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‘TWENTIETH oo CENTURY 
 
 STATESMEN.” 
 
 In presenting this publication to the Democratic people of 
 the State of North Carolina as a souvenir and memoir of the 
 great victory for ‘‘white supremacy’’ and the victory of the 
 Constitutional Amendment, it gives me much pleasure to 
 dedicate it to those well-known leaders who planned and 
 aided in winning this grand and glorious campaign—men 
 who are today the idols of the Democratic party of the State 
 of North Carolina, and who have been honored by that party 
 with the highest offices within the gift of the people: 
 
 HON. F. M. SIMMONS, 
 
 United States Senator. 
 
 HON. C, Bu AYCOCK; 
 
 Governor of North Carolina. 
 
PAO0GEZ, 
 
 Twentieth 
 
 Ghe Governor’s Inaugural 
 Address. 
 
 Gentlemen of the General Assembly, Ladies and Fellow Citizens: 
 
 Every four years brings us a change of administration, but 
 not always a change of policy. This year we meet under 
 extraordinary cireumstances—one party goes out of power 
 and another comes in; 
 one policy ends and a 
 new one begins ; one cen- 
 tury passes away, anda 
 new century claims our 
 service ; a new constitu- 
 tion greets the new cen- 
 tury. For thirty years 
 of the nineteenth centu- 
 ry we struggled in every 
 way against the evils of 
 a suffrage based on man- 
 hood only. We found in- 
 the first days of that 
 struggle that theory had 
 outrun practice and that 
 reality had yielded place 
 to sentiment. At that 
 time we had just emerg- 
 ed from an unsuccessful 
 and disastrous war. Our 
 property had been swept 
 away; our institutions 
 had been destroyed ; the 
 foundation of our social 
 fabric had been over- 
 turned—we were help- 
 less. A victorious but 
 ungenerous political en- 
 emy had crushed us to 
 the earth; they had 
 forced upon us the re- 
 cognition of theories 
 that we knew could not 
 be reduced to successful 
 practice. Wewere poor, 
 weak and defeated. We 
 “accepted the situa- 
 tion.”” We endeavored 
 with sincerity to bring 
 the negroes to a reali- 
 zation of the true digni- 
 ty of full citizenship. We urgently strove to instil into their 
 minds that their true interests were likewise ours ; we sought 
 with great solicitude and with much sacrifice of toil and cap- 
 ital to convince them that parties were the servants and not 
 the masters of the people, and that no past services of a 
 party, however beneficial these services might appear, justi- 
 fied the destruction of good and safe and economical govern- 
 
 a2 Statesmen. 24 
 
 GOVERNOR C. 
 
 Ww Century 
 
 ment in order to secure its success. We provided schools 
 for them and spent for them as we spent for our own chil- 
 dren. We cared for their insane and opened schools for the 
 education of their afflicted, and for the care and tuition of 
 those who were left fatherless and motherless. We con- 
 tinued these efforts in the face of repeated evidence of their 
 hostility, and abated not our purposes when they repeated 
 their follies. We still hoped that they would follow the ex- 
 ample of the whites, and 
 divide their vote along 
 the lines of governmen- 
 tal, industrial and moral 
 issues. The result was 
 a disappointment. The 
 negro was always to be 
 counted upon, and our 
 opponents did not hesi- 
 tate at any excess, be- 
 cause they knew that 
 they had 120,000 voters 
 who could be relied upon 
 to support any policy, 
 however ruinous, which 
 bore the stamp of Re- 
 publicanism. With this 
 vote as a certainty, our 
 adversaries, when they 
 came to power after 
 twenty years of defeat, 
 dared new evils and 
 wrongs. Under their 
 rule, lawlessness walked 
 the State like a pesti- 
 lence—death stalked 
 abroad at noonday— 
 ‘*sleep lay dcwn armed”’ 
 —the sound of the pistol 
 was more frequent than 
 the song of the mocking- 
 bird—the screams of wo- 
 men, fleeing from pur- 
 suing brutes, closed the 
 gates of our hearts 
 with ashock. Our oppo- 
 nents, unmindful of the 
 sturdy determination of 
 our people to have safe, 
 good government at all 
 hazards, became _ indif- 
 ferent to or incapable of 
 enforcing law and preserving order. Confident of the sup- 
 port of this ignorant mass of negro voters, the Republican 
 party and its ally forgot the strength and determination of 
 that people who fought the first fight in Alamance against 
 bad governernment and wrote the first Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence in Mecklenburg. They challenged North Caroli- 
 nians to combat, and the world knows the result. The cam- 
 
 [Photo. by Wharton. ] 
 
 B, AYCOCK, 
 
4 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 paign of 1898 ended in a victory for good government. That 
 was not acontest of passion, but of necessity. When we came 
 to power, we desired merely the security of life, liberty, and 
 property. We had seen all these menaced by 120,000 negro 
 votes cast as the vote of one man. We had seen our chief 
 city pass through blood and death in search of safety. We 
 did not dislike the negro, but we did love good government. 
 We knew that he was incapable of giving us that, and we re- 
 solved, not in anger, but for the safety of the State, to cur- 
 tail his power. We had seen. what a struggle it required to 
 preserve even the form of Republican government with him 
 asavoter. The negro was_ not only ignorant—he was clan- 
 nish. The educated among them, who realized the danger 
 to the State in mass-voting, were unable to free themselves 
 from the power of its ostracism. 
 
 When the Legislature of 1899 met, it was confronted with 
 these facts, and was sincerely anxious to save the good and 
 suppress the evil of those forces which had made our his- 
 tory. They, therefore, submitted to the people for their 
 action an amendment to the Constitution, which forbids 
 any man to vote who can not read and write, but excepts 
 from the operation of this restrictive clause all those who 
 could vote in any State on January the first, 1867, or at any 
 time prior thereto, or who are descended from any such 
 voter. This provision excludes no white man, except per- 
 sons of foreign birth not yet familiar with our institutions, 
 and excludes no negro who can read and write, and no negro, 
 whether he can read and write or not, who could vote prior 
 to January 1, 1867, or who is descended from one who could 
 vote at any time prior to said date. This amendment to our 
 Constitution eliminates no capable negro. Indeed, it sets 
 free those negroes who, believing in certain principles of 
 government, have been restrained by loyalty to the masses 
 from voting their convictions. It does no injustice to the 
 negro. It really benefits him. It does recognize the neces- 
 sity for having some test of capacity, and it prescribes two 
 rules of evidence by which this capacity may be ascertained, 
 and declares that any man capable of meeting either test 
 shall vote. Ifa white man can read and write, he can vote; 
 if a negro can read and write, he can vote. Ifa white man 
 cannot read and write, but is descended from one who could 
 vote on January 1, 1867, or at any time prior thereto, or if 
 he could himself yote before that time, he can vote. If a 
 negro cannot read and write, but is descended from a person 
 who could vote on January 1, 1867, or at any time prior there- 
 to, or if he could himself yote before that time, he can vote. 
 There is, therefore, in our amendment no taint of that ine- 
 quality provided against in the 15th amendment to the Con- 
 stitution of the United States; and in order that the ques- 
 tion might not even be suggested, and realizing the impor- 
 tance of educating the white and black alike, our amend- 
 ment requires every boy, of whatever color, now thirteen 
 years of age, to learn to read and write under penalty of 
 losing his vote. Interpreted in this fashion, we may with 
 complacency accept the declaration of the Republican Na- 
 tional Platform that our amendment is revolutionary. So 
 was the war for Independence, distinctly known as the Rev- 
 olution, and our liberties are founded upon it. Our amend- 
 ment may be revolutionary, but it is a revolution of advance- 
 ment. It takes no step backward; it distinctly looks to the 
 future; it sees the day of universal suffrage, but sees that 
 day not in the obscurity of ignorance, but in the light of uni- 
 versal education. The twilight will grow into the perfect 
 day, with the sun of intelligence shining in the sky. That is 
 our hope and promise. We shall not fail. 
 
 On a hundred platforms, to half the voters of the State, in 
 the late campaign, I pledged the State, its strength, its heart, 
 its wealth, to universal education. I promised the illiterate 
 poor man, bound to a life of toil and struggle and poverty, 
 that life should be brighter for his boy and girl than.it had 
 
 been for him and the partner of his sorrows and joys. I 
 pledged the wealth of the State to the education of his chil- 
 dren. Men of wealth, representatives of great cerporations, 
 applauded eagerly my declaration. I then realized that the 
 strong desire which dominated me for the uplifting of the 
 whole people moved not only my heart, but was likewise 
 the hope and aspiration of those upon whom fortune had 
 smiled. I had loved the North Carolina people before that 
 time, but I never knew and appreciated the best qualities of 
 many of our citizens until I saw the owners of many thou- 
 sands as eager for the education of the whole people qs I was 
 myself. Then I knew that the hope and task before us, gen- 
 tlemen of the Legislature, was not an impossible one. We 
 are prospering as never before—our wealth increases, our 
 industries multiply, our commerce extends, and among the 
 owners of this wealth, this multiplying industry, this ex- 
 tending commerce, I have found no man who is unwilling to 
 make the State stronger and better by liberal aid to the 
 cause of education. ; 
 
 Gentlemen of the General Assembly, you will not have 
 aught to fear when you make ample provision for the educa- 
 tion of the whole people. Rich and poor alike are bound by 
 promise and necessity to approve your utmost efforts in this 
 direction. The platforms of all the parties declare in favor 
 of a liberal policy toward the education of the masses—no- 
 tably the Democratic platform, referring to the addition 
 made to the school fund, says, “‘We heartily commend the 
 action of the General Assembly of 1899 for appropriating 
 one hundred thousand dollars for the benefit of the Public 
 Schools of the State, and pledge ourselves to increase the 
 school fund, so as to make at least a four-months’ term in 
 each year in every school district in the State ;’’ and in the 
 campaign which was conducted throughout the State with 
 so much energy and earnestness, that platform pledge was 
 made the basis of the promises which we all made to the 
 people. Poor and unlettered men, anxious about the privi- 
 leges of their children, and hesitating to vote for the Amend- 
 ment, were finally persuaded to accept our promise and place 
 their children in a position in which they can never vote un- 
 less the pledges which we made are redeemed to the fullest 
 extent. For my part, I declare to you that it shall be my 
 constant aim and effort, during the four years that I shall 
 endeavor to serve the people of this State, to redeem this 
 most solemn of all our-pledges. If more taxes be required 
 to carry out this promise to the people, more taxes must be 
 levied. If property has escaped taxation heretofore which 
 ought to have been taxed, means must be devised by which 
 that property can be reached and put upon the tax list. I 
 rejoice in prosperity and take delight in the material prog- 
 ress of the State. I would cripple no industry; I would re- 
 tard the growth of no enterprise; but I would by just and 
 equal laws require from every owner of property his just 
 contribution, to the end that all the children may secure the 
 right to select their servants. There are many important 
 matters which will claim your attention. The problems be- 
 fore us are of the gravest nature, but among them all there 
 is none that can approach in importance the necessity for 
 making ample provision for the education of the whole 
 people. 
 
 Appropriations alone cannot remove illiteracy from our 
 State. With the appropriations must come also an increased 
 interest in this cause, which shall not cease until every child 
 ean read and write. The preachers, the teachers, the news- 
 papers, and the mothers of North Carolina must be unceas- 
 ing in their efforts to arouse the indifferent and compel by 
 the force of public opinion the attendance of every child 
 upon the schools. It is easier to accomplish this, since the 
 amendment to our Constitution raises its solemn voice and 
 declares that the child who arrives at age after 1908 cannot 
 share in the glorious privileges of governing his State nor 
 
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 participate in the policies of the nation, unless he can read 
 and write. This is, therefore, the opportune moment for a 
 revival of educational interest throughout the length and 
 breadth of the State. We shall not accomplish this work in 
 a day, nor can it be done by many speeches. It is a work of 
 years; to be done day by day, with a full realization of its 
 importance and with that anxious interest on our part which 
 will stimulate the careless and will make all our people 
 eager to attain the end which we seek. Our statesmen have 
 always favored the education of the masses, but heretofore 
 interest in the matter has not reached universality ; hence- 
 forth, in every home there will be the knowledge that no 
 child can attain the true dignity of citizenship without 
 learning at least to read and write. This simple fact alone 
 justifies the adoption of the Amendment, for it was its pass- 
 age that first brought home to all our people the necessity 
 for universal education. We enter an era of industrial de- 
 velopment. Growth in that direction is dependent upon in- 
 telligence—not the intelligence of the few, but of all. Mas- 
 sachusetts realized this fact from the day when the Pilgrim 
 Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock, and by that clear percep- 
 tion she has won wealth out of bleak coasts and sterile lands. 
 Our forefathers acknowledged the same fact in their first 
 Constitution, and from that time to the present our Consti- 
 tution and legislative acts have all looked towards this end ; 
 but the whole people have never before been awakened to 
 its advocacy. From this time forth opposition to education 
 will mark a man as opposed to the theory of our govern- 
 ment, which is founded upon the consent of the governed, 
 and our Constitution provides that this consent in the not 
 distant future can be given only by those who can read and 
 write. We need have nothing to fear, then, from any party 
 or any politician when we make liberal provision for educa- 
 tion. But if there were opposition, our duty would be none 
 the less clear. It is demonstrable that wealth increases as 
 the education of the people grows. Our industries will be 
 benefited ; our commerce will expand; our railroads will do 
 a larger business, when we shall have educated all the chil- 
 dren of the State. Itis, therefore, of the utmost importance 
 from a material point of view that our whole people should 
 be educated. Care must be taken on your part, gentlemen 
 of the Legislature, to bring the schools in the remotest dis- 
 tricts up to the standard of the Constitution, which solemnly 
 admonishes you, as it did me but a moment ago when I took 
 the oath to support it, that at least four months of school 
 must be carried cn in every school district in each year. Our 
 party platform follows the Constitution, and we cannot afford 
 to violate either. If there are districts which are weak, they 
 must be strengthened by those who are strong. The Good 
 Book tells us that the strong should bear the infirmities of 
 the weak, and the lessons of that great authority are of util- 
 ity in our political life. There has grown up an idea among 
 strenuous men that only the strong are to be considered and 
 - benefited; that the poor and weak are the burden-bearers, 
 who deserve no aid, and are weak because of their follies. 
 A great State can never act on this theory, but will always 
 recognize that the strong can care for themselves, while the 
 true aim of the State is to provide equal and just laws, giv- 
 ing to the weak opportunity to grow strong and restraining 
 the powerful from oppressing the less fortunate. It will be 
 a glorious day for us if our people in the hour of their pros- 
 perity and wonderful growth and development can realize 
 that men can never grow higher and betier by rising on the 
 weakness and ignorance of their fellows, but only by aiding 
 their fellow-men and lifting them to the same high plane 
 which they themselves oceupy. It may require sacrifice to 
 accomplish the promises which we have made, and men may 
 be compelled to bear additional burdens, but I am persuaded 
 that the sacrifice will be made and the burdens borne with 
 that cheerfulness which has ever characterized us when we 
 
 were doing a righteous thing. Our fathers have done well 
 their work. They have sought this day through many diffi- 
 culties; illiterate or learned, they have ever striven to do 
 their duty by the State, and they have laid her foundations 
 so strong and deep that we have but to build thereon the 
 splendid home which they saw only in anticipation. Let 
 that home be bright with the shining of ten thousand lights 
 emanating from as many schools. Some of these lights will 
 shine but feebly, mayhap with but four candle-power, while 
 others shall shine with sixty-four, and some few with the 
 radiance of a thousand, but let them all shine together to 
 brighten life and make the State more glorious, and may 
 they all have as their source that God who first said, ‘‘ Let 
 there be light !”’ 
 
 I pledge you, gentlemen of the Legislature, such power as 
 the Constitution vests in the Governor and all the energy of 
 my soul and heart to the education of the people, and I rely 
 with entire confidence upon you and the promises which 
 each of you have made. With these promises kept, there 
 will break upon us a day such as has never before dawned 
 upon our State. Our government is founded upon intelli- 
 gence and virtue. We shall provide for intelligence by a 
 system of schools which is designed to reach every citizen. , 
 The schools look to the preparation of the voter for the use 
 of the ballot. Weadmit to the elective franchise every man 
 capable of intelligently exercising that right, and so anxious 
 are we to approach as near as may be universal suffrage, 
 that we have made the test of intelligence simply ability to 
 read and write, an accomplishment which can be acquired 
 in a few months. 
 
 Having thus provided for the right to vote, the further 
 duty devolves upon you, gentlemen of the Legislature, to 
 pass a law by which that right may be effective; a law by 
 which every voter qualified under our Constitution shall 
 have the power to cast one vote and have that vote counted 
 as cast. The safety of the State and the liberty of the citi- 
 zens depend upon your action on this question. The adop- 
 tion of the Amendment not only furnishes the occasion, but 
 renders indispensable the adoption of an election law which 
 shall be so fair that no just man can oppose it, and requires 
 an administration of that law in such spirit that no man will 
 doubt that the popular will has been rightly expressed and 
 recorded. From the foundation of our State to the day 
 when the negro was given the elective franchise, the fair- 
 ness of our elections was never questioned. When the bal- 
 lot was given to the negro, the first election thereafter was 
 known to be a farce and fraud. That election was held under 
 military dictatorship, lasted three days, and the vote was 
 counted in Charleston, South Carolina. We have denounced 
 and ever will denounce that election as fraudulent. When 
 we came to power, in 1870, we changed the election law of 
 the State, and from that time down to 1894 all elections were 
 held under laws passed by us. Our adversaries charged that 
 these elections were carried by force and fraud. When they 
 came to power, in 1895, they adopted a law which we de- 
 nounced as providing means for the registration and voting 
 of minors, dead, imported, and convicted negroes. They 
 earried the State under that law in 1896. We beat them in 
 1898, despite their law, and then we passed a new election 
 law, which they denounced as designed to thwart the will of 
 the people. We held the election of 1900 under that law. 
 By the result of that election we have eliminated the igno- 
 rant negro from those entitled to vote. If what has been 
 charged by the opposing parties be true, and elections have 
 been fraudulent and election laws unfair ever since the negro 
 came to bea power in the State, it certainly ought to follow 
 that with the disqualification of the ignorant negro the State 
 should return to her ancient ways when no man questioned 
 her integrity. Henceforth our laws and their administra- 
 tion must be so fair that the civilized world shall recognize 
 
6 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 the high purpose with which we have wrought to see this 
 day. Let history record of us that we have fought our great 
 fight and won our notable victory with no view to perpetuate 
 ourselves in power, but honestly to secure good government 
 founded on intelligence, worked out through a perfectly fair 
 election law, administered as a sacred trust to be held for- 
 ever inviolable. Good men go to war only for the sake of 
 peace, and the patriotic citizens of our State have won this 
 victory only for the sake of good government, and not for 
 party aggrandizement. 
 
 On every platform in the late campaign I declared our pur- 
 pose to be to secure good government, safety and peace; to 
 educate all the children, and to bring about the day when 
 even extremest partisanship should not be able to cry out 
 against our Jaws or our methods. Thousands of Republicans 
 and Populists joined with us in securing our more than sixty 
 thousand majority. I shall, therefore, confidently expect 
 you, gentlemen of the Legislature, without regard to party, 
 to frame an election law fair in every purpose, clear in every 
 detail, and to provide machinery by which every man quali- 
 fied under our Constitution shall be able to vote, and shall 
 know that his vote is effective. Wecan have safety, security 
 and integrity on no other basis. I now pledge you the whole 
 power of my administration to secure this end. I declared 
 in my speech of acceptance that I should enter upon the dis- 
 charge of my duties, if elected, with great fear lest I should 
 fail to interpret adequately the true spirit underlying our 
 change in the Constitution ; but I have never for one moment 
 questioned that the ultimate aim of our people was to secure 
 a Constitution under which security for life, liberty, and 
 property could be found under the forms of law and not in 
 violation of them. 
 
 Our opponents have denounced the movement which we 
 inaugurated to amend the Constitution, and which will be 
 carried out in the spirit just suggested, as revolutionary. 
 They sought to prevent its success by threats before the 
 election, and in the first moments of passionate disappoint- 
 ment after the election they began prosecutions against cer- 
 tain officers of the State for alleged wrong-doing in connec- 
 tion with the August election. This movement of ours was 
 carried out with such deliberate high purpose and such noble 
 earnestness that thousands of our political opponents joined 
 hands with us in an effort to forever settle a question which 
 had distressed us for thirty years. It was the uprising of 
 almost an entire people. There was about it, indeed, in its 
 spontaneousness, in its enthusiasm, in its determination and 
 sturdiness of purpose, and in its high aims, something of the 
 revolutionary spirit of 1776. That spirit still lives in the 
 hearts of North Carolinians. It is a part, and a glorious 
 part, of their heritage—it cannot be destroyed by persecu- 
 tion. A whole people cannot be persecuted, nor will they, 
 without the utmost exertion, see any of their agents made 
 to suffer for the defeat of those who sought in vain to stem 
 the mighty tide of popular opinion. 
 
 We have a great State, rich in noble manhood, richer still 
 in her high-minded womanhood ; a State with counless treas- 
 ures awaiting seekers: with riches in her fields and woods, 
 streams and sounds, hills and mountains, sufficient to satisfy 
 our dreams of wealth; with a frugal and industrious popu- 
 lation ready to toil, just awakening fully to the possibilities 
 before them. All that we need ‘‘ to complete the cirele of 
 our felicities” is peace. Let hatred and bitterness and strife 
 cease fromamong us. Let the law everywhere reign supreme. 
 The highest test «+: ;3¢ eople is obedience to law, and a 
 consequent ability to administer justice. It shall be the 
 earnest aim of my administration to foster good feeling and 
 to enforce law and order throughout the State. From Gur- 
 rituck to Cherokee the law must have full sway. The mob 
 has no place in our civilization. The courts are the creation 
 of the Constitution and the juries are drawn from the peo- 
 
 ple. If changes be necessary in order to secure a better and 
 more certain administration of justice, you, gentlemen of © 
 the Legislature, can make these changes; but it should be 
 distinctly and finally understood of all men that safety can 
 be found only in obedience to law. I wish to say to the ne- 
 groes of this State in this connection, that they have been 
 misinformed if they have heard that this administration 
 will be unfriendly to them. Their every right under the 
 Constitution shall be absolutely preserved. They will find 
 security in right conduct and certain punishment for failure 
 to obey the law. Let them learn that crimes which lead to 
 mob law must cease, and then mob law shall curse our State 
 no more. Icall upon all upright negroes to aid me in sup- 
 pressing crime in all its forms. The white people owe a 
 high duty to the negro. It was necessary to the safety of 
 the State to base suffrage on capacity to exercise it wisely. 
 This results in excluding a great number of negroes from 
 the ballot, but their right to life, liberty, property and jus- 
 tice must be even more carefully safeguarded than ever. It 
 is true that a superior race cannot submit to the rule ofa 
 weaker race without injury. It is also true, in the long years 
 of God, that the strong cannot oppress the weak without de- 
 struction. I said on April 11, 1900, and I now repeat it as a 
 deep conviction, that ‘‘universal justice is the perpetual de- 
 cree of Almighty God, and we are entrusted with power not 
 for our good alone, but for the negro as well. We hold our 
 title to power by tenure of service to God, and if we fail to 
 administer equal and exact justice to the negro whom we 
 deprive of suffrage, we shallin the fullness of time lose power 
 ourselves, for we must know that the God who is Love trusts 
 no people with authority for the purpose of enabling them 
 to do an injustice to the weak.”’ 
 
 Let us serve the State in this spirit, and with wisdom, and 
 the people will continue to trust us, but if we depart from 
 this plain and just way, power will drop from our hands, for 
 the Amendment has, I believe and trust, brought with it a 
 freedom of thought, of criticism and of action that will be © 
 swift to withdraw a trust abused. 
 
 With the education of the whole people; with a fair and 
 impartial election law; with peace everywhere, there will 
 be nothing to prevent us from working out the high destiny 
 of our State. Thought will be set free, opinion can have its 
 full sway, and every man will be able to declare the inmost 
 feelings of his heart. Weshall have genuine free speech; 
 our newspapers will have an opportunity to address them- 
 selves to moulding public opinion without fear of injury to 
 the State. Discussion can then take the place of abuse and 
 argument will supplant passionate oratory. In this new and 
 freer day we shall grow greater men. “Trust in all things 
 high will come easy to us.’? We shall have problems and 
 differences, but we shall have the intelligence to solve the 
 problems and the good spirit to harmonize our differences. 
 
 I come to the high task to which the people have called 
 me with many misgivings. I know,if not adequately, some- 
 thing of my weakness, and I likewise know, if not to the full- 
 est extent, the many difficulties which will beset my way. 
 T come to the work humbly, with deep anxiety and with an 
 earnest desire to serve the people well. The manner of my 
 coming makes it all the more incumbent upon me to search 
 my heart that I may have no impure motive there. One 
 who has been trusted after such fashion as the people have 
 trusted me owes the highest obligation of uprightness in 
 thought and action. Chosen by my party unanimously, 
 elected by the people by a majority such as has never been 
 given to any other man, I am bound by every obligation to 
 serve to my utmost. The task is a difficult one. I shall 
 make mistakes. When I shall have done the right thing I 
 shall even then sometimes be misunderstood by my friends 
 who will see my action not from my standpoint as the Gov- 
 ernor of the whole people, but from theirs. When I shall 
 
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 have done wrong I shall not expect approval; I do not wish 
 it. I want to know my mistakes to the end that I may cor- 
 rect them, because I am certain that I shall be judged at 
 last by the whole tenor of my administration and by no one 
 particular act. 
 
 I have been elected as a Democrat. I shall administer the 
 high office to which I have been called in accordance with 
 the policies and principles of that great party, but I wish it 
 distinetly understood that I shall strive to be a just governor 
 of all the people without regard to party, color or creed. 
 The law will be enforced with impartiality, and no man’s 
 petition shall go unheard and unconsidered because he dif- 
 fers from me in politics or in color. My obligation is to the 
 State, and the State is all her citizens. No man is so high 
 
 that the law shall not be enforced against him, and no man 
 is so low that it shall not reach down to him to lift him up, 
 if maybe, and set him on his feet again, and bid him God- 
 speed to better things. 
 
 I shall need the support of every citizen in the State. My 
 work is your work. Iam but your servant, and if I serve 
 you wisely it will be because my ears shall be constantly 
 open to counsel, and my mind shall be, so far as in me lies, 
 
 ‘kept from prejudice, to the end that I may know wisdom. 
 
 But with all the aid which can come from men, I shall fail 
 unless I have the guidance of that God who rules the desti- 
 nies of States and Nations and men, to whom, with rever- 
 ence, I commend this good State and her gracious people. 
 
 Hon. H. W. Stubbs. 
 
 The gentleman whose name is at the head of this column 
 needs no introduction to the people.of North Carolina. For 
 many years he has been one of the men of whom the Old 
 North State feels proud, and one of her favorite sons. The 
 Hon. Harry W. Stubbs is a man who has forged to the front 
 by sheer foree of ability and hard work. He is known all 
 over the State, and is one of the Jeaders of the Democratic 
 
 [Photo. by Wharton.] 
 W. STUBBS. 
 
 HON. H. 
 
 party, and one whose opinions have great weight in shaping 
 the actions of the Democratic voters of North Carolina. Mr. 
 Stubbs is the member of the House from Martin County. 
 The subject of our sketch was born in Williamston, N. C., 
 Feb. 16th, 186), of distinguished parentage. Asa youth he 
 received exceptional advantages in the way of education. 
 He attended the Horner School at Oxford, and other educa- 
 tional institutions later. Mr. Stubbs graduated at the Uni- 
 versity of North Carolina. He read law under the direction 
 of the Hon. James E. Moore, at the famous Dick and Dillard 
 School at Greensboro, and others. In January, 1881, he re- 
 ceived a iicense to practice law,and immediately afterwards 
 began to practice, associating himself with the Hon. James 
 
 ' remarked the grocer in the far western town. 
 
 E. Moore, one of the ablest attorneys in his section of the 
 State. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Stubbs accepted the nomination for the Second 
 Senatorial District, and, after a brilliant campaign, he was 
 elected by a handsome majority. He was for two years So- 
 licitor for the Inferior Court of Martin County, and was also 
 at one time Mayor of Williamston. In 1898 he was prevailed 
 upon by his constituents to accept the nomination for the 
 lower house of the General Assembly. He conducted an 
 active campaign, taking the lead in the fight for white su- 
 premacy, at that time the vital point. He was elected by a 
 good majority. In the session of 1899 Mr. Stubbs was one of 
 the leaders in the House and one of the foremost workers 
 for the Constitutional Amendment. 
 
 Mr. Stubbs was re-elected in 1900, and during the session 
 of 1901 he occupied a place in the front rank of the House. 
 He took a prominent part in the debates and always had the 
 courage to declare for the principles and policies of his party 
 and the ability to take care of himself in any emergency. 
 Asa member of most of the leading committees of the House, 
 he accomplished a vast amount of work. 
 
 Personally, Mr. Stubbs is a gentleman of charming man- 
 ners and is very popular. He isa brilliant orator and speaks 
 directly to the point in a clear and concise manner. 
 
 Mr. Stubbs is considered one of the ablest lawyers in the 
 House, and was Chairman of the Committee on Constitu- 
 tional Amendments. On all points involving legal knowl- 
 edge, his advice was sought by the members of the House, 
 and was of great value on many occasions. He is a-jurist 
 who is quick to see the poiuts in a case and get at the legal 
 aspect. He would be an ornament to any political position, 
 and his friends have been urging him to accept the Solicitor- 
 ship of his district, which position he is peculiarly fitted to 
 fill with credit to his party and State. 
 
 “Quite a little excitement for a few minutes yesterday,” 
 “The Muck- 
 erses came in town in one direction and the Tucker boys 
 from another. There’d just been a row between the two 
 families, and everybody in town knew that when they came 
 together there’d be some purty lively shootin’. Well, sir, 
 in less than fifteen seconds after the first gun was pulled 
 every man on both sides was on the ground with not less 
 than two bullet holes in his frame. An’ there was thirty of 
 ?em in all.” 
 
 “Why, that was remarkable!’’ exclaimed the tourist. 
 ““They must have been magnificent marksmen.” 
 
 “Oh! The innocent by-standers did all the shootin’, Mis- 
 ter. Wedon’t take any risks here no more.’’— Puck. 
 
 The American who would delight to wear a shoulder-sash 
 under his dress-coat is hardly numerous enough as yet seri- 
 ously to threaten our free institutions. 
 
8 | TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Col. James A. Bryan. 
 
 HIS ABLE WORK WITH THE ATLANTIC AND NORTH CAROLINA R. R. 
 
 The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad has become one 
 of the most valuable properties in North Carolina during the 
 past few years under the management of Col. James A. 
 Bryan, the well-known President of the road. It is a well- 
 known fact that when this able business man accepted the 
 presidency, the road was in very poor shape, but, in his usual 
 progressive manner, he assumed control, adding many new 
 and valuable features to the property, causing an increase 
 of revenue as well as an increase in the value of the road, 
 increasing the earnings of the road from $140,656 53 in 1896, 
 under former management, to $218,165.56 in 1900, under his 
 
 management, which 
 
 there were no passenger accommodations, and frequently 
 box-cars were left on sidings to be used for storage, thereby 
 diminishing the shipping powers of the road. The road 
 owned only a limited number of cars for traffic and many of 
 them were out of repair. There were a few cars with auto- 
 matic couplers, and such cars as were in condition to be used 
 sometimes were refused on that account by the connecting 
 lines, and the road throughout was in such bad condition 
 that it required the immediate expenditure of large sums to 
 properly conduct its business. To meet this necessity, at the 
 request of Col. Bryan the Board of Directors ef the road au- 
 thorized him to borrow $50,000, and to use the net earnings 
 to a sufficient amount, which was approved of by the Board 
 of Internal Improvements. As a result of this, the road has 
 been vastly improved ; the road-bed and drainage have been 
 
 put in order ; new ties 
 
 is an increase of near- Ee 
 ly $80,C00.00, or more 
 than 50 percent. In 
 addition to this has 
 been added many im- 
 provements, such as 
 ‘ buying new engines, 
 new passenger and 
 freight cars, building 
 new bridges, etc., 
 which are too numer- 
 ous to mention in de- 
 tail. When Col. Bryan 
 assumed control, he 
 made a tour of the 
 road, and found its 
 road-bed uneven, in- 
 sufficiently drained, 
 and in general bad 
 order; the ties were 
 mostly old, worn out 
 and many of them 
 rotten, and insuffi- 
 cient in many places 
 to properly support 
 the rails; the iron on 
 some parts of the line 
 ‘was badly worn, and 
 on account of the rot- 
 ten condition of the 
 cross-ties insecurely 
 fastened, spikes were 
 missing in many 
 places; the motive 
 power consisted in 
 
 large part of old en- 
 gines, several of them 
 out of repair and in- 
 capable of perform- 
 ing proper service; the machine and carpenter shops were in 
 a dilapidated condition, unfit for service, and the machinery, 
 such as there was, antiquated and so worn out and brokenas 
 to be of little use in making necessary repairs; and all the 
 ordinary supplies for a proper equipment had been greatly 
 neglected ; the bridges had been sadly neglected, and in some 
 instances were in dangerous conditions, the most important 
 bridge, over Trent river, requiring immediate attention ; the 
 warehouse facilities were generally inadequate for the busi- 
 ness of the road. New warehouses had to be erected at sey- 
 eral stations and extensive repairs made upon others. At 
 Newbern, where the road came into competition with water 
 transportation, the warehouses were rottening down, unsafe 
 for storage and of such small capacity as to induce shippers 
 to patronize the water facilities. Ata number of stations 
 
 have been putin; new 
 rails have been laid 
 on many parts of the 
 line; new sidings 
 along the line haye 
 been made and ex- 
 tended ; trestle-ways 
 and cattle-guards 
 have been repaired; 
 all the road-crossings 
 have been built anew 
 or repaired; the 
 bridges have been re- 
 paired; warehouses 
 have been rebuilt and 
 new ones erected. 
 The land upon which 
 to build wharves and 
 warehouses at New- 
 bern was purchased 
 at an expense of $10,- 
 C00, and one ware- 
 house erected at a 
 cost of $11,000, and 
 another at a cost of 
 $7,000. Both of these 
 warehouses extend to 
 the deep-water line, 
 as surveyed by the 
 government at the in- 
 stanee of the Presi- 
 dent of the road, and 
 afford ample storage 
 room for the accom- 
 modation of shippers 
 and offer induce- 
 ments to shippers to 
 patronize the road, 
 besides paying a 
 handsome sum for storage. In the second story of this build- 
 ing are the offices of the road conveniently arranged. Large 
 and commodious brick warehouses have been built at Golds- 
 boro and Kinston; the one at Goldsboro costing $6,500 and 
 the one at Kinston costing $5,500. The growing business of 
 the above-named places made it absolutely necessary to sup- 
 ply these warehouses. They will be the means of greatly 
 increasing the tonnage of the road, besides furnishing nec- 
 essary accommodations for the passenger travel. 
 
 The gross earnings of the road from the Ist day of October, 
 1899, to the 1st day of December, 1990, amounted to two hun- 
 dred and sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dol- 
 lars and fifty-five cents, and the net earnings during the 
 same period amounted to one hundred and eleven thousand 
 two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents. 
 
