The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-04-20
WHY Is IIP
NORTH c CAROLINA sroILsakS hhs"'
IN. DESPERATE.
wao SOME or The HUNGRY pFI'
CasTS ARE.
Rxu.on's and yanee's Machines
~a-The Way Back Kitchen went
Deal with simmons and the "iim'ns'"'
poiltieisn.--The People Are not
and Ram.o.n's Day. Are Yum eered-
~ar,h Carolina Gets Few Places.

From all accounts 1.-THE fellows
who saved the party" in this State
in the late farce of an election, and
who. yulture like, are lowering over
Washington, are becoming desperate:
They are laundering at the doors of
the White House, and their misera-
BILE tale-of- woe faces haunt the De
partments daily. From hotel to
boarding house and from single
back room on the top floor to the
lunch counter has been the order of
retrogression since the early days 10
March. 1T a pitiful sight to see
those big. strong men playing the po-
litical medicant. 1t reflects discred-
it and shame OH the State. Why Is
it allowed? VINO is responsible? Why
not pay the reward they claim or
send them home to their dependent
families and honest work? Is 1t be-
cause Ransom and Vance are ignor-
ed by the administration? Is not
Mr.. Cleveland big enough to forget
Ransom's treachery at Chicago?W hen
Ransom said at Chicago and else
where that Mr.. Cleveland's nomina-
ton would cost the Democratic par
ty 10000 votes in North Carolina
and turn the State over to the Peo-
Piles or the Republican party, he ut
tered a great truth, which Mr.. lleve-
land onght to respect him for. He
meant what he said, because he ex-
pected that a reasonably fair election
would be held in the State. He well
knew that fair election meant a
victory for the people. Every day
Of the campaign, from the gloomy
beginning to its demoralized ending,
demonstrated the truth of Ransom 5
Chicago representations. That a
different result was declared was due
entirely to the most glaring and
shameless election frauds ever perpe-
trated among a free people. But
Ransom made the fatal mistake of
long life of artful political di-
plomacy in sending an anti-Cleve-
land delegation TO Chicago. 1t was
a monstrous misrepresentation of the
Democratic sentiment in North Car
lima. 1t was a machine made dele
cation, and its one avowed purpose
was, anybody to beat Cleveland"
Only one or two Of tie delegates pre-
sented the moral courage to stand to
their convictions and in voting for
Mr.. Cleveland they reflected the SEN
timents of ne-tenths of the Demo-
Gratis in North Darolina. We despise
hypocracy and treachery and we do
not wonder at Mr.. Cleveland's Gin
ocuous disuetude" in considering
North Carolina appointments. And
particularly is this the case when the
applicants themselves are considered.
Who are some Of the applicants?
Gudger, who is closely related, is
Vance's candidate for Collector of
the Western District. 1t is the most
lucrative office in the State. Gudger
was an outspoken anti-Cleveland
man, and three weeks before the
election he abandoned the campaign
and gave up the State. Billingsgate
Glenn, whose vulgarity, irreverence
and bulling disguised intelligent
people, everywhere in the State was
a violent and vehement anti-Cleve-
land man. He begged the State Con-
vention to make him a Presidential
Elector, believing at the time that
Mr.. Cleveland would not be nomina
ted at Chicago. Glenn is Vance's
candidate for observation-disclosures for
the Western District. Vance is a
courageous man in some things. He
says boldly (since Cleveland turned
his back to him in the White House
recently that he will not recommend
any man for appointment who was
an "original Cleveland man." We
admire courage, true manly courage,
but we do not admire the ''sour grape
variety" Vance ought to have taken
this position at the outset, or Mr..
Cleveland ought to have snubbed
him earlier in his spoils-hunting
madness.
Now the gracious and diplomatic
Ransom operates on different line.
In the case of the District Attorney
ship he endorses the ''original Cleye-
land man. and recommends the ap-
pointment of Glenn because he saws
with unctions plausibility, "pubiic
sentiment in the State favors Mr.
Glenn's appointment" And again.
with the most thoughtful delicacy.
ne saved Mr.. Cleveland serious en-
barrasment, and himself a possible
snubbing, in taking the irrepressible
"Buck" Kitchen by the nape of the
neck and kicking him out of the
hight for the Collectorship of the
Eastern District. The office. it is
said, was literally forced upon Chair
man Simmons, and his acceptance
was the only solution of the troub,e
that threatened Ransom with in
a ;. "ho lrfeparaple political ex-
tlnetlon. So that Simmons will be
the Collector, Granger, one of the
opposing candidates, General Deputy
and Kitchen Revenue Agent! Mr..
Cleveland ought to appreciate the
dexterrity, of such manipulation, and
Vance ought to take lesson or two
IN 'Ransom's School of practical
Politics" But brilliant as. this
achievement is it pales by Ransom's
masterpiece in settling the conten-
ton over the Wilmington Collector
ship and Postoffice-so far as results
are concerned. The arrangement
gives kenan the Collectorship over
that old war-horse of Democracy
Col. kerchner, and Morton the Post,
office over Oldham, another MANNED
and disabled Democratic veteran II