The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-24


Aycock referred TO the Shelby incjden+
"hen almost got his goat.
More People Every Day.
MI AScock made the same sr.aech |
every day If lie spoke on the same s,b-
-. mat was one Of the reasons
why ne surpassed other stump speak
ees- He thought out his sneacb
framed it in his mind. and then smoke
II. kach day it became more power
iul ana more Interesting Each day
1t was delivered more impressively.
AS polltlcal orator Mr.. Aycock had
ie" equals and no superiors. He made
votes for his cause. He was never
offensive IN speech OF manner to his
opponents. By sheer force Of intel
lect and gentility he won his way in
a debate.
In the 1900 campaign. when Mr.
Aycock was running for governor, I
reported thirty-two of his speeches
and Veraged a column and quarter
daily. Although the speech was the
sam" the crowd was different and the
atmosphere was never the same Day
after day [ was with Mr. Avcocl We
ate together, and on several occasions.
slept IN the same room. Once on a
not summer day we rode Oh the little
freight train from Lincolnton to New
ton, and both mapped on the way.
Delightful Companion.
having keen sense of humor and be-
ing a man of wide experience and vast
knowledge Mr.. AycOck was a delight
ful companion. He told a good story
and never made it vulgar or profane to
give 1T point. His speeches were re-
plete with stories that drove his ar
gument home.
The Aycock book-"The Life and
Speeches of Charles B. Aycock." by r.
| tJarn a
valuable volume. 1t tells the story Of
an ideal American of the most ap-
proved type Every North Carolina
boy can get inspiration from it. But.
Messrs. Connor and Poe have butch
cred one Of Mr.. Aycocks best stories,
and | cannot forgive them for it.
In his famous universal Educa-
ton speech Governor Aycock used
the fox hound to illustrate what edu-
cation will do for even a dumb animal
| "EducatiOn is good for a vegetable
and it is good for animals. and it is
good for mule" said MIR Aycock
This declaration was followed by q
story of the breaking of a mule.
What is breaking a. mule except
training him, educating him. bringing
out of him what there is in him p
said he. why. when you buy a mule
fresh from a drove it takes two whit,
men and one Fifteenth amendment t(
hitch him to a plOW. And when yol
get him hitched up he plows up more
cotton than he does grass; but ate
you have broken him, trained him
educated him. why that old mule goe
right along.
We'll, if educa tion is good for
, mule it is good for dog
: Famous Fox Dog Story
Governor Aycock told the fox do
g story in his campaign speeches. H
. told it the night he died in Alabama
Ii is typical of his argument fixin
stories
In telling a story Mr.. Aycock ofte
took occasion to pat somebody on tn
back. His happy faculty for DRAWN
people to him is plainly shown in tn
fox yarn.
Does anybody in this audience hun
foXes?" Mr.. Aycock would ask. -
it were day time speaking 1t night
| could look in your faces and tel
because if there is any lovely man o
the face of the earth it is one of thes
old-time fox hunters. When | use
to travel up and down North Caro-
lima, making political speeches, an
night would be coming on, and
didn't know just where l was going
stay, | would begin to look out on tf
roadside, and if | came to a nice plat
but didn't see a dog there | would g
right on through: but if L got TO
place and found about 3 hounds II
clning in the declining rays of tt
sun | drove right in and stayed ther
because | know there amt man
North Carolina that Will feed
hounds but will be glad 10 feed n
and want me to stay a week Wi
him."
Thus far the AycOck book TEN Il
r. fox story we'll, but the next paragral
spoils it all.
le ~ , ,;, ,,.,,,
> hunter himself knew that every pa'
:, | of fox hounds contained one or mo
49, dogs that would not give tongue
~ any track except one made by &c
- He knew~toO that every good hunt
r, had a dog named Music. In I
80 story he made "Old Music the her
-, inc The publishers of the Ayco