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 COL. JAS. A. BRYAN, PRESIDENT A. & N.C. R. R. 
 
 ey 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 9 
 
 The gross earnings of the road from the end of the fiscal 
 year, the 30th day of June, 1900, to the Ist day of December, 
 1900, amounted to the sum of $101,757.86, and the net earn- 
 ings covering the same period amounted to the sum of 
 $39,971.06. : 
 
 The operation of the road is conducted by Col. Bryan under 
 the most approved railroad system, in the interest of the 
 State and stockholders, and is removed from all undue polit- 
 ical or personal influences. The employes are faithful and 
 act under the same strict discipline adopted by all successful 
 railroads. The property of every description belonging to 
 the company has been greatly increased in value, and the 
 railroad is in condition to avail itself of the increased traffic 
 now being secured. The affairs of the railroad have been 
 placed upon a business basis, and any action looking toa 
 disposition of the road, or change in the policies inaugurated 
 and now being pursued by the present administration, would 
 be detrimental not only to the best interest of the State, but 
 to that of the private stockholders as well. : 
 
 Colonel Bryan is a North Carolinian by birth; and is a de- 
 scendant of one of the State’s oldest families. He is a grad- 
 uate of Princeton College; was a soldier of the Confederate 
 army, who served with honor and distinction all through the 
 
 war. Heis an able Democrat, always giving his time and 
 money for the interests of his party. He was a member of 
 the famous ‘‘ White Supremacy ”’ General Assembly in 1898, 
 being a Senator from his district. In February, 1899, he was 
 elected by the Board of Internal Improvements, President 
 of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, which is owned 
 principally and controlled by the State of North Carolina. 
 He is President of the National Bank of Newbern and one of 
 the best posted business and railroad men in the State. 
 
 With a well-balanced and cultivated intellect, a genial, 
 good temperament and a buoyant energy, Colonel Bryan is 
 walking up the pathway of life to a manhood replete with a 
 noble influence for the great responsibilities of the present 
 eventful period, and full of golden promise for honorable 
 duty in the battlefield of the present and future. With a 
 mind trained to grasp the good and bad points of railroad 
 work, and a broad comprehension, Colonel James A. Bryan, 
 President of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, is 
 justly termed one of the most able of men. His has been a 
 life marked with characteristics of firmness and determina- 
 tion, and these elements have controlled his actions in the 
 various positions of honor he has been ealled to fill. He is 
 a man whom it is a pleasure to know. 
 
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 MAIN BUILDING N. C. METHODIST ORPHANAGE. 
 
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 MOBILE, ALABAMA. 
 
 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 
 
 Prepares plans and specifications for Churches, Public Buildings, Schools, Residences, Ete. 
 
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10 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Our Success. 
 
 THE RESULTS AND ADVANTAGES OF ORGANIZATION. 
 
 ‘<The Democratic party during the recent campaign polled 
 about 7,000,000 votes,’’ says a prominent statistician. To say 
 that such a grand organization should be abandoned, or the 
 devoted men of that party should be dismissed or retired, is 
 poor policy and will never meet with success. The election 
 has proven that the commercial interests of the country are 
 paramount. Whether the commercial instinct will submerge 
 all others is to be shown. We have been told in these latter 
 days that ‘“‘the best business interests’? must be allowed to 
 dictate the policy of the country, no matter what the voice 
 of the people may cry out in protest. We have been told by 
 Republican campaign orators that those who find fault with 
 the existing order of things are men without work or with- 
 out any inclination to work. Does the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence declare 
 
 pose of this organization. It is not designed to advance the 
 interests of any man, but it brings the members of State and 
 local party organizations closer and more systematically to- 
 gether. Its work is almost wholly educational along Demo- 
 cratic lines. It is strong and substantial maehinery put in 
 position for consolidated party work. 
 
 The fact is known to every Democrat in North Carolina 
 that organization during the past two campaigns under the 
 able direction and leadership of that gifted and far-seeing 
 statesman, Hon. F. M. Simmons, won for our State ‘*‘ White 
 Supremacy” and the passage of the Constitutional ‘‘Amend- 
 ment,’’ as well as the victory of the Democratic party to 
 every State office within the gift of the people, and almost 
 the entire General Assembly of North Carolina. Does not 
 this prove organization’s effectiveness and value? And the 
 campaign of 1902 must find the Democracy of this State 
 equally as well organized, and as certainly as the days come 
 and go, the Democratic party must be ready for the fight of 
 1904, If the present perfect organization is abandoned 
 through lack of inter- 
 
 that the man without 
 work is not worthy to 
 vote? Isa man’s fit- 
 ness to exercise the 
 privileges of citizen- 
 ship to be measured 
 by the number of dol- 
 lars he has managed 
 to accumulate? Is 
 the man who owns a 
 million cf these sup- 
 posed to be thereby 
 fitted to control the 
 destiny of the man 
 who owns none? Are 
 the trust magnates to 
 control our country ? 
 Hundreds of millions 
 of dollars have been 
 gathered in by trusts 
 during the past few 
 months. Does this 
 not demonstrate 
 clearly that our larg- 
 est and. principal bus- 
 iness interests are be- 
 ing gobbled up? And 
 what will be the re- 
 
 est and the non-sup- 
 port of the State and — 
 local organizations, it 
 will simply necessi- 
 tate an entire State 
 reorganization. And 
 more than that, as far 
 as the future is con- 
 cerned, the time and 
 the money spent in 
 building up the pres- 
 ent perfect organiza- 
 tion will have been 
 wasted. Is it not, 
 then, apparent that 
 the sensible thing to 
 do is to maintain the 
 organization that we 
 now have and keep it 
 before every precinct 
 and county in the 
 State? 
 
 The following from 
 an able statesman is 
 very appropriate just 
 at this point: 
 
 ‘He serves his par- 
 
 sult? Were not Dem- 
 ocratice workingmen 
 threatened by Republican employers during the recent cam- 
 paign. with the loss of their jobs if they refused to march in 
 the procession and vote with their employers? Did not that 
 fact alone mean that unless we have money we are not free 
 and equal, under Republican rule? The assertion ‘‘ that all 
 men are created equal’? was of no practical value in this 
 case. Here I might say that business interests must be re- 
 garded and values unmolested, but the general government 
 must not be forgotten. 
 
 I believe as a party we should remain quiet, let the excite- 
 ment pass away and later consolidate the opposition to the 
 other party under conservative leaders, not under seltish 
 personal politicians, but men who are a credit to the grand 
 old Democratic party. Let wealth be no consideration. We 
 rave here in the grand old State of North Carolina men who 
 are able to lead the party to victory. And I wish to advise 
 our party leaders here in the “Old North State” not to aban- 
 don or forget that perfect organization that has just aided 
 us in winning such a grand victory for Democracy. No mis- 
 understanding should arise among Democrats-as to the pur- 
 
 STATE CAPITOL, RALEIGH, N. C. 
 
 ty best who serves it 
 all the time, and if 
 the principles for 
 which we stand are true, he serves his country best who 
 serves his party best. No greater or graver mistake can be 
 made than for a citizen to suppose that he is concerned with 
 the affairs of his party only during the strenuous time of a 
 campaign. The enemies of the party are never idle. Their 
 weapons never rust, but are kept ever bright by constant 
 use.’” 
 
 In conclusion, I will simply add that it gives me much 
 pleasure to dedicate this publication to 
 
 Tue Democratic Party, 
 Hon. F. M. Stumons, our Senator, 
 
 Hon. C. B. Aycock, our GovERNOR. 
 
 And to congratulate the people of North Carolina upon 
 the grand and glorious victory of the campaign of 1900-1901. 
 
 C. BEAUREGARD POLAND. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 11 
 
 Charles B. Aycock. 
 
 The road to substantial distinction lies along no royal high- 
 way. Permanent and well-founded pre-eminence and high, 
 honorable, merited estimation by one’s fellow citizens is only 
 achieved by those inspired with high aspirations and love for 
 his friends and party based upon inimitable justice, unfal- 
 tering fidelity and stern and resolute adherence under all 
 circumstances and under all occasions to Jaw and religion. 
 These facts are recognized by the distinguished gentleman 
 whose name heads this sketch, and are the basis of his suc- 
 cess. 
 
 Charles B. Aycock was elected Governor of the State of 
 North Carolina in August, 1900, by the largest majority ever 
 given a candidate for Governor in the history of the State. 
 He was elected by 186,650 votes, after one of the most bril- 
 liant and dashing campaigns ever known in the South. 
 
 Charles Aycock is today one of the most able and interest- 
 ing figures in Southern politics. He is a man who has always 
 been devoted to his home, with no mercenary motives in the 
 political fields whatever. A man, popular on account of his 
 - genial manner, unselfish spirit and honest friendliness, and 
 during the entire campaign no man made brighter, clearer 
 and more effective speeches in the interest of Democracy 
 than this genial, wholesouled man—Mr. Aycock—and he is 
 one of the few scrupulously honest men who fight for fair 
 and honest principles; and he is a successful politician be- 
 cause, when he tells you anything or makes you a promise, 
 it can be relied upon, for it will be kept. He is the ideal of 
 force, supported by a clear and intelligent mind filled with 
 wit and common. sense, who, as a young man, won friends 
 and comrades in the true sense of the word by his honesty 
 and convictions; a man to Jove, admire, honur and respect. 
 
 Governor Charles B. Aycock is forty years of age. He was 
 born in the county of Wayne, near the town of Freemont. on 
 afarm. He attended school at Freemont, after which he 
 attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute, and finished his 
 education at that famous seat of learning, the University of 
 North Carolina. In these schools Mr. Aycock was one of the 
 brightest and most brilliant of students, and was at all times 
 a favorite with his teachers on account of his determined 
 ability, and he nearly always stood at the head of his classes. 
 
 While at the University he read law under able lawyers 
 and acquired a knowledge of law that has been his life-long 
 friend. He moved to Goldsboro after that and read law 
 under the late A. K: Smedes, one of the leading lawyers of 
 his day. In 1881 he formed a partnership at Goldsboro with 
 Hon. Frank A. Daniels, which was afterwards one of the 
 leading law firms of the State. He has held many positions 
 of honor and trust. He was City Attorney of Goldsboro, 
 County Attorney of Wayne; was District Elector in 1888, 
 Elector-at-large in 1892, and afterwards was appointed Uni- 
 ted States District Attorney. He is today the idol of the 
 people of Goldsboro and an honor to the State of North Car- 
 olina as aman. When nominated for Governor of this State, 
 the highest honor that the people can confer was given him 
 —the honor and compliment of an unanimous nomination 
 for Chief Magistrate, which he accepted and led to victory 
 in the most brilliant manner possible, carrying with him the 
 entire Democratic ticket. Governor Aycock, the people of 
 North Carolina are proud of their State and of you. 
 
 Hon. J. Bryan Grimes. 
 
 The present is essentially the era of the young man. In 
 business, in the professions, and especially in the political 
 field, we find the highest positions filled by young men, and 
 it is no longer thought necessary to wait until a man is gray- 
 
 haired before he can receive the trust and confidence of his 
 fellow men. The strife and turmoil of the present day re- 
 quire that the men who hold executive positions should be 
 possessed of physical strength, in addition to mental vigor, 
 in order to successfully stand the arduous duties of their 
 offices. Thus it happens that a political office is sometimes 
 offered to the young man who is exceptionally brilliant and 
 possessed of the necessary qualifications, whereas thirty, or 
 even twenty years back, his youth would have been consid- 
 ered an insurmountable barrier. 
 
 The Hon. J. Bryan Grimes, the present Secretary of State, 
 may rightly be said to belong to the class above mentioned. 
 Only 82 years old, he has been chosen to fill-one of the high- 
 est ard most responsible offices within the gift of the people 
 of Nerth Carolina. He was born in Raleigh, but since his 
 early childhood he has lived at his ancestral county seat, 
 Grimesland. He was educated at Trinity College and at the 
 University of North Carolina. Asa further preparation for 
 business, he took a course at Bryant & Stratton’s Business 
 College at Baltimore. 
 
 In 1894 Col. Grimes was united in marriage to Miss Mary 
 Octavia Laughinghouse, a playmate of his childhood days, 
 who had developed into a woman of great beauty, culture, 
 and rare scholarly attainments. Mrs. Grimes died on Dee. 
 2d. 1899. . 
 
 Since he was 21 years old Col. Grimes has been engaged in 
 managing large landed estates and is connected with various 
 business enterprises. He is a practical farmer, a trained 
 business man, and an excellent judge of lands and property 
 values. He isa member of the Executive Committee of the 
 N.C. Agricultural Society, and in 1899 and 1900 was a mem- 
 ber of the State Board of Agriculture. While serving in that 
 capacity he made a most excellent record. As President of 
 the North Carolina Tobacco Growers’ Association, Col. 
 Grimes has done much for the advancement of the interests 
 of the farmer, and has taken a leading part in the fight 
 against the trusts. 
 
 From his early manhood he has taken a deep interest in 
 political work. In 1898 he was, entirely without his solici- 
 tation, strongly supported by a number of counties in the 
 First District for nomination for Congress, but declined to 
 become a candidate. His influence has always been very 
 great and his advice often sought in the councils of the Dem- 
 ocratic- party. He was honored by this party in 19C0 for Sec- 
 retary of State, and, after a brilliant and memorable cam- 
 paign, was elected by a handsome vote. 
 
 Col. Grimes was a member of the staff of Governor Carr, 
 and is one of the leading authorities in the State on military 
 affairs. He has traveled extensively in America and Europe, 
 is a broad-minded man of liberal views and policies, an ex- 
 tensive reader with a cuitured mind. £ 
 
 Col. Grimes’ acquaintance with the people of North Caro- 
 lina is extensive, and his knowledge of the wants and needs 
 of every section is second to that of no man in the State. 
 He has abiding faith in the great plain people of this coun- 
 try, and has always been interested in their cause and advo- 
 cated whatever was for their interests. He has been a factor 
 in every movement looking to the industrial and agricultural 
 prosperity of his native State. He stands as the representa- 
 tive of the young Democracy and the agricultural interests. 
 He is a friend to the old Confederate soldier; his solicitude 
 for them has been shown, his charities to which many an 
 old soldier in Eastern N. C. wil! bear testimony. 
 
 Col. Grimes has courteous manners, is generous and sym- 
 pathetic and absolutely devoid of affectation. The extraor- 
 dinary pride he manifests in all his undertakings springs 
 more from ambition to excel in reputation than from a more 
 sordid motive, and his aim may truly be said to be the doing 
 of what he thinks to be for the good of his fellow-country- 
 men. 
 
12 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Among the State officials at the Capitol there is none more 
 popular than the Hon. Benjamin R. Lacy, the State Treas- 
 urer. Although young in years, he has worked himself up 
 to an important position of trust entirely by merit and hard 
 work. 
 
 Mr. Lacy was born in Raleigh, June 19th, 1854, and is the 
 
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 Arrorney GENERAL. 
 
 Raleigh and Gaston machine shops, and in that position he 
 showed ability of a very high order, and was highly thought 
 of by the officers of the road as well as by the employes. 
 
 In 1893 Governor Carr appointed Mr. Lacy Commissioner 
 of Labor Statistics, which position he held with great credit 
 to himself until the Fusionists came into power, in 1897. In 
 that year he organized in Raleigh the Mechanics Dime Say- 
 ings Bank, with a capital of $15,000, of which he was made 
 Cashier. The history and success of that institution, due 
 
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 youngest son of the late Rey. Drewry Lacy, the foremost 
 Presbyterian minister of North Carolina. When he was 
 about sixteen years old he started to work as an apprentice 
 in the machine shops of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad 
 and remained there for five years, when he became an engi- 
 neer on the road. In that position he remained for some 
 years, and was considered one of the best engineers on the 
 road. Afterwards, for several years he was foreman of the 
 
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 almost entirely to Mr. Lacy’s hard work and executive abil- 
 ity, are too well known to need repetition here. It is one of 
 the best known savings banks in the State, and now has de- 
 posits aggregating many thousands of dollars. 
 
 When the Democrats came into power again Mr. Lacy was 
 elected to his old position as Commissioner of Labor and 
 Printing. In the Legislature of 1897 he was instrumental in 
 securing the passage of the Fellow Servant Act, now a law 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 13 
 
 of North Carolina. By reason of his strong fight in behalf of 
 this act, Mr. Lacy has made himself very popular with labor 
 people, and has endeared himself to the engineers and me- 
 chanies of the State. He is amember of the Brotherhood 
 of Locomotive Engineers and has often been chosen by that 
 order to represent them at National Assemblies and Con- 
 ventions. 
 
 Mr. Lacy was nominated for the State Treasuryship largely 
 on account of the support he received through the efforts of 
 the labor men. He is regarded as the leader of the labor 
 interests of the State. In August he was elected State 
 Treasurer, receiving 186,499 votes to 126,778 cast for the Fu- 
 sion candidate. 
 
 Mr. Lacy is a gentleman of courteous, affable manners, 
 extremely popular with all, and will fill the office creditably. 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian church and an ardent 
 Mason. He is also President of the State Sunday School 
 Association. 
 
 Hon. Robert D. Gilmer. 
 
 A brief sketch of the life of Robert D. Gilmer is of interest 
 to all, since it shows the possibilities of a man of merit, and 
 will serve as an example to the young men of North Caro- 
 lina. There are few men better known throughout the State 
 than he and few to whom honors have more deservedly come. 
 
 Mr. Gilmer was born at Mt. Airy, Surry County, May 2d, 
 1859, and is a scion of one of the oldest and most distin- 
 guished families of the State. 
 ceiving an education, which was in after life to fit him for 
 the various offices of trust to which the people have elected 
 him. In 1879 he went to Emory and Henry College in Vir- 
 ginia, where he remained two years, and while there took 
 the Debater’s medal. Subsequently he attended Dick and 
 Dillard’s law school at Greensboro, a school that has pro- 
 duced many of the ablest lawyers of the Tar Heel State. He 
 graduated from that institution in 1882. The same year he 
 received a license to practice and began the pursuit of his 
 profession at Mt. Airy. 
 
 Mr. Gilmer moved to Waynesville, his present home, in 
 _ 1885. The following year he was elected chairman of the 
 County Democratie Executive Committee and for four years 
 held that position and worked faithfully for the interests of 
 the party. He also served as chairman of the Executive 
 Committee of the Twelfth Judicial District. In 1890 Mr. 
 Gilmer was nominated for the Legislature and was triumph- 
 antly elected. As a member he made a splendid record, be- 
 ing especially interested in all matters pertaining to educa- 
 tion, and was chairman of the Committee on Education, He 
 introduced the bill to establish the State Normal and Indus- 
 trial School at Greensboro, and by hard work secured its 
 passage. Mr. Gilmer was also a member of the Judiciary 
 Committee. 
 
 In 1892 he was again elected a member of the Legislature, 
 and was even more prominent than at the previous session. 
 He served as chairman of the Committee on Corporations 
 and was favorably mentioned by many of the papers for the 
 position of Speaker, but declined. He took a leading part 
 in all the discussions of this session and, as always, was on 
 the side of true Democracy. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Gilmer was made chairman of the Democratic 
 Congressional Committee of the Ninth District, and served 
 his party well in that capacity, Two years later he was the 
 Democratic Elector for the district, and during that remark- 
 able campaign he made over sixty speeches in a district 
 composed of sixteen counties, the district being a hard one 
 to canvass, as a large portion of it is off the railroad and in 
 mountainous country. As aspeaker, Mr. Gilmer has made 
 a high reputation. He has excellent command of language, 
 
 His youth was passed in re- 
 
 prominent member. 
 
 and his earnest style captivates his hearers. There is a 
 magnetism about him that tells in a political campaign. 
 
 As a presiding officer, Mr. Gilmer has been very successful 
 and has presided over many conventions. In 1898 he can- 
 vassed the central portion of the State and made many 
 speeches in the more prominent communities. His nomina- 
 tion for the Attorney Generalship was entirely unsought by 
 him, but his many friends and admirers urged him to accept | 
 the nomination. The leading papers all over the State 
 brought his name forward as the man best fitted for the 
 position by experience and legal ability. He was prevailed 
 upon to accept and was elected by a handsome majority. 
 
 Hon. B. F. Dixon. 
 
 There are few men in the State of North Carolina better 
 or more favorably known than the present Auditor, Major 
 B. F. Dixon. He is a native: of Cleveland County, having 
 been born at King’s Mountain, in that county, March 27th, 
 1846. His early education was received in the public schools 
 of his county. When he was 16 years of age he entered the 
 Confederate army as a private in the Fourteenth North Car- 
 olina Regiment, and was later promoted for gallantry on the 
 field to a Second Lieutenancy in the Forty-ninth North Caro- 
 lina Regiment. He was a brilliant and dashing soldier and 
 showed his bravery on many occasions. He was soon made 
 Captain of Company G, of the same regiment, which posi- 
 tion he held until the close of the war. 
 
 Resuming his education at the close of the war, like so 
 many of our brave Confederate soldiers, he began the study 
 of medicine at the Charleston Medical College, of Charles- 
 ton, 8. C., where he was graduated with high honors in 1874. ° 
 Returning to his native town, King’s Mountain, he devoted 
 himself to his chosen profession, and before very long suc- 
 ceeded in building up a most excellent practice. 
 
 In 1884 Dr. Dixon received the appointment of Superin- 
 tendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, at Oxford, N. C., 
 which position he held for six years. During that time his 
 executive abilities showed themselves to a marked degree, 
 
 -and he did much towards the upbuilding of that institution. 
 
 He then accepted the Presidency of the Greensboro Female 
 College, and much of the fame and success of that well- 
 known school is due to the wisdom and ability of Dr. Dixon. 
 
 In 1896 he was elected a member of the Legislature by the 
 people of Cleveland county, and during the session was a 
 As a member of some of the most im- 
 portant committees, he did good work and was always on 
 the side of any question which was for the good of the peo- 
 ple of North Carolina. Asaspeaker he is forcible, and his 
 words, coming as they do, from the heart, carry weight with 
 them. 
 
 When the war with Spain broke out, the military spirit 
 again asserted itself and Dr. Dixon volunteered his services, 
 which were accepted, and he was appointed a Major in the 
 Second North Carolina Regiment. His training as a soldier 
 proved itself and he made a record of which any man might 
 well be proud. 
 
 Dr. Dixon has always been an active and influential Dem- 
 ocrat, and has always been ready to respond to the call of 
 the party. He has been honored with the respect and con- 
 fidence of all the leaders and his counsel sought after. Dur- 
 ing the campaign of 1900 his name came up for the position 
 of Auditor and the suggestion immediately received support 
 from all parts of the State. No other candidate having been 
 suggested who in any way stood a chance against Dr. Dixon, 
 
 he was nominated on the first ballot. 
 
 Dr. Dixon is a typical Southern gentleman of the old 
 school. Tall, of fine proportions, with a genial countenance, 
 he is well known and popular everywhere, and his genial, 
 courteous manners endear him to all. 
 
14 . TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Gen. Julian $. Carr. 
 
 Among the great number of North Carolina’s distinguished 
 
 men there is perhaps none whose name is better known and 
 honored than that of General Julian 8. Carr. nor one who 
 has endeared himself more to the hearts of all loyal citizens 
 of the grand old Tar Heel State. For years he has stood as 
 a type of the noble Southern gentleman, and at the same 
 time the embodiment of the “ New South,” with its indus- 
 tries and wonderful mereantile advancement. It is such 
 men as General Carr that have built up our beloved land out 
 of the desolation and ruin resulting from the ravages of the 
 Civil war, and have caused their section to be looked upon 
 as the most prosperous and growing territory of the entire 
 United States. It is for this that we find the subject of this 
 brief sketch, “Jule” Carr, as he is affectionately termed, re- 
 vered and looked up to all over the grand old State of North 
 Carolina, which is so dear to him. 
 ’ General Carr is a native of Durham county, and served 
 with honor during the Civil war, returning home after the 
 surrender at Appomattox 
 without a cent. The grit 
 and determination of the 
 man may be judged when 
 we see him today rated as 
 one of the richest men of 
 the State, his wealth being 
 estimated at several mil- 
 lion dollars. 
 
 About 1870 Gen. Carr re- 
 turned home on a visit from 
 Little Rock, Ark., where he 
 had for several years been 
 engaged in the cotton busi- 
 ness, meeting with that suc- 
 cess which might be expect- 
 ed to come to any man of 
 his abilities and powers of 
 direction. 
 
 Being urged by his many 
 relatives and friends to lo- 
 cate nearer home, General 
 Carr fixed upon Durham as 
 a town where his talents 
 might be likely to find re- 
 ward. Forsome years back 
 the bright leaf tobacco 
 raised in that section had 
 caused many to look to Durham as a coming tobacco mar- 
 ket, and General Carr had the keen perception to see the 
 opportunity and the ability to seize upon it. 
 
 At the cost of a few thousand dollars he purchased a third 
 interest in the firm of Blackwell & Green, an interest which 
 he has since increased. Thus we see him at the early age of 
 twenty-five started in a career which was to bring him fame 
 and fortune. For the first few years, as was to be expected, 
 the sums spent in advertising used up the profits of the busi- 
 ness; but so quickly did the trade of the concern increase 
 under able and efficient management that in 1883 the Black- 
 well’s Durham Tobacco Co. was chartered with a capital of 
 $4,000,000, and was recently sold, General Garr retiring to 
 look after his other interests, which had become many. 
 
 ~General Carr is President of the First National Bank of 
 Durham, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board 
 of Trustees of the State University, President of the Board 
 of Trustees of the Greensboro Female College, a Director of 
 the Oxford Orphan Asylum, Vice-President of the Durham 
 Cotton Manufacturing Company, Treasurer of the Interstate 
 Telephone Company, Vice-President of the Durham & Ghar- 
 
 GENERAL JULIAN 8. CARR. 
 
 ‘otte Reilroad Company, President of thé Ormond Mining 
 Comp ny of Bessemer City, N.C. He is largely interested 
 in the Durham Furniture Factory, and owns almost exclu- 
 sively the Durham electric power plant. Healso owns large 
 mining interests in western North Carolina and in other 
 States. Recognizing the need of a first-class hotel at Dur- 
 ham, he built the famous Carrolina at a cost of $200,000. 
 His principal business, however, is dealing in Southern secu- 
 rities and investments, and he is without doubt the best au- 
 thority on these matters to be found anywhere. 
 
 General Carr was the first man in the South to make a 
 donation to any educational institution north of the Potomac 
 since the war, he having subseribed $10,000 to the American 
 University at Washington several years ago. He is the 
 heaviest insured man in the South and the third heaviest in 
 the country, carrying over a million dollars on his life. 
 
 Naturally, a man of his many interests and activities may 
 be supposed to take an interest in the political world. An 
 ardent Democrat, he has always been ready to respond to 
 the calls of his party, and has never failed to give his time 
 and money when either were needed for the good of the De- 
 mocracy. He has never 
 sought fame or preferment. 
 His political work has been 
 always unselfish, although 
 with his able knowledge of 
 men and keen insight into 
 character, it would be hard 
 to find a man better equip- 
 ped with those traits which 
 go to make the successful 
 office-holder, while at the 
 same time his cordiality, 
 good fellowship and inter- 
 est in the welfare of every- 
 one attract to him men of 
 all conditions of life. 
 
 During the famous battle 
 for white supremacy, Gen. 
 Carr took an active interest 
 in the fight, and the weight 
 of his influence and his able 
 advice did much towards 
 raising North Carolina out 
 of the mire into which it 
 had apparently fallen, 
 
 As a philanthropist, Gen, 
 Carr takes first rank, and 
 it would be hard to name 
 the undertakings to which he gives the benefit of his time, 
 his means and his counsel. During the war with Spain he 
 gave notice that he would provide for families left in Dur- 
 ham and dependent on Durham volunteers for their support, 
 and he invited the families of one white and one colored com- 
 pany of volunteers of 120 each to send all bills for their liv- 
 ing expenses to him. He visited the First North Carolina 
 Regiment while it was encamped at Jacksonville, tendered 
 his check for $25,500 to the Colonel in command, saying that 
 he desired to see the boys from North Carolina provided 
 with every comfort and luxury consistent with camp life. 
 Such incidents as these show the man; and many others 
 might be mentioned. 
 
 General Carr is commander of the Confederate Veterans 
 of the State, and no needy soldier of the army of Lee ever 
 fails to find in him a true friend. With him, indeed, the 
 Confederacy is a ‘‘Lost Cause” but not a forgotten one. 
 
 In the campaign of 1900 Gen. Carr made a brilliant canvass 
 of the State for the United States Senate, which will forever 
 be memorable in the political history of the State. He was 
 defeated, yet made a record that all are proud of. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 15 
 
 Hon. W. D. Turner. 
 
 A Democrat, a man learned in the Jaw—such is our Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor, Hon. Wilfred D. Turner. He is a man who 
 has not come into political prominence through his own de- 
 sires, but in obedience to the call of his fellow citizens. He 
 was born in Iredell county, January 30th, 1855; the son of 
 Mr. Wilfred D. Turner, a prominent farmer of that section 
 and the pioneer cotton manufacturer of the Piedmont sec- 
 tion. Mr. Turner is a graduate of Trinity College of the 
 class of 1876, and three years later the degree of A. M. was 
 eonferred upon him by the same institution. We thus see 
 that previous to studying law he had thoroughly prepared 
 himself with the best 
 classical education that 
 could be obtained. 
 There are few  profes- 
 sions in which a general 
 education counts for 
 more than it does in the 
 practice of law; the law- 
 yer is brought face to 
 face with problems and 
 situations in which more 
 than technical skill is 
 required to properly 
 grasp them, and it is 
 then that a man’s gen-. 
 eral education shows 
 itself. 
 
 After reading law sev- 
 eral years, Mr. Turner 
 began to practice in 
 June, 1877, at Asheville. 
 Industrious, studious, 
 and painstaking, he soon 
 found himself in the pos- 
 session of a practice that 
 was lucrative and grati- 
 fying to the ambition of 
 a young attorney. In 
 1885, his success having 
 continued meanwhile, 
 Mr. Turner formed a 
 partnership with the 
 late Judge Robert F. 
 Armfield, and four years 
 later, when Judge Arm- 
 field went on the bench, 
 he combined his practice 
 with that of Mr. Chas. 
 H. Armfield. The firm 
 is now one of the strung- 
 est in the State. 
 
 Mr. Turner is a strong 
 Democrat and for some time has been a leader in the party. 
 Several times he has been chairman of the County Execu- 
 tive Committee of Iredell county, and in 1898 was strongly 
 supported for nominaticn for Congress. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Turner was elected State Senator from the 
 district composed of Iredell, Alexander and Wilkes counties, 
 and served during the sessions of 1887, 1889 ard 1$91, being 
 regarded as one of the ablest lawyers, best parliamentarians 
 and safest legislators in the State. He was chairman of the 
 Judiciary Committee. 
 
 Mr. Turner was one of the delegates to the National Con- 
 vention of 1896, that great convention in which the cham- 
 pion of the rights of the people, Hon. W. J. Bryan, was 
 placed in nomination for the Presidency of the United 
 
 States. In the vigorous campaign which followed, Mr. Tur- 
 ner played a prominent part, lending his abilities as a speaker 
 to the cause of the Democratic party. In the last campaign 
 Mr. Turner was also a power on the stump and did much to 
 bring about the suczess of the Democratic party in Ncrth 
 Carolina. 
 
 Mr. Turner was elected Lieutenant-Governor in August, 
 1900, receiving 186,529 votes, as against 125,532 cast for H. 
 F. Seawell, his opponent. 
 
 As a presiding officer in the session of the Senate just 
 passed, he has shown great ability, and has been noted for 
 the fairness and justice of his decisions. Not for many 
 years has North Carolina had a President of her Senate who 
 has given such general 
 satisfaction as Mr. Tur- 
 ner. He is a just and 
 broad-minded man who 
 can always be relied 
 upon to support any 
 measure that is for the 
 good of the Common- 
 wealth, and he has the 
 courage of his convic- 
 tions to a marked de- 
 gree. 
 
 Personally, no man 
 has a better record than 
 Mr. Turner. In his na- 
 tive county he has al- 
 ways enjoyed the confi- 
 dence of his fellow citi- 
 zens to the fullest ex- 
 tent. He has been twice 
 married, his first wife 
 being Miss Lanier of Al- 
 abama. His second wife 
 was Miss Julia H. McCall 
 of Statesville. 
 
 As well as being a suc- 
 cessful lawyer and 
 statesman, Mr. Turner 
 has excellent business 
 qualifications. He is 
 President of the Monbo 
 Cotton Mill Company, 
 located in Catawba 
 county, of which his 
 brother is Secretary and 
 Treasurer. He is also 
 connected with many of 
 the important enter- 
 prises of his county. He 
 is a Trustee of the State 
 Normal and Industrial 
 College at Greensboro. 
 In religion, Mr. Turner is a Methodist. 
 
 Just before the Senate adjourned, the Senators of all par- 
 ties, in appreciation of the splendid manner in which Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor Turner presided as President of the Senate, 
 and as a testimonial of their personal appreciation for him 
 as a presiding officer, presented him a magnificent silver 
 service with their compliments and best wishes. 
 
 Mr. Turner, in his position as President of the Senate, has 
 by his clear, concise and able rulings, being just to all, won 
 for himself the life-long esteem and friendship of his asso- 
 ciates, and added new laurels to his splendid reputation. 
 He is a gentleman who by his ability and thoroughness wins 
 the highest regard of all who meet him. Such men as this 
 take the Democratic party always to the front. 
 
 {Photo, by Wharton. } 
 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR W.D. TURNER. 
 
16 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Senator J. A. Brown. 
 
 A successful career has been that of the Hon. Joseph A. 
 Brown—a life that is marked with characteristics of fairness 
 and determination. He was born in Richmond county, near 
 Rockingham, July 9th, 1861, and is descended from old and 
 distinguished ancestry, his father, Reuben H. Brown, being 
 prominent in educational matters throughout North Caro- 
 lina. After having held some minor political positions, Mr. 
 Brown, in 1881, engaged in the mercantile business and re- 
 
 eae 
 
 SENATOR JOS. A. BROWN. 
 
 mained in that until 1888, at which time he went into the 
 lumber business. In 1895 he entered the real estate and im- 
 migration field. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Brown was elected a member of the State Sen- 
 ate, and during the session of 1893 made a fine record. He 
 was again nominated in 1896, and, although the Fusionists 
 were victorious, Mr. Brown ran ahead of his ticket, owing to 
 his great popularity and vigorous campaign. In 1898 Mr. 
 Brown was elected by a majority of 1,339. Mr. Brown had 
 the honor of representing the Sixth Congressional District 
 in the Democratic convention held at Chicago in 1896. 
 
 During the campaign of 1898 he was chairman of the County 
 Executive Committee and had much to do with the victory 
 of the Democratic party in that year. He was a most elo- 
 quent champion of the cause of white supremacy and good 
 government. So ably did he serve the people of Robeson 
 and Columbus counties that he was re-elected for the ses- 
 sion of 1901, and he has again shown his devotion to the cause 
 of Democracy. He was chairman of the Committee on Prop- 
 ositions and Grievances and a member of the Committees on 
 Penal Institutions, Railroads and Corporation Commission, 
 and Privileges and Elections. He introduced many bills of 
 importance to his district and to the State generally, among 
 them being the anti-cigarette bill. He has devoted much 
 of his time to committee work and rendered effective service. 
 
 Mr. Brown is a clear, concise speaker, has a fine delivery, 
 and always succeeds in holding his audience by his brilliant 
 oratory. Today he is one of the leading public men and 
 statesmen of North Carolina. 
 
 Senator F. G. James. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Hertford, Perquim- 
 ans county, about forty-two years ago. When very young 
 he moved to Greenville, Pitt county, and for many years has 
 been one of the leading citizens of that town. His educa- 
 tion was received at the University of North Carolina, where 
 
 _he graduated in law and was shortly afterwards admitted to 
 
 the bar. For ten years he was mayor of the city of Green- 
 ville, and there is no more popular man in his section than 
 he. Hehasalways been an enthusiastic Democrat and stands 
 always ready to respond to the call of his party. 
 
 In 1892, Mr. James was nominated and elected to the State 
 Senate, serving in the session of 1893 and making a record of 
 which any man might well be proud. In 1898, he was again, 
 very much against his wishes, put in nomination, and after 
 a hard fought campaign he was triumphantly elected by a _ 
 majority of 405. Two years previously the district had given 
 a Fusion majority of 685. During the term of the Legisla- 
 ture Mr. James was very active on the floor of the Senate 
 and was one of the recognized leaders. 
 
