The farmer and mechanic. [volume], August 24, 1915, Page 15, Image 15

About The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??

Image provided by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC

                
ll
THE FARMER AND MECHANIC.
15
REGQLLEGTIOMS OF
j.'OKe
power-
As
th;lf?rLnf'd but Ir'ised to leav. ut
AvnirtS' M'lUy a time aftr thltt Mr.
wVL r referred to the Shelby ir.ci.ient
when I almost got his goat
More People I A ery Da v.
Mr .Aycock marie the same' st.-ech
every day ,f he spoke on the same suh-
l?Z v, Ut was ne of the reasons
why he surpassed other stump speak
ers. He thought out his speech
...c-u n in nis mind, and then
it. nacn day it became
f, . i .1 .
11,111 mor- interesting. Each day
it was delivered more impressively
As a political orator Mr. Aycock had
lew -equals and no superiors. He made
voies ior nis cause. He
onensive in speech or
opponents. Ry sheer
lect and gentilitv he
a debate.
In the 1900
Aycock was running for governor, I
reported thirty-two of his speeches
Made Votes; Fnr daily- Although the speech was- the
samo the crowd was different, and tl?
RVer UTTftnSlVP -"ospnere-was never the same. Dav
alter day I
i. a
CHflRLEftYGOGK
: E, C, Bryant Writes of Great
Tar Heel's Remarkable Ca
reer and Characteristics
trx book savs th music i
imi.ii'l MVS. MOli. IHiSfl
Waits until she "ip tot-r-o.
le says. Hush up there. and 1
le sends the other dogs in ir. .t;
Knows a iox has gor.e there. ;
if had seen the fox iuu
uow
fH HIM ON THE HUSTINGS
Orator Governor Aycock
Had Few Equals and No
Superiors;
His Cause;
To Opponents; Memorable
Speech Before Convention
was never
manner to his
force of intel-
won his way in
campaign, when Mr.
II v II. i:. C IHIYANT.
Washington, Aug. 1M. For months
1 naw intended writing something
; i , -it Charles P. Aycock, whom I ad
n gieatly. In the great campaign
- 1 1,. White Supremacy Campaign in
..i?h Carolina, in 18J8, Mr. J. P.
rr. iAli. the brilliant editor of the
i.uloite observer, sent me to the
i;,m mi portion of the State to inves
p tc conditions growing out of domi
..' it of negro politicians. Messrs.
.!.-. II. Pou and P. M. Simmons, then
partners, urged Mr. Caldwell to
p t the facts in The Observer so that
it- nailers in the western portion of
Hi. State could know them. Many
1 . n ot rats in central and western
. it tii s were skeptical on the sub-
t 1. 1" negro domination.
'ri 'hat year Mr. Aycock, one of the
i ;!st men I ever met in public life,
i! mguishcd himself as stump speak-
i 1 1 1 1 1 debater.
'!'!) problem that campaign was to
ii w n st the man outsidc of the negro
! in the real issue. Mr. Aycock
utititook that task, and succeeded
I: Ml t v.i lily.
lb. ward A. Punks, then one of the
: wrest reporters in the StaK now
pruate secretary to Secretary Daniels,
wwrcd some of the joint debates be-1w-u
Mr. Aycock and the astute Dr.
t'v Thompson, and the foxy Marion
Pit lor. I reported several of Mr.
A , . .. k's speeches.
I: was Laurinburg, I think, that I
!"-t look his famous White Suprema-
. cch.
At Groat Shelby Rally.
'i he second date- with him 1 am cer
t of, and that was Shvlby, where
Wp-s Webb, then formal leader of the
C eland county democracy, had
': ought together about 10.000 people
l"i a rally against the Republicans.
a
of
ur
He
cam.
ten "'
.t ,;-
; w.-i! a
his foot
n there, because Mtir i?h- hooi:
as -the music' i is educated and she
speaks the truth.
Let me say to vou teachers that
all
of
that is the very first essential of
true f-ducation. the pe-rsonal enty
telling thai comes
Then it i-
o 1 1 ! v
ALLEGE JUDGE
BOYD IS BIASED
Ml
4 - .
f , X
uay l was with Mr. Avcock. W
luhruin, itnu in several occasions
slept in the same room. Once, on a
hot summer day. we rod-2 ou the little
freight train from Lincolnton to New
ton, and both napped on the way.
A Delightful Companion
Full of the milk of human kindness.
having a keen sense of humor and be
ing a man oi wiue experience and vast
Knowledge Mr. Aycock was a delight
ful companion. He told a good storv
and never made it vulgar or profane to
give it point. His speeches were re
plete with stories that drove his ar
gument home.
