Hickory daily record., 1922-11-03
bAGbY APPEALS
FOR LAW AND
ORDER

UhDth
Asserting that there are just two
issues in this campaign-ring rule and
law enforcement-Chas. w. Bagby,
Democratic chairman, warned both
Democrats and Republicans in vigor-
Gus address at the auditorium last
night that if they expected Geo. F.
Bost if elected sheriff, to wink at
blockading and liquor selling, they
had better not vote for him. Mr.. Bag
by made a somewhat lengthy speech
because of the failure of Stonewall
Durham of Gastonia to get here. Mr..
there last night made an autmobile
trip hazardous. Other speakers were
DR.. w. A. Deaton. candidate for the
legislature, and former Judge w. b.
Councill, who gave reasons why men
and women of both parties should
support the Democratic ticket this
year.
In his speech Mr.. Bagby, who de-
clared the Democrats would carry
The county with the help of good Re-
;ublicans, said he had been told that
it was dangerous politically to speak
If law enforcement, but he wanted the
public to know that the day after the
Democratic cadidate was nominated
Mr.. Bost came out in public state
ment-printed in the Hickory Daily
Record and the Catawba County
News s-Entcrprise-that if elected he
would enforce the law and further
more would appoint deputies who
would also enforce the law. promising
20 instruct them in their duties, to
he end that Liquor making will be
! more difficult business in Catawba
county. Sc.
Has the opposition candidate made
nv public statement? Mr. Bagby
.sked. Has he explained the blockade
till incident near Windy City last
yinter when two good men-Republi-
ans bv the way-informed hin, that
wO men were operating still in the
woods close by?
Then Mr.. Bagby went on to relate
accident substantially as it was
rought out in recorders court at
he time and published in the Record.
'wo white men had boys, it appeared
rom the evidence. to guard their still
rom approach paying them liquor for
heir services. Two or more citizens
f Windy City-one of them George
'ox-informed the sheriff that the
till was running in full blast. In the
fternoon the sheriff and his deputy
listed the place, found the still gone,
man drunk nearby with a gallon
f liquor at his side and saw the fire
nd ashes where the still had been.
charge of drunkedenness was pre-
erred against the man, he was tried
'efore the recorder and not one word
bout the still brought out. Windy
Citv citizens, it was shown, made
wo or three efforts before they could
.et the blOckading charge preferred
gainst the man, who had been fined
or being drunk and whose partner,
centing trouble, had fled the coun-
Mr.: Bagby recalled the incident and
eferred to an editorial in the Record
I which sheriff and his deputy were
lsked to explain the situation. The
fficers charged with law enforce
tent made no reply.
Though not member of any church,
lr. Bagby said he appealed to good
hurch people to correct such abuses.
te declared he would not have ac-
epted the chairmanship but for the
ope that he could contribute some
hing to making this better county
n which to rear the boys and girls.
Mr.. Bagby declared that political
arties are made bv men for men and
Jomen and that men and women who
'ow down to them are no better than
the ancient people who made the
sOden calf and bowed down before
{. He said the county would 90 De-
nocratic because of the aid of good
Republicans, who wanted the laws
nforced and who were tired of ring
ule. mentioning the fact that one or
wo men named every candidate on
.he Republican ticket and that other
Republicans with different ideas kept
''lent because they did not want to
re run over at the convention.
DR.. W.. A. Deaton, Democratic can
ldate for the house, spoke briefly.
Ie said that he had-not expected to
:ay anything to Hickory people who
had known him for 18 years. but
.ook this occasion to say that Ameri-
::ans have got to learn that law en-
sorcement is necessary if thew want
1eir country to be great. and that
.e stood for no tricks Gin this bust
ness" He said that politics is nothing
less than the business Of the county
or state and that if it was rotten at
times, it was because the unscrupulous
got the upper hand. He was drafted
as candidate and had accepted the
nomination under protest in the hope
that he might be of service to his
PEOPLE. As fine man as Yates Killian
$. DR.. Deaton said he could not get
he ear of the general assembly and
that if Catawba county wanted
voice in the councils of the state it
would have to send a Democrat.
After declaring that textbooks cost
tie people of che state $4,000, 900 a
year, about half of which is profit,
ne asserted that the statement had
oeen made that from one-fifth to one
fourth of the children had been IN