The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-10
TWO PHASES OF RECENT POLIT
ICAL HISTORY.

The Democratic party in North Caro-
lima has never found it difficult to meet
its open enemies and win a. victory over
them. Il has no fear Of men who fight
under the black flag of Republicanism, or
of men who openly join hands with them
whether they call themselves Liberals"
"Populists" or Commercial Democrats.
1t is only when these three classes pro-
claim themselves straight Democrats
on the stump or in the press, while Sc
cretly contriving with the enemy to COM
pass the defeat of the Democratic party
that they are dangerous or effective in
their opposition to the party. There
have always been men in the Democratic
party in the South who have not been in
entire sympathy with it on the tariff,
finance or some other question, but they
dividual opinion to 1.-The arbitrament of
the national convention" and have there
fore been regarded as true Democrats
entitled to every confidence of the party.
There were those who in 1892 or in 1895
who did not vote the national Democratic
ticket, but who have now returned in
worked earnestly to redeem the State in
1898 and 1900. They are entitled to
every confidence of the party. There is
no man in North Carolina, no matter
what his past political affiliations, who
is loyal to the party to-day who is not
welcomed by all true Democrats.
There is a. small class of former DEM
ocrats in North Carolina, led by hand
full of-former political manipulators who,
having forfeited the confidence of Demo-
Gratis, have been earnestly at work
for months to pave the way for going into
the Republican party as soon as they
could carry enough men with them to
make the jump respectable" The day
after the constitutional amendment was
adopted this class of political tricksters.
prating of liberty, began Systematically
an attempt to organize an element in the
Democratic party that had been dissatis-
platforms into a band of assistant Re-
publicans. Their programme was to
create strong sentiment in favor of
everything for which Mckinley stood and
for which Roosevelt stands, and to op-
pose every measure which is Democratic.
This element controlled three morning
sheet that sold it's editorial columns as
it would sell shingles; the Charlotte OBJ
server, the owner of which holds $4,000
job under Mckinley; and the Morning
Post, owned and controlled by Southern
Railway political boss who distributes
Federal patronage. All these three pa
pers. each in its own way, have been
working like miners and sapDers to de-
stroy faith in the Democratic party. The
Gazette came out in the open, after lead
ing all it could deceive by pretending to
be Democratic, and has endorsed every
thing the Republicans have done from
giving one thousand negroes offices in
North Carolina to Roosevelt's practise of
social equality in the White House. The
Charlotte Observer tits chief owner and
boss gets $4,000 year from the national
administration for doing nothing) has
sought to get the manufacturers and
prosperous business men to believe that
the Democratic party would destroy their
business, and starting out as a traducer
OF the national Democracy it has come to
be a traducer also of the State Democracy.
The Morning Post, a slow coach on a
railroad side track, has sought to con-
vince all corporation men that the State
and national Democratic party was in
the hands of set of dishonest agitators
and anarchists All three conspired to-
gether to damn the Legislature in the
eyes of all large Taxpayers by misrep-
reservations of the character of the tax
laws passed by the last Legislature.
The day after the constitutional amend
! aided by Blanche, Tray and Sweetheart
set up mighty barking upon the arrival
Aof what they called a new day in North
carolina. They not only expressed re-
hicing that the time had come when a
n might vote as he pleased, but they
It every energy to make the voters
k that it was their duty to advocate
ciples upheld by the Republican
r Step by step this element of Re-
cans. masquerading as Democrats,
ay after day, here little and there
., sought to build up large class
ers who would be ready when they
~ nu,oxer openly into the