 His record was so good and brought him so prominently 
 before the public as a useful and able leader, that he was 
 again persuaded to accept a nomination and was again elec- 
 ted. During the session just finished, Mr. James has, as be- 
 fore, taken a prominent partin the important debates that 
 have taken place in the Senate, and has been very promi- 
 nent. He was chairman of the Committee on Privileges and 
 
 SENATOR F. G. JAMES. 
 
 Elections, and a member of the Committees on the Judici- 
 ary, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institutions, Insurance, Con- 
 gressional Districts, and Shell Fish Industries. 
 
 Every question of importance to the people, the State and 
 the Democratic party was given careful consideration by 
 Senator James. Heisa man of exceptionally fine ability, 
 and one who, in his broad-minded liberality, wins the confi- 
 dence and esteem of all who come in contact with him. 
 
 Senator James enjoys a fine law practice, and is beloved by 
 all the people of Pitt county, regardless of party or religion. 
 He has a brilliant future before him in the political arena. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 17 
 
 Senator T. D. Warren. 
 
 One of the youngest and yet one of the most able of our 
 State Senators is the gentleman whose name heads this 
 sketch, Hon. Thomas Davis Warren, the distinguished Sen- 
 ator from the Eighth District. Senator Warren was born in 
 
 _ Chowan county, at Edenton, twenty-seven years ago, where 
 
 s 
 
 he spent his boyhood days. He was educated at Horner’s 
 Military School and the University of North Carolina, where 
 he graduated with high honors. In 1895-’96 he was Profes- 
 sor of Languages at the Horner School. In 1886 he was 
 
 | Photo. by Watson.] 
 SENATOR THOMAS D. WARREN. 
 
 Principal of the Newbern Academy. In ’98 he was Instructor 
 of Law at the University of North Carolina, and while hold- 
 ing this position he took an advanced course in law, taking 
 the degree of L. L. B. in June, 1899. He received his license 
 to practice law in 1896, although did not commence active 
 practice until November, 1898. He now enjoys quite a lucra- 
 tive and growing practice in Jones and adjoining counties. 
 He was County Attorney for Jones county, and in this posi- 
 tion made many friends and won for himself quite a pleasing 
 reputation as a lawyer. 
 
 The Eighth District, two years ago, gave only about three 
 hundred Democratic majority, having gone during the two 
 elections previous to that (1894—’96) to the Fusionists. 
 
 The campaign of 1900 was one of the most interesting ever 
 held in the district, and Senator Warren, in company with 
 his colleague and other prominent Democrats of the district, 
 made a canvass that will ever be a remembrance of a Demo- 
 cratic victory, and midst brilliant bursts of oratory and de- 
 bate, carried the district by the magnificent majority of 
 
 5,300, which is the largest Democratic majority ever polled . 
 
 in the Eighth District. 
 
 Senator Warren has introduced a number of important 
 bills, and he has faithfully and conscientiously looked after 
 all matters of legislation in a manner that has won the high 
 regard and friendship of his associates. 
 
 Senator Warren is an able debater, and his speeches advo- 
 cating legislation that he considered for the advancement 
 and best interests of North Carolina were well delivered and 
 convineing arguments. As a member of committees he has 
 personally looked after all important bills, and through his 
 courtesy and ability he has won many admirers and friends, 
 and it presents to the handsome young statesman a brilliant 
 and honorable future. 
 
 Senator J. T. Foy. 
 
 The broad-minded and liberal Senator from Pender, rep- 
 resenting the Ninth District, has few peers in the General 
 Assembly when it comes to earnestness and efficiency. He 
 is aman of attractive personal qualities, and his uniformly 
 courteous treatment of all his colleagues, both socially and 
 in debate, has won the regard of all. There is no more pop- 
 ular man in the Senate, and because of his accurate judg- 
 ment and clear views on all subjects of importance, he is 
 honored by his fellow members. 
 
 Senator Foy was born at Scott’s Hill, N. C., fifty-four years 
 ago, where he spent his youthful days. His-father died 
 while he was quite young, and his oldest brother was killed 
 during the war. Senator Foy was then only fourteen years 
 of age, yet he was forced to take charge of the large estate 
 and manage same for his invalid mother and younger broth- 
 ers and sisters, which he did in a manner that added to the 
 value of the property very materially. And from that time 
 to the present he has successfully handled the business mat- 
 ters of his estate. He is one of the most successful business 
 men in his district, owning and operating several extensive 
 and up-to-date farming establishments. 
 
 When the famous campaign of 1900 was inaugurated, Sen- 
 ator Foy was one of the recognized leaders in his district, 
 and being a man of large influence and ability, he was nomi- 
 nated for the State Senate by the Democrats of the Ninth 
 District. He accepted the honor and made a brilliant and 
 energetic canvass. He was elected by a vote of 3,797, being 
 four more votes than were cast in his district for Governcr, 
 Senator Foy’s majority in his home county (Pender) was 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 SENATOR JOSEPH T. FOY. 
 
 1,063, which is nearly double that of the Democratic major- 
 ity of 1898—a record that is truly gratifying. 
 
 Senator Foy has been a member of the Board of County 
 Commissioners of his county over ten years; was chairman 
 of this Board six years. 
 
 Asa member of the Senate he has carefully watched all 
 legislative matters before committees, and he has rendered 
 effective work for his constituents. As a member of the 
 committees on Insurance, Privileges and Elections, Manu- 
 facturing Interests, Fish and Fisheries, Election Laws and 
 Appropriations, his work has been carefully done. 
 
 Senator Foy is a strikingly handsome gentleman, and a 
 popular favorite with all who know him. 
 
18 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Col. John S$. Cuningham. 
 
 In an agricultural State like North Carolina, where the 
 farming interests play a large part in the life of the people 
 and are of vital interest to their welfare, itis but natural 
 that the men who achieve success in that line of endeavor 
 should be men of mark in the commonwealth. Any one fa- 
 miliar with the agricultural industries of this State knows 
 that tobacco constitutes one of the leading products of the 
 soil, and that the production of the fragrant weed exerts a 
 great influence over the commercial interests of North Caro- 
 lina. It is a well-known fact that the planters of North 
 Carolina keep abreast of the times in the way of scientific 
 agriculture and mechanical improvements, and the result is 
 that they stand second to none in the excellence of their im- 
 portant work. 
 
 Col. John S. Cuningham, the subject of this sketch, is per- 
 haps the largest individual tobacco grower in the world. A 
 native of Person county, he has 
 spent his entire life upon the 
 magnificent estate, the home of 
 his forefathers four generations 
 back, in the centre of the famous 
 bright tobacco belt. He has had 
 opportunities of developing the 
 golden leaf to the very best ad- 
 vantage—opportunities that were 
 certainly not lost sight of by him 
 if we may judge by results. 
 
 Col. Cuningham received his 
 preparatory education at Hor- 
 ner’s Military Academy and at 
 the Bingham School. Afterwards 
 he completed his education at the 
 University of North Carolina, Al- 
 though the professions were open 
 to him, he chose to serve his na- 
 tive State by advancing her agri- 
 cultural interests and serving as 
 an example of what may be ac- 
 complished by the man of educa- 
 tion and refinement who devotes 
 his entire time and attention to 
 that end. 
 
 On his fourteen thousand acres 
 of land mammoth crops are raised 
 each year, principally tobacco, 
 but the cultivation of wheat also 
 receives from him a great deal of attention. His manage- 
 ment of this large plantation is most excellent, and gives 
 ample opportunity for the display of that executive ability 
 which Col. Cuningham possesses to such a high degree. 
 
 Although devoting his time so largely to agriculture, Col. 
 Cuningham has found time to devote to politics and take an 
 active part in the affairs of the State. A pronounced and 
 unflinching Democrat, he is yet conservative and just in all 
 his views, and would not lend his influence to any movement 
 that he did not consider right or honorable. He has for some 
 years been chairman of the Democratic Executive Commit- 
 tee of Person county, and is recognized as one of the party 
 leaders. At the beginning of the campaign of 1888 some of 
 his friends brought his name forward as a candidate for the 
 Lieutenant-Governorship, but, although taking an active in- 
 terest in the political fight, he declined to allow the use of 
 his name for that office. 
 
 In 1896 Col. Cuningham accepted the nomination for the 
 Legislature from the people of Person county, and his popu- 
 larity and ability in conducting a campaign may be judged 
 from the fact that he changed the majority in his county 
 
 COL, JOHN 8. CUNNINGHAM, 
 
 from 600 Republican to 400 Democratic. He was the recog- 
 nized leader of the Demozratie minority in the House, and 
 received the unanimous support of his party for the position 
 of Speaker. He stood always for what was best for the in- 
 terests of the State and her people. Although urged by his 
 constituents to accept a renomination, his other interests 
 prevented him from doing so. 
 
 In 1897-’98 he was President of the North Carolina Agri- 
 cultural Society, and the State Fairs held in those two years 
 were the most successful and the largest ever held in Ral- 
 eigh. When the Legislature of 1899 was selecting a Board 
 that should reorganize and reform the State Board of Agri- 
 culture, Col. Cuningham was chosen as one of the members. 
 When the members met to organize, he was chosen chair- 
 man, a compliment that was well deserved. It is hardly 
 necessary to state that he makes a model chairman of the 
 Board—the agency that is charged with advancing the in- 
 terests of the farmers of North Carolina. He is President of 
 
 the State Tobacco Growers’ Asso- 
 ciation, and through.his efforts at 
 Washington the tax on tobacco 
 has been decreased. 
 
 In addition to his farming in- 
 terests, Col. Cuningham is an ac- 
 tive participant in many and va- 
 ried business and industrial en- 
 terprises, serving as Director in 
 various banks, cotton factories, - 
 and many other industries 
 throughout the State. He has 
 always watched closely the in- 
 dustries of North Carolina, and 
 predicts a brilliant commercial 
 future for the Tar Heel State. 
 
 _He is also keenly interested in 
 all those questions of an economic 
 nature tending to the betterment 
 of the condition of the people. 
 
 In June, 1889, he married Miss 
 Carrington, of Charlotte county, 
 
 -Va.,a beautiful and accomplished 
 lady, the daughter of Col. Henry 
 A.Carrington. The elegant home 
 that Mrs. Carrington presides 
 over is typical of the true South- 
 ern refinement and culture. 
 
 In person, Col. Cuningham is a 
 distinguished looking man, of 
 
 commanding presence, with kindly features. In charaeter, 
 
 he has been described as a man of sterling honor and integ- 
 rity, firmness, exhaustless energy and resources ; a man born 
 to be a leader among his fellow men. 
 
 Col. Cuningham has immense executive ability, that being 
 one of the keynotes of his success. He possesses the gift of 
 being able to do an immense amount of work with little ap- 
 parent effort. He has boundless sympathy for his less for- 
 tunate fellowman, and the appeals of the poor and needy 
 never fail to receive a response from him. There is nodoubt 
 that many more honors are in store for Col. John 8. Cuning- 
 ham. There are not many men who have done as much for 
 North Carolina and none who have done more; and as he is 
 a young man in the prime of life, yet with much experience 
 back of him, we may reasonably expect to see many more 
 good works emanating from him. This being so, the grate- 
 ful people will shower rewards and blessings upon his head 
 until finally he will reach that height, above which none may 
 climb—the position of a man who stands first in the esteem 
 of his fellowmen, and who will lay all the gifts in their power 
 upon him, 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 19 
 
 Senator J. A. Long. 
 
 Here in America no man is born into a position of political 
 distinction, but if he has ability and mental capacity ; if the 
 
 sidereal fire of true genius glows in his heart and brain, there 
 
 is no eminence that he may not attain. The true strength 
 of the grandest institutions mainly consists in this fact. 
 There exists every opportunity and every incentive to exer- 
 tion, and the goals of ambition are nowhere so lofty for the 
 reason that the preservation of liberty and the conservation 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 SENATOR JAMES A. LONG. 
 
 of the public good. are the ends every public man who ac- 
 quires lasting reputation must keep in view. Such is the 
 record of the Hon: James A. Long, State Senator from the 
 Seventeenth District, and who is perhaps one of the best 
 known men in the State. Senator Long was born in the 
 county of Person fifty-nine years ago. He was educated at 
 
 the common and high schools of the county. During the war - 
 
 he was a gallant Confederate soldier. He enlisted, in 1662, 
 in Company H, 24th North Carolina, as Sergeant and fought 
 the battles of his country in a brilliant and dashing manner, 
 being thrown into many skirmishes and dangerous engage- 
 ments. ~ During a daring dash by his company he was cap- 
 tured, on the 25th day of March, 1865, and was imprisoned at 
 Point Lookout with the army of Virginia. He was released 
 and returned home July 8rd, 1865, and began to straighten 
 out his business affairs. 
 
 Senator Long has always taken an active. interest in poli- 
 tics and is one of the active Democratic leaders of his dis- 
 trict, being also one of the most popular men in his county. 
 In fact his popularity was in evidence during the campaign 
 of 1900, when the leaders of all factions in his district de- 
 manded that he be placed on the ticket, which was done, 
 and he carried the district by a majority of 2,000 votes, being 
 nearly double the vote received by any other candidate: He 
 was a member of the House of Representatives in 1885 and a 
 member of the Senate in 1889. 
 
 Senator Long is chairman of the Committee on Banks and 
 Banking and a member of the Committee on Finance, being 
 one of the active framers of the Revenue bill; Insurance, 
 Railroads and Railroad Commission, Claims and Manufac- 
 turing; was the author of the General Banking Bill, which 
 has given so much satisfaction to those interested, also of a 
 bill to regulate fees for Notaries. 
 
 Senator J. E. W. Sugg. 
 
 It is deemed a pleasure to record the history of men like 
 the gentleman who is the subject of this sketch. His own 
 good, sterling qualities, as one who has faithfully served his 
 
 -people and his party’s interest, have certainly earned for 
 
 him his present high position. Senator Sugg is a self-made 
 man who has come to the front as a successful business man 
 and progressive farmer by his own individual efforts. He is 
 a man who has been repeatedly honored by his people with 
 positions of trust and responsibility. He is one of the largest 
 and most enterprising farmers in Greene county, and his 
 long and influential political career demonstrates the fact 
 that were he desirous of political honors it would be an easy 
 matter for him to attain almost anything he desired from 
 the hands of his people. 
 
 Senator Sugg was born in the county of Greene in 1848, 
 and received his early education in the public schools of that 
 county. He has since his boyhood made a study of up-to- 
 date farming, and is today one of the men who cannot only 
 tell you how to farm and successfully manage a farm, but 
 can demonstrate equally as well how to make it a paying in- 
 stitution. His large farm in Greene county amply proves 
 this. Senator Sugg is also interested in tobacco, being one of 
 the owners of a large warehouse, and conducting a business 
 that necessitates a clear business ability. He has been the 
 representative of his people in both branches of the General 
 Assembly, and is one of the few men that his constituents 
 have ample confidence in. During the recent campaigns he 
 has devoted his time and money in the interests of the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and he was elected to the Senate by a hand- 
 some majority. Asa member of that body during the ses- 
 sion of 1901, he has been an capable and fearless worker, at 
 all times looking carefully after the interests of his constitu- 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 SENATOR J. E. W. SUGG. 
 
 ents and his party, both in committee meetings and on the 
 floor of the Senate. He is a gentleman whom it is a pleas- 
 ure to know and as a friend he is true as steel. A man who 
 if he should desire political honors can have them. 
 
 There are few people in Eastern North Carolina, especially 
 in his section, who do not know Senator Sugg, he has been 
 for a number of years one of the men who are at all times 
 doing something to advance the best interests of his State 
 and his people and the fact that he has succeeded in these 
 efforts is plainly demonstrated. 
 
20) TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. S. B. Alexander. 
 Responsibility is always commesurate with power and in- 
 fluence, and since the influence of a man in a public position 
 is so great his responsibility must be equally so. Senator 
 Alexander, is a man who never shirked a responsibility, nor 
 ever wielded an influence that he did not believe was good 
 and right. There are men who are proud of the fact that 
 they are familiar with all the tricks of the political game, 
 but Colonel 8. B. Alexander has never yet resorted toa trick 
 in his life for political gain, yet whenever he entered the 
 field of campaign in the interest of any cause that he thought 
 just and right, he has always won. He accomplishes his ob- 
 jects through deserved merit. 
 
 Senator Alexander is a man who has enjoyed many honors 
 at the hands of the people of North Carolina, and today he 
 is honored with the love, confidence and esteem of all who 
 know the man. He has 
 represented North Car- 
 olina in the General As- 
 sembly on many occa- 
 sions, and his voice has 
 been heard in the halls 
 of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives at Washing- 
 ton, D.C., where he rep- 
 resented his State as a 
 member of Congress. 
 He has occupied many 
 positions of honor in our 
 grand old State, and has 
 filled them with credit 
 and distinction. 
 
 Senator Alexander is 
 proud of the fact that he 
 isa North Carolinian, 
 born into a love for the 
 State and an apprecia- 
 tion of its institutions. 
 He may be getting up in 
 years, but his heart is 
 yetinitsspringtime, 
 and he is working as 
 much as ever for the suc- 
 cessful future ofthe 
 Democratic party and 
 his people. 
 
 As a member of the 
 Senate of North Caroli- 
 na, during the present 
 session, Senator Alexan- 
 der on account of his 
 large experience in leg- 
 islative matters, both 
 State and National, has had a very able influence over the 
 younger members of that body and his advice in many cases 
 repeatedly sought by his young colleagues, has been most 
 valuable to the best interests of the State, and to his friends 
 and colleagues. 
 
 Senator Alexander is a man who has always been true to 
 his friends and magnanimous to those who differ with him, 
 he is one of the most industrious and accurate men in pub- 
 lie life today in the South, morever he is in close touch with 
 the people and has a clean and invulnerable record, being 
 personally popular with men of all classes and conditions. 
 A friend speaking of him says: 
 
 “Senator Alexander is one of the truest of men. In thor- 
 ough touch and sympathy with the people, there is yetnoth- 
 ing of the demagogue about him. Well-balanced, studious, 
 
 JION. S. B. ALEXANDER. 
 
 warm hearted and courteous toall, with liberal and broad 
 views, he is always the same grand and noble man.” 
 
 Senator Alexander is the father of the Gocd Roads move- 
 ment in our State and the people of Mecklenburg county, 
 are loud in their praises of this able statesman, who is al- 
 ways looking out for their best interests. The public roads 
 of that county are macadamized and in splendid condition. 
 He is the author of the new road law which has just passed 
 the General Assembly, and which promises to be the most ad- 
 vanced move of the kind ever introduced in the State of 
 North Carolina. ; 
 
 “His life is gentle; and the elements 
 so mixedin him, that nature might well 
 stand up and say to all the world, ‘This 
 isa man.’” 
 
 His record as a Democrat and a public man is one that ev- 
 ery North Carolinian is proud of, for he is a man who is at 
 all times an earnest 
 worker and promotor of 
 any movementthat 
 tends to advance the in- 
 terests of his people and 
 the State. And he rep- 
 resents perhaps, the 
 largest and most influ- 
 ential constituency in 
 the State. He is the 
 leader of all important 
 movements in the Sen- 
 ate and no man init has 
 amore commanding 
 presence or more grace- 
 ful and forcible style of 
 expression. He has 
 served his State long 
 and well and sets an ex- 
 ample to young man- 
 hood of the State as a 
 broad guaged, progress- 
 ive man, which they 
 may well follow, and 
 with such men at the 
 helm of the ship of the 
 “Tar-Heel” State it can 
 but land safely in the 
 port of progress and 
 prosperity. 
 
 A review of the life of 
 this estimable gentle- 
 man and statesman, 
 shows the patience, am- 
 bition and perseverance 
 of the successful man. 
 What a glowing exam- 
 ple to young America, to the young man struggling along 
 at the beginning of a professional career. 
 
 The celebrated “Atlantic Hotel’? at Morehead City has 
 been leased for the summer by Scoville Bros., the present 
 proprietors of the Hotel Aragon, Atlanta, Ga. These gen- 
 tlemen are known throughout the entire country as being 
 hotel men of merit and great enterprise; this alone suffices 
 to say that the ‘Atlantic Hotel’’ will be conducted in the 
 most magnificent style this season. Those who have visited 
 Morehead City and those who have not have noticed by the 
 daily press throughout the country that this resort stands 
 without a peer. Those seeking health or pleasure will be 
 unable to find anywhere a more desirable place, and this 
 
 will be moreso when it is again learned that Scoville Bros. 
 will conduct ‘‘The Atlantic.’’ 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 21 
 
 Senator S. J. | Calvert. 
 
 As aman he is trusted for his qualities of mind and char- 
 acter, as a friend he is generous to a fault, as a member of 
 the Senate, North Carolina is proud to place his name high 
 on the roll of honor as one of her distinguished men, a de- 
 scendant of men who have always been recognized as lead- 
 ers in the political world of North Carolina. Sam Calvert’s 
 ancestors have represented our grand old State in the Legis- 
 lature and Senate on more than one occasion in the past. 
 And the gentleman whose name heads this sketch is perhaps 
 
 Senator G. L. Morton. 
 
 This gentleman has achieved great distinction at the early 
 age of thirty-four. He is a native of Onslow county, but 
 moved to Wilmington when very young and has lived there 
 ever since. Ue was educated at the Wilson Collegiate Insti- 
 tute and the Bingham School. Owing to the death of his 
 father and being compelled, as an only child, to take up his 
 business interests, he was unable to continue his education 
 at the University. 
 
 Mr. Morton has always been deeply interested in politics, 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 
 SENATOR 8. J. CALVERT. 
 
 today one of the most popular members of the General As- 
 sembly. When the people of his district elected him as their 
 Senator, their choice was a wise one and they elected a man 
 who is faithful to their interests in every respect and a man 
 who by his efficient service before committees and on the 
 floor has won the high regard of his colleagues and associ- 
 ates. In brief this is a summary of the characteristics of 
 one of the best known men in the State Senate—Hon. S. J. 
 Calvert, the popular Senator from the 38rd district. He is 
 a North Carolinian by birth and first saw the light of day in 
 Halifax county. Today through hard work and persever- 
 ance he has won his way to success as one of the State’s rep- 
 resentative lawyers and as a statesman who has the confi- 
 dence and high regard of those who know him. No man in 
 the Senate more carefully guards the interests of his district 
 than he. He is a man well equipped and trained for a legis- 
 lator, and is said to be one of the most popular men in his 
 county ; and among his fellow legislators, both in the Senate 
 and House of Representatives, he has made many friends, 
 owing to his strong personality and courteous manner. 
 
 It is a well known fact that most legislating is done in the 
 committee rooms. Here the members are together and they 
 discuss the bills for all they are worth, and the fate of same 
 depends largely upon their recommendation, and it is here 
 that Senator Calvert devoted his time and energies during 
 the present session and it is a well-known fact that his ef- 
 forts were successful in nearly.every event in which he was 
 interested. Such is the life of the successful legislator, the 
 man who wins, and should he desire political honors there is 
 a bright future in store for him. 
 
 Senator Calvert, since his advent in Raleigh, has by his 
 pleasant and courtaous manner won many friends and ad- 
 mirers. He is aman of merit and worth. 
 
 LPhoto. by Watson. ] 
 SENATOR GEO. L. MORTON. 
 
 and is astrong Democrat. He was twice elected an Alder- 
 man of Wilmington, from a Republican ward, which, until 
 the last two years, has never elected any other Democrat. 
 He served as Mayor pro tem. of Wilmington, and resigned to 
 become a candidate for the House of Representatives for 
 the session of 1891, and was the first Democrat elected from 
 New Hanover county at that time for thirty years. He was 
 elected Senator from the district comprising New Hanover 
 and Brunswick counties, to the session 1894, and was renom- 
 inated for the session of 1901, being elected by a majority of 
 over 3,000—not a single vote was cast against him in his own 
 county, New Hanover, and he led the ticket in Brunswick. 
 He made a thorough campaign on the Constitutional Amend- 
 ment and White Supremacy. In 1894 Mr. Morton was ap- 
 pointed Postmaster of Wilmington, and served five years. 
 
 Senator Morton is connected with many business enter- 
 prises, among them being the Galena Oil Company, the 
 Franklin Manufacturing Company, and the Signal Oil Com- 
 pany. He is also Vice-President of the Wilmington Sea- 
 Coast Railroad. 
 
 For a number of years he has been at the head of the Naval 
 Reserves of North Carolina, and was elected President of 
 the National Association of Naval Militias of the United 
 States, in which capacity he was at the head of all the organ- 
 izations of this character in twenty States, and did much to 
 build them up and make them efficient for the service they 
 rendered during the Spanish-American War. At the out- 
 
 break of the war he put the naval militias into the service 
 of the Government and built the signal stations on the coast. 
 Senator Morton was commissioned as a regular officer in the 
 U.8. Navy, and was put in command of the U.S. Steamer 
 Nantucket, and in addition was appointed as Assistant to 
 the Chief of the Auxiliary Naval force for Southern waters. 
 In this latter position he had command of twenty-six auxil- 
 iary vessels. 
 
22 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Senator H. S. Ward. 
 
 This gentleman, although one of the younger members of 
 the Senate, is one of the most active participants in the 
 transactions of that body. Senator Ward was born in Gates 
 county, N. C., Aug. 31st, 1870. He was brought upon a farm, 
 and had few opportunities for obtaining a good education, 
 but being of an ambitious disposition, he occupied every spare 
 moment in reading. At the age of nineteen he left the farm 
 and entered a store at Winton. Later he studied law under 
 
 [ Photo. by Watson.] 
 SENATOR H. 8. WARD. 
 
 Judge Cowper, and completed his legal education under the 
 late Dr. Manning at the State University, and was admitted 
 to the bar in January, 1894. 
 
 Senator Ward has been very successful in the practice of 
 his profession and is considered an able lawyer. He is an 
 ardent Democrat, and has given his services in the interests 
 of the party. In the Senate of 1899 and the session of 1901, 
 his record has been most excellent and proves that his selec- 
 tion by his constituents to represent them was a most wise 
 choice. In committee work as well as on the floor, Senator 
 Ward has accomplished a great deal. He is an eloquent and 
 forcible speaker, and lucidly and logically explains his points. 
 Absolutely fearless in the assertion of his rights and views, 
 in the face of any and all opposition, he is a foeman worthy 
 of the steel of any Senator. 
 
 Of keen, searching mind, clear vision, and a thorough 
 knowledge of the law, Senator Ward is. well equipped for the 
 duties of his position, and serves not only his constituency, 
 but likewise the Democracy of the State, faithfully and 
 well. His views upon all matters are thoroughly modern 
 and he believes in keeping thoroughly abreast with the times. 
 
 Mr. Ward’s success isdue in great measure to his untiring 
 energy, his pleasing and courteous manners toward his fel- 
 low men and his ability to make friends, legions of whom in 
 Raleigh will long remember their pleasant associations with 
 him during his stay.in that city. May your future, Senator 
 Ward, be one of great prosperity and unalloyed happiness. 
 
 A review of the lives of men like Senator Ward—success- 
 ful, self-made, public life and learned in social circles—is 
 both pleasant and profitable. It is an admiration pressed 
 home to the breasts and minds of the young with the triple 
 power of precept, example and reward, illustrative of the 
 possibility of the pleasure and of the glory of honorable 
 achievement. 
 
 Senator W. W. Stringfield. 
 
 It has been said with a great deal of truth that the recent 
 Legislature was composed of as representative a class of cit- 
 izens as could be gathered from the various counties through- 
 out the State. Among these men—and one who by his dili- 
 gence and honesty of purpese is deserving of special men- 
 tion—is the Hon. W. W. Stringfield, one of the leading mem- 
 bers of the Upper House. Hiscareer has demonstrated that 
 he never sacrificed principle for self-interest, and in all legis- 
 lation wherein the State, the people and the Democratic 
 party were concerned, his vote and his voice were always 
 upon the right side. ; 
 
 Senator Stringfield was born in Nashville, Tenn., on May 
 the 7th, 1837, and has lived in North Carolina for many years. 
 A large portion of his life was spent in the pursuit of farm- 
 ing and the hotel business, he having founded the Haywood 
 White Sulphur Hotel at Waynesville, N.C. At the present 
 time Mr. Stringfield devotes himself to civil engineering, 
 and is also a land agent. 
 
 For forty years he has been an active Democrat and has 
 taken a great interest in campaign work, and has been re- 
 warded by the party. He was a member of the Legislature 
 of 1888. Last year he was elected to the Senate by a major- 
 ity of 97 to represent the Thirty-third District, comprising the 
 counties of Haywood, Buncombe and Madison. During the ~ 
 session of 1901, he was a conspicuous member and regarded 
 as one of the leaders. He was chairman of the Library 
 Committee, also a member of the Agricultural Committee, 
 Committee on Military Affairs and several others. 
 
 Senator Stringfield is a prominent member of the Metho- 
 dist Church, a delegate to most of the Annual Conferences 
 of that body. His father founded the National Christian 
 Advocate, the first Methodist paper in the South. He is a 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 SENATOR W. W. STRINGFIELD. 
 
 veteran of the Confederate Army and saw much fighting in 
 the years from 1861 to 1865. His interest in all matters per- 
 taining to the “‘lost cause” is very keen and any measure 
 that is brought up in the interest of the grizzled veterans 
 who followed Lee and Jackson always receives his warmest 
 support. 
 
 Senator Stringfield has, by his work in the present Senate 
 and his zeal in the interest of the great Democratic party, 
 created an example that is beautiful to the rising genera- 
 tions, who, seeing what he has accomplished, will seek to 
 follow his footsteps. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. : 23 
 
 North Carolina’s Representatives in Congress. 
 
 SENATE. 
 F. M. Simmons, d., of Raleigh; term expires March 4, 
 1907. Jeter C. Pritchard, r., of Marshall; term expires 
 March 4, 1903. 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 First District—John H. Small, d., Washington. 
 Second District—Claude Kitchen, d., Scotland Neck. 
 Third District—Chas. R. Thomas, d., NewBerne. 
 ‘Fourth District—Edward W. Pou, d., Smithfield. 
 Fifth District—Wm. W. Kitchen, d., Roxboro. 
 Sixth District—Jno. D. Bellamy, d., Wilmington. 
 Seventh District—Theo. F. Kluttz, d., Salisbury. 
 Hight District—E. Spencer Blackburn, r., Winston. 
 Ninth District—J. M. Moody, r., Waynesville. 
 
 North Carolina State Government. 
 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Governor—Charles Brantley Aycock, of Wayne. 
 
 Private Secretary to Governor—P. M. Pearsall, of Craven. 
 
 Secretary of State—J. Bryan Grimes, of Pitt. 
 
 State Treasurer—Benjamin R. Lacy, of Wake. 
 
 State Auditor—Benj. F. Dixon, of Cleveland. 
 
 Attorney General—Robert D. Gilmer, of Haywood. 
 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction—Thomas F. Toon, of 
 Robeson. 
 
 Adjutant General—B. 8. Royster, of Granville. 
 
 State Librarian—M. O. Sherrill, of Catawba. 
 
 Commissioner of Labor and Printing—Henry B. Varner, of 
 Davidson. 
 
 BOARD OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 First District—E. F. Lamb, Elizabeth City. 
 Second District—J. W. Grainger, Kinston. 
 Third Distriet—W. J. Adams, Carthage. 
 Fourth Distriet—Armistead Jones, Raleigh. 
 Fifth District—C. M. Parks, Hillsboro 
 Sixth District—R. D. Caldwell, Lumberton. 
 Seventh District—A. H. Boyden, Salisbury. 
 Eighth District—Clement Manly, Winston. 
 Ninth District—W. T. Lee, Waynesville. 
 President, Armistead Jones; Secretary, E. FE. Lamb. 
 
 CORPORATION COMMISSION. 
 
 Samuel 
 Henry C. 
 
 Franklin McNeill, of New Hanover, Chairman. 
 L. Rogers, of Macon. D. H. Abbott, of Pamlico. 
 Brown, of Surry, Chief Clerk. 
 
 STATE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 
 James R. Young, of Vance, Insurance Commissioner. 
 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 
 
 S. L. Patterson, Commissioner, Raleigh. 
 
 J. W. Thompson, Immigration Agent, Raleigh. 
 T. K. Bruner, Secretary, Raleigh. 
 
 John S. Cunningham, Chairman, Cunningham. 
 
 The General Assembly. 
 
 SENATE, 
 
 Hon. W. D. Turner, Lieutenant-Governor and President of 
 the Senate. ' 
 
 First District—(Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Hert- 
 ford, Gates, Chowan and Perquimans—W. H. Bray, d., Cur- 
 rituck; C. S. Vann, d., Edenton. 
 
 Second District — (Tyrrell, Washington, Martin, Dare, 
 Beaufort, Hyde and Pamlico)—I. W. Miller,d., Alliance; H. 
 S. Ward, d., Plymouth. 
 
 Third Distriet—(Northampton and Bertie)—S. J. Calvert, 
 d., Jackson. 
 
 Fourth District (Halifax)—E. L. Travis, d., Halifax. 
 
 Fifth District (Edgecombe)—R. H. Speight,d., Wrendale. 
 
 Sixth District (Pitt)—F. G. James, d., Greenville. 
 
 Seventh District (Wilson, Nash and Franklin)—T. M. Ar- 
 rington, d.. Rocky Mount; J. E. Woodard, d., Wilson. 
 
 Eighth District (Craven, Jones, Carteret, Lenoir, Onslow 
 and Greene—J. EK. W. Sugg, d., Snow Hill; T. D. Warren, d., 
 Trenton. 
 
 Ninth District (Duplin, Wayre and Pender)—B. F. Aycock, 
 d., Goldsboro; J. T. Foy, d., Scott’s Hill. 
 
 Tenth District (New Hanover and Brunswick)—George L. 
 Morton, d., Wilmington. 
 
 Eleventh District (Warren and Vance)—J. E. Burroughs, 
 d., Dabney. 
 
 Twelfth District (Wake)—N. B. Broughton, d., Raleigh. 
 
 Thirteenth District (Juhnston)—Allen K. Smith, d., Smith- 
 field. 
 
 Fourteenth District (Sampson, Harnett and Bladen)—Geo. 
 H. Currie, d., Clarkton; E. “. Robeson, p., Tar Heel. 
 
 Fifteenth District (Columbus and Robeson)—Joseph -A. 
 Brown, d., Chadbourn ; Stephen McIntyre, d., Lumberton. 
 
 Sixteenth District (Cumberland)—Jas. D. McNeill, d., Fay- 
 etteville. 
 
 Seventeenth District (Granville and Person)—James A. 
 Long, d., Roxboro. 
 
 Eighteenth District (Caswell, Alamance, Orange and Dur- 
 ham)—R. W. Scott, d., Melville; Howard A. Foushee, d., 
 Durham. 
 
 Nineteenth District (Chatham)—Henry A. London, d., 
 Pittsboro. 
 
 Twentieth District (Rockingham)—William Lindsay, d., 
 Reidsville. 
 
 Twenty-first District (Guilford)—Jas. D. Glenn, d., Greens- 
 boro. 
 
 Twenty-second District (Randolph and Moore)—W. P. 
 Wood d., Asheboro. 
 
 Twenty-third District (Richmond, Scotland, Montgomery, 
 Anson and Union)—Cameron Morrison,d., Rockingham; J. 
 A. Leak, d., Wadesboro. 
 
 Twenty-fourth District (Cabarrus and Stanly)—H. C. 
 McAllister, D., Mt. Pleasant. 
 
 Twenty-fifth District (Mecklenburg)—S. B. Alexander, d., 
 Charlotte. 
 
 Twenty-sixth District (Rowan and Davidson)—John §. 
 Henderson, d., Salisbury ; John C. Thomas, d., Midway. 
 
 Twenty-seventh District (Iredell, Davie and Yadkin)—J. 
 ©. Pinnix. r., Marler; T. M. Stikeleather, p., Turnersburg. 
 
 Twenty-eighth District (Stokes and Surry)—S. E. Mar- 
 shall, r., White Plains. 
 
