The Monroe journal., 1920-10-19
CORh GRAJaER KANiS ALL III
VOlE.IHE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
SAVE THE STATE FROM MORE
OF RUssELISM. HE URGES
The White Man Was Born tn Rule,
and IL Ever Must BE So--(;ariner
setting Fine Example.

D<tta*A E.s> At
To the Editor OF The Journal
Owing TO a press OF business you have
Owing TO apress OF business you have
been spared the infiiction Of my cor
respondenee 10 your Album OF Song.
But as | am wounded in one hand |
can now regale myself TO literary
pursuits: and thereby provoke. blue
blaze OF blasphemy from those who
dissent from my opinions; and their
name is legion.
In the first place. old straw will
be threshed anent the Australian
ballot. with such advice as is deemed
necessary to the ladies more than
twenty-one'' who Will for the first
time be clothed with real citizenship
and prerogativeS thereto belonging.
As TO Australian ballot. il prevails
throughout Christiandom and ciyili-
zation except in three states; and
one of them had made Tom Watson
a patron saint; and the other Two
are confronted with leadership not
characterized by real and patriotic
statecraft: but the wiles and ma
of the demagogue. This
does not apply 10 all our leaders;
for many OF them are peers Of any
body of men to be found i'm any
One reason many of
our refined ladies hesitate about vot-
ing is the prevailing mire of cor
ruption in political methods. Many
OF the patriotic women of Union are
registering. also Wake. Wilson, Dur
ham, etc. and the women of Cleye-
land. following the leadership OF DR..
Della Dixon-Carroll are also buckling
en- their armor while others are look
ing timidly over the pasture fence.
Those who hear the militant mes
sage OF this gifted feminine evangel.
IL they come TO scoff remain to pray;
and straightway register as ''oyer
No man has to tell
ladies OF republican proclivities TO
register. regardless of age. color. or
previous condition of servitude. They
have a Barkis-like willingness,-and
are encouraged by the cabalistic cry
barking from the misty past: yea.
Lord, an we is gwine to git dat forty
acres an mule"
BY way of depression, let every
democrat vote the ticket from presi-
dent TO constable. o. Max Gardner
and Bob Page made each gallant
fight; but are magnanimously hold
ing up the hands of Prophet Cam
Morrison II certainly is not demo-
cratic for us 10 not yield to majority:
and going TO opposite party In a
spirit of pique, il followed by many
will leave nothing of
North Carolina democracy but blue
streak and a smell of sulphur. TAX
ing the record of democracy, pros
perity has abounded, good roads have
been built, the cause of education
has been promoted, the hum of the
wheels of industry has
rolled as mighty disapason through
our borders; and blended with these
cadences, are heard the classic
melody of literature and the richer
notes of Christian worship. Our in
for the unfortunate have
beeen safeguarded; and who wishes
Niit hdth SIdubhs vi it@Nbhott ANAiVif
and Russellism to again east their
blighting shadow on our fair State?
Stick to the bark of democracy; for.
like THE Old Ship of Zion" she has
landed many thousands and will land
as many more. We have no message
of hate nor bitterness against any
inferior race, and the democrats
party is willing to help all such TO
achieve their destiny. Let the col
ored race have churches, schools and
the benefcent advantages of eGuea-
tion; but the dominant Anglo-SaXun
has erected altars 10 the traa Cod.
schools. explored the
mysteries of 6cience. harnessed fire.
ain, water aud electricity; aud chain
ed each to the car OF human art
and made them subseryient ia a
thousand ways to the comfort, con-
venience aud luxury Of sOcie,y. africa
and North America We're fraught
with untold possibilities. Gems riy-
aling the lustre Of Golcondl slum-
bered in the Dark Continent; hut the
benightcd son of Ham Not not that
he was walking over treasure in
quest OF another dusky mortal TO
furnish Il cannibal feast, or that he
might feast upon a snake rs tnp VIC
tim OF his boomerang. by association
with the iordly Cauea Sian he has de-
veloped q Frod Douglas and a Booker
Washington; but never ii banighted
Africa.
I Fenimore Cooper ana Judge story
found much TO admire in the tawny
savage that Columbus named Indian
But he was walking over hidden
treasure. resisting every encroach-
/, meut toward developing farms o
amazing fertility; preferrins a barl
wigwam TO a steel girded skyscraper
a medicine man with his Wiord in
eGntations 20 q minister or teacher
and was "again" woman suffrage
for he made his sauaw heWer' o
wood and a drawer of water Blu
the tawny warlof and hunte~ was
great assimliIior. for when cl1the
with divine right of suffrage he al
ways went democratic. He therishei
tradition that when the Grea
Spirit decided to make a man. nj
first effort produced very pre-
nounced brunette with a fat nose
aud the hallow of his foo, made
hole in the ground. Dissatisfied. h
tried again, aud produced a being q
very erect posture. copper-colored
but yet was not pleased with hi
handiwork. The third trial evolve
a man in his own image. which I