The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-26
BICKETT DRAWS BIG EN-
THUSIASTIC CROWD
democratic Candidate for Governor
Makes a Fine Speech-A Great Ora.
tcr--=Many Ladies Present

Saturday night was democracv's
time at the bat and 1000 or more
neoDle gathered at the armory to
bear the champion of Wilson's cause
700 reel off beautiful ribbons of oratorv
and paint pretty word pictures of
real living, breathing things. as it
The speaker held his audience
from the first and every expression
we have heard in regard to the
sneech was favorable, very favorable
indeed. Those that profess opposite
noliticaI faith, admitted that from
an oratorical standpoint very few
could surpass it. The band furnish
ed music for the occasion.
Mr.. Beckett began his speech by
review of the beneficial record of
The national democratic party with
many and vivid comparisons of
HUGHES and his party.
His splendid recital the benefits
which nave accrued to the nation
especially on account of the Federal
reserve banking law, the farm loan
law and similar enactments was re-
cpived with enthusiasm and applause
bv all of his large audience, whether
business men, wage earners or
farmers.
General Beckett was presented to
the audience by Judge Carter Dai-
ton, in a few choice words and at
the conclusion of the speaking a
great ovation was rendered the next
Governor.
DEMOCRACY FAIR TO ALL
Mr.. Beckett stressed two points
not heretofore mentioned in his
campaign:
1st. That by its record the Demo-
cratic party had proved itself a true
f.iend Ct the laboring man.
End, That by its record it had De.
monstrated that there is no natural
enmity between labor and capital,
but that a proper sense of justice
would conserve both.
In celebrating these points Mr.. |
Beckett said in part:
First of all the Democratic party |
created a department of labor. made
a representative of labor a member |
Of the Cabinet, and for the first
time in American history gave the
man in Overalls a seat at the coun-
Gil table of the Nation equal in honor
and dignity to the man in a dress
suit. The Workmen's Compensation
Law, the Seamen's Law, the Anti
Injunction Law which makes it i'm
possible for a Federal judge to put
a laboring man in Jail because he
wants to protect the price of his
labor all show the keen sympathy
of the Democratic party with the
laborlng men of the land.
BUSINESS MAN NOT FORGOTTEN
The perplexities of the business
man have not been forgotten. His
distress was relieved by the Federal
Reserve Law, bis preplexity dIsap-
peers with the enactment of the
Clayton Antitrust Bill and the es-
Enlistment of the Federal Trade
Commission. Under the old Sher- i
man law it was impossible for a man
to find out whether a business was
legitimate or not except at the end
OF law suit. A suit in equity or a
bill of Indictment was the only
method of testing the legality of a
business. This method was both
vastly expensive and very danger
Gus, and at the end of the tesr a
man found himself in a bankruptcy
court or in the penitentiary. The
method of testing the legality of a
BUSINESS was not unlike the formula
prescribed for telling mushrooms
from toadstools. The formula is
Eat EN- If you live they are'mush-
rooms. Again, under the old law
II thought that my competitor was
the law and was attempt
ing to destroy my business by so
DONG, it wonld take all of my time
and all of my money to prove.
lst That my competitor was
the law, and
End. That he was destroying me
by so doing.
BENEFIT OF TRADE COMMISSION
Today, if my competitor in Inter-
state Commerce is resorting to un-
lawful and unfair methods to build
up his business destroy mine, | can
90 direct to the Trade Commission
and without costs to me | can have
nlIn cited before that commission,
nave my grievance thoroughly in
DDestigated, and if the commission
nnds that the grievance is just, that
competitor will be ordered TO stop
MS meanness. and if he does not