 Twenty-ninth District (Catawba, Lincoln, Alexander and 
 Wilkes—Thomas J. Dula, r., Wilkesboro; J. O. McIntosh, p., 
 Triangle. 
 
 Thirtieth District (Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga)—H. Mi- 
 chael, r., Rutherford. 
 
 Thirty-first District (Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell 
 and Yancey)—Van. Miller, r., Lenoir; Marion Buchanan, r., 
 Bakersville. 
 
 Thirty-second District (Gaston, Cleveland, Rutherford and 
 Polk)—M. H. Justice, d., Rutherfordton; E. Y. Webb, d., 
 Shelby. 
 
 Thirty-third District (Buncombe, Madison and Haywood)— 
 J. M. Gudger, d., Asheville; W. W. Stringfield, d., Waynes- 
 ville. 
 
 Thirty-fourth District (Henderson, Transylvania, Jackson 
 and Swain)—James M. Candler, r., Dillsboro: 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 Hon. Walter E. Moore of Jackson county, Speaker. 
 
24 
 
 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Alamance—Blijah Long, d., McCays. 
 
 Alleghany—Joseph C. Fields, d., Amelia. 
 
 Ashe—Hiram Weaver, r., Lansing. 
 
 Alexander—C. J. Carson, r., Taylorsville. 
 
 Anson—lL. D. Robinson, @., Wadesboro. 
 
 Beaufort—B. B. Nicholson, d., Washington. 
 
 Bertie—F. D. Winston, d., Windsor. 
 
 Bladen—BF. F. McCullock, d., White Oak. 
 
 Brunswick—Dr. D. B. McNeill, d., Supply. 
 
 Buncombe—Locke Craig, d., Asheville; J. C. Curtis, d., 
 Luther. 
 
 Burke—J. F. Spainhour, d., Morganton. 
 
 Camden—G. C. Barco, d., Camden. 
 
 Chatham—R. H. Hayes, d., Pittsboro; J. D. McIver, d., 
 Corinth. 
 
 Gumberland—E. R. MacKethan, d., Fayetteville; F. R. 
 Hall, d., Falcon. 
 
 Cabarrus—W. W. Morris, d., Concord. 
 
 Caldwell—John B. Isbell, r., Lenoir. 
 
 Carteret—N. W. Taylor, d., Beaufort. 
 
 Caswell—W. S. Wilson, d., Gatewood. 
 
 Catawba—W. B. Gaither, d., Newton. 
 
 Cherokee—W. G. Payne, r., Hot House. 
 
 Chowan—W. D. Welch, d., Gliden. 
 
 Clay—R. T. Coleman, r., Hayesville. 
 
 Cleveland—C. R. Hoey, d., Shelby. 
 
 Columbus—D. GC. Allen, d., Amour. 
 
 Craven—W. B. Pierce, d., NewBerne. 
 
 Currituck—S. M. Beasley, d., Poplar Branch. 
 
 Davidson—H. H. Hartley, d., Tyro Shops. 
 
 Davie—C. M. Sheets, r., Mocksville. 
 
 Dare—C. T. Williams, d., Avon. 
 
 Duplin—D. L. Carlton, d., Kenansville. 
 
 Durham—R. G. Russell, d., South Lowell. 
 
 Edgecombe—E. L. Daughtridge, d., Rocky Mount; B. F. 
 Shelton, d., Speed. 
 
 Forsyth—J. B. Whitaker, Jr., d., Winston-Salem; F. T. 
 Baldwin, Winston-Salem. 
 
 Franklin—W. H. Yarborough, d., Louisburg. 
 
 Gaston—O. F. Mason, d., Dallas. 
 
 Gates—L. L. Smith, d., Gatesville. 
 
 Granville—A. W. Graham, d., Oxford; W. H. P. Jenkins, 
 d., Jeffreys. . 
 
 Graham—W. F. Mauney, d., Robbinsville. 
 
 Greene—F. L. Carr, d., Castoria. 
 
 Guilford—T. E. Whitaker, d., Oak Ridge; Wescott Rober- 
 son, d., High Point. 
 
 Halifax—W. F. Parker,d., Enfield; W. P. White, d., Hob- 
 good. 
 
 Harnett—W. A. Stewart, d. Dunn. 
 
 Haywood—Joe Collins, d., Waynesville. 
 
 Henderson—O. Y. F. Blythe, r., Hendersonville. 
 
 Hertford—L. J. Lawrence, d., Murfreesboro. 
 
 Hyde—Julian Mann, d., Middleton. 
 
 Tredell—A. D. Watts, d., Statesville; Dr. S. W. Stevenson, 
 d., Mooresville. 
 
 Johnston—C,. Richardson, d., Archer; John M. Morgan, 
 d., Benson. 
 
 Jones—A. H. White, d., Pollockville. 
 
 Lenoir—W. W. Carraway, d., Kinston. 
 
 Lincoln—Jack Rheinhardt, d., Reinhardt. 
 
 Macon—H. D. Dean, d., Franklin. 
 
 Madison—I. N. Ebbs, r., Hot Springs. 
 
 Martin—H. W. Stubbs, d., Williamson. 
 
 McDowell—M. F. Morphew, d., Marion. 
 
 Mecklenburg—F. M. Shannonhouse, d., Charlotte; ©. H. 
 Duls, d., Charlotte; W. E. Ardrey, d., Ardrey. 
 
 Mitchell—J. E. Burleson, r., Spruce Pine. 
 
 Montgomery—R. N. Page, d., Bisco. 
 
 Moore—A. A. F. Seawell, d., Jonesboro. 
 
 Nash—C. F. Eilen, d., Rocky Mount. 
 New Hanover—George Rountree, d., Wilmington; M. 8. 
 
 Willard, d., Wilmington. 
 . Northampton—F. R. Harris, d., Jackson. 
 
 Onslow—F rank Thompson, d., Jacksonville. 
 
 Orange—S. M. Gattis, d., Hillsboro. 
 
 Pasquotank—T. P. Nash, d., Elizabeth City. 
 
 Pender—J. R. Bannerman, d., Bannermans. 
 
 Polk—John W. McFarland, r., Poor’s Ford. 
 Pamlico—George Dees, d., Vanceboro. 
 Perquimans—Thomas R. Ward, d., Belvidere. 
 Person—W. T. Bradshaw, d., Roxboro. 
 
 Pitt—W. J. Nichols, d., Greenville; Thomas H. Barnhill, 
 
 d., Grindool. 
 
 Randolph—John T. Brittain, d., Asheboro; Charles Ross, 
 d., Asheboro. 
 
 Richmond—A. J. Little, d., Little’s Mills. 
 
 Robeson—G. D. Patterson, d., Maxton; J. S. Oliver, d., 
 Affinity. 
 
 Rockingham—J. Robert Garrett, d., Thompsonville; J. H. 
 
 Lane, d., Leaksville. 
 
 Rowan—R. Lee Wright, d., Salisbury ; L. H. Rothrock, d., 
 
 Rockwell. 
 
 Rutherford—J. F. Alexander, d., Forest City. 
 Sampson—W. Y. Duncan, p., Clinton; E. B. Owen, p., 
 
 Clinton. 
 
 Scotland—Hector McLean, d., Laurinburg. 
 
 Stanly—M. E. Blalock, d., Norwood. 
 
 Stokes—R. J. Petree, r., Germanton. 
 
 Surry—Samuel G. Brim, r., Dobson. 
 
 Swain—John Burnett, r., Bryson City. 
 
 Transylvania—R. H. Zachary, d., Jeptha. 
 
 Tyrrell—A. W. Owen, d., Columbia. 
 
 Union—R. 8. Bivens, d., Monroe. 
 
 Vance—W. B. Daniel, d., Epsom. 
 
 Wake—E. C. Beddingfield, d., Neuse; John P. Pearson, d., 
 
 Apex; R. N. Simms, d., Raleigh. 
 
 Warren—S. G. Daniel, d., Littleton. 
 
 Washington—T. W. Blount, d., Roper. 
 
 Wautauga—W. H. Calloway, r., Foscoe. 
 
 Wayne—W. R. Allen, d., Goldsboro; George D. Hood, 
 
 ., Goldsboro. 
 
 Wilson—H. G. Connor, d., Wilson. 
 
 . Wilkes—H. L. Green, d., Wilkesboro; Edwin O. Mastin, 
 i 
 
 , Wilkesboro. 
 Yadkin—F. B. Benbow, r., Yadkinville. 
 Yancey—W.M. McIntosh, r., Barnesville. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE SENATE. 
 
 Capt. J. B. Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms, Fayetteville. 
 A. J. Maxwell, Principal Clerk, Rockingham. 
 
 M. L. Shipman, Calendar Clerk, Hendersonville. 
 
 W. A. Campbell, Copying Clerk, Hickory. 
 
 Frank H. Clinard, Engrossing Clerk, Hickory. 
 Walter Cohoon, Reading Clerk, Elizabeth City. 
 Robert H. Boyd, Official Stenographer, Reidsville. 
 W. ©, Christian, Harllee McCall, Committee Clerks. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 Capt. Jas. Bennett, Sergeant-at-Arms. 
 
 Brevard Nixon, Principal Clerk, Charlotte. 
 
 H.C. Cowan, Journal Clerk, Webster. 
 
 Frank D. Hackett, Cashier, Wilkesboro. 
 
 Thomas W. Alexander, Calendar Clerk, Charlotte. 
 Alex. Lassiter, Copying Clerk, Aulander. 
 
 J. Carlisle Nixon, Copying Clerk, Gastonia. 
 
 W.C. Lisk, Assistant Clerk, Lisk. 
 
 Edmund B. Norvelle, Enrolling Clerk, Murphy. 
 
 W. W. Wilson, Reading Clerk, Raleigh. 
 
 Zeb. Vance Jenkens, Clerk to Judiciary Committee, Nash- 
 
 ville. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 25 
 
 Hon. E. L. Travis is a native of Virginia, but has been liv- 
 ing in the town of Halifax, in Halifax county, N. C., since 
 his boyhood. His first work after his school days were over 
 was in the office of John T. Gregory, Esq., who was for years 
 the efficient Clerk of Halifax Superior Court. ; 
 
 Mr. Travis read law under the late R. O. Burton and was 
 licensed to practice in 1890, in the twenty-fourth year of his 
 age. He began the practice of law in partnership with Mr. 
 R. O. Burton, this partnership terminating in 1893, on Mr. 
 Burton’s departure from Halifax. He was afterwards a law 
 partner with Capt. 
 W.H. Day, but has 
 for several years been 
 associated in the 
 practice of his profes- 
 sion with the Hon. 
 Claude Kitchen, the 
 present member of 
 Congress from the 2d 
 District. He has been 
 ever since obtaining 
 his license, actively 
 and successfully 
 practicing his profes- 
 sion in the courts of 
 his section. 
 
 Mr. Travis is a nat- 
 ural leader of men, a 
 born devotee of poli- 
 ties and public affairs 
 and at an early age 
 he became an active 
 and efficient force in 
 the affairs of his 
 county. 
 
 Tn 1896 he was elec- 
 ted chairman of the 
 Democratic Execu- 
 tive Committee of 
 his county, which po- 
 sition he still holds. 
 Under his leadership 
 the Democratic party 
 in Halifax county re- 
 mitted every white 
 man save a ‘“‘baker’s 
 dozen” or so and be- 
 came so irresistible 
 as to totally disor- 
 ganize and break up 
 the opposition. 
 
 Mr. Travis was 
 elected to the State Senate in 1898 and stood at once in the 
 front ranks of the able men of that body. He was elected 
 at the same session a member of the Board of Directors of 
 the State’s Prison, and was’ elected by the Board chairman 
 of its Executive Board, in which position he has done much 
 towards making the past two years’ management successful 
 and popular. 
 
 He was re-elected to the State Senate in 1900, and during 
 the present session has been one of its safest and wisest 
 leaders. A few days ago he was appointed chairman of the 
 Board of State’s Prison Directors by His Excellency Gov. 
 Charles B. Aycock. 
 
 Few men in the party have risen to prominence so rapidly 
 as this sterling and aggressive young statesman from the 
 Roanoke. He is devoted to the State and its best interests. 
 
 SENATOR BE. 
 
 He loves his party and never tires in his party work, and 
 one of the noblest of characteristic is his steadfast loyalty 
 to his friends. His popularity in his district may be known 
 when I state that he overcame one of the largest fusion ma- 
 jorities in the State. Sacrificing time and business for his 
 party, he came to Raleigh and made a record of which any 
 man might well be proud. His hobby is to look after that 
 class of legislation that would tend to put down fraudulent 
 transactions between men. 
 
 In polities, he as a youth imbibed the unadulterated prin- 
 ciples of Democracy, and in the exercise of his franchise has 
 faithfully followed his inherent and natural precepts. 
 
 Of a_genial, pleas- 
 ant manner, unassu- 
 ming and courteous, 
 Senator Travis has 
 made many friends 
 in Raleigh and among 
 his brother Senators, 
 and these are only 
 limited by the num- 
 ber of his acquaint- 
 ances. It may be said 
 that in all matters 
 pertaining to the wel- 
 fare of his State, par- 
 ty and people, Sena- 
 tor Travis’ voice was 
 heard advocating 
 all such, and in doing 
 his duty so faithfully 
 and well that he earn- 
 ed the applause and 
 gratitude of his large 
 and enterprising con- 
 stituency. 
 
 And it gives the 
 writer pleasure to say 
 in concluding this 
 sketch of this estima- 
 ble and popular gen- 
 tleman that to just 
 suezh men the Old 
 North State owes her 
 present excellent 
 standing in the gal- 
 axy of stars that be- 
 jewel ‘‘Uncle Sam’s”’ 
 bright diadem. Such 
 in brief is the career 
 of Hon. HK. L. Travis, 
 the progressive gen- 
 tleman who repre- 
 sents the county of 
 Halifax in the Senate of North Carolina, and who has by his 
 able work as a Senator and as Chairman of the Execu- 
 tive Board of the State Prison made for himself a reputation 
 that few men achieve. His appointment as Chairman of 
 the new Buard of Directors of this Institution is an honor 
 well bestowed upon a man who thoroughly understands the 
 duties attending the position and who will fill it with credit 
 to himself and the Democratic party. 
 
 [ Photo. by Watson. ] 
 
 L. TRAVIS. 
 
 Mrs. Hoon.—I have read an item which declares that insan- 
 ity can be cured by music. 
 
 Mr. Hoon.—The theory is a probable one, I should say. 
 The average amateur cornetist would throw the ordinary 
 lunatic into fits, and almost any physician can cure fits. 
 
26 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. James R. Young. 
 
 When the Legislature of North Carolina created the new 
 Insurance Department in 1891, they performed an act that 
 brings into the State many thousands of dollars annually, 
 and adds one of the most representative of departments to 
 the State. And when the members of that memorable legis- 
 lature selected Mr. James R. Young, of the county of Vance, 
 as Insurance Commissioner, their choice fell upon one of the 
 most capable and efficient of Insurance men, a man who has 
 made a careful study of insurance matters during the past 
 twenty-six years, with a record for success in the field that 
 any man may well feel 
 proud of. Since taking 
 charge of this depar t- 
 ment Mr. Young has 
 thoroughly system a- 
 tized every feature of 
 the insurance depart- 
 ment, starting off by 
 fitting up a neat and at- 
 tractive office in a thor- 
 ough and business like 
 manner, and placing all 
 records and papers 
 where they could be 
 properly handled and 
 the work facilitated. 
 Through his efficient 
 management of his de- 
 partment and firm ad- 
 ministration of the laws, 
 there has been a saving 
 to the citizens of the 
 State in fire insurance 
 alone during the past 
 two years of at least 
 one hundred thousand 
 dollars, which is adirect 
 benefit to the people. 
 through his knowledge 
 of insurance matters and 
 systematic workings of 
 same, the revenues from 
 this department have 
 increased about ten 
 thousand dollars a year. 
 
 Mr. Young has also 
 worked faithfully to 
 have the recent Insur- 
 ance Laws modified, and 
 in this he has been so 
 successful that a num- 
 ber of the old companies, that withdrew from the State a 
 few years ago, have resumed business in North Carolina. 
 Mr. Young has the pleasure of knowing that every recomen- 
 dation he has made to the General Assembly of 1901, with 
 one exception of an additional appropriation of $500 per year 
 for clerical force, was favorably received and adopted. 
 Through his influence laws were passed by the Legislature 
 that increases the work of his department about twenty-five 
 per cent. and raises the revenues of the department at least 
 $20,000 a year. 
 
 The newly elected Governor, realizing the importance of 
 having this department in the hands of a competent man, 
 immediately re-appointed Mr. Young fora term of four yeas, 
 beginning March Ist, 1901. And this was by the way, the 
 first official message the Governor transmitted to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, after taking his seat, which is an honor worth- 
 
 HON. JAMES R. YOUNG. 
 
 ily bestowed upon a man who has by his untiring efforts and 
 ability forged his way to success. 
 Hon. James R. Young, Insurance Commissioner of the 
 
 State of North Carolina, was born in Granville county, Feb- — 
 
 ruary 17th, 1853; he was educated at the Horner School and 
 the Hamden Sidney College, of Virginia, graduating at the 
 latter institution, which was one of the noted colleges of the 
 country. Since his early youth he has been connected with 
 insurance matters and has made a close study of this busi- 
 ness, having conducted an extensive insurance office at Hen- 
 derson, N.C. He was also General Agent for the Nether- 
 lands Life Insurance Co., for North Carolina, and when the 
 insurance department of the State was created, he was the 
 choice of the insurance 
 fraternity of the State 
 for the Commissioner- 
 ship. 
 
 Mr. Young is an Elder 
 in the Presbyterian 
 church at Henderson 
 and prominent in the 
 work of his chureh. In 
 politics he is a Demo- 
 crat in its strictest sense. 
 As a member of the 
 State Executive Com- 
 mittee and chairman of 
 the Metropolitan Con- 
 gressional District, he is 
 a safe counselor and 
 leader. He is an untir-— 
 ing and energetic party 
 worker at all times. 
 
 Mr. Young is person- 
 ally one of those thor- 
 oughly courteous and 
 high-minded gentlemen 
 of the ‘Tar Heel’ State, 
 who win the friendship, 
 confidence and respect 
 ofallwith whom he 
 comes in contact, a man 
 of high principles and 
 an untiring energy and 
 .brain. A man who at 
 the head of this import- 
 ant department, will add 
 many dollars tothe rey- 
 enues of the State and 
 retain the good will of 
 the insurance people by 
 his justness and fairness, 
 while he will at all times 
 require a strict obsery- 
 ance of the laws by them. He is a wide-awake and progres- 
 sive gentleman, who has always enjoyed the confidence and 
 respect of friends in his natal and other counties of the State. 
 He is a staunch Democrat, keeping the faith, and spending 
 his time and money for the ticket at every election. He has 
 always stood out prominently for his political opinions and 
 stcod up for just what he deemed fair, just and right for the 
 public good. Mr. Young is practically a self-made man, who 
 has come to the front by reason of his energy and determi- 
 nation to succeed, overcoming all obstacles by reason of his 
 will power. It gives us pleasure to state, in concluding 
 this sketch of this well-known business man and statesman, 
 that true to every trust reposed in him, Mr. Young has fully 
 met with the wishes and desires of the people of North Caro- 
 lina. His future is a bright one and it is to be hoped that it 
 will even be brighter and greater than the past. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 27 
 
 Capt. J. B. Smith. 
 
 Besides the members of the Senate and House, there are 
 many employes whose work is hardly less important, and 
 these men are essential parts of the machinery of legislation. 
 It is true that they are not heard on the floor in oratory, but 
 they have duties to perform which could not be dispensed 
 with and are important public and State officials. One of 
 these gentlemen, and the one best known, is Capt. J. B. 
 Smith, the popular Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. He has 
 held the position during the past two sessions, and there is 
 no face more familiar arourd the Capitol than his. Tall, 
 
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 CAPT. J: B. SMITH. 
 
 distinguished-looking, with gray hair, he is a prominent fig- 
 ure, and there are few people in Raleigh whodo not know him. 
 
 Capt. Smith is an old Confederate soldier who points with 
 pride to his war record, and well he may, for it is one which 
 any man might well be proud of. Born in Raleigh in 1838, 
 he was in his younger days a marble cutter. 
 broke out Capt. Smith was one of the first to enlist, and 
 joined the First North Carolina Regiment. He was a brave 
 soldier and took part in many engagements. He had the 
 honor of capturing the only prisoner taken at the famous 
 Bethel fight. Shortly afterwards he was transferred to 
 Starr’s Battery, where he made a splendid record for himself 
 and fought nobly for the Confederate cause. 
 
 Soon after the war Capt. Smith went to Fayetteville. He 
 soon began to take an active interest in politics and was four 
 years Postmaster of Fayetteville. For eight years he was 
 Sheriff of Cumberland county. During the fight for White 
 Supremacy in 1898, Capt Smith took an active part and was 
 rewarded by the appointment as Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
 Senate, and again in 1901. He is the typical old Confederate 
 soldier and is a noble specimen of grand old heroes—a class 
 now fast dying out and whom we alj honor and reverence for 
 their noble deeds in the dark days when their services were 
 
 so much needed. They were our defenders and let us con- 
 tinue to heap rewards and honors upon them as long asa 
 single one is left with us. Capt. Smith has faithfully per- 
 formed his duties without giving offense to any one and is 
 justly popular with all with whom he comes in contact. 
 
 When the war . 
 
 Hon. F. A. Whitaker. 
 
 One ef the leading farmers of this section is the Hon. F. A. 
 Whitaker, who was the Senator from Wake county during 
 the session of 1899, and the people of that county never had 
 any reason to regret their choice, for Mr. Whitaker made a 
 most able representative. He was born near Raleigh in 1840, 
 and received his education at Wake Academy. Having spent 
 nearly all his life on a farm, Senator Whitaker has gained 
 great experience in that line and is considered one of the 
 best farmers in the State. 
 
 Mr. Whitaker has always been a staunch Democrat, and 
 was for six years a magistrate in his township, and has held 
 a good many other positions of responsibility. He enjoys the 
 confidence of all who know him. During the session of 1899 
 Senator Whitaker was one of the hardest working members 
 in the Upper House, Not only regular in his attendance 
 upon the daily sessions, he was a member of some of the 
 most important committees. To him must be accredited the 
 authorship of the Wake county bird Jaw and several other 
 laws of importance which received his support. Heisa firm 
 believer in the grand old principles of the Democratic party, 
 and has never voted anything else but the straight Demo- 
 cratic ticket. 
 
 Ex-Senator Whitaker is keenly interested in the welfare of 
 the farmer, and is very prominently connected with the agri- 
 cultural interests of North Carolina. He commands the love 
 
 HON. F. A. WHITAKER. 
 
 and respect of all who know him, and is ever ready to extend 
 a helping hand to the poor and needy. There are few men 
 
 in Wake county who do not know and honor Mr. Whitaker. 
 
 Let us say, in concluding the sketch of this estimable and 
 popular gentleman, that to just such men the Old North 
 State owes her present excellent standing in the galaxy of 
 stars that bejewel ‘‘ Uncle Sam’s”’ bright diadem. True to 
 himself, his constituents and his friends, true to every trust 
 reposed in him, he has made a record of which any man 
 might well feel proud. 
 
 There is not a man in the county of Wake who has done 
 more for his friends and the Democratic party than has Sen- 
 ator F. A. Whitaker. 
 
28 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. Armistead Jones. 
 
 The subject of this sketch is one of the leading lawyers of 
 North Carolina. He began the practice of law at the early 
 age of twenty-two years, and through perseverance, steady 
 and efficient work, he has steadily forged his way to the front 
 and to well merited success. No man stands higher in the 
 hearts of the people of his own county than does Armistead 
 Jones, and none who would sacrifice more for the interests 
 of his people than him. He has been offered many impor- 
 
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 HON. ARMISTEAD JONES. 
 
 tant political positions, but has always preferred to work in 
 the rank and file of Democracy in his own county. He was 
 chairman of the Wake County Democratic Executive Com- 
 mittee in 1898, when the county was redeemed, and chair- 
 man of the State Board of Internal Improvements. He 
 again aided in leading his county to victory in 1900 in a man- 
 ner that demonstrated his ability as an organizer and leader. 
 For a number of years he has been County Attorney of 
 Wake county, which position he filled with honor and credit 
 to both himself and the party. Recently upon the election 
 of Mr. E. W. Pou to Congress, his ability as an attorney was 
 recognized in a substantial manner ‘by Governor Charles B. 
 Aycock, who appointed Mr. Jones Solicitor of the Fourth 
 Judicial Distriet to succeed Mr. Pou, which was an honor 
 worthily bestowed. 
 
 There are few people in the State of North Carolina who do 
 not know Armistead Jones, not only asa lawyer of promi- 
 nence, but as a recognized leader in the Democratic ranks. 
 He has at all times contributed his time and money to ad- 
 vance the best interests of the party, and during campaigns 
 and conventions has been a leading spirit. He is known as 
 one of the best lawyers at the Capital, in the State, and his 
 advice on legal points is frequently sought by his brother 
 practitioners and associates. 
 ranks higher in ability and professional suecess. Some of 
 the most important cases in the courts of this State have 
 been conducted by Mr. Jones, and the result has invariably 
 been favorable to his side of the case. His rare executive 
 power, liberal and general culture, preeminently qualify him 
 for the law. He enjoys a large and lucrative practice in the 
 State and Federal courts, and is one of the most able and 
 learned of counsels. He represents the largest and most in- 
 fluential interests in the State. 
 
 No man in the State at the Bar 
 
 Gen. Thos. F. Toon. 
 
 Thomas F. Toon, the subject of this sketch, is the Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction of the State of North Caro- 
 lina. A man better fitted to fill that position it would be 
 hard to find, as a brief resume of his career and work cannot 
 fail to show. He was born in Columbus county, this State, 
 on June 10, 1840, and his early life was spent on a farm. He 
 attended the county schools and afterwards graduated from 
 Wake Forest College in 1861, with very high honors. 
 
 At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Company K, 
 20th N. C. Regiment, as a private, and was promoted up 
 through the grades of first lieutenant and captain, to that 
 of colonel, all before his twenty-third year. He was later 
 made a brigadier-general, and when General Johnston was 
 wounded was assigned to command his brigade. His army 
 record all through the four years of fighting was a good one, 
 and he was one of the best soldiers in the Confederate Army. 
 He followed “‘Stonewall’’ Jackson, Early and Gordon through 
 the many campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. He was 
 wounded five times and had two horses shot down under him. 
 
 After the war he was a faithful and honored employee of 
 the Atlantic Coast Line for about sixteen years, but gave this 
 up to take charge of Fair Bluff Academy at his home. In 
 1867, he married Miss Carrie Smith, the union being blessed 
 with five children, two boys, both of whom are now in the 
 railroad business, and three girls. 
 
 In 1891, General Toon married for the second time Mrs. R. 
 C. Ward. He moved to Lumberton in Robeson county and 
 devoted himself to teaching in public schools and institutes, 
 and also giving a good deal of attention to farming, astrange 
 combination, but one which Gen. Toon has made very suc- 
 cessful. Having thus had years of experience in the line of 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 GEN. THOMAS F. TOON. 
 
 educational work, he knows the needs of the publie schools 
 of North Carolina perfectly and can meet those require- 
 ments. He brings to his office vigor of body and intelligence 
 of mind, experience of life, and probably most important of 
 all, good, hard common sense. 
 
 General Toon will make a useful and capable officer be- 
 cause his heart is in his work, and it is something that he is 
 interested in. He is thoroughly honest and upright, and we 
 have no doubt that the expectation of his many friends will 
 not be disappointed. He is in no sense a politician, and this 
 is certainly a case of the office seeking the man. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 29 
 
 Falconer B. Arendell. 
 
 Mr. Falconer B. Arendell was born at the village of Roles- 
 ville, Wake county, and is forty-five years of age. His father, 
 William P. Arendell, died when the subject of this sketch 
 was less than five years old. His mother was Permelia A. 
 Young, both natives of Franklin county and members of two 
 of that county’s largest and most prominent families. 
 
 Mr. Arendell was raised by his widowed mother and grand- 
 mother, and because of war and other reverses had but few 
 advantages in his early years. His first work was on a farm 
 at the munificent sum of one dollar per week. At sixteen 
 years of age he came to Raleigh and began clerking in a dry 
 goods store at $12.50 per mouth. The year following he was 
 employed by Leach Bros. at $25.00 per month. He remained 
 with this firm for five 
 years, his salary doub- 
 ling every year but one. 
 He was for two years a 
 member of the firm of 
 Redford & Arendell; 
 after which he went to 
 Chicago, where he _ be- 
 came a member of the 
 commission and broker- 
 age firm of Barbee & 
 Arendell. In 1883 he 
 returned from Chicago 
 and joined Mr. Walter 
 H. Page in the establish- 
 ment of the State Chron- 
 icle. In 1886 he retired 
 from journalism and 
 ventured the mercantile 
 field as a member of the 
 firm of Leach, Page & 
 Arendell. In 1888 this 
 copartnership termin- 
 ated, Mr. Arendeli re- 
 moving to Salisbury 
 where he was engaged 
 for several years in the 
 real estate, mining and 
 commission business. 
 He returned to Raleigh 
 in 1893 and became busi- 
 ness manager and staff 
 correspondent of the 
 News & Observer, which 
 position he filled until 
 January, 1899, when he 
 was appointed to the 
 position he now holds— 
 General Manager and 
 Purchasing Agent of the 
 State’s Prison. Mr. Arendell has been for many years re- 
 garded as one of the best business men in Raleigh, and he 
 had the confidence and esteem of his associates and friends 
 always. Asanall-round journalist he has had but few equals 
 and no superior in North Carolina in recent years. He has 
 done more to inform the people of the State and the outside 
 world of the State’s resources, developed and undeveloped, 
 than any man in his profession. His work for the Demo- 
 cratic party is well known. As Managerof the State’s Prison 
 he has done much towards making that institution what it 
 is today—one of the best managed and most successful in- 
 stitutions of its kind in all the country. 
 
 There are few men in the State of North Carolina who are 
 better known than is the gentleman whose name heads this 
 
 FALCONER B. 
 
 sketch. As a news and industrial writer, he has, perhaps, 
 covered more fully the State of North Carolina than any 
 journalist who has ever resided in the State. And from his 
 versatile pen many interesting articles have become public 
 about the advancement of the State’s agricultural, mining 
 and manufacturing resources ; and for newspapers and mag- 
 azines he has written beautiful and interestingly descriptive 
 articles about the magnificent scenic attractions of his State. 
 He has in handsomely illustrated editions issued histories of 
 our cotton mill industries, our lumber plants and interests, - 
 our immense water facilities, our summer resorts and many 
 other business enterprises. 
 
 When ‘‘Falk’’ Arendell retired from active newspaper 
 work a year or so ago to take the business management of 
 the State’s Prison, the newspapers lost a valuable writer and 
 representative; but, like the true Democrat he is, he saw 
 that he could help his 
 party substantially in 
 his new field, and he 
 temporarily abandoned 
 the old, and he has aided 
 the Directors of the 
 State’s Prison in making 
 a record that is indeed 
 of rare credit to them, 
 to the Democratic party 
 and to the officers con- 
 nected with the institu- 
 tion. 
 
 For the first time in 
 its history the State’s 
 Prison has come forward 
 with a money balance to 
 its credit and asks no 
 help from the General 
 Assembly, which simply 
 demonstrates that the 
 Board of Directors and 
 officials looking after the 
 business end of this in- 
 stitution are not only 
 able financiers, but men 
 whom the State has just 
 and good cause to be 
 proud of—men who are 
 demonstrating that 
 State institutions of this 
 kind can, with proper 
 management, be made 
 self-sustaining. 
 
 This is the kind of tim- 
 ber that carries the 
 grand old Democratic 
 party to victory, and 
 wins the commendation 
 of the people of North 
 Carolina. Withsuch men as Senator Travis at the helm, 
 aided by business men like Falk Arendell, this institution 
 has a bright financial future. Success to you, gentlemen. 
 
 { Photo. by Watson. ] 
 ARENDELL. 
 
 ‘*Bobby asked me what a philosopher was.”’ 
 
 ‘“What did you tell him?” 
 
 ‘“*T told him a philosopher was a person who could trump- 
 up dozens of good reasons why other people ought to be per- 
 fectly satisfied with their lot in life.”—Puck. 
 
 No, Adela, book-agents have not what is known as second 
 wind. Prize-fighters have; but book-agents have not. They 
 do not need it. They never lose their first wind. 
 
30 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 The Hon. W. RB. Allen, the distinguished representative 
 from Wayne, has few equals in the House when it comes to 
 earnestness and logical debate. A keen reasoner, a clear 
 thinker, and a man who is quick to see and recognize the 
 points in a case, he has made himself a power in the lower 
 House. When he rises to speak his arguments carry weight 
 with them and his influence over the members is very great 
 and is always on the right side. Although but forty-one 
 
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 HON. W. R. ALLEN. 
 
 years old, Judge Allen has had a busy career. He was born 
 in Duplin county, this State, in 1860, and lived there until 
 he was twenty-one years old. He was educated at Trinity 
 College, and received his license to practice law in 1881. He 
 resides in Goldsboro and has a large practice and is popular 
 with all who know him. He is one of the best known law- 
 yers in the State and there have been few important legal 
 cases in the eastern part of the State which he has not been 
 connected in the last fifteen years. 
 
 Judge Allen has for some time been one of the shining 
 lights of the Democratic party. In 1893 he was a member 
 of the Legislature, and immediately took rank as one of the 
 leading members. The following year he was Judge for the 
 Fourth Judicial District, which position he held until Jan- 
 uary 1, 1895. In the campaign of 1898, a memorable era in 
 the history of North Carolina, Judge Allen was an active 
 
 leader in the ranks of the Democratic party in his county, 
 and was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 1,100 
 votes. As before, he ranked among the leaders. 
 
 Last year he was elected to represent Wayne county for 
 the third time, and during the session just past added to the 
 laurels already won by him. He is chairman of the Judi- 
 ciary Committee, the most important committee in the 
 House. Some of the bills submitted to this committee for 
 consideration have created much interest and been widely 
 discussed. 
 
 Judge Allen was chairman of the Committee of Impeach- 
 ment of the House and in this capacity gave great satisfac- 
 tion to all. His speech in support of the measure was one 
 of the ablest delivered and was a masterpiece of vratory and 
 his management on the floor gave evidence of great ability 
 as a parliamentarian. ; 
 
 Hon. George Rountree. 
 
 The gentleman, whom it is our pleasure to briefly mention 
 here, has become noted throughout the State as one of North 
 Oarolina’s ablest lawyers and statesmen. He is aman who 
 does not seek public office, but when it is tendered to him 
 he accepts the call of his party and his constituents. He is 
 today recognized as a lawer second to none in the State, and 
 is thoroughly familiar with almost every act, public and pri- 
 vate, of North Carolina. He is a distinguished member of 
 
 HON. GEORGE ROUNTREE. 
 
 the Democratic party, and should he desire greater political 
 honors, they are easily within his grasp. 
 
 Hon. George Rountree was born in Kinston, N.C. His ed- 
 ucation was received at Bethel College, W. Va., and he after- 
 wards graduated at Harvard University, so that he entered 
 the battle of life as thoroughly equipped mentally as any 
 man could well be. His academic education completed, Mr. 
 Rountree took up the study of law, and now has a large 
 practice in the city of Wilmington where he resides. 
 
 In the campaign of 1899 he was nominated for the General 
 Assemb'y, and conducted a fearless campaign, not hesitating 
 to make speeches in the stronghold of the enemy. He was 
 elected by the largest majority ever given a candidate in 
 New Hanover county. In the session of 1899, and also in that 
 of 1901, of which he was a member, Mr. Rountree was one of 
 the leaders on the floor and was instrumental in getting 
 through the House many important bills. His speech favor- 
 ing the impeachment of Judges Douglas and Furches was a 
 masterpiece of oratory and one of the best arguments on that 
 case. He was one of the managers who conducted the im- 
 peachment proceedings. 
 
