The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-10-07
Republican Condemns What
bis Party Help Create

lis aILy Help cate /
70 OEaN;J RAiRKE AA9EcLAREs Eg
rs FCsR " w TAX SYSTEM
Il - s
or sxstenf Of Rural credits, aYds
s q state system VI Schools md
John y Parker Rennblica1f candi9
3date for governor, spoke in the audiss
4 torillrn here Thurs night He dsss
/ cussed state a9d RationM issues and
declared insf fayor Of 81 new taxing sYs-
item for thestate, system of rural
4credits, state system of schools add
4 tate syEtenf 6f6high Ways .And said
FtflR R fe was ash anae tkat theSstate had
never passed any adequte. labor legJ5@
lation. He said that, in his opinionA Il
! the failure>of the statee government to-
dc its dtltXr toward aiding in the soB1.
Etidns Of 81 state u problems was daes
Ito The sfact that the Democratic parry
Of the state was in the grin IT ans
.officeaho ho1ding machine ~
rs He stated that one of the great Isl
sues Ndf4 the Acamnaign was POLITICAL
| freedom and that the independents
4 q
Ileahszpf breaking the grip of the MAJ
es5Rs esTR d On a 9is'ls15est 1 h9 said r. r.
zone of the great Issues of this
eaI1Iaig Is political freedom. The
! questf0n which presents. itself to evs5
cry man who loves his state is s<wheth-s
ler the Simmops-4 Watts machine should
kbes aafowedgt to saitle mot 9nly the Depnes
oefatie- party, bdt the Fstate4-of North
Carolina. The political history of this
i<eoupfry sheMs that Eheneverea party
fholds power for a long number of
years 1T develops a machine which sti-f
ftes the. progress Of the party and uses
|, the government af- the state not for
Z the purpose of lettering the, conditions
Of the people, but for serving Bthe pur-8
pose of the machine |
-@s'This is what has khappened IN.
I North Carolina. The reason that We
have done so ittae5 for agriculture, for
roads, for schools and for labor is be-
fcauses the reactfpnarg sSin mons Watts,
machine has its grip upon, the throat
tsofj the. De1noeratie party and on the
Estate The progressive and forward
men Of the. state will not
I
! and, the machine sgrinds them to pow
tteE. zz43 4.ess ~, N
z R.The-on1y 4way, Ito get rid Of the ma
chine is. to defeat the Democratic par-
tys3at- 1.-THE polls. AS soeh yas7 the ma
Chine loses the stateJoffiees. it will go
ito pieces, and the progressive elemeLS
Of gtReg Dentocratic party will have. al
chance to- get control of that party
and make it a power for good in the
state: But you rcannot beat the MAJ
chine by figiting within a.the party.
The Reasons is gthatFno man is strong
enough by himself to overcome mas
chine whose ramifcations extend into
every precinct OF the state. III
lone of the great evils Of the MAJ
chinesrule is that It deprives'the state.
Of the services Of its sBest men. The
machine never forgfves and never fOr-
gets k-Thes nan,~who~ fghts~i is cons
signed to 6eternal oblivion and bis
friends who supported him are led{to,
the guillotine WheneveF they offer
themselves for public office. Max
Gardner is a case in point. He SUP
Rorted Exftchin in 1872 In the eyes, Of
the machine that was an unDardon-
K ple9sfT1 He faspired to the jgovernorE
ship and, if the, machine had Left
hands off. he would Ihaye tBeaten Nor
rison by thousands of @otes. But
eight. years ago he had fought the ma
chine and ears <agos ther machine had
promised the goVernorship to MorrE
son.y :Fhe word, went down the line
tba9sG ardner was be slaughtered at
all cost, and not even his, great abiE
.i1y and popularity Gould stand against
the machine. shall not tell you how
,s,1esy~beat him. You know sthe mettl-
odss that were used methods tndt
cause THE check of every logal son Of
North Carolian to blush with shame
ana rfghte eohs ind diaQation III
ga man asked me the ~other day az
Gardner could come back3 That de-
pends-, qpon.Ttf1e outcome of this elee-
tfoafla: fHhe {naehn efwitI use the same
methods. against me that they used =
against Gardnef Ifithey lsurceed they
Will 1do for 4Gardner and his friends
what they did for. Kitenin and his
gressive youHg men 1.-THE Democratic
party as51ong as the machine is in CON
IIffs==pn=tsre szethens=hand, I am
elected, the machine will 60 to pieces
and Gardner and the progressive
younger element, of the Democratic
party will take charge of5that party
and make it@stand for something 9th
ef than an offfcesnoiding machine
II ask every forwardlooking North
CAROL lmfan to, join with me in this elec-
tion and Shelp'me beat the machine. #I
pledge myself not TO be the governor
OF faction or asparty, but Of tie
whole peppfea I pledge my ,admfnig
tratfong to a progfam of constructive
reform to which every progressive cit
izen of North Carolina can, and Iwill
I Of osidE. r,s,1.fs e.drl