The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-31
AN APPEAL TO THE ADULLAMlTES

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H. Mcneil, secretary. of the Republican
State Executive Committee, have issued
the formal call for the Republican State
Convention to be held at Greensboro,
May 18th.
The call is queer one, addressed not
only to Republicans, but is also sort
of plea to the kickers and boilers in the
Democratic party who have been doing
ali they can on the side to make Repubi,.
can capital. The call outlines the line OF
tie campaign, almost identical with the
suggested platform printed few days
ago in the Morning Post, showing, as this
paper said then, that the Posts platform
would be adopted in large part by the
Republican State Convention, and if it
wished to support its own platform the
Post would have to openly this year. in
stead Of covertly, as in the past, come
out for the State Republican ticket. 1t
is following in the footsteps of the Ashe-
vile Gazette and deserves the same casti-
CATION from Democrats that the Gazette
received.
We publish the call 1t is an invita-
ton to everybody with grievance-all
the Adullamites-to hasten to take refuge
in the bosom of Roosevelt and Booker
Washington. Just at this time, when
lifelong Republicans of character are
charging and proving that the followers
of Blackburn have dishonesty obtained
| delegates for the boy drummer, is not a
very good time to ask folks to join the
Republican party to get honest cleo
tions." A party that will steal from its
own members cannot be trusted to he
the Blackburn crowd have been caught
BY Republicans doing in the past few
weeks. In fact they have been caught
with the goods on their person.
The presumption that the prosperity
of North Carolina, due to high unpro-
tected cotton and the labor and skill of
it's people, is result of Roosevelt's admin
istration, is one that will not deceive a
two-year-old boy This State has gone
| forward IN spite of a Republican admin
istration The chief depression among
mers, due to the Tobacco Trust, fostered
and protected by the Republican party,
to which its chief owners belong and to
which it contributes for protection and
license to rob the farmers and crush out
independent competitors.
The check of inviting folks who believe
in ''clcan and economical administration
of National, State and county affairs" to
Cine the Radicals is eQualled only by
the Republican platform of 1898, that
"pointed with pride to Radical rascal
lily in North Carolina. This invitation
will make it necessary to again take off
the lid and let the, stink of State rule
made in North Carolina under Russell
and the corruption of Federal officials,
to go into thdAffairs of Craven, BERTHE
and other counties where negroism ran
rampant, and to air all the recent postal
and other scandals in Washington. Hav-
ing invited a comparison, we promise
Rollins e Co., that they shall have it on
every stump and in every neighborhood
| in North Carolina. Perhaps the most
striking contrast between the Russell and
Aycock administration, will be shown III
the management of the penitentiary.
Wi
seasons, the penitentiary was misman-
aged and so rocked with scandals as to
disgust every decent man in the State,
and to require bond issue to pay the
defct caused by incompetent and cor
rurt management. Under the Aycock ad-
ministration, there has been clean, eco
nomicaI. successful administration, and
today the penitentiary has fine balance
TO it's credit instead OF hole in the
ground as under the Russell administra-
tion.
The advocates of protection and sound
money and those opposed to Organism
and Hearstism'' are cordially invited.
there is no man Ill INc SldIC CdiiiAS MN
self Democrat who believes in anything
except sound money" though there may
be some division as to the best way to
secure it. Those who were SO bent upon
the single standard as to leave the party
in 1896 and 1900 didn't appreciably affect
the Democratic majority for Bryan either
year, but all OF them have had such a
dose of Rooseyeltism and Booker Wash
lingtonism that they'll have no more Re-
| publicanism in "their'n.
Persons opposed TO Cleveland are not
invited, but opponents of Bryan are in
vited See? But none but Republicans
dyed-in-the-wool will accept the invita-
ton
! Then we como TO an invitation to those
opposed to 1.-THE extravaganza OF the last
Legislature" These precious Republl-
cans will be called upon to name the
specific appropriations to which they OBJ
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