 Mr. Rountree is an enterprising and progressive gentle- 
 man, a citizen that his county is proud of, and a man who is 
 ever ready to do that which tends to the advancement of 
 New Hanover county and North Carolina. He has aided in 
 making laws that are just and in the best interests of our 
 people. 
 
 Mr. Rountree is acommanding figure on the floor, although 
 youthful in appearance. Tall, graceful and earnest, he en- 
 forces attention and never fails to receive it. Personally, he 
 isa man of pleasant and entertaining manner, a gifted talker, 
 and a gentleman whom it is a pleasure to meet. His strong 
 work during campaigns and in the General Assembly have 
 been recognized by his party in many ways, and should he 
 desire it there are many offices to which he could be elected. 
 
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TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 31 
 
 Hon. Walter E. Moore. 
 
 When we write of the Hon. Walter E. Moore we write of 
 aman who, by personal worth and ability, has come to be 
 regarded as one of the leading men of the State. Itisa 
 well-known feature of humanity to feel a certain admiration 
 for the man who has attained success by virtue of personal 
 effort, and the subject of our brief sketch certainly comes 
 under this category. 
 
 Mr. Moore is a North Carolinian by birth, having first seen 
 the light of day at White Sulphur Springs, near Asheville, 
 in Buncombe county. His education was received at the 
 schools of his native county and at Candler College. After- 
 wards (until he was 
 about eighteen) he 
 worked on a farm for a 
 number of years; but, 
 . being of an ambitious 
 disposition and thinking 
 that the profession of 
 law offered better 
 chances, he took up the 
 study of Blackstone. 
 Studying hard at night 
 and working at his trade 
 all day, he is another ex- 
 ample of what may be 
 accomplished by the en- 
 ergetic young man who 
 desires to be something 
 in the world. It is the 
 repetition of the life- 
 story of many of Ameri- 
 ca’s distinguished self- 
 made men. The young 
 man who starts life thus 
 handicapped and has the 
 determination and the 
 self-denial to override 
 difficulties in his path, is 
 pretty sure to succeed, 
 and the Hon. Walter E. 
 Moore was no exception. 
 
 After attending the 
 law school of Dick and 
 Dillard, at Greensboro, 
 he was admitted to the 
 Bar, in January, 1850, 
 and located the same 
 year at Webster, Jack- 
 son county, where he has 
 since resided in the ac- 
 tive practice of his pro- 
 fession, in which he has 
 been unusually success- 
 ful. On January 10th, 1£88, he married Miss Laura Enloe, 
 the daughter of Capt. W. A. Enloe, and seven children—four 
 of whom are now living—blessed the union. 
 
 Tn the year 1893 Mr. Moore was nominated and elected a 
 member of: the General Assembly by a good majority, and 
 in 1898 was again elected, by a majority of 216. 
 
 During the session of 1899 Mr. Moore was one of the most 
 prominent members of the House and introduced many im- 
 portant bills. A great deal of his time was also given to 
 committee work, and he was a member of several of the 
 most important committees. When the House went into a 
 Committee of the Whole, Mr. Moore was chosen chairman 
 and was the presiding officer during the period. 
 
 Mr. Moore was re-elected to the Legislature in 1900, and 
 
 HON. WALTER E. MOORE, 
 
 when the Democratic caucus met to choose their candidate 
 for Speaker, the choice fell upon him. The important work 
 done by Mr. Moore in the previous sessions, his distinguished 
 appearance, his reputation as a parliamentarian and his pop- 
 ular manners, all combined to make him the logical candi- 
 date for this high office. His record during the session 
 proves that the trust imposed upon him by his fellow Demo- 
 crats was not misplaced. He is one of the most popular 
 Speakers North Carolina has ever had. An able presiding 
 officer, just in all of his decisions, and withal firm when ne- 
 cessity required it, he has given great satisfaction to all. 
 Praise of the manner in which Mr. Moore has filled the posi- 
 tion he holds comes from Republicans as well as Democrats, 
 and the members of the minority appreciate the respectful 
 
 ‘ courtesy which he has 
 shown them on all occa- 
 sions. 
 
 Mr. Moore is a devo- 
 ted Democrat, and one 
 ot the most honorable 
 men in North Carolina. 
 His acquaintance with 
 the people of all sections 
 is extensive, and his 
 knowledge of the wants 
 and needs of every sec- 
 tion of the State is sec- 
 ond to that of no politi- 
 cian in North Carolina. 
 He has ever given atten- 
 tion to matters of public 
 interest that affect the 
 welfare of the people, 
 and his comprehensive 
 mind is able to grasp 
 their details and fully 
 understand them. 
 
 Asa citizen he isa man 
 among men, and we may 
 here say that in writing 
 sketches of our honored 
 men we find, as a rule, 
 that words of praise 
 easily troop from our 
 pen, but in the sketch 
 of the Hon. Walter E. 
 Moore we fail to find 
 words of mouth or marks 
 of pen that will in the 
 least do justice to such 
 a wholesouled and hon- 
 est man. He is all that 
 aman could be; full in 
 heart and broad in mind ; 
 patriotic in deeds and 
 noble in character; as 
 brave as a lion, yet as gentle and loving as a child ; an ardent 
 supporter of all that is right and an avowed enemy to that 
 which is wrong. 
 
 Mr. Moore is indeed a model man, and his life should be 
 an admonition pressed home to the hearts of the young men 
 who are beginning the battle of life. 
 
 In concluding the sketch of this Democratic citizen, law- 
 yer and statesman, the writer would say to him: ‘‘May your 
 future life be one of even more success and happiness than 
 your past, and may you long live among the good people of 
 North Carolina.” 
 
 (Photo. by Wharton. ]} 
 
 Many a home has been made happy by the neighbors mind- 
 ing their own business. 
 
32 
 
 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. H. B. Varner. 
 
 Responsibility is always commensurate with power and 
 influence, and since the influence of a man ina publie posi- 
 tion is so great, his responsibility must be equally so. Henry 
 B. Varner is a man who never shirked a responsibility, nor 
 wielded an influence that he did not believe was good and 
 right. There are men who boast that they are familiar with 
 all the tricks of the political game, but Mr. Varner never 
 made any such boast. He has accomplished what he has 
 through deserved merit. Solely and alone he has made the 
 fight, open-handed and above board, and has won. 
 
 Mr. Varner was born on April 12th, 1870, and received his 
 nomination to the position to which he has been elected on 
 his birthday. Mr. : 
 Varner was born and 
 reared on a farm, and 
 consequently did not 
 have any educational 
 advantages other 
 than those offered by 
 the public schools of 
 the neighborhood. 
 He worked on the 
 farm and attended 
 school for some weeks 
 or months at a time 
 until he was almost 
 grown. He then be- 
 came an agent of the 
 Pomona Nurseries. 
 and travelled exten- 
 sively all over Wes- 
 tern North Carolina 
 in that capacity. Dur- 
 ing President Cleve- 
 land’s second admin- 
 istration Mr. Varner 
 held a position in the 
 revenue service. 
 
 On May 4th, 1896, 
 Mr. Varner resigned 
 his position to become 
 editor of the Lexing- 
 ton Dispatch, which 
 he has conducted 
 with great success. 
 When Mr. Varner 
 took charge, the pa- 
 per had a circulation 
 of about 600 or 700 
 subseribers, which, 
 under Mr. Varner’s 
 
 20th day of December, 1900, to Miss Florence Comstock. 
 He was elected Commissioner of Labor and Printing at the 
 August election, receiving 186,493 votes against 126,480 for J. 
 T. Hamrick, his competitor. 
 
 Mr. Varner is a devoted Democrat and one of the most 
 honorable men in North Carolina. His record in the position 
 to which he has been elected and in the performance of the 
 duties thereof will, no doubt, be commensurate with his past 
 life, which has been conducted on the highest fixed princi- 
 ples and which has ever won for him the respect and confi- 
 dence of the people; and his unaffected politeness, his cour- 
 tesy and frankness have made him.a host of strong personal 
 friends wherever he has been. 
 
 As a speaker and campaigner, Mr. Varner has few equals, 
 and in the fight of 
 1898 he stirred the 
 hearts and minds of 
 the people as they 
 had never been stirr- 
 ed before. Wherever 
 he went he aroused 
 the people to the im- 
 portance of the issues 
 of the day and left 
 behind him a deter- 
 mination to win and 
 an enthusiasm for the 
 eause of Democracy 
 and White Suprema- 
 cy such as had not. 
 been seen in his sec- 
 tion before. 
 Prominent among 
 Mr. Varner’s person- 
 al traits is his sound 
 and discriminating 
 judgment and his 
 fearlessand impartial 
 discharge of official 
 and private duties. 
 He is a man of spot- 
 less integrity and 
 quick apprehension, 
 accuracy ,method and 
 faithfulness in busi- 
 ness. These qualities 
 make him an aec- 
 knowledged leader. 
 Decision of charac- 
 ter, tact and sagacity 
 are indicated in every 
 line of his strong, 
 earnest face, and 
 
 able and enterprising 
 management, hasrun 
 _up to almost 4,000. 
 
 Mr. Varner has been Chairman of the Democratic Execu- 
 tive Comniittee of his county since 1897, and held that posi- 
 tion during the memorable campaign of 1898 when the ma- 
 jority in the county was changed from 900 Republican to 600 
 Democratic. Mr. Varner was also at one time a member of 
 the State Democratic Executive Committee. 
 
 Mr. Varner is a Mason,a Knight of Pythias, and a member 
 of the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Although not 
 a member of any church, he attends the services of the Pres- 
 byterians. He is held in high regard by members of the 
 newspaper profession and has twice been a delegate to the 
 National Editorial Association, and is a member of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of that body. He was married on the 
 
 HON. H. 
 
 B. 
 
 when united with his 
 strong physique, the 
 picture is complete of 
 aman born to achieve success and to command the confi- 
 dence of his associates. It is doubtful if the party ever had 
 a more valuable leader than Mr. Varner. In public positions, 
 asin private life, an unswerving line of honesty and fair 
 dealing has marked his course, and he has always commanded 
 the respect and admiration of even his enemies. Such qual- 
 ities as devotion to duty, a strict sense of business integrity 
 and a broad and liberal sympathy toward all, cannot help 
 but be admired. He is ever ready to listen when appealed 
 to, and his sure and ripe judgment never fail to solve a prop- 
 osition placed before him. He is both warm and outspoken 
 in his defense of justice, despising the mean and false, and 
 firm and unwavering in his friendship. 
 
 [Photo. by Wharton. ] 
 
 VARNER, 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 33 
 
 Adjt. Gen. B. S. Royster. 
 
 Among the most popular of the present State officials is 
 General Beverly S. Royster, the Adjutant General of our 
 State Guard. He is a native of Granville county, a section 
 that has given to the State some of her most famous citizens. 
 
 Gen. Royster was born January 17th, 1865, and is a mem- 
 ber>of a very distinguished Southern family, his ancestors 
 having been Virginians. His grandfather on his mother’s 
 side, Col. William Robards, was well-known throughout the 
 State, having at one time occupied the position of State 
 Treasurer. Gen Royster’s father, Col. S. 8. Royster, was a 
 member of the famous Secession Convention. With such 
 ancestry it is not re- 
 markable that the 
 subject of our sketch 
 should have inher- 
 ited those traits and 
 abilities that have 
 brought him success. 
 His education was 
 received at Horner’s 
 School at Henderson, 
 and under the tutor- 
 ship of U. V. Wat-_ 
 kins, near Stovall. 
 At the age of sixteen 
 he engaged in the 
 drug Business at 
 Williamsboro, and 
 remained therein for 
 about seven years. 
 Gen. Royster studied 
 law under Judge 
 Robert. W. Winston, 
 and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1€88 dur- 
 ing the September 
 term of the Supreme 
 Court. He is now 
 the senior member of 
 the law firm of Roys- 
 ter and Hobgood, of 
 Oxford. a firm well- 
 known throughout 
 the State and one 
 that enjoys a large 
 practice. 
 
 General Royster’s 
 military record has 
 been a distinguished 
 one, from the time 
 he joined Co. E., 
 Third Regiment, the 
 “Granville Grays”’ as 
 a private. His ability was soon seen and rewarded and he 
 was promoted successively to be Corporal, Sergeant, Lieu- 
 tenant, Captain, Major, Assistant Inspector General, and 
 finally, on December Ist, 1898, he received the appointiment 
 of Adjutant General of the State Guard, with the rank of 
 Brigadier General. During the time in which he has held 
 office the condition of the State Guard has very much im- 
 proved, the organization having been in very bad shape at 
 the time General Royster took charge of it, on account of 
 the Spanish-American war. General Royster’s long mili- 
 tary career thoroughly fits him for the important office he now 
 holds, and the interest he has in the department is mani- 
 festing itself in the increased efficiency of the Guard. He 
 was reappointed by the present administration. 
 
 ADJUTANT GENERAL B. 8. 
 
 General Royster takes great pride in his section of the 
 State and was four times elected mayor of Oxford, his home 
 town, and for a number of years was chairman of the Board 
 of Education of the county. As city attorney and county 
 attorney he made an excellent record and proved his legal 
 skill. In politics he is a Democrat in the strongest sense of 
 the word and has done much to advance the interests of the 
 party, being a member of the State Executive Committee, 
 and chairman of the County Committee. As a proof of his 
 skill as a political worker it may be stated that Granville 
 county gave a Democratic majority of over one thousand at 
 the last election, whereas four years previously, the Repub- 
 licans carried the county. 
 
 He is very prominent in Masonry and Odd Fellowship, be- 
 
 , ing Grand Represen- 
 tative of the North 
 Carolina Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and Grand Mas- 
 ter of the Masons of 
 the State. He is a 
 consistent member of 
 the Baptist church. 
 Personally, General 
 Royster is a gentle- 
 man of fine manners, 
 courteous and affa- 
 ble to all and is one 
 of the most popular 
 men in North Caro- 
 lina, and we predict 
 great things for him 
 in the future, as we 
 have no doubt that 
 the people of the 
 State will continue 
 to reward his abili- 
 ties and his interest 
 in their welfare, as 
 they have done in the 
 past. 
 
 Through his able 
 work and influence, 
 the North Carolina 
 State Guard is today 
 one of the most cred- 
 itable in the South- 
 ern States, and is 
 continually being ad- 
 vanced. General 
 Royster is a man who 
 takes great pride in 
 the efficiency of the 
 State troops and he 
 has, by selecting good 
 material for his staff 
 and officials, secured the representative people of the State. 
 With such men at the head of our State militia, it has a 
 bright and brilliant future. There are few men in the State 
 who are better or more favorably known than is this dis- 
 tinguished military man. He has by his splendid work made 
 a record for himself that is not only creditable to himself, 
 but to the State of North Carolina as well. 
 
 With such a man at the head, a brilliant future presents 
 itself to the State militia. 
 
 [ Photo. by Watson. ] 
 ROYSTER, 
 
 “To what do you attribute the decline of the stage?”’ 
 
 “To the critics. When they say a play is good the public 
 doesn’t believe it. When they condemn it, curiosity drives 
 them to see it.” 
 
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 34 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. E. C. Beddingfield. 
 
 In preparing this handsome publication as a souvenir and 
 historical record of the campaign of 1900, it gives the writer 
 pleasure to give credit where credit is due, and to speak of 
 the distinguished farmer and statesman of Wake, who has 
 given his time and energy to the cause of Democracy, the 
 Hon. E. C. Beddingfield. This gentleman is 38 years old and 
 was born on the plantation where he now resides, about six 
 miles of the city of Raleigh. He was educated in the private 
 and public schools of the county, and since his early boyhood 
 has taken an active interest in the success and advancement 
 
 { Photo. by Wharton. ] 
 TION, E. C. BEDDINGFIELD. 
 
 of the Democratic party. In 1889 his ability as a leader was 
 recognized by the people of the county of Wake, and he was 
 elected to the Legislature and made an able representative. 
 In 1890 he was elected Secretary of the State Farmers’ Alli- 
 ance, which position he filled with credit and honor to him- 
 self and the people ef North Carolina. In 1§91 he was elected 
 a member of the board of Railroad Commissioners for a term 
 of six years. As a member of this important Commission he 
 looked after the best interests of the people of our State ina 
 manner that won for him the confidence and respect of all 
 who knew him. In 1897 the State was captured by the Fu- 
 
 sionists, and the Legislature appointed a Fusion crowd in - 
 
 charge of this important office. Mr. Beddingfield was nomi- 
 nated in caucus by the Democrats and he received more than 
 the party strength. In 1898 the Democratic party regained 
 control of the Legislature and abolished the office of Rail- 
 road Commissioners and established a Corporation Commis- 
 sion, and Mr. Beddingfield was re-elected a member of this 
 board. The incumbent at the time, who was a Republican, 
 fought this appointment, and the case was tried in the courts 
 as to who should hold the office. The Supreme Court, when 
 the matter came before them, being controlled by the Re- 
 publicans, declared that the office belonged to the Republi- 
 cans, and Mr. Beddingtield was unseated. He had made one 
 of the most able members of this important commission and 
 received the commendation of his friends and constituents. 
 He was soon afterwards nominated for the Legislature to 
 represent the county of Wake, and was elected by a major- 
 ity of 1,250 votes, and today is one of the most able and rep- 
 resentative members of the General Assembly of the grand 
 old State of North Carolina. 
 
 Hon. Alex. H. White. 
 
 The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is not only a 
 distinguished lawyer and statesman, but is a well-known 
 educator and promoter of educaticn, being principal of the 
 Jones County Male and Female Academy, one of the pro- 
 gressive educational institutions of the State. 
 
 Representative White is one of the most prominent men 
 of his county, being chairman of the Board of Education and 
 enjoying the confidence of those who know him. His popu- 
 larity was evidenced during the recent campaign when he 
 was nominated for the Legislature ; in fact, he demonstrated 
 his ability during the famous White Supremacy campaign of 
 1898 as one of the foremost political orators of the State, and 
 during the recent fight he was the recognized leader in the 
 county of Jones, and he made a vigorous and energetic cam- 
 paign for the Constitutional Amendment and Democracy, 
 and was returned to the Legislature by a majority of 332 
 votes. And since taking his seat as a member of the House 
 of Representatives he has been a hard and representative 
 fighter for the educational cause, and his efforts have been 
 recognized by the leading statesmen of the State, who have 
 coincided with him in their views, many being led by his 
 masterly way of presenting the facts to them. 
 
 Mr. White was chosen by the Democrats on account of his 
 long personal friendship for Senator Simmons, to place that 
 distinguished statesman in nomination for the United States 
 Senate; and he, in a brilliant speech before the House of 
 Representatives, recited incidents and scenes in the life of 
 that popular gentleman in a manner that won for him the 
 commendation of the entire body and placed the nomination 
 before his colleagues in a masterly manner. 
 
 This well-known lawyer and statesman was born in Jones 
 county, near the town of Pollocksville, thirty-two years ago, 
 
 [ Photo. by Watson.] 
 HON. ALEX. H. WHITE. 
 
 and in his boyhood days he was, on account of his kind heart 
 and quickness of perception, a favorite with his many friends 
 and playmates, and today he has the respect and confidence 
 of them all. He has risen by his own individual efforts to a 
 position of trust and confidence of the people—a law maker, 
 amember of the State Legislature. He is a gentleman of 
 pleasing manner, quick to champion the cause of right and 
 justice and very popular with his friends and colleagues; a 
 man who is a credit to our State. 
 
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TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 35 
 
 Hon. E. L. Daughtridge. 
 
 One of the most able and influential members of the 
 House of Representatives of the great State of North Caro- 
 linais the Hon. E. L. Daughtridge, ‘‘the gentleman from 
 Edgecombe,’’ who is perhaps, one of the most influential 
 farmers and publie men in his section of the State. Mr. 
 Daughtridge was born in the county he has the pleasure and 
 honor of representing, thirty-eight years ago, and he has 
 spent his younger days looking after his farming interests 
 
 [ Photo. by Watson. } 
 HON. BE. L. DAUGHTRIDGE. 
 
 and now has several of the best paying farms in the State. 
 He raises a large amount of cotton and tobacco as well as 
 other staples. He resides in a handsome country home 
 about two miles from the town of Rocky Mount. 
 
 Mr. Daughtridge was educated at private schools and fin- 
 ished up at the Bingham Military School, and today he is an 
 ardent military advocate and takes a great deal of interest 
 in the encampments. He was Captain of Company D, Rocky 
 Mount Light Infantry, and took the boys of his company to 
 the encampment at Morehead City recently and while there 
 he saw that they had all the pleasures that could be had 
 around that seaside resort. 
 
 Mr. Daughtridge was county commissioner of his county 
 for two years, and when the recent campaign opened he was 
 chosen by acclamation by the county Democratic Convention 
 as the candidate for the Legislature, and he entered the field 
 and made one of the most vigorous and brilliant campaigns 
 ever made in the county of Edgecombe. The result was that 
 he was elected by the handsome majority of twenty-five 
 hundred votes and his popularity among the people was 
 demonstrated very forcibly. Asa member of the House of 
 Representatives he has made an able representative of his 
 people and is perhaps one of the most popular men of the 
 House. 
 
 He is a member of the committee on Priveliges and Elec- 
 tions, Finance, Penal Institutions, and is chairman of that 
 important committee, Agriculture, and he was at all times in 
 attendance at the meetings of these committees faithfully 
 looking after the interests of his constituents and effective 
 legislation, and he has made a record for himself that many 
 a shrewd politician might well envy. He is the recognized 
 leader of the farmer element of the Legislature and very 
 popular with all who know him. Wecongratulate the county 
 of Edgecombe upon being so well represented in the General 
 Assembly of North Carolina. 
 
 Hon. Nelson W. Taylor. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Beaufort, Carteret 
 county, forty-four years ago, where he spent his boyhood 
 days, receiving his education at the public schools of that 
 city by the sea. Mr. Taylor has at all times been an ardent 
 Democrat, always ready and willing to do anything that 
 would advance the interests of the Democratic party, and 
 he has been one of the substantial business men of the city 
 of Beaufort for many years, where he is today one of the 
 most influential citizens. He has never sought any political 
 office, yet for fourteen years he has been the County Treas- 
 urer of Carteret county, which position he has filled with 
 honor and credit to the Democratic party and to himself. 
 
 When the famous fight for White Supremacy and the Con- 
 stitutional Amendment were the main issues of the campaign 
 just fought, Mr. Taylor was sought out by his party and 
 asked to make the canvass and enter the race for the Legis- 
 lature; and while he was not a candidate for the office, not 
 being a politician for the sake of office, but an ardent Demo- 
 crat, he accepted the honor for the best interests of the 
 party and made a vigorous campaign. His efforts resulted 
 in his election by a majority of 364 votes. Since taking his 
 seat in the Legislature,.Mr. Taylor has been a careful watcher 
 of legislative acts, and was ready at all times to oppose any 
 legislation that was not for the best interests of the State, 
 and carefully looking after any measure that would benefit 
 the interests of his constituents. 
 
 Mr. Taylor is a gentleman who makes friends wherever he 
 goes, and he is a representative that Carteret county may 
 well feel perfectly satisfied to have looking after her inter- 
 
 [| Photo. by Watson. ] 
 
 HON. NELSON W. TAYLOR. 
 
 ests in such important matters as may come up for the ap- 
 proval of the Legislature. 
 
 As a member of a number of important committees he has 
 performed able and efficient service and has always been a 
 close attender, watching faithfully in the interest of his 
 State for the prompt passage of all important matters; and 
 today he is one of the most popular members of the General 
 Assembly. 
 
 Mr. Taylor was recently elected President of the Bank of 
 Beaufort, a newly organized financial institution, which has 
 a bright future before it. Mr. Taylor is an able financier, 
 and will no doubt make this institution a success and credit 
 to Eastern North Carolina. 
 
36 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. Geo. i De Hood. 
 
 One of the most pleasant things in this life is for a writer 
 to write pleasant and interesting sketches about the success 
 of young men; those, especially, who have risen to the front 
 ranks by their own individual efforts. In this connection, 
 the subject of this sketch is a young statesman who is cary- 
 ing out for himself a future that looks bright and rosy in- 
 deed. A few years ago George Hood started in life as tele- 
 graph messenger. Shortly after he became an operator, 
 working for the Western Union Telegraph Company and the 
 Southern Railway. At the same time he was studying law 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 
 HON. GEO, E, HOOD. 
 
 and planning a future for himself. Today heis a member of 
 the State Legislature, sent there by the people who have 
 known and associated with him from childhood up; by peo- 
 ple who were in position to know and recognize his ability ; 
 and since taking his seat as a member of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives he has introduced and earried through, like an 
 old campaigner, anumber of important bills that tend to 
 advance legislation and the interests of his State. 
 
 Mr. Hood was born in the county of Wayne (which county 
 he has the honor to represent today) twenty-six years ago. 
 He received his education at public schools, and at the age 
 of fifteen years left school and began working as a messenger 
 boy. At the age of twenty-one years he was admitted to the 
 Bar, and is the youngest member of the Goldsboro Bar to- 
 day. He was aided in his studies by that brilliant legal ad- 
 viser, Col. I. F. Dortch. 
 
 Mr. Hood is the son of the late E. B. Hood, who was eleeted 
 County Treasurer in 1897. At his father’s death he was ap- 
 pointed to fill out his father’s unexpired term, which he did 
 with honor and credit to those who appointed him and to 
 himself. 
 
 During the recent campaign Mr. Hood and Judge W. R. 
 Allen were honored by their party with the nomination for 
 the State Legislature, and they made a most thorough can- 
 vass for the Democratic party and the Constitutional Amend- 
 ment in their county and were elected by the largest major- 
 ity ever polled in Wayne county by Democratic candidates, 
 which is a record that any young man might well feel erp 
 of. Mr. Hood is a member of the Judiciary, the Corpora- 
 tion, the Railroads and the Committee on Education, on 
 each of which he has rendered valuable services. 
 
 fee: WwW. as Steomark 
 
 The youngest member of the House of Representatives, 
 and yet one of the brightest and brainiest of the younger 
 members of this body, is that able and well-known young 
 Democrat who has the honor of representing the county of 
 Harnett, Hon. W. A. Stewart. He was born in that county 
 on the 18th day of August, 1875, near the townof Dunn. He 
 
 ’ was educated at the private schools of the county and Buie’s 
 
 Creek Academy, after which he studied law at the Univer- 
 sity of North Carolina, and was admitted to the Bar in 1897, 
 shortly after forming a partnership with F. B. Jones; and 
 while a member of this firm he entered the political arena 
 in the interest of white supremacy and made a personal can- 
 vass for his partner, securing for him the nomination for the 
 State Senate and personally handling his canvass for him, 
 He handled this campaign in such a masterly manner that 
 Mr. Jones was elected to the Senate. Shortly after this he 
 dissolved the partnership existing between Senator Jones 
 and himself and formed a partnership with that bright and 
 well-known lawyer, Mr. Godwin, under the firm name of 
 Stewart & Godwin, and they now practice in all the Federal 
 and State courts under this name, enjoying a lucrative and 
 influential practice. 
 In 1900, when the campaign opened, this able! young law- 
 yer’s sterling ability was recognized by the party on account 
 of his work during the past campaign and his influential De- 
 mocracy,and he was nominated to represent Harnett county 
 in the lower House of the General Assembly. He accepted 
 the honor and entered the campaign in his usual vigorous 
 manner, and after a swift and long-to-be-remembered polit- 
 ical fight, he was elected by the handsome majority of 300. 
 This is the young statesman’s first office, and he has filled 
 it with such zredit to himself and his constituents, as well 
 
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 STEWART. 
 
 HON. W. A. 
 
 as the Democratic party, that his future in the political field, 
 
 ‘as well as in his chosen profession, is now assured. 
 
 Since taking his seat as a member of the Legislature, his 
 powerful and eloquent voice has been heard in an able man- 
 ner in debates on the leading questions at issue. 
 
 Mr. Stewart has introduced several bills that provide for 
 necessary legislation for our State. He has by his thought- 
 fulness and ability won for himself the friendship of the 
 members of the Legislature and made a name that is a credit 
 to any man in the State. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 37 
 
 Hon. William B. Daniel. 
 
 One of the most pleasant features noticable in our legisla- 
 tive representation of 1900-1901 is the number of able and 
 progressive farmers who are members of that honorable 
 body. Conspicuous among them is the Hon. William B. 
 Daniel, of Vance county, who represents a county that has 
 never before had a white man and a simon pure Democrat 
 as its representative in the General Assembly, this is indeed 
 a wonderful thing and it is with pleasure that the writer 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 HON. WILLIAM B. DANIEL, 
 
 notes that the people of Vance county have made such an 
 able selection and it is hoped that Mr. Daniel will forever 
 have the love and confidence of his people in the future as 
 he now has. Asa legislator this gentleman is at all times 
 alert and watchful for the best interests of the State and of 
 his constituents, andit is with pardonable pride that this 
 gentleman, who had never before sought political honors 
 should be elected by a majority of nearly four hundred votes. 
 Such men are ereditable to the county they represent and 
 to the State, for they make able and conscientious law 
 makers. , 
 
 Mr. Daniel has for many years helped the Democratic 
 party look after their interest in Vance county, and he is 
 very popular with his friends and associates. He was a Jus- 
 tice of the Peace for several years and has been a member 
 of the school board for a number of years. These positions 
 he has filled with honor and credit to himself and the party. 
 
 Asa member of important committees, Mr. Daniel has 
 
 been an able factor in advancing legislation, being on the. 
 
 committees on Appropriations, Engrossed Bills and Military 
 Affairs. He has faithfully looked after the best interests of 
 the State in all matters that have come up before the House, 
 and his work as a member of the North Carolina Legislature 
 has been such as to commend itself and the gentleman from 
 Vance to his constituents and his fellow members. 
 
 Mr. Daniel was born in Granville county forty-one years 
 ago, and he spent his early days on the farm, today he is one 
 of the State’s progressive statesmen farmers who are doing 
 much to advance the best interests of North Carolina. 
 
 The Sun says: ‘‘Let us stick to the silver dollar.” By all 
 means. That is just what we have been trying todo. The 
 only difficulty we have found is that so many other fellows 
 are trying to stick to the same coin.—Puck. 
 
 Hon. J. R. Bannerman. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in the county of New 
 Hanover, the part which is now known as Pender county, 
 forty-five years ago, and is today one of the best known citi- 
 zens of the county he has the honor to represent in the Leg- 
 islature, Pender. This is Mr. Bannerman’s first term in the 
 State Legislature and so well has he represented his constit- 
 uency that he can come again when he so wishes. During 
 the recent campaign he was elected by a majority of one 
 thousand votes, which is very large for such a small county, 
 but that county has always been noted for its good and able 
 men. Mr. Bannerman has for years enjoyed the respect and 
 good will of his many friends and is today one of the most 
 popular men of his section of the State. He is by occupa- 
 tion a farmer and he has also been engaged in the general 
 merchandising and milling business for a number of years. 
 
 Mr. Bannerman is a member of the county executive com- 
 mittee of Pender county and his able and influential work 
 has already received the approval of his party and they have 
 honored him by electing him to an office that speaks for it- 
 self, a member of the State Legislature, this position Mr. 
 Bannerman fills in his usual able manner not only to the 
 credit of himself, but to the credit of his constituents who 
 sent him to the State capitol. 
 
 As a member of the following committees Mr. Bannerman 
 has done good and faithful work, approving that which he 
 thought good legislation and disproving bills that were of 
 
 [Photo by Watson.] 
 R. BANNERMAN. 
 
 TION. J. 
 
 no consequence to the people of North Carolina: The Agri- 
 culture, Public Roads and Turnpikes, Institution for the 
 Insane, and Education. 
 
 Mr. Bannerman personally is a gentleman whom it is a 
 pleasure to meet and to know, courteous and pleasing of 
 manner with a kind word for his friends and acquaintances 
 whenever he meets them. Sucha man has a bright future 
 in North Carolina. ; 
 
 The child who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth of- 
 ten takes so much of the sweets of life that he dies with gold 
 in his teeth. 
 
 It is said that the eminent divine who wrote ‘‘I want to be 
 an angel,’’ was willing to wait until he could see whether the 
 hymn would be a success. 
 
38 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hone Thos. W. Blount. 
 
 A distinguished member of the State Legislature is the 
 Hon. Thomas W. Blount, ‘‘the gentleman from Washing- 
 ton.’? He was born in the county he bas ihe honor to repre- 
 sent on the 28th day of January, 1856, and his from boyhood 
 up to the present time enjoyed the confidence and love of 
 his friends and associates. 
 
 Mr. Blount is by profession a farmer, but has been for 
 many years a successful mill man, and is now one of the au- 
 thorities upon these matters in his section of the State. He 
 had never taken much interest in the political questions, ex- 
 cept to always look after the best interests of the Democratic 
 
 [Photo by Watson. ] 
 HON. THOMAS W. BLOUNT. 
 
 party, until the Amendment became an issue two years ago, 
 when he was elected chairman of the County Democratie 
 Committee of his county and began the study of questions 
 that were in issue with his party, and became an ardent 
 fighter for white supremacy, and to him is due much eredit 
 for the results that are so gratifying to the Democracy of 
 our State at the present time. ; 
 
 Mr. Blount, during the recent campaign, was honored with 
 
 the nomination for the Legislature by the Democrats of — 
 
 Washington county, and he ably led the party to victory, 
 and is today one of the representative members of the lower 
 house of the State Legislature. 
 
 During the past years Mr. Blount has enjoyed the popu- 
 larity of his friends by being a Justice of the Peace and a 
 member of the County School Board of his county; and he 
 has already demonstrated to his people that when they sent 
 him to the Legislature as their representative, they made 
 no mistake. He has introduced a number of important 
 bills, among which was ‘‘a bill to regulate and legalize pri- 
 mary elections,” and a bill to amend the “Jim Crow” car 
 law, which bills are in line with advanced legislation. 
 
 Mr. Blount is a gentleman who has won his way to the 
 front by his own individual efforts, and is one of the most 
 popular members of the House. He is a member of the 
 committees on Banks and Currency, Fish and Fisheries, 
 upon which he has done important work. 
 
 Mr. Blount is one of those big-hearted, progressive men 
 who are at all times looking out for pleasant incidents for 
 
 his friends and is a representative that the State may justly 
 feel proud of. 
 
 Hon. C. W. Richardson. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, who has the honor of represent- 
 ing the county of Johnston in the lower house of the General 
 Assembly, is a young man who has risen to prominence in 
 the political arena by his natural ability. He is a farmer by 
 
 occupation, but has always taken an active interest in polit- 
 
 ical movements, being at all times an ardent Democrat, for 
 white supremacy under any and all circumstances. 
 
 Representative Richardson is thirty-two years of age and 
 was born in Wake county. He was educated at public and 
 private schools, and for a number of years has been a suc- 
 cessful farmer, residing near Archer, in the county of John- 
 ston. He is very popular with his people, and was for sev- 
 eral years a Justice of the Peace and chairman of the County 
 Democratic Executive Committee of hiscounty. His ability 
 as a solid man was recognized by his party in convention and 
 he was nominated for the State Legislature. After a vigor- 
 ous campaign throughout his county, he was elected by the 
 handsome majority of 1,787 votes, leading his ticket by a 
 pleasant majority. 
 
 Since taking his seat as a member of the Legislature, Mr. 
 Richardson has kept up his representation in an able manner 
 by looking out and faithfully caring for the interests of his 
 constituents. 
 
 Asa member of the committees on Public Roads and Turn- 
 pikes, Edneation, Railroads and Corporation Commission 
 and Printing, he has done effective work and has been at all 
 times present at committee meetings, carefully watching 
 the progress of legislation and seeing that no bills passed 
 
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 HON. C. W. RICHARDSON. 
 
 that were not for the best interests of the people of North 
 Carolina and the constituents whom he has the honor to 
 represent. 
 
