The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-03-18
ABLE SPEECH By HON. r. L.
HAYMORE

His speech for Local Seaf-Govern-
ment In Surry Was Full Of Orafory
and Argument
When the subject came up In the
House Of Representatives on the
report from the Committee On Edu-
cation CT the bill to eject the board
Of education Of Snrry County by the
people, the Hon. r.. L. Haymore. of
Surry, championed the minority re-
port, and his speech was not only ex-
celle,ss from a standpoint of oratory.
but was replete with facts. Mr..
Haymore began his remarks by
showing that IL was to the best in
terest of the school children of the
county to elect the board that while
60 per cent of the children in rural
districts attended school 40 per cent
of them did not attend at all. At
asked Mr.. Haymore. sarcastically. IL
he knew that Surry was receiving
more money from the State for edu-
cation than she paid into the State
for that purpose. Mr.. Haymore's
| reply was a whitening rebuke to Mr..
Corners inquiry. Mr.. Haymore
then proceeded to euiogiZe Surry.
giving a description from her earli-
est date up to the present, reciting
that she was of a stock of the pa
triots herself, the daughter of Row
an the land first intended for man,
| that when she arrived at the age of
maturity she threw her skirts west
ward into the State of Tennessee,
the land now of the Carmacks and
the free. She was the mother of
Wilkes, Ashe, Watauga. Yadkin.
Forsythe and Stokes, all of which
was of the stock of the original
blood.
He stated that the county officials
of Surry have been honest, capable
/ and efficient. At this point Mr.
| Doughton, of Alleghaney, inquired
of Mr.. Haymore, il he didn't know
that Republican sheriff of his coun-
ty had been defeated on account of
charges made against him. Mr.
Haynore answered it was not, and
then inquired of Mr.. Doughton if 1t
was not charges brought against the
Democratic candidate for Congress
in the Fifth District that defeated
him in the last election. Mr.. Dough-
ton did not answer, and the House
cheered. Mr.. Greene, of Currituck,
asked Mr. Haymore If there were
any charges against the present
board of education. Mr.. Haymore
replied no, except that they were
partisan and would lose their jobs if
they were not strong partisans He
then proceeded to show the tendency
to create friction between the people
and the board of education OF &C
count of political discord, that this
to some extent prevented the child
rem from attending school and OBJ
tanning an education that the coun-
ty commissioners, elected by the peo-
pie could make indictable for non
performance of demands made on
them by the Democratic board of ap-
pointees, which was unjust. He then
proceeded to denounce the policy of
disregarding the popular will and
the rights of local self-government,
recalling incidents in which the dom
inant party had obtained their pres
ent power of appointees from the
Constitution adopted in 1875, by the
aid of the Republican voters in
Western North Carolina. He said
that appeals were made to the west
to vote for the new constitution to
save the east from their condition
by popular vote, that the west aided
them in this with the promise that
the right of local self-government
should ever. be sustained in the State
That again in 1900 another appeal
was made to the west to help the
east to adopt another amendment tc
, the constitution, when it became ne
, cessary for the west to suffer more
than any other part Of the State II
resulted in its effect against the in
terest of the west in that more OF
her white citizens were disfranchis
ed; that it was the effect of this new
amendment to the constitution thai
, put the now dominant party il
: power. That without the aid of the
, west the constitution never coule
, have been amended. That no appea
= had ever been made by the east tina
had not been granted, that now i
was nothing short of ingratitude t,
refuse local self-government to tn,
people of the State. He cited as
e further indication of ingratitud
4 that many of the western Democrats
counties had been allowed to cleo
= their boards of education, while tn
a same right had been denied the Re
e publican counties.
r He then proceeded to recount il
d interesting detail the many acts O
:. patriotic valor of Surry, Wilkes, Wa
= ttuga, and other western counties
s in securing our national freedom.
y When the time allotted for dis
= cussion had expired, his time wa
extended by unanimous consent @
the House, and through the entir
time of the speech the House, tn
Hobbies and the galleries were filled
and he was frequently applaudet
|, He was congratulated even by part
3 san Democrats who felt they wer
Il marty hound tn voto apaipSf tho hill