The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-18
TO BUSY FOR CONTROVERSY"

IeCeuCiJ apPeaio" III Ih"' P"P'4 u"
der the above heading. The editorial
starts off with the following:
"The Messenger does not intend to
stir up strife. Hence it has given
little attention to the Third party
movement since the election in No
vembcr last. We baye not read fifty
lines all told from the organs Of that
concern in North Carolina. Not
desiring controversy with that party
at this time, we have not wasted time
over their organs and have missed
therefore, the great Solomonic Wis
dom and top-Iofty displays Of the
fellow who runs IA sheet with mis-
homer, called The CAUCASIAN"
Before DIR. Kingsbury finishes his
article he gives himself away. He
shows plainly that he has been read
ing The CAUCASIAN very clOsely and
has either gotten converted or else
found that he could not answer our
arguments and defend the election
law. SO he throws up the sponge
and acknowledges the corn" Moth
ing less than The CAUCAsIAN's ter
rible exposures Of wholesale and
high handed fraud in the late cleo
ton forced the Messenger to write
the following paragraph:
1--WE take leave just here to reiter-
ate our well considered, honest opin-
ion that North Carolina now stands
very much III need of good Election
Law-the Australian or some other.
Gross abuses have crept IN that are
dishonoring to the party and will
bring contempt and ruin upon it If
persisted in. We know educated,
able, high toned gentlemen who are
unswervingly Democratic, who would
prefer the triumph of the Third
party to the triumph of the Democ-
racy by resorting to low, dangerous,
destructive methods at the ballot-boy.
They have said SO in our hearing.
They believe that even Third party
ism less evil than ballot abuses.
An enlightened, upright press ought
to be able to unite on this"
What u humiliating confession,
These "gross abuses" that are so eds
honoring to the party" did not creep
in of themselves, but they were
originated in the fertile brains and
dishonest hearts of the leaders Of the
party. They planned the dishonor-
able acts which were carried out by
their henchmen and heelers in nearly
every county and township of the
State. Yes DR.. Kingsbury you are
right for once when you say that you
secured the triumph of the Demo
cratic party 10y resorting to low,
dangerous, destructive methods at
the ballot box" Yes these "ballot
box abuses will bring contempt and
ruin on the party if persisted in"
In fact the crimes already committed
are enough to arouse the Indignation
of all honest and falrminded people
and cause them to forever damn and
sink the men and the party guilty of
them. There is no crime that violates
the commandment "thou shalt not
steaP that is greater, more dangerous
to human liberty and that should be
more severely punished than the
crime of stealing the vote, the price
less right of suffrage of free Ameri-
can citizens. Every man guilty of
such crime should be banished
from America, should not be allowed
to stay here as cankering sore and
an eating cancer on the body polite.
The men who sits high in the coun-
ellis of the Democratic party in North
Carolina are guilty of this crime.
How can the people trust their gov
eminent in the hands of such party
dominated and controlled by such
men? The men who will steal votes
to win victory will sell out the in
terests of the people when they get
in power. The last Legislature is an
illustration of this truth.
But let not the people be mistaken
about the quondam divine who edits
the Railroad organ. He is not con-
verted to justice for Justices sake.
Read his article rgain, and you will
see that he says that the party will
come to "ruin" if it does not reform
on this point. He is not constrained
to favor an honest election by any
score of justice or any standard of
principle, but does it from a sense of
FEAR. He fears that the people will
condemn the party if 1t does not re-
form along this line. If The eau
CAsIAN had not exposed the tedious
frauds of the late election and held
up and dessected the present election
law to the gaze of the public and
shown the purpose of the dishonest
mind that conceived it, the Messen-
ger would never have seen the neces-
sity for reform. The Messenger
says that an enlightened and upright
press aught to advocate reform here.
Yes an honest and upright press will
do it and is doing it, is condemning
the wrong because it is wrong and is
advocating right in the interest of