 Personally Mr. Richardson is a clever gentleman, well 
 versed in everything pertaining to the interests of the far- 
 mer and his advancement; and he is a man who hasa bright 
 future before him in the fields he has chosen to follow. 
 
 Mr. Richardson is a young statesman who has worked en- 
 ergetically and faithfully for the best interests of his State 
 and the county of Johnston; and he has won many friends 
 by his able work as a legislator. The people of Johnston 
 county have good cause to feel proud of their young repre- 
 sentative, and should he desire a re-election he will get the 
 full support of his constituents. : 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 39 
 
 Hon. F. M. Simmons. 
 
 This able and distinguished statesman needs no eulogy at 
 the hands of any biographical writer. Everyone in North 
 Carolina knows of and is more or less familiar with his mag- 
 nificent work for the Democracy of our State. 
 
 Hon. Furnifold McLendon Simmons, who has been chosen 
 for a six years’ term in the United States Senate, was born 
 in Jones county, North Carolina, in 1854 and is forty-seven 
 years old. He was prepared for college by Prof. Joseph 
 Kinsey, now president of Wilson Seminary. He entered 
 Wake Forest at about fifteen years of age and, after remain- 
 ing there about a year, matriculated at Trinity College. He 
 graduated at that in- 
 stitution in 1873. Re- 
 turning to his fath- 
 er’s farm in Jones 
 county, he spent six 
 months reading law 
 on the farm and ob- 
 tained license to 
 practice in January, 
 1875, before he was 
 twenty-one years of 
 age. After being ad- 
 mitted to the bar, he 
 practiced in Jones 
 county and later 
 moved to Newbern, 
 where he formed a 
 copartnership with 
 the late Judge Ma- 
 thias E. Manly and 
 his son, Clement 
 Manly, Esq. After 
 Judge Manly’s death, 
 the partnership was 
 continued between 
 Mr.Simmonsand Mr. 
 Clement Manly until 
 1889. Before leaving 
 Jones county and 
 shortly after passing 
 his majority, Mr. 
 Simmons was nomi- 
 nated by acclamation 
 for the House of Rep- 
 resentatives by the 
 Democrats and made 
 a canvass marked by 
 its thoroughness and 
 brillianey. 
 
 In 1£85, Mr. Sim- 
 mons was elected to Congress from the Second District 
 (known as the black district), his competitors being two 
 negroes, each claiming to be the regular Republican nomi- 
 nee. He was re-elected in 1888, but in 1890 was not a candi- 
 date for re-election, and the district lapsed back to a Repub- 
 lican district. His term in Congress was characterized by 
 industry, devotion to the interests of his constituents and 
 party loyalty. He made a few speeches—excellent, strong 
 and effective—that gave him a hold upon the confidence of 
 the people of his district. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Simmons was chosen chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic Executive Committee and managed that difficult 
 campaign with consummate ability, winning a magnificent 
 victory. 
 
 In 1893 he was appointed by President Cleveland Collector 
 of Internal Revenue for the Eastern District of North Caro- 
 
 HON. F. M. SIMMONS. 
 
 lina and made an efficient and popular officer. Upon his re- 
 tirement from that position he formed a partnership with 
 Messrs. J. H. and E. W. Pou and A.D. Ward for the practice 
 of law, with offices at Raleigh, Newbern and Smithfield, and 
 has since lived in Raleigh. He was elected State Chairman 
 in 1898 and led the forces to a Democratic victory in that 
 year. 
 
 In 1800 he was again chosen chairman and again a brilliant 
 victory was won under his leadership. He is an astute poli- 
 tician, an indefatigable worker, a wise general, a successful 
 executive, a writer of powerful argument, a lawyer of learn- 
 ing, and an all-round well equipped able public man, who 
 goes to the Senate, where he will well and truly represent 
 the best sentiment of the State. And when thé people of 
 the State of North 
 Carolina elected this 
 popular and able 
 statesman to the Uni- 
 ted States Senate, 
 their choice fell upon 
 the shoulders of a 
 man who will faith- 
 fully represent the 
 people of our State 
 and the Democratic 
 party in a manner 
 that will not only be 
 creditable to his par- 
 ty, but to his people 
 and his State. 
 
 Senator - Simmons 
 has by his forcible 
 work during the past 
 few years won victo- 
 ries for the Demo- 
 cratic party that will 
 forever perpetuate 
 themselves to the 
 memory of the able 
 leader who achieved 
 such grand and glo- 
 rious results. 
 
 His organization of 
 the rank and file of 
 the Democratic party 
 has won results that 
 are indeed gratifying. 
 With such a man at 
 the head of the party 
 looking after the Na- 
 tional interests of the 
 State in the capitol 
 at Washington, our 
 people can expect 
 splendid results. Senator Simmons has always been a man 
 of the people, who fought for the best interests of his State 
 first, last and all the time; and the results of his able work 
 have been clearly demonstrated to his constituents in a log- 
 ical and forcible manner. 
 
 When elected to represent the State of North Carolina by 
 her people last year, and the result of this election being 
 confirmed by the General Assembly ef North Carolina, Sen- 
 ator Simmons, in his usual pleasant manner, thanked the 
 gentlemen who so highly honored him and at the same time 
 in a few choice words thanked the people of the State for 
 their liberal support. 
 
 Senator Simmons has the confidence and respect of the 
 entire people of North Carolina, and his prospects in the 
 field of National politics are tinted with a most brilliant anc 
 successful future. 
 
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40 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. W. S. Wilson. 
 
 One of the youngest, and yet one of the ablest of the 
 younger members of the General Assembly, is that able 
 Democrat whose name heads thissketch. He has a brilliant 
 record for a young man, and enjoys the confidence and re- 
 spect of all who know him. 
 
 Hon. William Sidney Wilson was born on Dee. 29, 1873, in 
 Caswell county, where he spent his boyhood days, and at- 
 tended the public schools of the county. In the fall of 1894 
 he attended the Danville (Va.) Military Institute, remaining 
 there one year. From this institute he went to the Univer- 
 sity of North Carolina and graduated there with high honors 
 
 s 
 
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 HON. W. 8S. WILSON. 
 
 in 1889. While at the University Mr. Wilson was a leader 
 and took active interest in the debating societies, and was 
 one of the ablest talkers in the debates. During his junior 
 year he was business manager of the University Magazine, 
 and his good management was demonstrated in such a satis- 
 factory manner that in his senior year he was elected editor 
 in chief of that popular magazine which is so well known to 
 the University boys. He, however, did not have the pleasure 
 of having his schooling and collegiate course paid for him, 
 but, like the true young North Carolinian that he is, he 
 worked his way through college and, by his personality, to 
 popularity. During all this time it was his ambition to be- 
 come a lawyer, and after his graduation, in January, 1900, 
 he entered the law school of the University and began the 
 study of law, taking the double course in only four and a 
 half months, when he received his certificate of proficiency. 
 He then went home for a brief trip and while there took 
 such an active interest in the political questions of the day 
 that he made himself popular again with all his boyhood 
 friends, and they, noting his ability and knowing the man, 
 nominated him for the lower branch of the Legislature. He 
 accepted the honor and jumped into the field, and aftera 
 brilliant canvass throughout the county in the cause of De- 
 mocracy and white supremacy, he was elected by a majority 
 of 300 votes, this, too, in a county that has not elected a 
 Democrat to the Legislature by white votes since the war, 
 and against an opponent who had served two terms in the 
 Legislature. After winning this glorious victory for himself 
 and his constituents, he returned to the University and re- 
 sumed his studies and in September was admitted to the bar. 
 
 Hon. R. H. Hayes. 
 
 -An able lawyer and a prominent figure in the halls of the 
 State Capitol is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. 
 Mr. Hayes was born in the county of Moore thirty-two years 
 ago, and was prepared for the important career mapped out 
 for him at Guilford College, going from there to the Univer- 
 sity of North Carolina, where he finished his course with 
 high honors and was admitted to the bar in 1893, when he 
 formed a law partnership with the Hon. T. B. Womack, with 
 offices at Raleigh and in Pittsboro, and the firm now is one 
 of the best known in the State. Mr. Hayes has since his 
 early days been an ardent Democrat, taking at all times an 
 
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 HON. R. H. HAYES. 
 
 active interest in politics. When he first moved to Chatham 
 county that county was in the hands of the Fusion crowd, 
 who had a majority of about 1,250 votes. In 1896 this able 
 young statesman was nominated by the Democratic party 
 for the Legislature, and after a brilliant canvass he reduced 
 this majority to 500 votes. In 1898 his ability was recog- 
 
 nized in many ways by his party, and he was elected chair-— 
 
 man of the County Democratic Executive Committee and 
 again honored with the nomination for the Legislature. 
 This time he reduced the old Fusion majority to less than 
 one hundred votes, after a magnificent canvass for white 
 supremacy. 
 
 In 1900 this eloquent young statesman was chosen as the 
 leader of his party in Chatham county, and after a canvass 
 that is historical in the history of his county for its brillianey 
 and dash, he was elected by a handsome majority, leading 
 his ticket and receiving more votes than any other candidate. 
 
 Since taking his seat in the lower house of the General As- 
 sembly, Representative Hayes has demonstrated his states- 
 manship to his friends and fellow members in a manner that 
 rebounds to the credit of the grand old county that he has 
 the honor to represent. Prompt to advocate any measure 
 that means good legislation, and remembering his pledges to 
 his constituents, he is one of the leaders of the younger 
 members of the House. His able knowledge of legal lore 
 caused him to be selected as one of the managers on the part 
 of the House in the impeachment proceedings against the 
 Judges of the Supreme Court. Asa member of the follow- 
 ing committees he has done able and effective work: Consti- 
 tutional Amendments, Education and the Judiciary. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 41 
 
 Hoon. John T. Brittain. 
 
 This able representative, representing the grand old county 
 of Randolph, is thirty-nine years of age. He was born in 
 Guilford county, near Oak Ridge, receiving his education at 
 private schools and the well-known Oak Ridge Institute. 
 At an early age Mr. Brittain made up his mind to study law 
 and rise to prominence in that profession, and he read law 
 under that distinguished lawyer, Judge Robert P. Dick, of 
 Greensboro, and was admitted to practice after a splendid 
 examination, and now practices in the State and Federal 
 courts. 
 
 Mr. Brittain has for a number of years been one of the 
 most popular public men of his county and well known in 
 
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 HON. JOHN T. BRITTAIN. 
 
 all parts of the State. He was a Deputy Sheriff for two years 
 in the county of Guilford ; was United States Commissioner 
 six years, and in 1895 was elected Mayor of Ashboro and, for 
 reason personal to himself, resigned before accepting the 
 office. 
 
 When the recent campaign opened up, the people of Ran- 
 dolph selected Mr. Brittain as their leader in the legislative 
 fight, for they well knew his splendid ability as a campaigner, 
 and he accepted the honor, entered the field and won victory 
 for the Democracy of Randolph county (which, by the way, 
 has been a Republican county for many years) in a manner 
 that threw consternation among the opposition. And since 
 taking his seat as a member of the House of Representatives 
 his powerful voice has been heard on many occasions advo- 
 eating the'cause of right and good legislation that was in 
 his opinion for the best interests of his constituents and the 
 State of North Carolina. 
 
 His ability as a lawyer was recognized by the Speaker of 
 the House of Representatives by his appointment on such 
 important committees as the Judiciary, Insurance, Congres- 
 sional Districts, and the Supreme Court Library, which ap- 
 pointments he has filled with ability and credit to himself 
 and his party. . 
 
 Mr. Brittain has made himself very popular with the peo- 
 ple of the Legislature by the affable and pleasant manner in 
 which he has looked after important legislative matters and 
 the courteous manner in which he has handled all subjects 
 before him in the legislative halls. Such men are an honor 
 and credit to their State, and Randolph should feel proud 
 of having him looking after her interests. 
 
 Hon. W. F. Parker. 
 
 This distinguished Confederate soldier and statesman was 
 born in the county of Halifax, near the town of Enfield, Nov. 
 6, 1842. He was prepared for college at the J. H. Horner 
 School and finished at the University of North Carolina in 
 the year 1562. While there the war broke out and Mr. Par- 
 ker immediately enlisted in Company F, 7th Confederate 
 Cavalry, shortly after being made Third Lieutenant, and he 
 distinguished himself in a gallant manner and was appointed 
 Second Lieutenant of his company and fought brilliantly all 
 through the campaign, being in many daring raids and skir- 
 mishes. He was with Dearing’s splendid regiment when 
 they made the daring raid capturing 2,485 head of fat beef 
 
 ’ 
 
 [Photo. by Watson ] 
 
 HON. W. F. PARKER. 
 
 cattle from Grant’s supply near City Point, and was a par- 
 ticipant in many desperate and exciting hand-to-hand skir- 
 mishes which he remembers vividly to the present day. 
 
 Since the close of the war Mr. Parker has been engaged in 
 the manufacturing business and in farming, being today one 
 of the most progressive farmers in the State.. He was for 
 many years Treasurer of his county, and has always taken 
 an active interest in the political situations of the State, be- 
 ing at all times an able and influential Democrat, ready and 
 willing to spend his time and money for the interests of the 
 party. He has been chairman of the Board of County Com- 
 missioners of his county, and so well has he executed the 
 duties of the offices of the people of Halifax county that he 
 has won for himself the love and respect of many friends 
 and the confidence of the party leaders of the county. 
 
 Appreciating this gallant statesman’s ability and knowing 
 that he would represent the people of Halifax in a masterly 
 manner, he was honored with the nomination for the lower 
 house of the State Legislature and made a strong and vigor- 
 ous campaign and was elected easily. 
 
 During his term as a member of the Legislature he has by 
 his able manner and advanced ideas of good legislation made 
 one of the most representative and conservative members 
 of the House and won the high regard of his associates and 
 constituents. He is a member of important committees 
 and has aided in the advancement of good legislation by 
 lending his counsel and advice at committee meetings. 
 Such measures as pensions for old soldiers and others de- 
 serving have received his hearty support, for having been 
 one of the boys in grey he knows what is due them. 
 
49 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Judge A. W. Graham. 
 
 With a mind trained to grasp the good and bad points of 
 legislation and a broad comprehension of all classes of legis- 
 lation. Judge Augustus W. Graham is justly termed one of 
 the most able men in the Legislature of 1901. His has been 
 a life marked by characteristics of firmness and determina- 
 tion, and these elements have controlled his actions in the 
 various positions of honor he has been called upon to fill. 
 
 He was born in Hillsboro on the 8th of June, 1849. His 
 preliminary education was of the best, and in 1868 he was 
 graduated from the University of North Carolina. After 
 
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 JUDGE AUGUSTUS W. GRAHAM. 
 
 studying law under his father at Hillsboro he was admitted 
 to the bar, in 1872. As a lawyer, he has been extremely suc- 
 cessful, having built up a fine practice from the very start, 
 a fact not to be wondered atin view of his great power of 
 intellect and character. | 
 
 In polities he has always been a consistent Democrat, ever 
 ready to serve his party, but not always willing to accept 
 office, preferring to devote his time to his large law practice. 
 For some years he was chairman of the Democratic Commit- 
 tee of Orange county. In 1888 he moved to Oxford and went 
 into partnership with the Hon. R. W. Winston. In 1895 he 
 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of the Fifth Dis- 
 trict, which office he held for two years and declined to stand 
 for renomination. 
 
 Under President Cleveland’s first administration Judge 
 Graham was offered the position of chief of one of the im- 
 portant bureaus of the Treasury Department, but declined 
 to give up his interests in North Carolina. 
 
 Judge Graham has given a great deal of attention to min- 
 ing matters and through his instrumentality a great deal of 
 Northern capital has been invested in North Carolina, In 
 the important campaign of 1898 he was unanimously nomi- 
 nated for the State Senate, but declined, although he took a 
 prominent part in that campaign. Last year he was elected 
 to the Legislature, and during the session just completed 
 was one of the most prominent members. As a member of 
 most of the leading committees, some of the most important 
 bills came before his consideration, and his judgment was 
 always sought by his fellow associates. He was a member 
 of the committee of management of the impeachment ap- 
 pointed by the House. Accomplished, of a genial disposition 
 and pleasant address, he has many friends and admirers. 
 
 Hon. Robert N. Page. 
 
 Quiet and unassuming, a hard worker and a conscientious 
 statesman, is Hon. Robert N. Page, who represents the 
 county of Montgomery in the House of Representatives. He 
 has no superior in the House when it comes to moral worth. 
 His is one of those free natures which attract and hold the 
 good will of all with whom he comes in contact. Honesty 
 beams forth from every feature of his expressive counte= 
 nance, as determination shines from his keen eyes. A long 
 business and financial career pre-eminently qualifies him for 
 the position he now holds, and to just such men North Caro- 
 lina owes her present impetus and progress. 
 
 Mr. Page was born in the county of Wake, at Cary, forty- 
 one years ago. He was educated at the Cary High School 
 and at the Bingham School at Mebane, N. C. Later he moved 
 to Aberdeen and was for five years Mayor of that progressive 
 little city. He was one of the organizers of the Aberdeen 
 and Asheboro Railroad Company in 1890, and has been its 
 treasurer since that time; and through his influence the 
 country through which this road passes has’ been materially 
 improved and the land increased in value. Mr. Page has 
 never sought political honors, and thisis ‘‘his first attempt,” 
 yet he has made sucha splendid record that his constitu- 
 ents will keep him in the front ranks in future. 
 
 It isa well-known fact that the campaign in Montgomer 
 county prior to the August election was a very warm one. 
 The Republicans first nominated to the Legislature a Repub- 
 lican who was in the revenue service. He was after a few 
 weeks withdrawn, and an anti-amendment Democrat put up. 
 After one week’s canvass with Mr. Page he retired from the 
 field entirely. Then a Populist was entered in the race, and 
 Mr. Page let him have a few rounds. When the election 
 
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 HON. ROBERT N. PAGE. 
 
 came off the Democratic candidate, Hon. Robert N. Page, 
 was declared elected to the House of Representatives by a 
 majority of 565 votes. And he had the honor of leading his 
 ticket by having a greater majority than any Democrat has 
 ever received forany position within the gift of the county. 
 
 While Mr. Page has always labored in the interests of the 
 
 Democratic party, he has never sought political preferment, 
 but has attended strictly to his business interests, he being 
 largely interested in railroading and manufacturing. Asa 
 legislator he took a deep interest in all measures conducive 
 
 “ the public good. His people have cause to feel proud of 
 Nim. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 43 
 
 Capt. E. R. MacKethan. 
 
 The name ‘‘MacKethan, of Cumberland’’ seems to be just 
 as it should be, a Scotchman from an old Scotch county, and 
 one with convictions and a determination to express them 
 and stand by them. When we look back and see that two 
 of the first three representatives from Cumberland were 
 ‘Maes,’ and Jearn that they were kinsmen of the subject of 
 this sketch, it seems but proper that the old county should 
 be represented as she is. 
 
 Edwin Robeson MacKethan was born at the old ‘‘Cool 
 Spring Place,’ where he now resides, in Fayetteville, on 
 
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 CAPTAIN E R. MACKETHAN. 
 
 September 7, 1869; entered Davidson College in 1886, later 
 changing to the University, where, after a delay of a year 
 teaching school, he graduated, in 1891, with the degree of 
 A.B., later returning and taking up the law course and 
 graduating in 1892 with the degree of B. L. Was licensed to 
 practice at the fall term, 1892, of the Supreme Court, and 
 has been engaged in the active practice ever since, save for 
 time spent in the service in the Spanish-American war, when 
 failing to get accepted a company of his own, he volunteered 
 in the ranks, the first man in his company under the first 
 call. On muster out he returned to Fayetteville where he 
 soon regained his health that had been impaired by fever. 
 Later he was elected a captain in the Fayetteville Independ- 
 ent Light Infantry, also commandant with the rank of cap- 
 tain in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, besides being called 
 to hold a number of other positions of honor. 
 
 On the opening of the campaign of 1900, he was elected 
 President of the White Supremacy Club in Fayetteville, 
 later receiving in the County Convention the nomination for 
 the House of Representatives. The joint canvass of the 
 county was a hot and vigorous cne, resulting in an over- 
 whelming victory for Democracy and the Amendment, Cap- 
 tain MacKethan leading the legislative ticket with possibly 
 the largest vote ever recorded in the county. 
 
 As a member of the House he is well-known to all, few if 
 any having made more friends in the Legislature or the city 
 than he has. ; 
 
 As the only veteran of the late war in the General Assem- 
 bly he was selected as chairman of the House Committee on 
 Military Affairs. He is also a member of the Judiciary 
 Committee, Committee on Railroads and Railroad Commis- 
 sion, and several others. 
 
 Hon. F. R. Hall. 
 
 A distinguished young member of the House of Represen- 
 tatives is the Hon. F. R. Hall of the county of Cumberland. 
 While it is the first term of this able young politician in the 
 Legislature, he has by his able and efficient work made for 
 himself a record that wins the approbation of his friends and 
 constituents. 
 
 Mr. Hall was born in the county of Cumberland thirty 
 years ago, and he has spent his young boyhood days there 
 among those who know and love him. He is the son of Mr. 
 H. L. Hall, who was Register of Deeds of the county of Cum- 
 berland for six and a half years, and during the last four 
 years of his father’s incumbency he was his chief deputy. 
 This position Mr. Hall filled with credit to the office, his 
 father and himself; in fact, so well did he fill this position 
 and look after the interests of the people of Cumberland 
 county, that he was selected as the party nominee for the 
 Legislature during the recent campaign, and he accepted 
 the honor, took the stump and in a brilliant manner carried 
 the banner of Democracy and White Supremacy to victory 
 with a majority of 1,428 votes. Mr. Hall was beaten three 
 votes by his colleague, Mr. E. R. MacKethan, and the result 
 will forever be historical to the political leaders of Cumber- 
 land county, as it demonstrated that the people of that 
 county will give the best of support to good, reliable Demo- 
 cratic candidates. 
 
 Mr. Hall has for a number of years been engaged in the 
 insurance business, and is very popular and successful in 
 this line, in which he has made many warm personal friends. 
 
 As a legislator and law maker, Mr. Hall has at all times 
 been working for the best interests of his constituents and 
 the State of North Carolina, and his able work before the 
 committees and on the floor of the House of Representatives 
 
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 HON. F. R. HALL. 
 
 has demonstrated for the young gentleman a brilliant future 
 in the political arena. He is a member of the following im- 
 portant committees: Propositions and Grievances, Justices 
 of the Peace, Public Roads and Turnpikes, Banks aud Cur- 
 rency, and Agriculture. 
 
 Mr. Hall has by his pleasant and agreeable manner won 
 the friendship and good will of his associates and made a 
 record that the county of Cumberland may well feel proud 
 of, and he has a future in the political field that is indeed 
 bright for a young man. 
 
44 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. A. J. Little. 
 
 When the people of the county of Richmond elected that 
 able and progressive farmer, the Hon. A. J. Little, to repre- 
 sent them in the lower house of the General Assembly, their 
 choice was a Wise one and fell upon a man who is faithful to 
 their interests, a gentleman who will carry out every prom- 
 ise and pledge made to them. Since taking his seat on the 
 floor of the House, Mr. Little has demonstrated his ability 
 as a statesman, and by his eloquent arguments carried vic- 
 tory with him and won for himself a name that will return 
 him to the Legislature should he desire tocome. He is a 
 
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 HON. A. J. LITTLE, 
 
 man who very seldom lets anything that will aid his con- 
 stituents pass by, and is always ready to champion a cause 
 that advances better laws for the people. 
 
 Mr. Little was born in Richmond county, Dee. 28, 1861, 
 and he has spent his boyhood days there growing up with 
 the people who have so highly honored him, winning their 
 confidence as he grew older. He was educated at the neigh- 
 borhood schools of Richmond county, and has for a number 
 of years been one of the most progressive farmers of the 
 county. He was a Justice of the Peace and County Commis- 
 sioner for a number of years, and when the County Conven- 
 tion was called for the purpose of electing a man to the Leg- 
 islature, the choice of the Democrats fell upon Mr. Little, 
 and he bravely sought the field in the cause of white suprem- 
 acy, making an able campaign and winning votes for himself 
 and his party. He was returned by the handsome majority 
 of one thousand votes. An effort was made to organize the 
 opposition against him, but he was such a popular man that 
 they took no heart in the effort at all, and his election re- 
 ceived almost the unanimous approval of the entire people 
 of the county. 
 
 As a member of the committees on Finance, Agriculture 
 and Insurance, Representative Little has closely watched 
 the interests of every bill that has come up before the com- 
 mittees, lending his approval to those that were in his opin- 
 ion good legislation and promptly disapproving those that 
 were not. 
 
 Representative Little has by his courtesy of manner and 
 willingness to befriend others made many friends in the 
 
 Capital City and a record for his constituents, the county of” 
 
 Richmond and himself that is indeed a credit to the Demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 Hon. Charles Ross. 
 
 The youngest member of the lower house of the State Leg- 
 islature is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, the 
 Hon. Charles Ross, of the county of Randolph. Mr. Ross is 
 only twenty-two years of age. He was born at Level Cross, 
 in Randolph county, and was edueated at the public schools 
 of the county. He lived on a farm until he was sixteen 
 years of age, when his father was elected Sheriff of Ran- 
 dolph county and he moved with the family to Ashboro, the 
 county seat. : 
 
 Mr. Ross has for some time been engaged in the lumber 
 business with the Ashboro Lumber and Manufacturing Co., 
 and is an experienced lumber man. 
 
 He has since he moved to Ashboro been a powerful worker 
 in Sunday-school interests, and he has spent much of his 
 spare time in the interests of church work. He is a leader 
 in the Sunday-szhool work of his native county, and has for 
 several years been president of the Sunday School Associa- 
 tion of Randolph county. He has for a number of years 
 taken an active interest in political questions and has made 
 a study of political happenings; and when the discussions 
 came up during the recent campaign, his advice was sought 
 and freely given. 
 
 Mr. Ross is very popular in the county he lives in and was 
 honored with the nomination for the State Legislature dur- 
 ing the campaign of 1900, which he accepted, and made a 
 hard canvass all over the county. He was elected by a ma- 
 jority of 216 votes, this being the largest vote given to any 
 candidate on either ticket. This was very gratifying to Mr. 
 Ross and shows that he has the confidence and love of his 
 constituents. 
 
 He has made a good member of the Legislature, and as a 
 member of the following committees, to-wit, Finance, Edu- 
 cation and Insane Asylums, he has made a good and efficient 
 
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 IION. CHARLES ROSS. 
 
 worker for representative legislation and has been a prompt 
 attendant at committee meetings. 
 
 He has a bright future before him for a young man, both 
 in the fields of the church and politics. Such young men 
 are bound to receive their reward. 
 
 Personally, Mr. Ross is an able conversationalist and a 
 gentleman with whom it isa pleasure to come in contact. 
 He has made many warm friends at the capital and won the 
 respect of his constituency. It is with pleasure that we con- 
 gratulate Randolph upon being so ably represented. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 45 
 
 Hon. R. Lee Wright. 
 
 It always affords me much pleasure to chronicle the suc- 
 cess and advancement of young men, those who climb the 
 ladder of success by their own efforts to position of trust, 
 honor and responsibility, especially so in the case of this 
 distinguished young statesman from Rowan, the Hon. R. lee 
 Wright. This gentleman started in life with nothing but a 
 good name and plenty of knowledge and ability, and today 
 he has won his way to the confidence and respect of his party 
 and is one of the honored members of the North Carolina 
 
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 HON. R. LEE WRIGHT. 
 
 Legislature. In the campaign of 1900 Mr. Wright made a 
 brilliant and thorough campaign and led his party to victory, 
 he receiving 1900 votes, which was the largest ever given to 
 a representative from Rowan county. This isa brilliant rec- 
 ord for the able statesman and presents to him a bright 
 future in the political field should his ambitions lie in that 
 channel. 
 
 Mr. Wright was born in Wilkes county thirty-three years 
 ago and spent his youthful days tn that beautiful mountain 
 country. At anearly age he began the reading of law under 
 private instructors, and the age of twenty-one years was 
 admitted tothe bar. He then moved to Salisbury and opened 
 his law office, and today he is one of the leading citizens of 
 
 _ that city,and has been honored with many positions of trust 
 and responsibility—being a member of the Board Aldermen 
 for a number of years, Mayor pro tem., and City Attorney. 
 He has a large and lucrative practice and is one of the most 
 prominent legal advisers in the city; aside from this he has 
 an independent income, being a director of the Salisbury 
 Savings Bank and owning other valuable properties. His 
 practice is confined to corporation and railroad cases. 
 
 Mr. Wright has placed himself upon record in the House 
 as being a strong advocate of better educational facilities 
 for the children of the State, and is a believer in compulsory 
 attendance of school children at their schools; is an earnest 
 worker in acts for the regulation of labor in textile facto- 
 ries, having introduced important bills to that effect. He 
 has been an active politician for many years, and has by his 
 honest and upright methods won for himself the high regard 
 and love of his people, and he represents the county of Rowan 
 in the legislative halls in a brilliant and aggressive manner, 
 at all times working for advanced legislation. 
 
 Hon. J. F. Spainhour. 
 
 This gentleman, although now serving his first term in the 
 Legislature, has taken a prominent part in the proceedings 
 of the Lower House during the session just closed. His voice 
 was heard on the most prominent questions, and he was one 
 of the leaders in the important discussions that character- 
 ized the busy session of 1901. 
 
 Mr. Spainhour is a native of Burke county, which he rep- 
 resents. He was born in 1856, and is therefore in the prime 
 of life and possessed of the vigor of youth. His education 
 was received at Wake Forest College. Mr. Spainhour was 
 a good student and took high rank in his classes-at College. 
 He afterwards took up the study of law and for a number of 
 years has practiced with great success at Morganton. As a 
 lawyer, Mr. Spainhour ranks very high and has been connec- 
 ted with many important cases and much litigation that 
 needed the attention of a man possessed of keen legal acu- 
 men and a mind trained to observe carefnlly and to think 
 for itself. His record is afine one, and he is highly regarded 
 by the people of his section. He wasa member of the famous 
 Board of Managers in the impeachment trial of Justices 
 Furches and Douglas. 
 
 Mr. Spainhour was Solicitor of the Tenth Judicial District 
 for four years and was very successful in the prosecution of 
 many criminal cases. In 1898 he was a candidate for re-elec- 
 tion and was defeated by only nine votes. 
 
 Mr. Spainhour’s ability was recognized by the people of 
 Burke county, and last year they offered him the nomination 
 for the General Assembly in return for his many services: to 
 
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 HON. J. F. SPAINHOUR. 
 
 the Democratic party. Mr. Spainhour considered it his duty 
 to accept and did so, although he sacrificed his own personal 
 interests in so doing. He was elected by a majority of 400, 
 the largest ever given to a Democratic candidate in Burke 
 county since the war, so popular was Mr. Spainhour with 
 the people of his own section of the country. In addition to 
 this, Burke county was the only county in that part of the 
 State that increased its Democratic majority. 
 
 Mr. Spainhour’s career in the Legislature this year needs 
 no commendation from our pen. True and tried, he has 
 redeemed every pledge made in thecampaign. In the hands 
 of such men as Mr. Spainhour, the present and future well 
 being of the State is guaranteed. 
 
46 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. Wescott Roberson. 
 
 This able young statesman, who is noted as one of the 
 strongest young politicians of the State of North Carolina, 
 has by his courtesy and dignified way of executing legisla- 
 tive matters that were of interest to his constituents and his 
 State, made for himself a reputation that predicts a bright 
 future. He had the honor of receiving the nomination from 
 the people of Guilford county to the lower house of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, after a residence of only eighteen months in 
 that county, which was by acclamation, Mr. Roberson not be- 
 
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 HON. WESCOTT ROBERSON, 
 
 ing present at the convention. Heaccepted the honor and 
 made a brilliant and vigorous campaign, participating in 
 twenty-one days of joint canvass, discussing dispensary ques- 
 tions, etc., that were interesting to his hearers, and at the 
 same time familiarizing himself with the wishes of his con- 
 stituents by personal talks, ete. He was elected by a ma- 
 jority of 831 votes, and since taking the oath as a member 
 of this Legislature, he has faithfully looked after the best 
 interests of his people and the State of North Carolina both 
 in committee rooms and on the floor of the House—never 
 hesitating to lend his voice and influence in aid of matters 
 that were of importance and necessary legislation. He was 
 a member of the committee on the Judiciary, Corporations, 
 Insane Asylums, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institutions, Courts 
 and Judicial Districts, Senatorial Districts, and was Chair- 
 man of the Committee on the Appointment of Trustees for 
 the University of North Carolina. 
 
 Mr. Roberson has the distinction of being the handsomest 
 man of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
 as well as being a member who by his able and efficient work 
 has added largely to his reputation as a lawyer of worth and 
 ability. 
 
 Mr. Roberson was born at Chapel Hill, N. C., twenty-five 
 years ago. He was educated at the University of “orth Car- 
 olina, graduating with honors in 1896. After graduating he 
 read law under Judge Shepherd and Dr. John Manning, and 
 was admitted to the bar in September, 1898. Shortly there- 
 after he formed a partnership with Mr. Barringer and estab- 
 lished the firm of Barringer & Roberson with offices at Greens- 
 boro and High Point. This firm has an extensive practice in 
 the counties of Davidson, Guilford and at High Point Mr. 
 Roberson has taken high rank as a practitioner at the Bar, 
 and looks well to the interests of his clients, and also in his 
 public capacity to the promotion of the public good. 
 
 Hon. Clyde R. Hoey. 
 
 Nothing affords the writer more pleasure than to notice 
 the success of honest, persevering effort, directed by intelli- 
 gence and persistency which knows no such word as “‘ fail.” 
 And illustrative of the old adage that ‘‘where there is a will 
 there is a way,” that ‘‘nothing succeeds like success,” it is 
 only necessary to suggest the name of the Hon. Clyde R, 
 Hoey, one of the brightest young statesmen and newspaper 
 men in the State of North Carolina, and a member of the 
 House of Representatives of the General Assembly. 
 
 Mr. Hoey was born in the county of Cleveland, December 
 11, 1877. He was educated at the local schools of the county 
 and at Bell’s Military Institute. After finishing school he 
 entered a newspaper office and began setting type. When 
 he was sixteen years old he purchased the remains of an old 
 newspaper office, changed the name to ‘‘The Cleveland Star,”’ 
 and today he has one of the brightest weekly papers in the 
 State, which is not only a financial success, but the leading 
 political publication in that section of the State. Its edito- 
 rials are read with interest by the patrons of the paper and 
 copied extensively by the press of the State, as well as com- 
 mented upon for their brightness and originality. 
 
 Mr. Hoey is a writer of rare ability and his prominent po- 
 litical position is one very rarely held by one so young in 
 years. It simply demonstrates that ability will advance. 
 
 In 1898, just before the great ‘‘white supremacy”’ victory, 
 Mr. Hoey, though not then 21 years of age, was honored with 
 the nomination for the Legislature. He made a splendid 
 canvass and was declared elected one month before he be- 
 came of age. He served with much honor and credit to his 
 constituents during that Legislature and was returned in 
 
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 HON. CLYDE R. HOEY. 
 
 1900, with a handsome majority. Shortly after the Legisla- 
 ture of 1899 he was granted license to practice law. During 
 the recent campaign he made a tour of his section of the 
 State, speaking not only in his own county, but in others, 
 making no less than fifty speeches. He is a member of the 
 Democratic State Executive Committee. 
 
 Mr. Hoey’s career as a public man has been one of pecu- 
 liar brightness. While not a politician in the sense of office- 
 seeking, he has always warmly supported his party’s inter- 
 ests, both in the columns of his paper and personally. Dur- 
 ing the Legislature he took an active part in all matters of 
 consequence both upon the floor and in committee. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 47 
 
 Hon. W. T. Bradsher. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Person county 
 twenty-eight years ago. He received his education at the 
 University of North Carolina, after which he read law with 
 such able men as Judge Avery, of Morganton. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in September, 1896, and since that time 
 has been an active worker in politics. 
 sought a public office, yet during the campaigns he has made 
 speeches and strongly supported the Democratic nominees. 
 Shortly before the convention of 1900 his friends asked him 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 HON. WILLIAM T. BRADSHER. 
 
