Hickory daily record., 1922-11-04
POLITICS
DISCUSSED ny
MR.. PARKER


i John j. Parker of Charlotte. Repub.
llcan candidate for governor two
years ago, spoke to large crowd in
the auditorium last night in the inter-
| est OF the local organization and
after telling Of what he termed the
achievements Of the Harding admin
| istratlon and warning the county
against radicalism, appealed to the
| Republicans OF Catawba to send
Yates Killian to the house and hold
this county safe. Mr.. Parker left TODAY
| Tor Lenoir, where he was billed for a
speech at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
| 1t was one of the longest evenings
Hickory audience has had this sea-
son. William H. Barkley, who present
ed J. Thos. Setter, clerk of the court,
who IN turn introduced the speaker,
| spoke about Is minutes on local and
1atlonal issues. He referred to 1916.
| 1913 and 1920 and called attention to
( the seven million majority President
I Harding received last election.
MIR. Barkley said that the Demo-
lcrats claim the issue in this coun-
lisv is ring rule and law enforcement.
I and they say we named the wrong
POSTMASTER. Whose business is it? The
organization did it," Mr..
.l3arkley stated without going into de-
tails. He said he and everybody else
were in favor of law enforcement and
chat the Republican officers enforced
@la law. He also said that Yates Kill
slan Offered q free text book bill in
She legislature ID years ago, and then
referred to what he called ring rule
m Lincoln and Cleveland counties.
Closing, Mr.. Rarkley presented Clerk
setter, who paid high tribute to Mr..
'arker and declared the state made
B. mistake in not electing him COVER
hor.
Mr.. Parker objected pleasantly to
he word "dewnfall" as applied to
aim by Mr.. Setter and declared that
t every county had done as we'll by
aim as Catawba he would be govern
sr. At that, he said, he received 63 900
more votes than Governor Bicket got
and he ran to do his part towards
-saving the nation.
The situation was serious two years
igo, the speaker said, in proceeding to
show what the Harding administra-
51on had done for the ma ton and the
world. He told his audience that the
Republican party restored the credit
If the nation along with the respect
chat it had lost in the last two years
IF the Wilson administration He said
extravaganza ran wild in Washington
md budget system was adopted,
saxes were reduced. the debt lessered
md prosperity brought back. He said
teflation Of the currency brought on
panic, which he attributed to the
Democrats, and in 18 months the
Republicans had steadied things, pas
sed tariff in the. interest Of home
enterprises and workingmen and
brought about the greatest step in a
thousand years to prevent war-and
said that while Woodrow Wilson,
night be prophet, Warren G.. Hard
ng has made history. All these things
We're done, he said, not with the helpI
# North Carolina, but in spite of
the state.
Mr.. Parker paid less attention to
the tariff than any speaker who has
been here this campaign, content
ing himself with the assertion that
the Democrats are no longer free
traders, but do not know how to make
a'scientific tariff: the Republicans do
it.
The great question of the future,
the speaker asserted, is the question
of private property or socialism. or
conservatism against radicalism. Men
are beginning to deny the right of
private property, and the great battle
Of the future will be along those lines.
The Republican party. takes its stand
in favor Of private property-of al
mans right to own the corn OF wheat
or cotton that he makes, of the home
that he has bought or the business
he has established. AS showing the
position Of his party, he said that in
North Dakota the Republican national
committee had endorsed the Demo
cratic candidate for United States
senator because Lynn j. Frazier, who
obtained the Republican nomination,
is a socialist. He was. glad Of that
fact.
Forces Of radicalism control the
Democratic party in the north and
west, he said, but southern Democrats
are sane and conservative and he APP
piled to these to fall in with the more
conservative Republicans Of the north.
North Carolinans are Of the purest
Anglo-Saxon and believe in Ameri-
canism. and if he thought the Demo
Gratis were not honest in this state,
he would move elsewhere to bring up
his children. He then made the point
that nay political party which is long
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