The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-19
NORTH CAROLINA'S COVER
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Makes Interesting Speech of
One and a Half Hours Before
Large Audience Thursday
Night

the biggest day of the fair and tool
q hundreds of our people away.
Many hard working men were in
the audience and to them the COVER
nor was especial attentive in telling
: of the Adamson 8-houf law which
: he defined as a God send to- the
t working man.
T. j. Gold introduced the COVER
nor in a very apt way: To know
the speaker of the evening is to
: love him, I present to you the
governor of North Carolina" The
governor told of the Great achieve
ments of the democratic party un-
der the leadership of Wilson and
prayed that the people would sup.
port the man who had helped them
and not let it be said: Wilson came
unto his own and his own received
him not"
He said that when the Democratic
party went into power it undertook
a giants task that demanded the
leadership of the wisest and bravest,
that the government had to be
wrested from the powerful hand of
selfshness and greed.
The Democratic party" said he
promised to substitute justice for
privilege, and she has justified the
trust of the American people. From
of old, two policies have contended
in organized socitty-one for the
advantage of the few-the other for
equal rights to all. We have seen
this contest in all civilization, wher-
ever men we're striving for OPP
portunity and Improvement. This
was the issue that divided Hamilton
and Jefferson, and is the issue today |
between Democracy and Repub- !
licanism. The question has been |
presented in ever varying form, but |
the fundamental distinction always
remains. On the one side men will
grasp and use undue power for sell
fish purposes; on the other, the race
with an irrepressible and unconquer-
able instinct yearns for justice and
equal opportunity Through periods
of storm and quiescence, and revolu-
ton with the English race Demo
cracy has gone forward, never back
ward.
The men who have been canoniz-
ed in the history of our country are
the men who stood for equal justice
to men-Washington, Jefferson and
Jackson.
Governor Craig said that in his
opinion the most beneficent and
piece of legislation since
the war is the Federal Reserve Act.
He explained how the old system of
currency was rigid, necessarily un.
to the demands of bust
ness, based upon the bonded indebt-
edness of the country; controlled by
a few great financiers. That the
new system was elastic, based upon
business tranSactiOnS--respOnSive
to- the demands of trade.
1t seems to me-" said he, that
every man who believes in just COM
pensation for labor of all kind should
vote for Woodrow Wilson; that every
man who believes in tine emancipa-
ton of the working man from the
1rudgery of endless labor should vote
for Wilson. ] ask the question re-
yerently. shall it be written of him,
too. He came unto his own and his
own received him not?"
He told how the President had
Kept this country at peace while
other nations were consumed by
var. That he had maintained the
prestige and the glory of this coun-
:ry and asserted her rights and the
lights of every American citizen, in
every land and on every sea. He
has dicated.to warning nations the
avs of civilization This school
master has taught the law of right
,ousness, in the majesty of its power,
o kings and to emperors. Without
'rphaning single American child;
without widowing single American
mother; without firing single gun;
the " shedding of a single
lrop of blood, he was wrung from
he most militant spirit that ever
'rooded above a battle field an
acknowledgement of American
lights. and an agreement to Amer
IAN demands" Here peace dwells
With honor in the BOSOM of strength
The American people will remember
his servant of theirs who has
brought to them prosperity and
trength, and kept them out of war.