Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-03-25
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT OF
A STRONG MAN: READ IT.
HON. CAMERON MORRISON
The Hon. w. c. Dowd, Ex-Speaker of the House
of Representatives and Editor of The Char
lotte News, Powerfully Presents Candidacy
of Hon. Cameron Morrison for Governor.

The early history of Cameron Nor
rison is one of struggle with difficult
ties that were hard to overcome. He
was born in Richmond county In 1869,
and his youth was spent during Pc
Rod in which an education was not
easily obtained by any save those of
wealth. The free schools Of the coun-
try community in which his parents
lived were open for only month or
two during each year, and the best
Cam could do was to attend one Of
these schools in log school house for
brief period each year. His father
was carpenter, and man of great
industry, but in those days wages were
low and work not easily obtained.
At about eight years of age, after
the death of his mother, he was p)ac-
ed under the tutelage of M. c. Nc
Caskill, noble old Scotchman, who
ran a little school at Ellerbe Springs
in Richmond county. Board was OBJ
tanned for him at a nearly home,
where he helped about the house and
on the farm during the hours when
he was not in school. At the end of
the first year McCaskill moved his
school to the old Terry scdcol house
near Roberdel factory IN Richmond
county. Board was secured for young
Morrison with farmer named c. P.
Dawkins, who lived about two miles
distant from the school. Cam wock-
ed on the Dawkins farm at odd times.
After q year at this school it became
necessary for him to go to work. His
father was struggling to support
three other small children in addition
to Cam. Work was obtained in Wolf
Pit township, in county commits
sary and on a farm. This continued
for year or two, the boy earning
his support.
Then for four years, with one year
intervening in which he clerked in a
grocery store, he attended school in
the town of Rockingham, having the
great pleasure, for the first time in
several years of boarding at the same
place with his father. He was hard
student and at the end Of that period
his teacher, the late William Carroll,
declared him to be well prepared for
college. A college career was impos-
sible. It was absolutely necessary for
young Morrison to 60 to work and
help his father take care Of the other
three children. All who knew the
struggling youth knew that he would
have worked his way through college
but for the necessity of helping to
support the family.
Denied his cherished ambition to go
to college, young Morrison went to
work. During the next four or five
years he worked at different jobs, and
all the while studied with great avid
ity. Among other things, he worked
as clerk in the office of the regis
ter of deeds for year at salary Of
$50 per month. At other times he
taught in the free schools at $40 per
month.
Young Morrison's father was, dur
ing this period, republican. He had
been a brave Confederate soldier, and
during the days Of Vance he was a
democrat, and helped to redeem the
state; but like a great many good
men have done, he fell out with the
democratic party over some local mat
ter, and became . republican. q Thus.
as young Morrison approached naan-