The Aycock book "Tlw? Life anc
Speeches of Charles B. Aycock," by U
D. v. C onnor and Clarence Poe is
valuable volume. It tells the story
an meal American or the most ap
proved type. Every North Carolina
boy can get inspiration from it. But
Messrs. (.'onnor and Pc? have butch
ered one-of Mr. Aycock s best stories
and I cannot forgive them for it.
In his famous "Universal Fduca
tion" speech Governor Aycock used '
the fox hound to illustrate what edu
cation will do for even a dumb animal.
"Education is good for a vegetabl?,
and it is good for animals, and it is
good for a mule," said Mr. AycocK.
This declaration was followed by a
story of the breaking of a mule.
"What is 'breaking a. mule except
training him, educating him, bringing
out of him what there is in him V"
said he. "Why. when you buy a mule
fresh from a drove it takes two white
men and one Fifteenth amendment to
hitch him to a plow. And when you
get him hitched up he plows up more
cotton than he does grass; but atter
you have broken him, trained him,
educated him, why that old mule goes
right along.
"Well, if education is good for a
mule it is good for a dog."
Famous Fox Dog. Story.
Governor Aycock told the fox dog
storv in his campaign, speeches. He
told it the night he died in Alabama
It is typical of ins argument-hxing
stories.
In telling a story Mr. Aycock often
took occasion to put somebody on the
back. His happy faculty for drawing
people to him is plainly shown in the
fox yarn.
"Does anybody in this audience hunt
foxes?" Mr. Aycock would ask. "If
it were day time (speaking f.t night)
1 could look in 3rour faces and tell,
because it there is any lovely man on
the face of the earth it is on-a of these
old-time fox hunters. When I used
to travel up and down North Caro
lina, making political speeches, and
night would be coming on, and I
didn't know just where I was going to
stay. I would begin to look out on the
roadside, and if 1 came to a nice plac.
but didn t see a dog there I would go
riirht on through: but it l got to a
place and found about la hounds re
dining in the declining rays of the
v - 1 1 . T . 1 .
sun l drove rignt in anu stayed mere,
because I know there ain t a man in
North Carolina that will feed 15
hounds but will be glad to leed me
and want me to stay a week with
him."
it. the truth
or it.
'Good for a hound?
gooa ior a pointer.
A Real Statesman.
Governor Aycock was not
political stumper hut a real states
man. He was broad minded and independent.
In the splendid spch before the
convention that nominated him for
governor, Mr. Aycock said: ' We in
scribe thereon ion the old banner of
Democracy White Supremacy and its
perpetuation. Cnder that banner we
shall win. and wh?n we shall have
won we will have peace in the land.
There will be rest from political bit
terness and race antagonism. Industrv
will have a great outburst. Freed
from the necessity of voting accord
ing to our color, we shall hav-f intel
lectual freedom. Error will corne face
to face with truth and shall suffer
that final crushing which the poet de
nies to truth. With freedom of
thought will come independence of
action, and public questions will stand
or fall in thv? court of reason and not
of passion."
Mr. Aycock was big enough to admit
the illiteracy of a large portion of
North Carolina's population and beg
for better educational facilities: He
defended the litenvy provision of the
constitutional amendment.
"This clause does not weaken but
strengthens the amendment," said he.
"The prosperity and the glory of our
grand old State are to be ad
vanced more by this clause than bv
0
leys at
Remove
Asheviile
1 1 1
. Ill'
It till !
ted
heir Case To
a nnt
ther Judse
I Sf
AM.eY
11.
21. AlU-Kini:
A ii l.
ludue James K. povd.
States District Court, is
prejudiced m favor of
'
and contending that a fair
for him is impossible. ait
the- plaintiff in the ,-ase .
ayamst Hopkins esrcrda
thf case b
judpe.
that
the I'liiKd
bi.istd and
the dff rt-e
f .
trial
rn v ior
f Gilbert
iske,l Ihftt
be he;trl '. efore another
.ludpe P.oyd overruled tho
en
a st
i uhsts and negroes,
'bat morning the train from Char
' ! Shelby was a littki late, and I
1 '"t reach the auditorium until the
ikinp had commenced. Mr. Ay-
I ret ail, was on a high rostrum,
s i ssi ii Lr tin- itomI iTimvl which had
-milled to hear him. An usher
' Hv conducted me down an aisle,
1 uuw me a chair and a small tal.de
'lie Hour immediately beneath Mr.
""'K. I settled myself ;.nd began
a..ikc notes before Mr. Aycock saw
I'e.-ling that there was a pause
1 speech 1 lifted my eyes and
1 that the speaker hail his hands
Ins face down and his eyes on me.
was a little hitch in the
' innne but I did not know until
'i vh:it b:n1 li.'iniiPiioil Althiniirh
III! I'I'V II' fm
A i o k had seen ine hut once K'
he recognized me as a reporter.
