The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29
MOREHEaD's ABLE SPEECH.
Made Upon Accepting the Position OF
State Chairman - Appeals for
United Effort to redeem the State.

United Effort to redeem the State
Mr.. Jno II. Morehead. in accepting
the unanimous call of the RepubIi
can Convention TO the State Chair
manship. said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen OF tn
Convention:
/ desire To express TO the Conven
ton my deep appreciation OF tn
honor conferred upon me, and TO sd.
that the responsibilities devolvini
upon the position will be met to tn
best of my ability, with absolute
honesty Of purpose and with the soil
end in view OF making the party sue
cessful at the polls.
am very much indebted TO th'
gentleman who has Just taken hi
seat for his very complimentary ref
erences.
Without assumption of mock-mod
esty and with all due allowance tC
what small modicum OF truth his re.
marks, as applied TO me personally
may contain, wish at the very out
set OF my remarks and upon the
threshold of this campaign to take
issue with my friend upon the pre-
mise that he lays down-namely,
that / will be the one to lead the Re-
publican Party to victory in Novem-
be-.
Gentleman of the Convention, this
is not a one mans campaign. 1t is
a Republican party campaign, and
every true and loyal Republican is
not only part and parcel OF it, but
a leader in it.
If successful. and successful We
unquestionably will be, success can
not be attained through the effort
of any one individual, but by the
united effort of every voter who has
at heart the best interests of his
party and State.
Upon you, gentlemen, here as
sembled, will fall the brunt of the
work, and you will be entitled to the
acclaim attendant upon a successful
issue
AS Chairman of your Executive
Committee, I promise to do my part
towards accomplishing the result;
and, gentlemen, if every man here
will do his, the people will as GER
tainly rebuke Democratic appeals to
passion, to prejudice and to tradition
as the sun is to set on next election
day.
| believe the average citizen of our
State is fair-minded and whatever be
his political creed, he wants fair
play and an open fight. 1t is upon
this innate characteristic of our peo-
pie that, in my judgment, rests our
strong hope and prospect of Repub-
fcan success.
When party, through it's partisan
and violent press and by the mouth
of it's public speakers, forsakes all
argument as to the merits of political
issues and problems before the pub
lie; when party casts all legitimate
discussion of questions involving
great National issues to the four
winds of heaven and places it's sole
reliance upon wanton attack of all
individuals and public officials who
success depends, not upon the right
solution of great economic problems
vital to the State and Nation, but
upon the success Of its malicious ap-
peals to prejudice and venom, that
party is on the rocks and it's days
are surely numbered. weighed in
the balance and found wanting has
been writ upon the wall and the hour
has struck.
Gentlemen, it is an absolute fact
that so far as my reading of the
Democratic press and Democratic
speeches go, they practically, with
out exception, present no argument
whatever upon the subject in hand.
but they are, nine times out of ten
ninety times out of hundred
either based upon what happened
after the war;" or they are malicious
and gratuitous personal reflections
upon some individual of the oppo-
site political faith.
Now, gentlemen, l would not, nor
is there a man within the sound of
IL
from the glorious record of our State
and it's men, from Mecklenburg'
Declaration down to Appomattox.
They discharged more than their full
duty They were heroes.
But, gentlemen, these are not the
days of King George the Third, nor
are they the days of Appomattox.
We played our part and played it
we'll upon those occasions, but, my
friends, l submit to the citizenship
of this grand old Commonwealth
that we are not living in the times
of George the Third nor the times of
Appomattox. We are living in To-
DAY.
History proclaims that our obi
cations to past conditions were met
like men and discharged to the eter-
nal credit of our State.
Gentlemen, obligations rest upon
the citizenship of North Carolina to-
day differing lin kind with those past