the tariff with as much hume
as if no drought were in sigh
and with as much fine logic as
d senator. By the nomination of
prohibitionist at the head of tt
> Republican ticket and the omi
:, sion of the question from the
platform, it is left where
pre-eminently belongs outsit
the pale of party politics, and {
the sovereign people of the Sta
have settled it.
, The Democrats do not have
l. depend upon the race issue
carry this election. Its recol
needs no appeal to any outsiC
issue to uphold it. Though wht
the Republicans come arour
with their pretensions of regene
alton and imported respectabi
ity, it is entirely permissible
= rub some of the whitewash {
; by reminding them that tn
have a Thompson and a Me7
- born and Butler on their tick
as a reminder of '96, and tn
I their candidate for Governor,
! tended to shed character ov
. the whole bunch, has specifical
endorsed the Republican nation
platform, which denounces ur
quivocally the letter and spirit
our Constitutional Amendme
in the following language:
eve declare once more a
~ without reservation for the {
" forcement of the letter a
spirit of the 18th, 18th and IL
amendments to the constitute
which are designed for the {
vancement and protection of t
negro; and we condemn all
=. vices which have for their r
- aim his disfranchisement
reasons of color alone, as unfa
un-American and repugnant
- the supreme law of the land.
Hon. Lee S. Overman has g
h ten into the campaign again 9
- will give his entire time I'll
the election. The people in re;
of his appointments should
fail to hear him. This corr
Fc pondent heard his speech
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