 ‘if he would accept the nomination for the lower House of the 
 General Assembly, and when the convention met he was 
 nominated over some of the county’s leading public men, 
 and he entered the race with an earnestness that won votes. 
 After a vigorous and warmly contested campaign he was 
 elected by a majority of 545 votes, this being the largest vote 
 ever polled by a Democratic candidate for the Legislature in 
 Person county. Since taking his seat as a member of the 
 House of Representatives Mr. Bradsher has been faithful to 
 the best interests of his county and the State. He was in- 
 strumental in having passed for his county a splendid road 
 law. And he has taken an active part in the Asylums, being 
 a member of the sub-committee appointed to care for the 
 Criminal Insane, and this committee took the matter up 
 and made proper provisions for these poor unfortunates by 
 providing that they be taken from the penitentiary and cared 
 for at the various institutions. Heis also the author of a 
 bill to make railroads make a flat rate of three cents in this 
 State, and other important measures. As a member ofcom- 
 mittees he has done important work and received recognition 
 for his bills. 
 _ Mr. Bradsher is a member of the law firm of Winstead & 
 Bradsher, at Roxboro, and they enjoy a large and profitable 
 clientage. Asa lawyer he has few superiors. He is a hard 
 and faithful worker in the interests of his clients, carefully 
 prepares his cases and with keen interrogatory becomes an 
 opponent worthy the steel of any lawyer practicing at the 
 North Carolina bar. Asa speaker he is clear, concise and 
 elegant in language, using little or no unnecessary verbiage. 
 Mr. Bradsher is of a pleasant, agreeable disposition, possess- 
 ing a charming nature that causes him to be admired and 
 much sought after. 
 
 He has never before - 
 
 Hon. D. L. Carlton. 
 
 The Legislature of 1901 is noted for the number of very 
 young men who have been members and who have taken 
 active part in the many important proceedings that have 
 marked that session as one of the most important in the his- 
 tory of North Carolina. The Hon. D. L. Carlton, who has 
 the honor of representing Duplin county, is only 27 years of 
 age, yet, for a young man, he has a bright record and a bril- 
 liant future. He received his education at Wake Forest Col- 
 lege. He afterwards studied law and was admitted to the 
 bar in September, 1899. He has established a good practice 
 by hard work and close attention to his profession, and is 
 very popular with the people of his county and section. In 
 February, 1900, he was elected to fill an unexpired term as 
 Chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee, 
 and was a hard worker in the interests of the Democratic 
 party. In May of the same year, he waschosen to fill the 
 position for two years. Having become one of the party 
 leaders in his section, he was offered the nomination for the 
 Legislature, and after a vigorous campaign in which Mr. Carl- 
 ton did much to bring about the victory of the Democratic 
 party, he was elected by a majority of about 900. 
 
 Mr. Carlton introduced many important local bills. 
 Among many others he introduced and fought for the bill 
 establishing general prohibition in Duplin county. In his 
 fight for this bill he showed much ability as a speaker and 
 paliamentarian and won much respect and admiration from 
 the older members. He was a member of some of the most 
 important committees and accomplished much in this line of 
 work as well as on the floor. 
 
 When the people of Duplin county elected Mr. Carlton, 
 their choice fell upon a young man wise beyond his years, 
 
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 HON. D. L. CARLTON. 
 
 and an able young Democrat, who has represented them 
 with credit and honor. He has, by intelligent forethought 
 and courtesy, made many friends among the statesinen of 
 North Carolina. He has won the high regard of all with 
 whom he has come in contact. He has a clear way of ex- 
 pressing his ideas, which lends force and effect. His record 
 bespeaks for him the continued respect and confidence of the 
 people of Duplin. Inconcelusion it may be said that Mr. Carl- 
 ton is a young man who has brilliant prospects, and who will 
 at each opportunity add to his splendid record. 
 
48 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Judge H. G. Connor. 
 
 The world is full of followers, men who-are willing to have 
 their thinking done for them, but it has comparatively few 
 leaders, A leader isa man who does not fear to be himself, 
 who believes in himself, who lives his own creed ; a man who 
 cannot be turned hither and thither by every new argument 
 presented, but who knows his goal and goes straight toward 
 it. A successful man is one who follows the leadings of his 
 own nature. Such a man is the Hon. H. G. Connor. He 
 was born in Wilmington, N. C., about forty-eight years ago, 
 and received his education at the public schools of that city. 
 When very young he 
 commenced the 
 study of law, in which 
 profession he has 
 been eminently suc- 
 cessful. He is one of 
 the representative 
 lawyers of North 
 Carolina, and enjoys 
 a large practice 
 throughoutthe State. 
 He has long been re- 
 cognized as one of the 
 leading exponents of 
 the doctrines and 
 principles of the 
 Democratic party in 
 North Carolina. He 
 was in the Senate in 
 1885 and was one of 
 the ablest men in that 
 body—a session that 
 was remarkable for 
 the number of able 
 men that it con- 
 tained. 
 
 In 1886 Judge Con- 
 nor was appointed by 
 Gov. Seales Judge of 
 the Superior Court of 
 one of the newly ecre- 
 ated districts and re- 
 mained upon the 
 bench until 793, when 
 he resigned to return 
 to the practice of his 
 profession and to at- 
 tend to the many in- 
 terests that were 
 making calls upon 
 him. He was a model 
 Judge, learned in the 
 law, just in his rulings, meting out justice with merey. He 
 won the confidence of the bar and the people wherever he 
 held court, and his retirement was universally regretted. 
 
 At the beginning of the campaign of 1898 Judge Connor 
 was chosen by the people of Wilson county to represent them 
 in the lower house of the State Legislature. He carried the 
 district by a handsome majority, although two years pre- 
 vious the Fusionists won by nearly 1,000 majority. When 
 the Democrats met in caucus to nominate a Speaker, the 
 eyes of the party leaders turned to him as a suitable candi- 
 date. He was elevated to the high office and filled it with 
 conspicuous ability. He did not content himself with only 
 rendering the service usually assigned to the Speaker, but 
 took a leading part in all constructive legislation that was 
 necessary to put the State in safe hands. He shared fully 
 
 with the other leaders in the preparation of party measures, 
 
 and in the caucus took a prominent part in the discussions 
 that were in fact more vital than the debates in open sessior, 
 In the session of 1901 Judge Connor was a leading member 
 and was on some of the leading committees. He advocated 
 many of the bills that successfully passed, and his voice was 
 always heard on the right side. He is one of the most pop- 
 ular members of the House of Representatives and is a typi- 
 cal Southern gentleman of the old school. Courteous, dig- 
 nified and graceful, with a strong, handsome face and im- 
 posing bearing, when he gets up to speak he is always lis- 
 tened to with the most marked attention, and his words 
 never fail to carry weight with them. He speaks from the 
 heart and the sincere 
 man must always 
 make his mark. 
 
 As a lawyer, Judge 
 Connor has met with 
 great success and has 
 been a prominent fig- 
 ure in many impor- 
 tant cases. He hasa 
 large practice and 
 holds with an iron- 
 like grip the perfect 
 esteem of his many 
 friends. Asaspeaker 
 and campaigner he 
 has few equals, and 
 he has always been 
 able tostir the hearts 
 and minds of the peo- 
 ple. He is possessed 
 of that easy manner 
 characteristic of 
 those men at home 
 under all circumstan- 
 ces, and his genial and 
 entertaining person- 
 ality is in keeping 
 with his fine reputa- 
 tion as a lawyer and 
 
 ' statesman, and we 
 but reflect public sen- 
 timent when we 
 adorn these pages 
 with his name as that 
 of one of the leading 
 men of the State and 
 one who is destined 
 to gain National 
 prominence. 
 
 Patriotic and full 
 of love for North Car- 
 olina, which he has 
 
 shown in every act of his life, Judge Connor is in sympathy 
 
 with every effort made for her advancement and for amelio- 
 rating the condition of the people of the land, and it will be 
 his greatest pleasure to lighten their burdens, to promote 
 their welfare and to advance their interests. He will bring 
 into requisition all the resources of his practical statesman- 
 ship and he will wisely plan to promote those purposes which 
 tend to the uplifting of the people, to strengthening the foun- 
 dations of their prosperity and material welfare, to develop 
 the resources of this State and all others of our great nation. 
 
 In conelusion, it may be said that he is one of the most 
 highly gifted men of the State. Heisaclear-headed thinker 
 
 and an interesting and convincing orator, a fine advocate, a 
 
 man of broad and comprehensive mind, decided and strong 
 in his conviction and practical in all things. 
 
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 JUDGE H. G. CONNOR. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 49 
 
 Hon. Alston D. Watts. 
 
 Responsibility is always commensurate with power and 
 influence, and since the influence of the legislator is so great, 
 his responsibility is equally so. No member of the Demo- 
 eratic Legislature of 1901, which will go down to posterity as 
 one of the most memorable in the history of the State, more 
 fully appreciated this fact than the subject of this sketch, 
 the Hon. Alston D. Watts. The guiding principles of his 
 life, perseverance and self-reliance, he brought to the Legis- 
 lature, and his actions there were characterized by these 
 same manly, patriotic and unswerving principles of right 
 that have long made his name synonomous with integrity 
 and devotion to duty. Itis said that the flower when pressed 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. ] 
 HON. ALSTON D. WATTS. 
 
 gives its sweetest odors, so ofttimes obstacles to be sur- 
 mounted calls forth those mighty dormant levers of the 
 mind which by their magic power are destined to move the 
 thinking world. As the editor of the Statesville Mascot, Mr. 
 Watts has been a strong and forcible writer upon Demo- 
 cratic principles, and his influence is far reaching in his 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Watts is perhaps one of the best known Democrats, 
 from a National standpoint, in the State of North Carolina, 
 on account of his prominence at National Democratic Con- 
 ventions, and he has held many positions of trust, responsi- 
 bility and honor in and out of the State. He was Deputy 
 Register of Deeds and Deputy County Clerk of Iredell 
 county, and at one time an employee of. the National House 
 of Representatives at Washington, D.C. He has been a del- 
 egate toeyvery State, District and County Convention (with 
 one exception) ever held in the State since he was twenty- 
 one years of age, which is an honor which few have enjoyed. 
 He was Secretary of the County Democratic Committee dur- 
 
 ing the campaigns of 1888, 790, ’96 and ’98, and is now amem- 
 ber of that Committee, and through his able efforts and bril- 
 liant articles much good resulted ; in fact, he has been cred- 
 ited with being the leading spirit in the defeat of fusion rule 
 in Iredell county in 1896 and since. During that famous cam- 
 paign he was a member of the State Democratic Executive 
 Committee, and did splendid work. He has been a member 
 of the Congressionaland Judicial Committees of his district ; 
 an alternate to the National Convention in 1892, a delegate 
 to the National Democratic Convention at Kansas City, Mo., 
 in July, 1900, ete. He led the Iredell Democrats to victory 
 in the last campaign, and did efficient work in the Legislative 
 body just closed. 
 
 A distinguished member of the House is Hon. B. B. Nich- 
 olson, the popular Representative from Beaufort county, 
 He represents one of the best counties in the State and one 
 that has sent some very distinguished men to the General 
 Assembly. Hewas born in Warren county, and at an early 
 age moved to Washington, Beaufort county. He has a splen- 
 did education, having graduated with high honors at Trinity 
 College. His legal education was received at the University 
 of Virginia, which has turned out some of the greatest law- 
 yers of the country. 
 
 For some time he taught law at Trinity College and was 
 highly esteemed by the faculty as well as by students. He 
 
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 HON. B. B. NICHOLSON. 
 
 is now a member of the Board of Trustees of Trinity College. 
 
 In 1898, when the Democratic party was looking around 
 for a man to represeut the county in the General Assembly, 
 the choice fell upon Mr, Nicholson. The county had, for sev- 
 eral terms, been represented by Fusionists, and it was neces- 
 sary to put up a strong man to oppose them. No better man 
 could have been selected than the subject of our sketch. A 
 brilliant lawyer, a fluent speaker, and popular with every 
 one, he was just the man to command votes. He conducted 
 a brilliant campaign, and after a hard fight came out victo- 
 rious by a majority of 400 votes. 
 
 In the session of 1899 Mr. Nicholson’s record was so good 
 that he was chosen to again represent his county in the pres- 
 ent Legislature of 1901. In both sessions, he has been a hard 
 worker, both on the floor and in committee work. Oyster 
 legislation claimed much of his attention, and he is given 
 chief credit for drafting and passing what has been called the 
 best oyster legislation that has yet been placed on the stat- 
 ute books, 
 
 Mr. Nicholson is thoroughly acquainted with the needs of 
 his county, and has always been found advocating the best 
 interests of the State and her people. Plain and outspoken 
 in his views, he has made many friends. He was one of the 
 committee of management in the famous impeachment pro- 
 ceedings appvinted by the House. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Nicholson ranks very high and has been 
 connected with many important cases. He isa clear thinker 
 and an eloquent speaker. In his relation to his fellow mem- 
 bers he was popular and received their fullest confidence. 
 
50 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. F. R. Harris. 
 
 There are few young lawyers in the State who have a 
 brighter future in the legal or public field than has the dis- 
 tinguished young statesman whose picture is here presented. 
 His work asa member of the State Legislature clearly de- 
 monstrated his ability as a statesman, and his knowledge of 
 legal lore presents brilliant possibilities. 
 
 Hon. Frank R. Harris was born in the county of North- 
 ampton thirty years ago. He received his early education 
 at the public schools of that county, after which he finished 
 at Wake Forest College and at the University of North Car- 
 
 [Photo by Watson, ] 
 HON, F, R. HARRIS. 
 
 olina, shortly after being admitted to practice law. His 
 popularity at his home, Jackson, N. C., has frequently been 
 demonstrated by his election to positions of trust and honor. 
 He was Mayor of that bright and prosperous little city for 
 five years, and resigned to accept the nomination for the 
 Legislature. After a vigorous, interesting and brilliant 
 campaign, he was elected by the magnificent majority of 
 two thousand and twelve votes, the largest majority ever 
 given a candidate in the county of Northampton. 
 
 As a member of the Legislature his work won him addi- 
 tional honors. He introduced a dispensary movement for 
 the city of Jackson by which the school term was increased 
 from three months with one teacher to nine months with 
 three teachers. This bill he handled in a manner that won 
 friends and credit and added to the splendid educational 
 movement now advancing the best interests of the great 
 State of North Carolina. 
 
 Representative Harris is a young man who by his close 
 attention to the details of legislative work made a most 
 pleasant record for his county and established himself firmly 
 in the hearts of his colleagues and constituents. He seems 
 to have a natural tendency for legislative work, and his 
 ability and knowledge of law makes him a valuable member 
 of the General Assembly of North Carolina. 
 
 Mr. Harris is a gentleman of pleasant and entertaining 
 address, an interesting conversationalist, who has a bright 
 future ahead of him. He made many personal friends among 
 his associates in the capital city, and the memory of the 
 pleasant days of association will forever be remembered by 
 them and by Mr. Harris. Such courteous, affable young 
 
 men we are proud to see representing the grand old State of 
 North Carolina. . 
 
 Hon. A. A. F. Seawell. 
 
 This able young lawyer and statesman was born near Jones- 
 boro, N. C., in Moore county, thirty-six years ago. He was 
 educated at Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina, 
 graduating in the class of 1889 with honors. He then read 
 law with the law class of 1892, and was admitted to the Bar 
 in September of the same year, shortly after which he be- 
 gan the practice of law at Jonesboro, forming a partnership 
 with Mr. Melver, under the firm name of Seawell & Melver, 
 and practicing in the State and Federal courts. © 
 
 Mr. Seawell has always been a Democrat, but never before 
 sought political preferment or position. His ability being 
 recognized by his people and his loyalty having been tested, 
 he was chosen by the county convention of Moore to repre- 
 sent that county in the Legislature of 1901, and was nomi- 
 nated by acclamation. Accepting the nomination, he took 
 the stump and opened the campaign with ringing speeches 
 in behalf of the Constitutional Amendment. And it was a 
 well-known fact that he would have a strong opposition 
 among the white Republicans of his county, yet undaunted 
 he hurled defiance in their teeth ané continued his cam- 
 paign. After many weeks of hard fighting he was declared 
 elected by a majority of sixty-five votes. And it wasa fight 
 that would have taxed the powers of an much older cam- 
 paigner, yet grit and determination, as usual, won the 
 battle. 
 
 As a member of the Legislature, Representative Seawell 
 has kept up his splendid reputation, and his ringing speeches 
 on the floor of the House have been, as always, on the side 
 of right and justice. 
 
 His ability was so clearly demonstrated in the House of 
 Representatives that he was chosen as a member of the im- 
 peachment committee in conducting the proceedings against 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 HON. A. A. F. SEAWELL. 
 
 the Chief Justices of the State. Asa member of the com- 
 mittees on Judiciary, Appropriations, Corporations and Uni- 
 versities, he has on all occasions been present at meetings 
 and has done splendid work. 
 
 Mr. Seawell’s speech on the-Constitutional Amendment 
 was a masterly effort and won the attention of his hearers 
 by its effectiveness and clearness. This able lawyer has a 
 bright future in the legal and political fields, and much 
 honor presents itself to him should he be desirous of politi- 
 eal preferment. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 51 
 
 Hon. W. J. Nichols. 
 
 One of the most able young members of the House of 
 Representatives is the ‘“‘gentleman from Pitt,’ Mr. W. J. 
 Nichols, who is one of the representative young statesmen 
 of the twentieth century. Mr. Nichols is only twenty-six 
 years of age, yet he has twice represented his county in the 
 halls of the State Legislature, each time being elected by a 
 handsome majority. Mr. Nichols is a great believer in edu- 
 cation and he introduced a bill to the effect that the taxes 
 
 HON. W. J. 
 
 NICHOLS. 
 
 of the State shall be divided in a manner that provides that 
 the white children of the State shall get the benefit of the 
 taxes paid by the white race, and the colored children the 
 
 benefit of that paid by the colored race, which bill he has 
 handled in an able manner. 
 
 Mr. Nichols was born at Greenville, N. C., and he has 
 spent his youthful days there where he is a popular favorite 
 with all who know him. He was educated at the University 
 of North Carolina, where he achieved a brilliant reputation 
 as an able scholar. Just after leaving college two years ago 
 he entered the political arena and received the nomination 
 for the Legislature and was elected by a handsome majority, 
 winning a victory for white supremacy that won for him 
 renown all over the State. In 1900 he was again honored 
 with the nomination for the Legislature by his party, and 
 after a brilliant campaign was re-elected in a gratifying 
 manner. And today this young gentleman has by his able 
 political efforts and ability, won his way toa future that is 
 bright indeed in its possibilities. He is a member of a 
 number of important committees, and well does he look after 
 the interests of the Democratic party and his constituents. 
 He has won the confidence and love of his fellow members 
 and associates, and today I dare say, he is one of the most 
 popular members of the General Assembly of North Caro- 
 lina—such a young man that his friends and State are 
 proud of, and the kind of a man who by his individual efforts 
 win distinction for themselves. 
 
 May your future, Mr. Nichols, be bright, pleasant,and as 
 successful as your past. 
 
 Hon. Frank Thompson. 
 
 The Hon. Frank Thompson is one of the ablest members 
 of the Lower House of the Legislature. He is a native of 
 Onslow county, having been born there about forty-three 
 years ago. His education was received at Randolph-Ma- 
 con College, Virginia, a famous old institution, and one that 
 has been the the Alma Mater of many distinguished men. 
 
 ~ He practices law at Jacksonville, the county seat of Onslow. 
 
 Mr. Thompson has a large practice and stands in the front 
 rank of the legal profession of North Carolina. He has ap- 
 peared before the courts in a number of prominent and suc- 
 cessful cases and has always made a good impression. He is 
 a good speaker and one of the most popular members of the 
 House of Representatives. In politics, Mr. Thompson is a 
 pronounced Democrat, and he has at all times the interests 
 of the Democratic party at heart. He has every element of 
 a lawyer, is aclose student and investigator, and gives his 
 entire time to his profession. 
 
 It was in 1892 that Mr. Thompson first took an active in- 
 terest in politics. At that time he became interested in the 
 issues and was the Democratic leader in his section. He 
 has been County Superintendent cf Public Instruction and 
 Chairman of the County Board of Education. Three times 
 he was nominated for the State Senate, but the condition of 
 his health compelled him to decline. In 1866 he was a can- 
 didate for Congress from the Tuird District, and was defeated 
 by only a small majority. During the sessions of the Legis- 
 lature of 14899 and 1961 Mr. Thompson was a leader in the 
 House and was a member of many of the most important 
 
 FON. FRANK THOMPSON. 
 
 committees. He is conservative, but once he takes a posi- 
 tion on any subject he is firm and cannot be shaken. He is 
 regarded asa safe man to follow and has great influence 
 over the other members. 
 
 Mr. Thompson, asa member of the Legislature, has not 
 only added new laurels to his already splendid reputation as 
 a statesman, but has added much to the credit of the Demo- 
 cratic party. He watches the best interests of his constitu- 
 ents at all times. 
 
52 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. W. W. Carraway. 
 
 ‘““ DHE GENTLEMAN FROM LENOIR.’ 
 
 This distinguished gentleman and statesman was born at 
 Monticello farm, in Contentnea Neck district, a part of which 
 is now Vance township in Lenoir county, sixty-two years 
 ago, and he now enjoys the honor and_ pleasure of living in 
 the same house and sleeping in the same room that he first 
 saw the light of day in. 
 
 Captain Carraway was educated at the famous University 
 of Virginia. While there at school, the war broke out be- 
 tween the North and South, and true to the training of a 
 
 [Photo by Watson. ] 
 W. CARRAWAY. 
 
 HON. W. 
 
 patriotic father, young Carraway enlisted as a soldier in the 
 rank and file, but his brilliant ability soon asserted itself and 
 he was elected Captain of his company, (Co. E, 8rd-N: OC. 
 Cavalry,) and he served through the war with honor and 
 credit to himself and his country. After the war Captain 
 Carraway engaged in in the pursuits of farming and general 
 merchandising and continued in this until 1879, when he ac- 
 cepted a position on the staff of the News and Observer, as 
 staff correspondent, He remained with this paper until 
 1886 and and during this time he traveled the State with 
 many of the leading politicians of the State, handling their 
 speeches, ete., in an able and fluent manner, winning for him- 
 self a reputation as a writer that few young men achieve. 
 Shortly after this, Captain Carraway was appointed a post- 
 office inspector through the influences of that grand old 
 roman, Hon. M. W. Ransom, and for four years he traveled 
 twenty-seven States in the interests of that department. 
 
 In 1898 Captain Carraway was honored by the people of 
 his party with the nomination for the Legislature of the 
 State, and he made one of those brilliant canvasses for white 
 supremacy, that are today historical facts to the grand old 
 Democratic party and was elected by a majority of over 
 three hundred votes. . So well did he look after the interests 
 of the people of Lenoir county that he was in 1900, again 
 honored with the nomination and elected by a handsome 
 majority of 996 votes. 
 
 Captain Carraway has been married twice. He first mar- 
 ried Miss Alice B. Hilliard, of Nash county. Hissecond wife 
 was Miss Mary B. Hilliard. He is today the father of eleven 
 
 children, four girls and seven boys, all of whom are Demo- 
 cratic to the core. 
 
 Hon. Leroy L. Smith. 
 
 The Hon. Leroy L. Smith, Representative from Gates, is a 
 native of the county he now represents. He received his 
 education at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia. In 1875, 
 he was admitted to the bar and located at Gatesville, the 
 county seat of Gates since then he has been in active prac- 
 tice in that section and before the Supreme Court of North. 
 Carolina. 
 
 Mr. Smith has always taken an interest in polities, with- 
 out being an office-seeker. In 1892, without any solicitation 
 on his part, he was nominated as Presidential Elector on the 
 Democratic ticket in the First Congressional District. He 
 was a warm admirer of Mr. Cleveland and canvassed the dis- 
 trict at his own expense, being elected by a large majority. 
 At the time that Judge Brown was appointed Judge of the 
 First Judicial District by Governor Fowle, Mr. Smith was 
 recommended for the position by some of the ablest lawyers 
 in North Carolina. 
 
 In 1894 the Democratic convention of Gates county nomi- 
 nated Mr. Smith unanimously to be the candidate for the 
 Legislature. Being earnestly solicited to accept he did 
 so and served in the Legislature of 1895. The fight which 
 the Democratic minority made at that time has become 
 famous and Mr. Smith was one of the leaders. He accepted 
 the nomination for the Senate in 1896 when there was no 
 hope of success, as there was a registered majority of 2,000 
 against the Democratic party in the district. 
 
 In June, 1900, Mr. Smith again received the unanimous 
 support of the Democrats in the convention of Gates county 
 as their Representative. He made a thorough canvass, 
 
 [Photo. by Wharton. ] 
 HON. LEROY L. SMITH. 
 
 speaking strongly in favor of the Constitutional Amend- 
 ment and was elected by a majority of 702 votes. 
 
 In the session of 1901 Mr. Smith has introduced and cham- 
 pioned many important bills, among them being the bill to 
 carry out the Constitutional requirement in regard to Pub- 
 lic Schools, the bill to prevent indebtedness of State Institu- 
 tions, the bill to protect the owners of timber trees. and the 
 bill for the correction of youthful offenders. 
 
 Mr. Smith has always been a strong Democrat and has 
 never wavered in his devotion or service to his party. He 
 has served his people well and faithfully, and Gates county 
 should be proud of her representative. 
 
The subject of this sketch was born in Greene county 
 about twenty-seven years ago. Heis one of the youngest 
 members of the House, but it is truly acase of an old head 
 upon young shoulders, for Mr. Carr has done good work. 
 He had the best possible advantages in the way of educa- 
 tion, as he attended the famous Horner School and the Uni- 
 versity of North Carolina, graduating from the latter in 1895. 
 The class of 1895, the Centennial class, had a number of bright 
 young men in it, and Mr. Carr was one of the brightest, 
 being graduated ‘* Summa Cum Laude.” 
 
 For a year after his graduation he was Instructor in Latin 
 
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 HON. FREDERICK L. CARR. 
 
 ~at the University, a proof of his high standing as a scholar. 
 Later, Mr. Carr was Superintendent of Schools for his native 
 county, Greene, and did much towards raising to a high 
 standard of excellence the schools of that county. As a 
 teacher and worker in the interests of education, Mr. Carr 
 has achieved a high reputation for the excellence and faith- 
 fulness of his work. 
 
 Mr. Carr was elected to the General Assembly of 1901 by a 
 majority of 859 votes and led his ticket by 100 votes. Greene 
 county is in the black belt and for some time had felt the 
 evil of Republican and Populist misgovernment. Mr. Carr 
 made a vigorous campaign and the fight was made on the 
 Constitutional amendment. His opponent was Chairman of 
 the Populist Executive Committee of the county, and not- 
 withstanding this fact and the strength of the negro vote in 
 the county, Mr. Carr turned an adverse majority of 250 toa 
 majority of 800 for the Democratic party. 
 
 This is Mr, Carr’s first venture into politics, but he has 
 made a most excellent record for himself in the House and 
 has shown great ability as a legislator. He has served his 
 constituents and the people of North Carolina faithfully and 
 well and to the complete satisfaction of all. He served asa 
 ‘member of the Committee of Education and of the Sub- 
 committee which considered the Text Book Commission 
 Bill. In this work Mr. Carr’s experience and ability as a 
 teacher manifested themselves and he was frequently con- 
 sulted by the other members of the House. 
 
 Mr. Carr was also a member of the Committee on Appro- 
 priations, Military Affairs, Enrolled Bills and Apportionment 
 of Representatives. Although young in years, Mr. Carr has 
 made his influence felt and will achieve great distinction in 
 years to come. 
 
 It is always pleasant to write of the success of young men 
 and their advancement to positions of honor and trust. The 
 Hon. Franklin M. Shannonhouse, the popular and able young 
 Representative from Mecklenburg county, comes under this 
 head. Born near the city of Charlotte, on October 8rd, 1872, 
 he is one of the youngest members of the House. 
 
 Mr. Shannonhouse received his education at the University 
 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From early childhood he 
 gave promise of great ability. Always a student and inter- 
 ested in public questions, it is not strange that we find him 
 one of the prominent members of the House of Representa- 
 tives at the early age of twenty-eight. Mr. Shannonhouse 
 is a lawyer by profession, having been admitted to the bar 
 in 1895. He has achieved great distinction in his chosen 
 calling, and is regarded as one of the leading lawyers of his 
 section of the country. 
 
 Although not an office-seeker in any sense of the word, 
 Mr. Shannonhouse has devoted a great deal of time to poli- 
 tics, considering it the duty of every good citizen to inform 
 himself on public questions and use his influence on the side 
 of right. He has been Secretary of the Democratic Execu- 
 tive Committee of Mecklenburg county for the past four 
 years, and has also served as a Commissioner of the Graded 
 Schools. 
 
 In obedience to the wishes of the people of his county, Mr. 
 Shannonhouse was prevailed upon to accept the nomination 
 for the House last year and waselected by the large majority 
 of 3,400, a proof of his popularity. During the session of the 
 Legislature just finished Mr. Shannonhouse has made for 
 himself a record that is an honor to himself and very grati- 
 fying to his constituents and friends. He seryed on some 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 HON. FRANK M. SHANNONHOUSE, 
 
 of the most important committees and showed himself capa- 
 ble of hard work. He introduced, among many others, the 
 bill for Broad Ties for Charlotte, and the bill providing 
 for a Recorder’s Court for Charlotte. He was also a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Managers for the Impeachment of the 
 Judges, a great honor for so young a member. He is a good 
 speaker and his vote was always on the side of any bill look- 
 ing to the betterment of the people. Mr. Shannonhouse isa 
 young man who may be expected todo great things in the 
 future, and who may be trusted by his party to be always on 
 the spot when his services are needed, 
 
54 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. W. H. Yarborough, Jr. 
 An hour of genial, intelligent conversation with this pleas- 
 ant and accomplished gentleman will long be remembered 
 by the writer with much pleasure. Representative Yarbor- 
 ough is always entertaining in the social circles, being mod- 
 est in demeanor, cultivated in mind, and with a sunny 
 channel of good feeling running through his heart. He isa 
 self-made man, who has come to the front by reason of his 
 individual pluck and courage. Mr. Yarborough was born 
 
 near Louisburg thirty-one years ago, and he comes from one 
 of the oldest and most distinguished families of that section 
 
 [Photo. by Watson. } 
 HON, W. H. YARBOROUGH, JR. 
 
 of the State. His youth was passed in securing an educa- 
 tion, obtained at the private schools of Louisburg. Later he 
 read law with Hon. C. M. Cooke at Louisburg, and was ad- 
 mitted to the Bar in the fall of 1891. After which he moved 
 to Wilson -and formed a partnership with the Hon. Jno. E. 
 Woodard, and was solicitor of the Third District for a num- 
 ber of years. In the spring of 1898, he moved ito his old 
 home (Louisburg), and opened a law office. 
 
 Mr. Yarborough has been an active political worker ever 
 since he was eighteen years of age. During the past few 
 years his brilliant political knowledge and ability as a cam- 
 paigner have been very much appreciated by the people of 
 Franklin county. During two of the most exciting cam- 
 paigns he made canvasses of his county (though no candi- 
 date) in the interests of the grand old Democratic party. 
 In 1898 he made a thorough canvass for ‘‘ White Supremacy”’ 
 in Franklin county, speaking in every precinet therein and 
 aiding much toward the redemption of the county. He 
 has enjoyed the confidence and respect of the people of 
 Franklin county, who have honored him with positions of 
 trust and honor. In 1896,he was chairman of the County 
 Democratic Executive Committee. He has been Mayor of 
 Louisburg for four suceessive terms, which position he re- 
 signed to accept the nomination for the Legislature. He has 
 been County Attorney of Franklin county at every term the 
 Democrats were in power since he began the practice of law 
 in that county. 
 
 When he accepted the nomination for the Legislature last 
 year, he entered the race determined to win, and was elected 
 by 1,358 majority. Asa legislator, he ereditably acquitted 
 himself, and the people of Franklin have good reason to re- 
 joice at his record as their representative. 
 
 Hon. L. J. Lawrence. 
 
 There is only one way to win honorable recognition among 
 men, and that is to join the ranks with the determination 
 that nothing shall cause one to swerve from the path of hon- 
 esty and duty. Reliability and energy are also essential to 
 the suecessful man nowadays. A gentleman in whom all 
 these qualities are blended is the Hon. Lloyd J. Lawrence, 
 “the gentleman from Hertford,’’ one of the ablest members” 
 of the lower branch of the General Assembly. 
 
 Mr. Lawrence was born at Murfreesboro, N. C., twenty- 
 nine years ago, where he has since resided. In 1891-’92 he ~ 
 read law at the University of North Carolina, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in ’92. Shortly after he was elected Mayor 
 of Murfreesboro, which position he filled with honor and 
 ability for seven years. He was chairman of the Democratic 
 Executive Committee of Hertford county from 1896 to 1898. 
 In 1898 he was nominated for the Legislature and was de- 
 feated, after an active campaign, by 316 votes. In 1899 he 
 was chairman of the Board of School Directors of his county. 
 In 1900 he was again nominated for the Legislature. He en- 
 tered the arena and made a brilliant and long-to-be-remem- 
 bered campaign, which resulted in his election by the hand- 
 some majority of 984 votes. 
 
 Mr. Lawrence makes a conscientious, just, able and cour- 
 ageous member of the House, as he is fearless in the adyo- 
 eacy of his convictions. His views upon matters are modern 
 and he thoroughly believes in keeping abreast of the times. 
 His success is due in a great measure to his untiring energy, 
 pleasing and courteous manners toward his fellow men and 
 his ability to make friends. No member of the House has 
 devoted more attention to legislation that is beneficial to 
 the State, the Democratic party and his constituents than 
 Mr. Lawrence. Of keen, searching mind, clear vision and a 
 thorough knowledge of the law, he is well equipped for the 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 HON. L. J. LAWRENCE. 
 
 duties of his position. He is a Democrat of unswerving fidel- 
 ity and has always fought for the advancement of Demo- 
 cratic principles. As a member of important committees, 
 he has been a faithful worker in the interests of good legis- 
 lation, carefully guarding the principles of his party. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Lawrence formed a partnership with Judge B. 
 B. Winborne, one of the State’s distinguished lawyers, under 
 the firm name of Winborne & Lawrence, which is, perhaps, 
 today one of the strongest firms in the legal profession in 
 eastern North Carolina. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 55 
 
 Judge F. D. Winston. 
 
 Hon. F. D. Winston, the distinguished member from Ber- 
 tie county in the House of Representatives, comes from a 
 family noted for learning and culture. He was born in Ber- 
 tie county, Oct. 7, 1857. Mr. Winston was educated at the 
 Fetter School at Henderson, the Horner School at Oxford, 
 Cornell University, and graduated from University of North 
 Carolina with distinction in 1879. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1881. He has served on the Democratic State Execu- 
 
 tive Committee as member from the Second Congressional 
 He presided over the State Convention of Demo- 
 In 1898 he was elected by 
 
 District. 
 cratic Clubs in 1891 at Raleigh. 
 the Democrats of 
 Bertie to the House - 
 of Representatives. 
 In addition to his own 
 campaign, he at the 
 request of Chairman 
 Simmons took charge 
 of the work of organ- 
 izing ‘‘ White Gov- 
 ernment Unions” 
 throughout the State. 
 His work was thor- 
 ough and completely 
 successful. He took 
 a leading part in the 
 proceedings of the 
 House in 1899 and his 
 great speech on the 
 adoption of the Con- 
 stitutional Amend- 
 ment will long be re- 
 membered. It was a 
 gem of oratory and 
 logic. 
 
