The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-10-25
HIS WORK
IN WASHINGTON
Prevents Senator Simmons
From Coming to State to
Make Speeches
MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE
MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE

Washington, Oct. Ex-senator
Simmons today issued the follow
ing personal statement to the peo-
pie of North Carolina:
Until recently had hoped to Wis
1t the State before the election and
make a few speeches for the party
and to express to the people Of the
State my grateful appreciation Of
the generous support given me in
the past and vauchsafed in my pres
ent candidacy. It now seems that
I cannot without neglecting my duty
here, leave Washington at all at this
time.
my concern for my own personal
fortunes and even the success Of my
party must be subordinated to the
higher duty of the hour imposed up
on me by the responsible position
hold in connection with essential war
work of the government.
1T is of the greatest importance
that the $4,000, ,0O0, 900 revenue bill.
now under confederation by the FL
nance Committee of the Senate, of
which l am chairman, should be ex-
pedited and passed without unnec-
essary delay. The government is in
Fneed OF this money and the admin
istration is urging haste in provid-
ing it, and nothing, which can be
avoided, must interfere with the
work Of bringing the bill to speedy
passage.
"As much as would wish to
meet the people OF the State and
discuss with them the great ques-
tions in which they together with all
the American people are SO pro-
foundly interested at this time; give
an account of my stewardship in the
high Office in which they have placed
me; and present and champion the
record and the cause of the great
party to which belong; and es-
pecially to felicitate them upon the
magnificent leadership of the great
man who is now at the head of the
nation. Commander-in-C Chief of ouI
army and navy, and whose high
ideals of liberty, justice and right.
eousness, as exemplified in his rec
ord and spoken words have electri
fed the world and established the
principle of democracy in the hearts
and minds of aspiring men every
where, thereby threatening will
present destruction the sceptre O
autocracy in every quarter of thu
earth whereit yet, unhappily, re
mains, l cannot even for these pur
poses desert my post of duty here
and / do not believe the people O.
North Carolina would have me Il
do it.
Not Afraid of Results
Moreover. l do not believe the in
; tterest of the party or that of m
lcandidacy will materially suffer b
, Imy absence from the State. / hav
Ian abiding confidence that the goU
Isense, intelligence and patriotism O
the people of North Carolina Wi
lamply take care of the interest G
1.-THE Democratic party. Speakin
personally, l have complete faith i
lthe people of North Carolina and
need no new testimoy of their kind
ness and generosity respecting m
and my political interests. Durin
the past thirty odd years, eightee
of which l have been their servar
in the Senate Of the United State
and several years of which l devote
to the great fight to establish goo
government in North Carolina,
8 have come to know them fairly vel
and think they also know me.
am willing, without the slighte,
misgivings. to trust the fate of m
|candidacy in their hands and =,
i |abide whatever verdict they ms
render upon my record and my Sc
vice whatever they have been.
, my first concern as to the ele
tion n North Carolina is not perso
Ial-is not partisan in the ordinal
| acceptation of that term-it
: speaking broadly, that such a resu
/. may be shown as will leave
i doubt anywhere that the people
A North Carolina are standing loyal
8 and enthusiastically by the Preside
l. and the government In the prese