The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-09-23
THF DONKEY PARTY HAP
PY OVER THE EVENT
--,,0cRATIC CANDIDATE MAKES
TELLING SPEECH.
E,act~ifies His Large Audience-Warm
Supporter of Wilson and League
OF Nations.

large crowd greeted Hon. Cam
,roo Morrison, Democratic. candidate
,,,. governor, at the Auditorium Sat
-.,.7ov NIGHT. MI Morrison was at his
l.,.+ and electrified his audience. He
;s p great believer in the League of
Nations. a devout friend of President
wilson ard hasn't much sympathy
s,,. rhc tender Democrats who are
,sraid that it will hurt someone when
= comes to exposing the record of
me Republican party in this State.
Mr. Morrison said in part:
"That the Republicans and a few
+anler Democrats demanded that the
oaorle of this State should cease to
study the history OF this State, in or
der that they might not know the
,e2ard Of he Republic party as
written in this States history. 1t
arenses their great disgust for a
~5mocrat 10 mention the bad govern
-oent under their control l think
- have a right to discuss their rec
ed without being offensive. even to
the Republicans. much less to their
tender friends who claim to be Dem
ocrats.
Put tonight I am not going to dis
cuss the record of either party in this
State. but l simply desire to assert to
The utmost. that a study of the record
Of the Republican party will show
hat it never did 90 anything for good
government in this State and that it
! running this campaign by resorting
to Misrepresentation rather than by
showing ANYTHING constructive they
ever did
Fer 80 years we have had the best
State government, all things consid-
81 ed. the people ever enjoyed any
where OF this earth and. according to
reports Of the U. S. government, at
less cost per capita than the State
government has cost the people in any
Stete in the Union"
Mr.. Morrison said he would not go
into the record of the Republicans in
his State, not that he feared those
who commanded that our history
should be stopped in the State, but
occasion to discuss the revaluation
act and the new system of taxation
toward which the Democratic party
was working and the League of Ma
tens. He stated that the reyaluation
act was not the new system named
after the Democratic party but simply
2 part of the great program. and that
the same general assembly that pass
ed the revaluation act also passed
and submitted to the people a change
N the Constitution of the State, re-
lating to the power of the State to
levy an income tax; that this amend
nent was endorsed by the Democratic
State Convention and the special ses-
sion Of the general assembly amended
the Constitution by reducing the
maximum tax which could be levied on
the 500 valuation from 66 2-3 to 15c,
except by a vote Of the people; that it
was the purpose Of the Democratic
n9rty not to levy any property tax for
State purposes hereafter, that it lev
led now only for school purposes
which went hack to the county; that
tha new system named after the
Democratic party would obtain the
through license tax, franchises, 1nher1-
t2r&e and from many other special
sources now taxed and when neces-
sarv by small income tax, of the
same size now. paid by the physicians,
ministers of the gospel school teach
ers. firemen, conductors, ETC., would
raise all moneye the State needed for
cVeny purpose. ,--.
Fe went fully into the question OF
reyaluati0n and other tax methods
and warned against the danger of be-
ing misled by the Interpretations OF
Parker and TIoIton and other Repub-
Iicans? He declared that the Demo
cratic party had +fever oppressively
taxed the people of this State and
never would Passing from State to
national matter said that seven years
Of Wilson's administration was more
fruitful of constructive, legislation
than the entire period from the ClVll
War to Wilson'S Inauguration. Speak
ing of the League of Nations Mr.. Nor
IisOn declared that more lies had been
told about the covenants OF the
league than the Bible of the Chris
tians. With a copy of the league IN
his hand he read the most generally
9ssaiIcd provisions and exposed the
talsity Of the Misrepresentation He
declared this world had been organ
lied in the past for war with there
suit that periodically men died by the
thousands, the hundreds of thousands
and finally in the late war by the
millions; that Woodrow Wilson and
the Democratic party had desired tC
organize the world for peace instead
Of war. The Republican party in the
control of the old reactionaries and
the munition manufacturers, stood fol
the old order of things; that they
were evasive and unwilling to up
I.ghtly admit this fact but it vas man