' 'he meeting in the auditorium
' Mr. Avcock sent for me.
He Came Near Stage Fright.
It-
i
i
In
V. ,
"you almost
I came very
nip man." he said.
in- lose mv speech;
" liavinp stage fright.."
1 ' 1 1 must not write my jokes as
' '"i the other day. Today, when I
' "wred ou down there, writing
" 'he woods were atire, I said to
V"H", 'There is that confounded fd-
who printed all my jokes last
' . and he's petting ready to do it
,!" That is what caused me to
ve."
av very much embarrassed and
1
Thus far the Aycock book w'ti- the
fox storv well, but the next paragraph
spoils it all.
Governor Avcock. having been a
hunter himself, knew that ev?ry pack
of fox hounds contained one or more
dogs that would not give tongue on
anv track excent one made by a fox.
He knewtoo that every good hunter
bail :i loir named "Music." In his
story he mad-? "Old Music" the hero
ine The onblishers of the Aycock
book confuse "the music'' of the fox
lorn ml with Music." the reliable
hound.
"Vow take a hound iumv, a hound
puppy that hasn't run foxes." said
Governor Avcock. tie wouio pei up
before breakfast and start a rabbit be
foi'3 being told to. Hut when you
want this hound to hunt foxes you
take that puppy and break him. train
him, educate him. Vou take him out
on some beautiful moonlight night in
the cold crispness of the early fall or
the late fall or the early winter, with
the old hound and you ti ke the boys
along with you too. if you a !' a good
hearted man and you won't have
been out more than 1 : minutes before
does will be going. ow. yow.
' and the old fox hunter will say.
bnt iit that is no iox: 11 is notion
but a rabbit. You wait until yt u hear
Music (the book says 'the music').
And bv and by. away off yonder on the
hill a mile away you will hear Music
the
yow
any other one tmng. si.aw tne truth.
tell it in Gath, publish it in the streets
of Askelon' that universal education of
the white children of North Carolina
will send us forward with a bound
in the race with the world. Life is a
mighty combat, and the people who go
into it lost equipped will be sure to
win. Massachusetts has grown rich
while we have remained poor and
complained of her riches. She edu
cated while we remained ignorant.
If she has grown rich out ot us it is
because she knew how to do so and
we did not know how to prevent it."
Governor Aycock !acked the spread
eagle stvie that nas made oumerr,
orators notorious from Maine to Cali
fornia. He snoke quietly, directly to
th-e point, and forcibly.
n interesting little episode m Mr.
Avcock's life occurred in Charlotte.
He was the guest of honor at one of
the most refined homes in the Queen
Citv. James W. Osborn?, of New
York, who was on a visit to his moth
er. was among inose mvneu to meet
Mr. Aycock. He was late, and delayed
the dinner an hour or longer. Fin
ally, he came, and dinner was an
nounced, and soun served, home oive
of the lady guests noticed that every
body had soup except Mr. Aycock
and she whisnered the news of the
omission to the hostess who reminded
the servant that the guest of honor
had no soup. The servant, a colored
bov. hurried in the kitchen, but soon
returned without any soup. Again he
was told to get it.
Dere am t no mo . it Piled away
whilo dinner wuz watm: said the ne-
ro, so that everybody could hear.
The party laughed at Mr. Aycock
s .1 1 1 T ..... 1 . 1
expense, tor tnose wno nan soup nau
commenced to eat it. Mr. D. A.
Tomnkins. who sat near Mr. Aycock
turned the incident into a joke by
fering to sell Mr. Aycock his soup
r0 cents.
Letters Show Superb Heart.
T had a number of letters from
Avcock. and some of thorn gave
insight into his superb heart. Writ
ing me March 17. If 00. just before his
nomination, he said: "My friends
have all worked for me in this cam
paign with such persistency and good
judgment that there seems nothing
left to be done in my behalf. I feel
today oppressed by the cordiality with
which my candidacy has lf-en received
by the people. There is upon me a
sense of inadequacy to the demands of
the hour."
August 0 of that year he wrote: "I
shall strive to my utmost to justify the
confidence which the pc-ople have
shown in the Democratic party. I
have an idea that the best thing that
Can hC done IS i secuie .tosomie
and quiet in the State so that the peo
ple can themselves work out unmo
lested their destiny. Good govern
ment and very little of it is the best
government."
Or.-? of the genuine regrets f my
life is that I failed to call on Governor
Aycock while I was in Raleigh, one
day during the illness that preceded
his death. 1 forgot that he made "hi
home there, and was away when I re
called it. In a day or two oix of my
brothers saw him. and he indicated
that he was hurt because I failed to
see hint. I never saw him after that.
