The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-19
WALTER CLARK
ENTERS RACE
MAKES POSITION CLEAR In ALET.
Ter TO SOLICITOR A. HALL
JOHNSTON OF THE l4TH DIS
TRICT
WOULD Serve THE PEOPLE

In letter to Mr.. A. Holt John
son, Solicitor of the 18th Judicial Dis
trict, Chief Justice Walter Clark an
nounces his candidacy for the Senate
to succeed Senator Simmons. Soil
citor Johnson urged Judge Clark to
make the run.
Governor Aycock is also taking the
matter under advisement, and if he
becomes a candidate there will be
four IN the field.
Judge Clark's letter follows:
Raleigh, N. c., May II, 1911.
Hon. E. Hall Johnson,
Marions, N C.
My Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor
to hand. I have received many SINH
lar inquiries, both personally ana by
letter, from other friends.
The recent decision of the Federal
Supreme Court, rendering necessary
additional legislation for the suppress
sion Of the trusts, has transferred the
decision Of the question whether the
people of this country are powerful
enough to control them in the arena
Of the Senate, for the people have al
ready captured the House of Repre-
sentatives. The same is true as to
the tariff. 1t is in the Senate that the
contest for the control Of this govern
ment must be fought out between the
people and the interests. The choice
OF every Senator will be closely super
vfsed by the special interests. The
awake. If we are to bring our gov
ernment back to the people and are
to save it from the continued control
Of selfish and personal interests, it is
important that the voters shall know
beforehand, with exactness, the views
entertained by every candidate for the
Senate, and shall feel confident that
his past record chan be such that
they shall feel confident that he
will be as faithful and earnest in
standing for those views after he is
chosen as he was jealous in profes-
sing them before his election.
Having decided, >after consultation
with friends, to submit to the people
Of fo40 of
on their behalf in the great struggle
which must take place in the Senate,
| take this means of expressing my
views for their approval. They are
views which / have long entertained
and often publicly expressed.
I belong to what, for want of
better name, is called the Progressive
Democracy, but which in fact is simp-
ly a return to Jeffersonian Democracy
and to the declaration of our fathers
that all government derives it's just
powers from the consent of the gov
benefit. This idea is embedded in our
State and Federal Constitutions, but
for the last forty years it has been
generally treated as mere rhetorical
expression. We should return in en-
tire sincerity to the idea expressed by
Lincoln of a government "of the peo-
pie, by the people, and for the peo-
ple"
I advocate and have advocated for
thirty years a tariff for revenue only,
and am opposed to protection in any
form under guise of a tariff for rev.
enue only. i earnestly favor amend
ments to the Constitution of the
United States by which I'D the
United States Senators shall be elect
ed by the people. This measure, SO
long demanded by the popular will,
has often passed the House of Repre-
sentatives, but until very recently has
been contemporary treated by the
Senate itself. (e) The Federal judges
should also be made elective ~by the
people of their respective districts and
circuits, and for term of years as