The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-05-05

people, resulting In q degree and
extent of justice, prosperity, and
order, the like of which no peo-
pie has ever known.
With so much already done the
administration is just now pro-
ceeding to crown it's record OF
constructive service with a Rural
Credits act,@ under which it is
proposed to provide at the lowest
expense an abundant credit for
the farmers of the nation, and
this convention gives hearty en-
dorsement to this act.
We endorse the record of our
Senators and Representatives in
Congress; and we view with pride
the positions of responsibility,
honor and service our sons are so
worthily occupying in Congress
and Cabinet. To few states has
fallen the honor of having at once
the floor leaders in the Senate
and the House of Congress. And
lit should be matter of pride to
every North Carolinian that in
|. the great program of progress
achieved by the Democratic party
four state has had SO large apart.
State Achievements Pledge Of Future.
In state affairs the achieve
ments of the past furnish the
surest pledge of the future. We
7 endorse the administration OF
. Governor Locke Craig and other
: state officers for it's fidelity to
1 the highest ideals of public ser
f vice and notable. achievement in
0 the public interest. We point to
f sixteen years of Democratic ad-
a ministration subjected regularly
e to the closest scrutiny, investiga
S ton and audit, without an IN
Y stance of scandal or unfaithful
y public service-a record meritlne
a the unlimited approval and gooe
l. will of the white people of thu
J. state. They have covered six
e teen years in which constan
n progress and DEVELOPMENT O
" public education, of temperance
d of public health laws and admin
If tration, and of every branch o
TO public service have kept tn
s. pace with agricultural, CONNER
p cial and Industrial progress
Construction of improved put
Is lie highways have in every legiti
at mate way been encouraged, il
lie situations for both sexes hav
so been enlarged and strengthened
I'd the public health service ha
ne been developed to high state {
ne efficiency, and public institu ton
ne for the care of the diseased an
a unfortunate have been increase
n in number and enlarged in cap
DE city and equipment.
Ia Corporations that serve tt
IN public have been wisely and jus
e. ly regulated in the public int
ny est, ana there is now saved a.
~ nuallv to the people of the sta
IN in their freight bills alone
lis specific reduction of inter-sta
and Interstate freight rates
OF the last two years not less tn;
m one and a half million dollars D,
he year-an amount in excess of Il
les entire administration of sta
1e- government.
ne Lowest Per Capita, Tax in Whole Unia
oii It is not accidental that aft
1e- sixteen years of most notat
I'VE progress in the entire history
a1i the state in all these lines of pu
- lie effort, the reports of the Unit
iie States Census Department she
'e'l that our state government
VI maintained upon a payment
JIG taxes by the people of this sta
III less per capita than that of al
other state in the union. TT
3: result has been achieved by t
nix Democratic party being true
to it's pledges of the utmost ecor
EN- my in the administration of pu
,m- lie affairs. Public Office in tt
ley state is still a public trust, a
ro- must be administered with t
en- utmost fidelity to the public
ers terest.
: of We find cause for congratu
re- tiOn that wQ have naScod tho ,