The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-25

I - NAs uoA3FC1Fs and
shey did not want IL restored.
he Republicans Of North Carolina
nave placed in command cf .h.gr
forces young. able and resourceful
, general, and by laying aside ali hgrk.
eFingh aud strife. With no secret stahx
in the back. with q GnIfed front ,h.x
can march 10 victory In Novenl,er
The dorehead family Is no stranger
10 the people of this State. Governor
John Motley Morehead. the grand
father of our chairman. and after
whom he was named. was.our great
est industrial governor. The frs,
time | saw the governor was AT my
! fathers house in 1858. The A &
~ {. X. X. was completed 10 La
Grange In February, 1858, and the
people of that vicinity gave a big bar
| becue in commemoration OF the occa-
sion. 1t was no trouble for that COM
munity TO give a dinner for then IL
was wealthy and prosperous. There
was within an area of ten miles
| square over one thousand slaves
After the days proceedings were
over Governor Morehead, Judge II.
X. Bryan, OF New Bern, then a young
lawyer, handsome, cultured, with the
laurels of the University fresh upon
his brow, and other prominent men
from Wilmington and elsewhere. re-
paired TO my fathers residence, three
miles distant, where all that man
could eat and drink was pread before
the assembled guests with a lavish
hand and unbounded generosity.
The next morning when they were
taking their toddies, Governor More
head slipped his and said a man ought
to be half an hour taking a drink
He said it diffused itself gradually
through the system and was not such
a sudden shock to the system. | have
followed this method of temperance
and / will be 70 years old next No
vember, with every organ sound and
never had the tooth ache or a rheu-
matte pain in my life. 1t was dur
ing the season of hog killing and
there was on the table for supper
and breakfast sausage, liver pudding
spare ribs, chittlings, brains, feet
cracking bread, big hominy and hot
waff1es swimming in butter. l must
stop, for several men have sent me
word that they would whip me on
sight for writing about such good
eating.
Governor Morehead was one of
; the finest looking men in the State
} If he had been enrobed in a bishops
gown he would have made the finest
looking bishop in the world. Chair
man Morehead is worthy descend
ant of such a man, with great, prac-
) teal business sense like his grand
father. l read with care Mr. More
heads speech in accepting the chair
manship. After l read it went to
him and told him that while his
speech was not embellished with
metaphors, tinted with all the colors
of the rainbow, pregnant with class
zeal taste, sparkling with dew drops
of thought, the very essence of poetry
and adorned with figures, flowers,
furbelows, fringes and f1ounces, yet
it was full of wisdom, common sense
} and thoughts worthy of a statesman.
Let me quote one sentence in his ad-
dress that should render him illus
trious: LAS long as there are Offices
Republican, these Offices will be fell
ed by Republicans, but deem it abb
solutely inseparable from party
growth and success. vitality essential
! thereto, and the very essence of Re-
} publicanism, that these Offices be fill
ed by those Republicans on the spot
and who are accordingly most inter-
ested and who have most at stake in
the selection of the local appointees. I"
This is not the language of spoils-
man, but of statesman. 1t is a
new declaration of independence. For
simplicity of style, for perspicuity CT
expression, for beauty and elegance
of diction, for the wisdom and practi-
cal common sense of a statesman
have not seen any speech equal to it
!. by any North Carolinian of this gen.
Grafton. 1t breathes the fervor of a
, pure and lofty patriotism. In the
quotation above made, Mr.. Morehead
: enunciates the great principle of
} local self government which Mr.. Mot
J ley, in his history of the Dutch Re-
, public, says is the life blood of liber-
: ty. There can be no liberty unless
this principle is fully recognized. A
government founded upon any other
is a despotism.
: Mr. Morehead will abolish the old
) referee system which was subvers-
i've of every principle of liberty and
was despotism of the most ruthless
and iron-hearted kind. Under that
system the people of the respective
/, communities where the Offices were
J to be filled had no more voice in the
matter than they have in saying who
, the Car of Russia shall put in Office.
! l thank God that the pure, the pa
triotic Morehead, has removed the
. | Shackles from us and made us free.