The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-01
JONES RAPS GUILFORD.

Defeated Candidate for Con- 5
gress in the Fifth Appeals to I
Guilford to Sta nd by Its Can
didate.
After the demonstration that
followed the nomination Of Ma
Tor Stedman in the fifth district
convention at Greensboro last
Wednesday, eX-Judge +. 3.
Jones. one of the defeated can
didates, in expressing his fellcl-
tations to his successful rival
took occasion to throw the hooks
into Guilford county for the way
:some of her leaders are said to
have wandered away two years
ago and given aid and comfort to
the enemy. According to the
correspondent of the Charlotte
Observer who reported the con-
vention Judge Jones waxed elo-
quent and made a gem OF a
speech. Part of the Observer
correspondents report follows:
Judge Jones, concluding an
expression of his appreciation for
the Confidence and fidelity which
his friends had displayed, said
he was not trying to injure any
body's feelings, but merely want
ed to sound an alarm to the dis
trict in order that there might be
no uncertainty as to what stretch
ed directly before the future ef-
forts of the Democrats to redeem
the district from the enemy. And
he straightway began to tell
@Euilford county and the Stedman
forces that the district had a
right to expect them to rally
their undivided support to the
nominee of the convention and
not bring about additional dis
ruption by splitting up the vote
in the coming fall election. init
mating also that someRepubljcan
interests had beer having hand
entirely too free in the move.
ments of the convention which
was then about ready to adjourn.
From this plain and direct ap.
peal to the Guilford voters he
switched to a denunciation Of
the efforts of the Republicans
and their boastings that the,
had the money now to keep the
district on the Republican side o.
the column.
During the speech of Judge
Jones the convention witnessed ;
pathetic spectacle. Although
~good-humored and apparently il
the best of spirits himself, Judg'
Jones brought handkerchief
from many pockets when h
turned upon the stage and point
ing his finger to Hon. Cyrus B
Watson, his intimate friend an
leader in this fight, poured upo
him the gratitude of his heart i
melting language, characteriz
ing him as the foremost Demo
crat of the State and one upo
whom had been inflicted the stie
ma of defeat" With the utter
ance of these words the old Ron
an sank in his chair on the stag
and his hands covered his fac
while tears dropped upon tn
floor. The sight moved the col
vention to such sympathy as hs
seldom been exhibited at publ
gathering and many were
tears while the leader of the d.
feated candidate sat with h
face buried in grief. And tt
time for rejoicing was turned
a flash to a time for sorrow.
was not merely a political stroll
welded by the masterful Jone
but it confronted the conventi(
with a fact which it, perhap
wished forgotten and pilot
graphed before it in panorm
fashion the exact significance
The step that had just been take
During the reference made
AR, Watson. Judge Jones d
played unusual control over
feelings and Immediately launc
ed into his somewhat notable d
sertation on fifth district fac
and it ought to have a place
the annals of the choicest Liter
ture of the State as we'll as to
horne about in the breast
North Carolina Democracy"