The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-10
HOT ROAST FOR
THE REPUBL|
Claude Bernard Scores
State Leaders Policy.
ARE JOB HUNTERS
Says Organization Does Not Justify
Confidence or Faith in it's Ability
or Integrity and Has Been
Run by Nepotism and H.
IeuaI Methods.

le9di Meln0CS.
There is to be something doing in hot
miX-up in Republican party counsels.
ALI is not serene within the State ranks
and steadily there has grown up two fac
tions in the State. One set is composed
of the job holders and their kinsfolks in
office, the other of a frozen out contin-
gent.
Mr. c. M. Bernard, who was President
McKinleys appointee as District Attor-
ley for the Eastern District of North
Carolina, has issued a letter to the Re-
publcans of North Carolina. He is en-
phatic in his assertions that as at present
conducted the Republican party in North
Carolina is no great shakes" and in
vigorous terms he lays bare the grab-all
policy of the office classes who are at the
trough and who have pushed others aside
to make room for their kinsfolks.
He jabs Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, the
ex-State Chairman, with vigorous jab,
after patting him on the back for
a career Mr.. Bernard terms as brilliant
and says but for the judge being in a
bomb proof position he would be shelled
out b the party.
He scores Rollins, the present Repub-
Hcan Chairman and says that he is a
youngster in politics and don't know what
he is up to. Likewise he says that the
Republicans who hold jobs in North Caro-
lima don't want recruits and a larger par
ty, as they want the Federal jobs and
with a larger party there will not be
enough to go round. 1t is what may well
be termed "hot stuff" article in which
the present policy of the North Caro-
lima Republican party is roasted to a turn
Incidentally Mr.. Bernard intimates that
he is for Hanna and that he is not one of
those who would "close the door, of hope
and opportunity.
But here is his address which is spicy
enough to go in the Tabasco Sauce class
and is as follows:
To the Republicans of North Carolina:
The personal reference to me in the re-
cent issue of the Morning Post, Charlotte
Observer and other State papers inspired
by the recent conference between Judge
Pritchard, Chairman Rollins and Collector
Duncan in Washington City forms the
basis for this article.
1t is well known by my friendes in the
State that while 1 take a deep interest
III my party / have not made myself Of
tcious or asked for recognition for the
past two years.
The relentless and spiteful warfare these
gentlemen and some of their friends have
made on me personally, ofvcialIy and in
party counsels is unworthy of them. That
| have not approved of the unworthy
methods employed in party management
tc1 the past two years is perhaps th,,
chief cause of my shining But thous,
ands Of Republicans in North Carolina
are with me in this particular. They do
not approve of the nepotsm and narrow
illegal methods upon which the party was
run under Senator Pritchards manage
ment for the last two years, and had
not the Senator, as a climax tc his bril-
liant career, secured for himself a bomb
proof position, he would have been forced
to hear something of interest in the COM
ing State Convention.
l am charged with being opposed ta
President Roosevelt's nomination. No man
has ever heard me say so. l do not deny
having a preference. 1 dent have to
play the sycophant. l have no personal
feeling in the matter. Ny preference is
based on a higher plane than that
aim for the best interest CT the country
and the party as l see it, I have no.
closed the door. 1 am not governed en-
tirely by official obligation or the all
sence of it. I am open to be shown that
MIR. Roosevelt's nomination will be in the
Eest interest of the country and my party
am not ready TO read men out of the
t~fx 1n.x
many Of you official gentlemen can say
the samethe same together with your
fathers, brothers, sons, cousins and aunts2
Ii some Republicans prefer Mr. Hanna
why should they not be heard? WHY
try to stlfie them by unfair and unworthy
means? Men will not be forced into
measures; they may be persuaded. but
not forced.
But, my Republican friend, I have high
er and better reasons than these in writ
ing this letter. Let us put aside tho
question of Federal patronage, or who
shall hold the offices. Let us leave tn
the States who elect the Pres.dant thc
selection of the candidate. Let us loot
to our home interests. Our State ra-tv
under our present Chairman and his nocY-
agement cannot amount to anv ssoro.,t +
shapes" The organization does not in.
srire confidence or faith in its ability
or integrity to do anything. 1t Is we'll
known that the office-holders on the con-.
mittee do not desire recruits. With
few exceptions the purpose is to keen the
party as small and as uninnuential az
possible in order that we may all hold