The Monroe journal., 1920-07-09
MORRISON AND PARKER
MAY DEBATE THE ISSUES
The Monroe Man l. said 10 BE Will
ing. And II i Now Up to the Demo-
cratic Nominee.

cratic Nominee.
tBy I. ". BoST IN the Greensboro
News
Joint discussions between. Cameron
Parekr. Republican. candidates for
governor. will be in order. according
TO the wise ones in both parties.
Mr.. Morrison will have TO decline
the invitation on the ground that
'taint practical" according to State
Chairman Tom Warren's view OF pol
itieless years. or 20 out to meet
the Philistine. Mr. Parker has declar-
ed that he was going TO challenge
Max Gardner when it appeared GER
tain that Gardner would be the romi-
nee. and every reason for dividing
time with Gardner may be urged in
Morrison's behalf and then some.
Parker believes he can embarass any
Democrat who will defend his party's
tax legislation. and he knows he can
rag" Morrison on the suffrage issue.
Fact is. Parker can prove that ac-
cording TO the chairman of the state
the Chicago Republican convention
was more Democratic. and that the
Republican national platform more
becomes the Democratic candidate for
governor than does the national DEM
ocratic.
For instance. the national Republi-
can platform did not say word about
ratification in North Carolina. And
good Colonel Lamb declares that
North Carolina should be saved the
nfamy of ratifying. The colonel al
so says the Democratic convention OF
April was a fraud insofar as its suf-
frage expression went If by the
highest election authority ratification
is an "infamy" and the suffrage
plank is fraud. surely the national
convention which said nothing about
either. must be more to the liking
of the election officials in the state
than was the state convention which
perpetrated the fraud. and the ma
tional Democratic convention which
urged repetition OF the fraud.
! Then the Democracy has spokes-
men who insisted that Morrison is
their best bet. and she should be NOM
mated for his powers of both defen-
sive and aggressive warfare. Mr.. Nor
rison added something TO his good
opinion oil his abilities by admitting
that before he was 81 years old he
made a great Republican speech nom
mating Capt Charles Price as Su-
preme court justice. Mr.. Morrison
further recommended himself BIS elm
nation. Gardner who is rash and
romantic young man" was not the
intellectual type to send up against
q Union county veteran of many an
encounter in the classroom OF Horace
Williams.
Then Ed Cansler threw a scare into
the ranks. He lad tried lawsuits
with Parker and found him able to
meet anybody. Morrison was the
man and Morrison is the man. There
will be gubernatorial debates unless
Mr.. Morrison and Mr.. Warren find
"taint practical" Certainly John
Parker. who thinks Mr.. Morrison is
rash" If he isn't romantic" would
have a picnic with Morrison's suffrage
position, a nomination won on his
adherence OF what Woodrow Wilson,
+. VI. simmons, ]. w. Bailey. w. N.
Everett, A. M. Scales, the national
and state platforms stand for.
Again, Parker is advantaged on
taxation. lie happens to think much
the same thing about taxation that
j. w. Bailey has furnished. And while
Mr.. Parker has not stood before the
corporation commission and denounc-
ed 1t, for not going out and getting
"SS, 600, 900 acres of lands" to tax
AT Its actual value" as bar to the
income tax which is up for considera-
ton this year, Mr.. Parker has gone
half way with Bailey. The rash and
romantic collector of internal revenue
was begging the tax commission not
break the heart of big business when
farm lands. dogs, horses, mules and
hoos were assessed so low.
Parker is willing to make big busi-
ness she'll ont again and he favors
the income tax. so the dope goes; but
he can go no further with Morrison
and henceforth must follow Bailey
Parker may be able TO prove his case
by Bailey. The Republican nominee
can show how Bailey begged the tax
commission TO soak the human goat
who happens to own he-coats, sheep,
dogs. hogs. and farm lands in order
that big taxpayers might be spared
the income tax. The commission ura-
ed the passage of the revaiuaiion ael
and il has been put to work. Parkel
can prove that Bailey got what he
asked for and Morrison must be bolll
rash and romantic to work himself
out.
And Gene Holton has started some
thing. OF course, he has gone TAI