Charles Rrantley Aycock was pure
gold personally. He was a gentle
man, a scholar and a statesman.
motion and ei the e.tso for a hear
ing before him here the second Mon
day m November. He held that the
athdavit wa untrue and snMithcicnt
and was not tiled m the time contem
plated bv the law for the tiling of
such instruments. The defense ut
terly resisted the motion of the plain
tiff, claiming that the allegations con
tained m the instrument were con
trary to fact.
The case involved the ownership
f oH.Oi.Mj acres of valuable tint. or
lands in iiaham count v :itwt h.-.v ,
before the Federal court for the i
nueeri vears.
To Issue Mouthy Publication.
Members of the Asheviile Mer
chants' Association last night decid
ed to issue :i monthlv on bli: t i. ,m
dealing exclusively with the activities
of the members of the organization
and topics in which they are inter
ested. The first issue of the mom hi v
will come from the nress d urine the
early part of September. William
Parr and Miss Elizabeth Maie Steph
enson last night were s b eted, as the
editors of the morihlv
Declines Call.
A message from Pev. Willis G.
Clark to the members of the v. sii v
f Trinity Episcopal church yestcrdav
was to the eiteet thai Mr. lark b;.s
decided to retain he rectorate of
Saint Andrews' Episcopal church, at
Pirmingham. He recently wa.s ex
tended a call to Trinitv church here.
I'aMir More Parks-
In response to a general demand
for additional parks for Asheviile. the
city commissioners vesterdav went .n
rec d as favoring more park facil
ities for Abbeville but decided to make
no immediate purchases.
IIOI'SE lil'llNS AT MT. AIRY
tate
: n
L.
bv
bv
of-for
Mian
Pudding Owned by Worth's F-
Destroyed at S1,r00 Js..
Mount Airy. Aug. L'l. The house
East Mount Airy, owned by .John
Worth's estate. and occupied
Chariie McDaniel. was destroyed
fire yesterday morning. Nothing was
saved from the building except a
piano and a few other articles.
The building was two-stories ami
had a large "L." Coming at that hor
everybody was asleep and the tire
made considerable headway before it
was discovered.
The fire company was prompt to
respond, but the fire was beyond con
trol. Those living in that neighbor
hood gave; the alarm. The building
and contents were worth more than
fifteen hundred dollars. It is thought
the insurance was small and insuffi
cient to cover the loss.
Isaac Lawrence, brother of S. C.
Lawrence. att(rney-at-la w. now liv
ing m Oklahoma, while battling at
Pilot Mountain yesterday, got into l
place where the water wa too deep
for him and lie was drowned. Hi.-?
brother returned from Oklahoma the
day before the drowning and attended
the funeral yesterday.
This city will operate three tobacco
warehouses this fall ar.d winter th
Runner, the Central and the planters'
warehouses.
-
Ilickeiry Rooste'r Meet.
(Social t Tli'- N ai.a "l"nr
Hickory. Aug. L'l. Th" Hickory
Roosters met last night in the Globe
Theatre. Prof. C. M. Stab-y was
e-lected chairman pro tern arid Auburn
H. Setzer was secretary.
A committee consisting of Robt.
A. Lovelace. .1. P. Ci. k. C S Cam
inger. Dr. I- Wood and Auburn Set
zer was appointed to nominate men
to fill the otrie-es of the- Poosters.
Prof. C. M. Stab-v, W. X. I!nd. E.
Y. Morton. .1. H. Hatcher and .1. F.
Miller were made- a committee
draw up the- by-laws of the- organi
zation and as soon as these two com
mittees are- ready to report .inothr
me-eting will be he-Id and the orpar.i
zation perfected.
The Texas Legislature recently pass
ed a bill appropriating ?10.0'i with
which to buy the land on which stood
the first State capitol at Old Wash
ington. Washington County. Texas.
i i.c-
il
: h-
a j n
ses.
How War Hurt-
perl in. Aug. 2 1 :
drinker N not the
frr i'-orri the ma ten
production of l eer,
mas be saved f
Wh o 1 e c omriiniiit -
de-creased Tax mc
In the district comprising Greater
Pe-rlin. it is estimated, there, is to be
tax reduction of about " per cent on
beer beeauv of the- reduced produc
tion, and eight communities, in thi
district. are going to go without a ent
of beer income during the cuntnt
vear.
Peer liulii-try.
fhe- ordinal v i
.nly person to -il
restriction in
in order t hat gi
,.r feoii purp
-s ale :.-
rue.
t
r
i
1 t
if
if
1 1
i I
S
V
If
5. U
M
I?
t i
I t
til
1 1
R
ft
i
t-