The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-18

to call for criticism by the city paper
and condemnation by the ulplts KEY
H III. Hutton, pastor OF the ieauihe
Raptist church in that city. on 'he
Sunday following, preached a sermon
that &c Thus reported by the Charlotte
Observer:
..Our domestic life demands the
election of men of high character "
| fiji our office in a city like Chariotte.
But YOU ask. What has all TINS
| 70 do with our recent munlcipai eleo.
| ZION | heave a sigh of vain regret
| and answer. Tt has much to do. Last
| Tuesday in charlotte was a day Oh
excessive debauch, made 50 by eIeC-
ton money and election Whekey, CON
tessedly used for the purpose. OF pros
tituting manhood II pervertlng the
ballot. and our fair city IS sufIeflhe
today for the stain put upon her
name"
After reading comments from a
Newspaper whose ~e1iabihty he COM
plimented. DR.. Hutton said:
Blu it is not necessary 10Y HE "
turn to It if YOU please. II L can De
lieye my own eyes, l have a lew re-
marks to make. T
TUESDAY afternoon about 4 o'clock
I had occasion to pass ohc
Of the polling places. | was on my
way to visit a man who Is III WIN
typhoid fever. AS I approached, l
saw about it a motley croWo. by
whose authority or by whose permls-
sion are profane and men
allowed to c~ongregate in front OF the
polling places of this city:
At this point the speaker dlgressed
for a moment to quote q conversation
with a deacon of his church. who told
him Of his strenuous though good
natured clash of effort with a man OF
the rival persuasion in e~ndeavorlnS TO
conye to his own side a voter whom
he boosted of having landed. Il voted
my man. The speaker declared that
the deacon had violated the funda-
menta principle OF that mans man
hood when he took him by the arm
and told him for whom he should cast
his vote. "And when any man at
te1npts in like to inform me
Tor whom and for what / Shal cast
my ballot. L tell you you have flung an
insult into my \ My ballot is II
expression of my mind-Iifc. My ballot
is the expression Of my heart-iife. My
ballot is the expression Of my soul
life, and. being such, it is a sacred
thing to me-"
sThe deacon had violated the prin~
ciple of his own manhood when he
SDcI1t tASC oI1 IL tjlC iAi''N
motley crowd Of drunken sots.' He
told OF one brave minister Who Went
to the place to vote, but so rank was
the profanity and SO RAM the drunk
enness that he turned around, walked
out and did not vote at all.
But / Wake on into the crowd.
[ saw a man standing there. And
when I saw him reel / could feel my
heartstrings snap. Men, it was a
=, ~ nf = rnncrGP3f1On N1JH
these hands / had baptized him. |
had knelt by the side Of his wife and
prayed for him and I a kept him
straight for rs. blu When the
election came. ONE Of you men pour
ed red hot liquor into him, debauched
him and broke the heart Of his wife.
i've given you the religion. NOW
for the law said the speaker. He
had read the North Carolina statute
providing that any person who sells
or gives another liquor within tive
miles of a polling place within twelve
hours of an election, municipal, State
or National, shall be fined not less
than 500 nor more than $1,000.
rs there any man here who Will
say that whiskey was not used Tor
such purposes? If not, then / say
that the grand jury ought to begin 70
grind.
II went a little farther and a half
intoxicated man stopped me. Hello,
there doctah,' he exclaimed, Who yer
goin' to vote fer? I think you ought
to vote for my man. He the pore
mans friend. The times comm
when the rich man must keep his feet
off the poor mans neck He never
named his man and for the life of me
l don't know which one he was for.
My understanding is that both candi-
dates are amply able to keep the wolf
from the door. But. what OF that
mans spirit and words? That is APP
preaching s>cia lis1n. That is i'm
cipient anarchy. Where did he get
that conception? Did he conceive it
in his own heart? Did he evolve the
idea from his own brain? l tell you
no, a thousand times no. lie went to
some ward meeting and heard a politi-
cal utter it. And that