The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-18
"RODRICk AGAIN. "
AFTER 4 FEW WEEKS SILENCE. he
WRITES sGkR-HE HAS BEEN 100
BUSY PITCHING HIS CROP TO
ASK QUESTIONS

Mg. EDIToR:--I have been think
ing for some time that ! would ask
few more questions through your
paper. but have been busy planting
cotton &c. that have not been to
town 10 hear any news, and hence
| haven't known any thing to ask
about.
The Democrats in my section have
stopped talking politics. don't
think they read. They don't any o:
them know any thing about the ex-
travagance Of the last Legislature and
that they compromised the back
taxes of the Wilmington and We'll
don railroad company for a very
small amount of what said company
was due the State. They don't know
any thing at all about it, and some
of them talk rs if they didn't even
know the legislature had ever met.
Where ignorance is bliss. it Is folly
to be wise"
If overproduction makes cotton
cheap, what ma kesturpentine eheap3
Is there too much turpentine madef
What makes wheat cheap Is there
too much wheat made! What makes
corn cheap! Is there too much corn
made! What makes labor cheap? Is
there TOO much labore Well what
makes taxes high? We guess that
our WISE brethren would say that
it is because there is no overproduc-
ton of taxes.
Do you ever hear from Judy Car
roll these times! But didn't he fiz-
zle out in a hurry thought
Soliloquies of some OF the disaI-
pointed office seekers and place hunt
ers. Why am ! now a Democrat?
III swear / don't know. Why was
a Democrat before the election! |
thought if Mr.. Cleveland got elected
he would give me position.
lam Il Democrat; exert my intiu-
ence for the Democratic party. |
ride and talk for them. | call con-
ventions Of the Republican party and
tried to get these conventions to en-
dorse the nominees of the Demo-
cratic party. | carry the Democratic
party through with a right respecta-
bic majority when it is the weakes st
Of the three political parties in my
township. | am the recognized leader
and warhorse of the Democratic
rfu Of | hn
ored people in line and have them t.
vote the Democratic ticket. They
don't know any bett T, and | am get
ting rich off OF their votes. Who am
|! Do you know mss am George
Herring, &c ~ chairman of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of the Repu iii
can party OF Sampson county.
The partisan Democratic papers
right after the election: Cleveland is
elected, cotton continues to rise. The
same papers now: at has been
learned that there was another over
production OF cotton last wear.
Doesn't any one know that an over
production will keep the price DOWN."
We have been thinking a good
deal lately Of how we farmers can
manage to get sod prices for our
cotton next fall. You know the Dem
ocratic papers said last fall that Mr..
Cleveland's election put up the price
of cotton. They say his election put
up the price; but of course it couldn't
keep it up. Now Mr.. Cleveland
thinks so much of the dear farmers,
we know he would be willing to do
any thing for their benefit. Agreea-
BILE to the logic Of these papers, if we
can just get him to resign next fall
and let us elect him over again, we
may expect fine prices for our cotton.
We know he would be willing to do
it for the benefit of the dear farmers,
whom he loves CD SO much.
Does Jimmie Bell ever buy any
goods from our Business Agency
now? Perhaps he got enough out of
the S. Ohio Wilson trial to pay his
way as he goes this year.
Say has the Col. DR.. l.. ID. of
the Wilmington and Weldon Rail-
roads Messenger cooled down any
over Mr.. Cleveland's appointments
yeti
And certain Democratic paper
says that people who are informed
know that the Democratic platform
has an income tax plank in it. Well
we don't claim to be informed, and
of course we won't dispute with that
editor; but now let's just wait and
see If the party carries out that
plank that he says is in their plat
form.
The Charlotte Observer, a Demo-
cratic paper, says that wherever you
find a man in the county who was
made much of by the town people.
that he remained in the Democratic
party. We resent for them this
gross insult offered to the good men
OF the country who remained in the
Democratic party. We will say that
some country gentlemen, who voted
the Democl attic ticket last fall, had
as honest purposes and as firm con-
vlctlons as any town people who vot-
ed the Democratic ticket. What will
the bosses say about the country
people nexts They have already de-
nounced US who voted the Peoples
party ticket as scoundrels and vii
lians; and now they say that those
who voted the Democratic ticket did
so because they considered it so
much of an honor to be noticed by
town people.
We notice that the Democrat of
April 9th says that Tyler and Tay-
lcr, though elected by the Wing par
ty were Democrats. If that paper
lives, wonder if they won't say four
and SIX years from now, that while
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison
were elected by the Republican par
ty that they were essentially Demo-