The Monroe journal., 1910-08-16

speaker is addressing the people. In
that county the Republicans voted
solidly for State prohibition. The
candidate comes TO the local self
government plank in the Greensboro
platform and says that il promises
that the people may electeyery school
officer and every other officer. He
then wades in and denounces the
Democrats under yance's day for APP
pointing magistrates in order to save
the east from negro rule, and goes on
TO demand that the people be allow
ed to elect their school committee
men, and says the plank was put IN
the platform for that purpose. Let
us suppose that some man in the au-
dience interrupts and asks:
docs not that plank mean to de-
clare against State prohibition
The orator in Yancey county, with
yehemence, will silence the inter
rupter By saying: No sir. Can'tyou
read? II the convention had intended
to make any reference to that ques-
ton it would have been plain and
would have said, We oppose State
prohibition that is what it would
have done. Does it do that? No;
then the man who tries to read State
prohibition into the platform is SIAN
dering the men who wrote the plank
which refers only to electing officers
and managing schools and the like.
There is no scent even OF near-beer
in that plank
That is in Yancey county. Anoth-
er Republican orator is speaking say
in Wilmington, where there was
much opposition to State prohibition.
He is urging men to vote for the Re-
publican party because ii will if sue
cessful repeal State prohibition, and
is making a vigorous plea along that
line. He is interrupted by a gentle
man who asks:
docs not that plank refer rather
to the election Of school officers and
like POSITIONS
"No-sir-ree,' exclaims the orator
in stentorian tones. 4 was a men,
Der of the convention that adopted
the platform and it is plain pledge
to repeal State prohibition
But that does not satisfy the gen.
tleman, who says: i was in lancey
county last week and heard a Repub-
lican speaker say that it had no ref
erence to State prohibition. Does 1t
mean the same thing in New Han
over and Iancey?
THAT question does not phase the
orator at Wilmington; but he de-
clares that 'ifany Republican in Yam
cey made such statement he did not
know what he was talking about?
% @ IS
Two miles across the sound from
the comparatively new town of More
head is the real old and interesting
town of Beaufort. The town is the
second oldest in North Carolina and
now has a population of some 5000.
1t is built along the water front, with
the shipping on one side and the
railroad entering on the other. 1t
was laid off as town in 1924, but
was then an old settlement. Here
are many quaint old houses of an
Gent architecture and every house
in town is painted white. The side
walks and streets are covered with
crushed shells, and the trees are
whitewashed. So when the sun
shines clear the glare from the water
and the white town is not pleasant
to the eyes. People who like quiet
summering place, where fishing and
boating are the best, come on over to
Beaufort, where | am now writing,
while those who like more OF the
gaities during the season, stop at
Morehead.
Beaufort is the great place for fish
ing, which is good all the year.
About August and September the
main season opens and runs till
spring. Here the Gulf Stream comes
nearest to the shore, and makes an
eddy, so to speak. Its warm infu'
, ence is very perceptible on the eli
mate. Fish from the southern waters
} come up to this point, and those o
} the north come this far south. Her,
: the United States government ha'
: established a fisheries station ant
: laboratory, where specimens are col
! lected and laboratory work is carried
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