The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-31
The Party of "Bosses" Holds
Out False Light.
READY To WELCOME THE NEGRO BACK


The Schemes of the Republicans as
Laid at and Preceding the State Con-
ventiO9s Are Told and the Real Pur-
pose and Motive of Every Move Made
by Pritchard is Set Forth Showing
How tis Sought to T re'ude and Hood
wink the People of North Carolina
so That the Enemies of the Best In
terests of the State May Again Come
Into Power.
The Republican party feels so thor
to make canvas this year in it's own
name. 1t knows that in such can-
paign its defeat would be certain and
crushing.
To avoid making a canvas in it's own
name and upon it's record and princi-
pies, it has determined to make nom
partisan campaign and to encourage ia
dependent Democratic candidates 'yher-
ever practicable, and to fight as much
as possible under the banner of indie
pendencF.
Following this plan of battle, they are
giving all the encouragement possible
to Independent candidates. Any defeated
Democratic aspirant for office can get
encouragement from the Republican ma
chine. He is told that he has been bad
ly treated; that he was entitled to the
nomination; that he was cheated out of
the nomination. that he people are for
him; and that the Democratic party is
run by rings and courthouse cliques.
He is told that if he will, run for office
he will get more than one-half of the
Democratic votes, and all of the Repub-
lican and independent vote, and that his
election will be certainty. They prom
Use further, that, if by any possibility
he should be defeated, he will be 'taken
care Of by Senator Pritchard, and that
position in the Revenue Service or in
the Postoffice Department will be pro-
vided for them. These are the tempta-
tions held out to the disappointed mon
in the Democratic party
If the Democrat hesitates he is told
that independency is all right now
They tell him that the Democratic party
promised that the amendment would
make the whites free; and that there
would be freedom of thought speech and
action. after the amendment was adopt
ed They endeavor to delude the hearer
into the belief that as soon as the
amendment was adopted all rules of po-
litical and moral honor were abrogated.
and that it became entirely proper and
legitimate for man to be candidate
before Democratic convention and, if
not successful. announce himself as an
independent candidate and try to defeat
the man who was successful in the DEM
ocratic convention. The Republican par
ty sees nothing improper in such con-
duct, for it is color blind on all ques-
tions of honor and propriety. 1t has been
backing such candidates in this State
for more than thirty years Many of the
leaders of the Republican party today
are men who left the Democratic party,
after having failed to obtain promo
tion as expected in that party.
The Democratic party has always been
a party of free men. It has never been
a party controlled by committees or
revenue officers. 1t has been composed
of nearly the entire body of the white
men of this State. 1t has always been
controlled, both in platform and in nom
nations, by majority of its voters:
and these voters have always been given
an opportunity to express their choice
as to platform and candidates. No ef-
fort has ever been made to coerce or
forestall the action of the people. No
Democratic convention has ever been
preceded by secret caucus. at which the
action of the convention was mapped
out. 1t has always been the party Of
the white men of North Carolina it
has been what those white men made
it, It's successes and defeats have been
theirs While this is true, it is also
true that for more than thirty years it
has been the only party in this State
which has been free from the control of
the machine.
The Republican party has always been
party of bosses" The Republican
leaders have always admitted this. They
have excused it by saying that If they
had plan of organization like the
Democrats had the negro would rule
their party. So for thirty-five years the
Republican party has been absolutely
dominated by its machine; and the ma
chine has been run by few Federal