 Mr. Winston, not- 
 withstanding his 
 busy life and cares, 
 is a deep thinker and 
 devotes much 
 thought to education 
 and the betterment 
 of the people of the 
 State and the penal 
 institutions. Heisa 
 Mason of high and 
 honorable standing. 
 
 Mr. Winston mar- 
 ried Miss Rosa M. IL 
 Kenney, a gifted mu- 
 sician. Mr. Winston 
 was one of the hard- 
 
 est workers in the State during the campaign of last year for. 
 
 “White Supremacy,’’ and to the masterly manner in which 
 he so thoroughly organized the White Supremacy Clubs 
 throughout the State is largely due the big Democratic vic- 
 tory. He is among the strong, active men of the present 
 House of Representatives. He is chairman of the Commit- 
 tee on Privileges and Elections, member of committees on 
 Judiciary, Corporations, Institutions for the Blind, State 
 Library, Publie Printing, Congressional Districts and Uni- 
 versity Trustees. : 
 _ Mr. Winston is noted for his geniality of disposition and 
 kindness of heart, and is without doubt one of the best known 
 men and hardest working Democrats in the State of North 
 Carolina, 
 There are few men in the State who have brighter pros- 
 
 JUDGE F. D. 
 
 pects in the political arena than has this distinguished states- 
 man from Bertie. He is a man who has for years carefully 
 studied politics, and is today, perhaps, one of the best in- 
 formed men on the political situations of the Southern States 
 in the country. Much eredit is due this able parliamenta- 
 rian by his party and State for his able and successful efforts 
 during the past few years to bring the party to the front as 
 a strictly white man’s party. He is one of the few who have 
 asked no reward except the friendship and love of his friends 
 in the Democratic party. Yet should he desire future hon- 
 ors at the hands of this party, he has but to ask for what he 
 wishes. 
 
 Frank Winston, as he is familiarly known to his friends, is 
 a man who has always proven loyal and true to his friends, 
 and he is, I dare say, 
 today one of the most 
 popular men in the 
 State of North Caro- 
 lina, and is one of the 
 most popular in the 
 General Assembly, 
 having by his charm- 
 ing courtesy of man- 
 ner won many ad- 
 mirers and friends, 
 
 During the recent 
 ceremonies attending 
 the inauguration of 
 Governor Charles B. 
 Ayeock, he was ap- 
 pointed chairman of 
 the Legislative Com- 
 mittee to conduct the 
 ceremonies, and, in 
 his usual masterly 
 manner, he presided 
 over the event, intro- 
 ducing the new State 
 officers to the people 
 of the State as only 
 an able public man 
 can present. 
 
 Mr. Winston’sname 
 has been repeatedly 
 brought forward in 
 connection with pub- 
 lie positions, but as 
 yet he has always de- 
 clined the honors of- 
 fered him. He was 
 recently appointed 
 by the Legislature as 
 a member of the com- 
 mittee to investigate 
 the embezzlement 
 proceedings in the State Treasurer’s office, which occurred 
 under the “‘ fusion’’ crowd, and his able work in connection 
 with his associates was thorough and complete. 
 
 Governor Aycock appointed Mr, Winston, on April 4th, 
 Judge of the Second District, which was a deserved compli- 
 ment to this well-known statesman, and meets the approval 
 of the entire bar of the State. Judge Winston is a man of 
 large legal experience and will fill the position with honor. 
 
 Judge Winston has traveled extensively and is a gentleman 
 of rare mind and an interesting relator of incidents. He is 
 a great entertainer, and his friends congregate around him 
 frequently for an evening of pleasure and entertainment. 
 Asa host and after-dinner speaker he has few equals in the 
 South. Originality, wit and wisdom sparkles with this dis- 
 tinguished lawyer and statesman. 
 
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 WINSTON. 
 
Hon. Wiley Rush. 
 The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is one of the 
 able young lawyers of the State and he has the honor of being 
 Solicitor for the Highth Judicial District, which is perhaps 
 one of the best solicitorships in North Carolina. Mr. Rush 
 was born in Randolph county. He is thirty-six years of age, 
 and was educated at that well-known seat of learning, Trin- 
 ity College, Durham, N. C., and at the Rutherford College. 
 He has always taken an active part in the political arena; 
 being a brilliant orator he is a splendid campaigner, and it 
 
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 HON. WILEY RUSH. 
 
 is said by those who know him in his district, that he is a 
 “Rush-ing campaigner.”’ In 1894 he was Secretary to the 
 State Democratic Executive Committee, where his able work 
 was appreciated by the Democracy of the State. In 1896, he 
 
 was the Democratic leader in his county and was honored - 
 
 with the nomination to the Legislature, and he took the 
 stump and gave the Fusion crowd a magnificent battle, yet 
 was defeated by the combination, although he did much tc 
 reduce their majority. In 1898, Mr. Rush was elected Solici- 
 tor of the Highth Judicial District after a brilliant canvass 
 
 in the interests of Democracy and the Constitutional Amend- 
 
 ment by the handsome majority of 2,660 votes. 
 
 Wiley Rush is loyal and true to his friends, and is a credit 
 to the party he represents, and as a solicitor he has made 
 many friends, at the same time doing much to advance the 
 interests of Democracy. As a campaigner he makes one feel 
 his personal interest in the welfare of his State; he is a law- 
 yer and statesman who works for the advancement of the 
 people. He has made for himself a record that presents 
 bright prospects fuer the future, and his popularity was 
 evinced by the handsome majority he received in his can- 
 vass for the Solicitorship. 
 
 In speaking of Wiley Rush, it is a pleasure to note that he 
 is a self-made man, who has come to the front by his own 
 individuality. Personally Mr. Rush has a pleasing manner 
 that attracts and wins for him the friendship of those whom 
 he comes in contact with. He isa Democrat who has always 
 fought for the principles of his party, believing them to be 
 just and honorable. Such men North Carolina is proud of, 
 because they do much by their individual efforts to build up 
 and advance the interests of our grand old State. He has a 
 bright and prosperous future in political and judicial fields. 
 
 56 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. J. S. Mann. 
 
 When the people of the county of Hyde elected Mr. J. S. 
 Mann to represent that county in the Legislature of North 
 Carolina, their choice was indeed fortunate; they elected a 
 man tried and true, who has been faithful to every trust re- 
 posed in him—a gentleman who has by his masterly ability 
 won for himself a record as a statesman that is indeed cred- 
 itable to his State and his constituents. Asa member of the 
 Lower House of the General Assembly, he has worked faith- 
 fully and earnestly for the best interests of his State, and 
 has been a leading worker for advanced legislation. He has 
 been a close attendant at committee meetings as well as an 
 earnest worker on the floor, and by his able way of handling 
 important matters of legislation, has made many friends and 
 accomplished much good work. Representative Mann was 
 born in the county of Hyde, at Middleton, N.C., thirty-eight 
 years ago. He was educated at the Horner School, and is a 
 graduate of the University of North Carolina. He is anable 
 lawyer, who read law under such able men as Dr. John Man- 
 ning, at Chapel Hill, and was admitted to the Bar in 1887. 
 He practiced principally in the State and Federal Courts, 
 having his office in Hyde county from the time he was ad- 
 mitted to practice until 1891, when he removed to New 
 Bern and established a law office in that city until 1893, when 
 he returned to Hyde county, and began taking an active 
 interest in farming pursuits. Today he is considered one of 
 the most representative farmers and statesmen of his sec- 
 tion of the State, and his splendid success in agricultural 
 pursuits testify in mute applause as to his ability as a 
 farmer. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Mann was elected by the people of Hyde county 
 
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 HON. J. 8. MANN. 
 
 to represent them in the Legislature. In 1898, Governor 
 Carr appointed him Shell Fish Commissioner, which posi- 
 tion he held with honor and credit until the Fusionists got 
 control of the State in 1895. He was a member of the Board 
 of County Commissioners of his county for several years, 
 and was re-elected to the Legislature in August, 1900, by his 
 people with a handsome majority. He was again honored 
 recently, by being appointed a member of the Directory 
 Board of the State Prison, one of the most responsible direc- 
 toryships of the State. As amember of the following Com- 
 mittees, he did excellent service during the Legislature of 
 1901: Judiciary, Finance, Public Roads and Turnpikes, Oys- 
 ter Interests, and Fisheries. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
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 Mr. Brevard Nixon. 
 
 This young gentleman is one of the best clerks the House 
 of Representatives of North Carolina ever had, and he has, 
 by his able and clever manner of conducting the affairs of 
 his office, won the high regard of those associated with him. 
 As a farmer boy, a student and a lawyer, Mr. Nixon has al- 
 ways been inspired with high ambition. His career has been 
 marked by his integrity, fidelity to duty, and astern and 
 absolute adherence to the laws of justice. 
 
 Mr. Nixon was born about thirty-two years ago in Lincoln 
 county. His boyhood days were spent ona farm. He was 
 
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 BREVARD NIXON. 
 
 a teacher from his twentieth to his twenty-fifth year. His 
 education was obtained principally at the Nixon school 
 house, the Rock Springs Seminary, and at Catawba College, 
 Newton, N.C. , 
 
 When Mr. Nixon was twenty-five he commenced reading 
 law, shortly after which he finished his studies at the Uni- 
 versity of North Carolina, and in February, 1895, was granted 
 license to practice law by the Supreme Court. He formed 
 a partnership with the well-known lawyer, Hon. J. D. Mc- 
 Call, of Charlotte, where he has since practiced, and he has 
 been connected with some of the most important cases in 
 Charlotte. 
 
 In the campaign of 1898 Mr. Nixon did valiant service for 
 the Democratic party and was a vigorous fighter for the 
 cause. His friends nominated him for the principal clerk- 
 ship of the House when that body met, and, although there 
 were several other competitors in the race, Mr. Nixon came 
 out victorious. His record was a good one and his work was 
 performed wonderfully well. He was re-elected in 1901 with- 
 out opposition. 
 
 During the session just passed Mr. Nixon served in the 
 same capacity and again showed his ability. His records of 
 the proceedings of the House were turned over to the Sec- 
 retary of State on the same day that that body adjourned,a 
 feat that is truly remarkable, and one that has never been 
 accomplished by any other clerk. 
 
 Mr. Nixon has served the Democratic party faithfully and 
 well, and we predict great things for him in the future. 
 
 The common desire to know all about things before they 
 happen is the occasion for the evening newspaper. The lies 
 told by the evening newspapers are the occasion for the 
 morning newspapers.—Puck. 
 
 Mr. T. W. Alexander. 
 
 It gives the writer pleasure to chrozicle the suecess of a 
 young man. The subject of this sketch comes froma family 
 of political leaders—his father having represented his State 
 in Congress and at the State capital on many different occa- 
 sions. 
 
 Mr. Alexander is perhaps one of the youngest yet brightest 
 lawyers of the State. He has a handsome office in the Peid- 
 mont Building at Charlotte, which he opened February 5th, 
 1900. 
 
 Mr. Alexander was Private Secretary to Congressman John 
 
 THOMAS W, ALEXANDER. 
 
 D. Bellamy of the 57th Congress, and is a graduate of the 
 University of North Carolina, and stood the examination 
 before the Supreme Court before he was twenty-one years 
 of age. Immediately after becoming of age, he received his 
 license. While in Washington he graduated from the Law 
 Department of the Columbian University in 1900, being the 
 second man in his class. He also had the honor of winning 
 ‘the forty dollar prize ” offered by Prof. Needham, Dean of 
 the Law Department for the best essay on any legal question. 
 
 Mr. Alexander was an assistant to the Principal Clerk of 
 the House of Representatives in 1899, and he resigned his 
 position as Private Secretary to Mr. Bellamy on January 4th, 
 1901, to accept the same position during the session of the 
 Legislature of 1901; and as Calendar Clerk he made a repu- 
 tation that won him many friends, and promises a bright fu- 
 ture for the able young statesman. 
 
 Mr. Alexander was born two miles west of Charlotte twen- 
 ty-two years ago. He was educated at Horner’s Military 
 School at Oxford, the A. & M. College at Raleigh, and at the 
 University. He read law under Jones & Tillett of Charlotte, 
 and he has always been a Democrat with a bright future be- 
 fore him. 
 
 THE ATLANTIC HOTEL. 
 
 This grand old seaside resort at Morehead City will open for 
 the ‘‘ Twentieth Century’’ Season about June 10, under man- 
 agement of Messrs. L. W. and G. W. Scoville of the Aragon, 
 Atlanta, Ga., who are perhaps the best known hotel men in 
 the South. The season of 1901 promises to be the most suc- 
 cessful ever knownin the history of this magnificent hostelry, 
 and it is a well-known fact that Morehead City is the politi- 
 cal rendezvous of the leading statesmen of the South. 
 
58 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Henderson county December 
 31st, 1866, and comes from distinguished ancestry. His 
 father was one of the bravest soldiers in the Confederate 
 army, following the fortunes of Lee’s forces to the final con- 
 flict at Appomattox, and his mother was the daughter of a 
 distinguished Methodist divine, Rev. T. J. Dawson, of Bun- 
 combe county. 
 
 Mr. Shipman received a limited education in the public 
 and private schools of Henderson and Transylvania counties 
 and at the Brevard Academy. He was a teacher in the pub- 
 
 M. L. SHIPMAN. 
 
 lie schools of Transylvania from 1890 to 1894, and was twice 
 elected Superintendent of the public schools of the same 
 county, holding that office until he was removed by the 
 Fusionists in 1895. Mr. Shipman established the Transy]- 
 vania Hustler at Brevard in 1891, and notwithstanding that 
 there had been many failures to establish a newspaper in 
 that locality, this enterprise was successful and Mr. Ship- 
 man’s paper became a permanent fixture among the public 
 enterprises of that section. 
 
 In 1896, Mr. Shipman received a flattering proposition to 
 return to Henderson, and during the campaign of that year 
 he transferred the Hustler to Hendersonville, and since that 
 time has been publishing the first Democratic paper that 
 ever met with success in Henderson county. The paper is 
 one of the recognized organs of the party in that part of the 
 State, and Mr. Shipman has established a reputation as an 
 editor. 
 
 In 1898, the Democratic party selected him to be chairman 
 of the party in Henderson county, a position which he now 
 holds. He acted as chairman of his Senatorial District dur- 
 ing the campaigns of 1898 and 1900. In 1899 and again in 
 1901, Mr. Shipman was elected Calendar Clerk of the Senate 
 by the Democrats. In this capacity he has given greatsatis- 
 faction by his careful and accurate work. 
 
 Mr. Shipman is one of the most popular citizens of Hen- 
 dersonyille and numbers his friends by the thousand. For 
 four consecutive terms he has been Recording Secretary of 
 the Odd Fellows Lodge in his town, and is at present Dep- 
 
 uty Grand Chancellor and Prelate of the Hendersonville 
 Lodge Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Mr. Frank D. Hackett. 
 
 This gentleman is one of the leading attorneys of Wilkes- 
 boro and has achieved a good reputation in his section of the 
 State. He was born at the old family homestead, Maize- 
 field, near Wilkesboro, N. C., on the 14th of June, 1857. His 
 father was one of the foremost educators of the State, and 
 his mother was Miss Jane Cuthbert Sturgis, daughter of 
 Judge Sturgis of the Georgia Supreme Court and one of the 
 most noted criminal lawyers of Georgia. 
 
 At the age of twenty-four he commenced keeping books 
 for a large firm in Western North Carolina. This position 
 
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 he retained until he entered the legal profession of 1890, 
 having studied law under Major Bingham of Statesville. 
 
 Mr. Hackett has never held office, with the exception of 
 the office of Distillery Surveyor during President Cleve- 
 land’s second term, which position was tendered him with- 
 cut solicitation on his part and which he filled for three 
 years to the complete satisfaction of the Government and 
 the people with whom his duties brought him in contact. 
 
 He has done a great deal of work for the Democratic party, 
 on the stump and in other ways, and has always had the 
 best interests of the cause at heart. He was a candidate 
 for the position of Principal Clerk of the House for the ses- 
 sion of 1899, but withdrew his name from the caucus in the 
 
 FRANK D. HACKETT. 
 
 _interest of Mr. Nixon, thus insuring the latter’s unanimous 
 
 election. Mr. Nixon selected him as Cashier and Assistant 
 and this position he filled in the best possible manner. 
 
 Mr. Hackett was again chosen during the session of 1901 
 as Assistant to the Principal Clerk and again covered him- 
 self with glory in the discharge of all duties entrusted to 
 him. Last year he was a candidate for nomination for State 
 Auditor before the convention, but retired in favor of Major 
 Dixon. At the next session of the General Assembly, Mr. 
 Hackett will be a candidate for the office of Principal Clerk 
 of the House, a position which his experience during the past 
 two sessions fully enables him to fill. 
 
 Mr. Hackett is a courteous, affable gentleman who has 
 made many friends in the House, and is one of the most 
 popular clerks in either that body or the Senate. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
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 Mr. Alex. Lassiter. 
 
 In writing of the young men who achieve success by their 
 individual efforts and ability it is a pleasure to mention the 
 gentleman whose name heads this sketch, Mr. Alex. Lassi- 
 ter, of the town of Aulander, county of Bertie, N. C. This 
 handsome young lawyer is twenty-seven years old and was 
 born in Hertford county, where he spent his childhood days. 
 He was prepared for college at the Aulander Academy and 
 the Davis School at Winston, from there he attended the 
 University of North Carolina and graduated with high hon- 
 ors. In 1895 he was admitted to the Bar and immediately 
 thereafter he established a law office and is now enjoying a 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 ALEX, LASSITER,. 
 
 splendid practice. Mr. Lassiter is very popular in the town 
 of Aulander and has been Mayor there four terms. He isa 
 Notary Publie and chairman of the Democratic Executive 
 Committee of Mitchell township; is Secretary to the County 
 Democratic Executive Committee; was Secretary to the 
 Canvassing Board that declared Bertie county to be Demo- 
 cratic by a majority of 1,985 votes and established white 
 supremacy in a grand and glorious manner. 
 
 This able young lawyer’s ability was recognized by his 
 party and, through the influence of the Hon. Frances D. 
 Winston, the most popular: member of the General Assem- 
 bly, he was appointed assistant to the principal clerk of the 
 lower house of the Assembly and entrusted with the copy- 
 ing of the Journal, one of the most important clerkships of 
 the House. Well and faithfully has he executed the work 
 entrusted to his care and made for himself a reputation as 
 one of the most competent officials of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives of North Carolina. 
 
 Personally, Mr. Lassiter has a charming disposition and 
 pleasing manner that wins for him the good friendship of 
 all who come in contact with him; and his able knowledge 
 of the work pertaining to the position he holds, as well as 
 the ability displayed in despatching business, predicts a bril- 
 liant future for the young statesmen. 
 
 You may live in a Fifth Avenue palace lifting to eternal 
 Newport, you may own two or three railroads, you may ride 
 in a coach with solitaire diamonds in the window-frames, 
 but all the same, be you man or woman, you are not “in 
 society”? unless you own a Tam O’Shanter cap. 
 
 Mr. E. B. Norvelle. 
 
 A sketch of the General Assembly of North Carolina would 
 be incomplete without a mention of that popular and well- 
 known gentleman, Mr. Edmund B. Norvelle, Enrolling Clerk. 
 This distinguished lawyer occupied the same position during 
 the General Assembly of 1899, and so ably and clearly did he 
 execute the duties and preside over the workings of the En- 
 rolling department, that when his name came up before the 
 Assembly for re-election in 1901 he was unanimously elected. 
 So great, in fact, was this gentleman’s popularity that he 
 had no opposition at all. 
 
 The workings of the Enrolling office during the recent ses- 
 
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 ce EDMUND B. NORVELLE. 
 
 sion of the General Assembly were frequently commented 
 upon by the members of both branches and by the State 
 officers. And it is a matter of personal pride to Mr. Nor- 
 velle when, considering the fact that he had such a large 
 force of copyists constantly at work, that no mistakes or 
 errors were charged up to his department. 
 
 Mr. Norvelle is a Virginian by birth, but came to North 
 Carolina to reside in the year 1884. Shortly after coming to 
 the State he began the study of law and was admitted to the 
 bar, and since has built up a lucrative practice in the west- 
 ern part of the State. 
 
 During recent campaigns Mr. Norvelle has taken an active 
 part in the success of his party, and his canvasses have been 
 firm and characteristic in the interests of the cause. He is 
 very popular at the State capital, where he has made many 
 friends, and should he desire a political future his prospects 
 are very bright. 
 
 Personally, this distinguished statesman is a man of charm- 
 ing and courteous manners, and his pleasantry in conversa- 
 tion reminds one of the Virginians of the old school. As an 
 attorney, he has made strong points, being learned and wise 
 in his counsels and thorough in the handling of all cases that 
 come before him for advice or trial. His opinions are fre- 
 quently sought by his brother practitioners for their worth 
 and merit. As aman, Edmund Norvelle commands the re- 
 spect, confidence and esteem of all who know him. As a 
 public man, his position is one of worth and prominence. 
 
 “Would I could hold the hand I love,” sighs a poet. Some- 
 body must have opened a jack-pot.—Puck. 
 
60 TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Mr Ww. W. Wilson. 
 
 The popular Reading Clerk of the House is too well known 
 to citizens of Raleigh to need any introduction from the 
 writer. His powerful voice is a familiar sound to all who have 
 attended the sessions of the last two Legislatures. Mr. Wil- 
 son was educated at Trinity College and has spent most of 
 his life in Raleigh. Ever since he was twenty-one years old 
 he has taken an active interest in politics and has rendered 
 the Democratic party excellent service. By profession Mr. 
 Wilson is a lawyer. From 1895 to 1897 he was City Auditor 
 of Raleigh. 
 
 Mr Wilson was elected Reading Clerk of the Lower House 
 
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 WILSON. 
 
 Vo MF 
 
 during the session of 1896 and was very efficient. His du- 
 ties were always profound in a way that gave complete satis- 
 faction to all. When the Legislature of 1901 met, Mr. Wil- 
 son was chosen to fill the same position, without opposition 
 on the first ballot, a very great compliment to him and one 
 that was fully derserved. 
 
 Mr. Wilson is thoroughly familiar with insurance matters 
 and was clerk in the Insurance Department of the State 
 from April Ist, 1899, to January 8th, 1901, resigning in order 
 to accept the position of Reading Clerk. He has recently 
 become associated with Mr. John ©: Drewry, the State 
 Agent of the United Benefit Life Insurance Company, of 
 Newark, N. J., and Mr. Drewry is to be congratulated on 
 having secured the services of this bright and hustling young 
 man. 
 
 In conclusion, we may say that Mr. Wilson belongs to 
 that class of young men to whom the Old North State looks 
 to take up the fight for Democracy when the older leaders 
 shall have passed away. He isa firm believer in the doc- 
 trines of the party and one who is willing to make sacrifice 
 for its good. 
 
 Mr. Wilson, personally, is a gentleman of pleasant and 
 agreeable manners, and is quite popular in the capital city. 
 He is a Mason of high standing and takes an active interest 
 in the workings of that grand and noble order. Mr. Wilson, 
 should he so desire political honors in the future at the 
 hands of the people of Wake county, can rest assured that 
 he will receive a liberal support from them, 
 
 He is a man who has won his way to success by hard per- 
 
 severance and ability, and his future presents bright possi- 
 bilities, 
 
 Mr. H. C. Cowan. 
 
 In writing a sketch of this able young lawyer, statesman 
 and legislative clerk, it gives the writer much pleasure to 
 state that his faithful, courteous and efficient services have 
 won for him a reputation for integrity and worth that opens 
 up a most pleasant future. 
 
 Mr. Cowan came to the capitol ‘first, as a clerk of the 
 famous ‘‘ White Supremacy” Legislature of 1899, and his 
 clerical work was so neatly and ably executed that he won 
 the friendship of the entire Legislature. It also inspired 
 him with an ambition to enter the legal field and after the 
 session was over he began reading law, and in January, 1900, 
 he entered the University of North Carolina, remaining 
 there during the spring and summer courses, and on Sep- 
 tember 24th, 1900, he was granted license to practice at law, 
 and was admitted to the Bar at his home, Webster, N. C., 
 on the Monday after receiving his license. He immediately 
 thereafter entered into partnership with the Hon. C. C. 
 Cowan, establishing the firm of Cowan & Cowan of Webster. 
 
 During the recent campaign Mr. Cowan took an active 
 part in canvassing his county in the interests of the Demo- 
 cratic ticket, and when the Legislature of 1901 met he was 
 again appointed Journal Clerk for the House. 
 
 Mr. Cowan was born near Webster, in Jackson county, 29 
 years ago, and his early days were spent on the farm. He 
 was educated at Fairview College, in Buncombe county, and 
 in the public schools of Jackson county. Since an early age 
 he has taken an active interest in polities, studying political 
 questions and being a member of the local Democratic clubs. 
 Before being old enough to vote he was Secretary of the 
 local Democratic club, and since becoming of age has been 
 President from time to time. He was for several years 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 H.C. COWAN. 
 
 County Superintendent of Public Instruction for Jackson 
 county ; was Clerk of the Superior Court of the same county 
 for four years, winning for himself a splendid record. 
 
 Mr. Cowan is largely interested in mica mining, owning 
 several large mines in the western part of the State. He is 
 also engaged in the general merchandise business at Sylva, 
 N.C., where he is one of the owners of a large store. 
 
 This sterling young Democrat has added many friends to 
 his already large list during the Legislature of 1901, and 
 should he desire future honors at the hands of the people of 
 his county, it will be his for the asking. 
 
TWENTIETH CENTURY STATESMEN. 61 
 
 Mr. H. MacCall. 
 
 This well-known young clerk to the 
 Judiciary Committee of the State Sen- 
 ate has by his clever work and pleasant 
 and accommodating ways made quite a 
 number of friends and admirers since 
 
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 HARLLEE MACCALL. 
 
 coming to Raleigh; especially is this so 
 among the fair sex. 
 
 Mr. MacCall was born at Florence, S. 
 C., June 8rd, 1872, at the old MacCall 
 home place, and has resided in North 
 Carolina for a number of years. He 
 studied Jaw and was admitted to the 
 bar in September, 1898, and is now prac- 
 ticing at Lexington, N.C. During the 
 past two campaigns he was an interested 
 and active worker. In 1898 he was in 
 Iredell county and edited the States- 
 ville Mascot during the campaign. In 
 the August campaign he canvassed Da- 
 vidson county in the interest of Demuoc- 
 racy and the Constitutional Amend- 
 ment, and assisted County Chairman 
 Varner, of that county, in performing 
 his official duties. 
 
 Mr. MacCall has made a faithful and 
 progressive employe as Clerk to the 
 Judiciary Committee, winning by his 
 prompt efficiency the respect and re- 
 gard of his associates. 
 
 His ambition is to occupy a seat on 
 the floor of the House of Representa- 
 tives, and his prospects are very bright 
 towards accomplishing the desired 
 glory, for, on account of his splendid 
 clerical ability and keen perception as 
 a clerk, he has won the friendship of 
 
 the members of his committee, who 
 commend him very highly. 
 
 Mr. MacCall is a brother-in-law of 
 Lieutenant-Governor Turner, and he is 
 a young lawyer who, should he continue 
 his active interest in polities, has a 
 bright career before him. 
 
 Mr. W. C. LiskK. 
 
 This sterling and able young Demo- 
 crat has the reputation of being the 
 tallest employe of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives as well as being one of the 
 most reliable and trustworthy. Two 
 years ago Will Lisk, as he is known to 
 his friends, made a hard fight in his 
 district in Rowan county for the Demo- 
 cratic cause, and he came to Raleigh 
 during the Legislature and accepted a 
 position as an employe of the lower 
 house. During the campaign of 1900 
 Mr. Lisk again worked faithfully in the 
 interest of the party, and his good work 
 was recognized in a substantial manner 
 and his ability appreciated by his ap- 
 pointment as a clerk in the office of the 
 Principal Clerk of the House, and today 
 this gentleman is one of the most will- 
 ing and energetic employes of that de- 
 partment, always faithful and ready for 
 aduty. Heis a clerk that is a credit to 
 the county of Rowan and to the State. 
 
 Wm. C. Lisk, the subject of this 
 
 sketch, is 33 years of age. He was born 
 in Stanly county, and is today one of 
 the most progressive farmers in the 
 
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 WM. C. LISK. 
 
 county of Rowan, owning and operating 
 his own farm and enjoying life as only 
 a prosperous farmer can. He has been 
 the recipient of a number of local trusts 
 in his county, having been. Census 
 Evumerator, Deputy Tax Lister and 
 Assessor, and is Chairman of the Dem- 
 ocratic Executive Committee of Mor- 
 gan’s township, where he _ resides. 
 When the Lisk family moved into this 
 township twenty years ago, there was 
 only a small Democrati¢ vote in that 
 township, today through the ability and 
 good Democratic work of his father 
 and himself, aided by the representa- 
 tives of the party, there are many good 
 Democratic voters. This demcenstrates 
 the ability of this young Democrat. 
 
 Mr. J. C. Nixon. 
 
 The youngest, yet one of the most 
 industrious clerks of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives is the subject of this arti- 
 cle—Mr. J. Carlisle Nixon, a brother to 
 He is 
 
 the well-known Principal Clerk, 
 
 [Photo. by Watson.] 
 J. C. NIXON. 
 
 nineteen years of age, and was born in 
 Catawba Springs Township, Lincoln 
 county, February 28th, 1882. Until he 
 was sixteen years of age he worked on 
 the farm in summer and attended the 
 local schools in the winter. Since then 
 he has taught school in the winter and 
 continued on the farminsummer. He 
 is a bright young man who has an am- 
 bition that willsome day bring him into 
 prominence. Asa clerk of the Legisla- 
 ture, he was one of the copyists and one 
 of the most assiduous of the House em- 
 ployes in the discharge of his duties. 
 
 Mr. Nixon intends to complete his 
 education during the coming two years 
 and then enter the fields of business. 
 With a continuance of the energies he 
 has used in the past, he has a bright 
 future. Heisa young man of quick, 
 penetrating mind, who made anumber 
 of friends while in Raleigh, who are 
 gratified to note his success in the 
 House of Representatives. He has a 
 quick eye to business, a ready, skilful 
 hand, which presages his future suc- 
 cess. As an assistant to the Principal 
 Clerk of the House, he has done much 
 good work, which commended him to 
 his associates and to the office he was 
 connected with. 
 
 Mr. Nixon has a pleasant and agree- 
 able manner, evidencing a good dispo- 
 sition, and his name may yet become 
 prominent in the political field of North 
 Carolina. It is the boys who come from 
 the farm these days that succeed in all 
 the walks of life. 
 
62 ; cam CENTURY STATESMEN. 
 
 Hon. R. N. . Hackett. 
 
 There are few men in the State who do not know person- 
 ally this handsome and distinguished young lawyer from the 
 county of Wilkes. 
 
 “ Dick”? Hackett, as he is familiarly known to his friends, 
 was born in Wilkesboro, N. C., thirty-four years ago, and 
 was educated at the University of North Carolina. He 
 shortly after began the study of law and was admitted to the 
 Bar in 1888. 
 
 Since early youth Mr. Hackett has taken considerable 
 interest in politics and at the early age of twenty-one was 
 
 [Photo. by Wharton. ] 
 N. HACKETT. 
 
 HON. R. 
 
 Chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee, 
 which position he filled with honor and credit. He was a 
 member of the State Executive Committee for several years ; 
 was a member of the Judicial Executive Committee, and 
 was appointed assistant to the Secretary of State for the pur- 
 pose of indexing the laws of the General Assembly at the 
 session of 1901. 
 
 Mr. Hackett has at all times taken an active personal in- 
 terest in the advancement and campaigns of his party, and 
 it is said by his friends that he is one of the most forcible 
 orators in the West. 
 
 Mr. Hackett was a member of the State Committee rep- 
 resenting North Carolina in New York in 1889 at the Centen- 
 nial Anniversary of Washington’s Inauguration. He was a 
 candidate for the Legislature in 1896, and was defeated, but 
 lead the ticket by 300 votes. 
 
 In 1898, Mr. Hackett was a candidate for the nomination 
 for Congress from the Kighth Congressional District, and 
 was defeated by only four votes. Again in 1900, his name 
 was brought forward by his friends. and he was defeated by 
 J.C. Buxton. After which Mr. Hackett gracefully took the 
 stump and campaigned the district in the interest of Mr. 
 Buxton. 
 
 Such Democrats as Mr. Hackett are the cause of the power 
 and prestige of the Democratic party in the State. 
 
 Mr. Hackett is a distinguished looking gentleman of pleas- 
 ant and agreeable manner, who has a bright and successful 
 future before him. He is a vigorous worker in the interests 
 of Democracy, and he merits the support of an appreciative 
 constituency. His voice will yet be heard in the halls of the 
 National Capitol at Washington. 
 
 Hon. Charles L. Abernathy. 
 
 This successful young lawyer, who has the honor of being 
 the youngest Presidential Elector in the State of North Car- 
 olina, was born at Rutherford College in Burke county, 
 March 18, 1872, and he received his education at that well- 
 known institution of learning. A few years ago he moved 
 to Beaufort, in Carteret county, and established the Beau- 
 fort Herald. While editing this bright little paper he read 
 law, and in October, 1895, was admitted to the Bar and 
 established his office at Beaufort. In 1898, he was a candi- 
 date for the nomination as Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial 
 District, and came within seventeen votes of receiving the 
 nomination on the first ballot, he withdrew in favor of Ran- 
 dolph Duffy. His ability being demonstrated in the legal 
 profession, he was appointed Attorney for the Atlantic & 
 North Carolina Railroad in 1899, which position he now holds. 
 He was unanimously nominated by the Democratic Conven- 
 tion at Elizabeth City, as Presidential Elector of the First 
 Congressional District. He was for two years County Attor- 
 ney of Carteret county ; was a member of the State Execu- 
 tive Committee for two years, and had the honor of being 
 the youngest member of the Electoral College. 
 
 Mr. Abernathy has, during the past few years, won for him- 
 self by his determination and characteristics a most credit- 
 able reputation as a rising lawyer and man of affairs, and he 
 deserves a great deal of credit for his success as he has gone 
 to the front by his individual efforts. He is a young man 
 who, as the editor of his paper, in a pleasant and learned 
 manner demonstrated by his writings, to the people of his 
 county and district, that he was there to advance their inter- 
 ests as well as his own. And by clever work he won the 
 friendship of all whom he met. Then as a lawyer he proved 
 
 HON. CHARLES L, ABERNATHY. 
 
 himself a clear, honest and concise speaker, using strong but 
 truthful language in handling all cases, and carefully look- 
 ing after the interests of his clients. He was later honored 
 by being appointed to office, and by his clever ability he has 
 forged ahead and is now one of the best known young law- 
 yers in the State of North Carolina, a young man who not 
 only represents his people, but his State in official capacities 
 that are commendable and creditable to young manhood. - 
 
 Mr. Abernathy is a bright and progressive young gentle- 
 man who is working for the advancement of the best inter- 
 ests of his State and her people, and the people of Oayienss 
 county are proud to note his success. 
 
A Famous Brew. 
 
 » The celebrated Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company § 
 s have established a branch bottling and distribu- 
 ting plant for their brew at Raleigh, and the trade 
 
 will be supplied promptly throughout the State 
 swith the beer that made Milwaukee famous in 
 Draft and Export form. 
 
 THAT: MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS. 
 
 T. H. SCOGGINS, President. W. C. HUDGINS, Manager of Plant. J. G. PATTERSON, Sec. and Treas. 
 
 The Raleigh Steam Bottling Works, 
 
 RALEIGH, N. C., 
 
 Managers Raleigh Branch Schlitz Brewing Company. 
 
 It is with pleasure that we notify the trade of 
 the State that we will handle the famous Schlitz 
 beer in Draft and Export form exclusively for the 
 trade, and all orders will befilled promptly, either 
 = by mail or wire. We also handle Soda Waters, 
 Ginger Ales, and all Kinds of Mineral and Carbon- 
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 Share of your patronage. 
 
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