The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-09-22


vote for Roosevelt or q vote 70
PR .er?"
We prefer 10 put the question
thus, (Which - the safer votr:'
rather than (Which Is the bel te
man?"-for we believe that boil
candidates are personally such excel
lent men that q discussion of thei
personal qualities would not help u
very much in Our decision.
We shall be very greatly obliged
if you will take the trouble t,
answer this. ..-
Respectfully yours,
ROBERT AND DAVID
THE ANSWER.
$50 Fifth Avenue, New York
August -, 1904.
MEssRs RoB'r AND DAVID,
st Louis, Mo.
Dear Sirs; take sincere graft
hcstion in answering, as we'll ss
may, your most pertinent question
in your letter Of August 18th,
(which is the safer vote to give
vote for Rots velt or q vote fol
ParkeI?" l like the way you pul
the question, for, as you have wise
iy concluded, it is not 60 important
for Ame rican votes to decide
which is personally the better man
az to decide which will make the
safer Pre-ideLt. There IL no doubt
as to the high personal qualities OF
both candidates. But there is, to
my mind, a vest difference az to
" h 'ch candidate, considered with
reference as &c the party back OF
him, would be the safer for the
county to elect to the Presidency,
Eliminate every other question
but the one you ask. and you stick
to that one point Of the safer vote.
Your question to me was my own
question to myself. l approach it
as q business man, without pr. ju-
dice. 1 sought to shut out every
other consideration but the enc of
surer safety. Ny pre-
vious votes, my personal fancies as
to the personal manners of the two
candidates, the superficial gibes and
naggins of the newspapers-all Of
these SWEET aside just as you are
trying to do.
So, sticking to this one. all-impof-
.ant question of, where is the surer
safety? 1 found there were several
ndisputable facts which seem to
ne fully sufficient to answer it.
Here they are:
Roosevelt and LIS Party are Of a Single
Mind.
But Parker and his party are of
many any contradictory minds.
Look back. When has there been
ny discord whatever in the Re
publican Party over policies to be
ollowed: Not once, from the start
until now. The Republican Party
lever has had factions within itself
issues It has been
unanimous in knowing what it
TODD for. ***
And when the Republican plat.
orm states q policy we know that
10Th the Republican President and
he Republican Congress will be a |
init in carrying 1t out That is
history.
But how different it has been and
3 with the Democrats.
They are not united, and have
ot heen united since tae Civil |
Var.
Thus, in 1864 their convention
eclared in its platform that "the
var is failure"; but their nomi.
zee, General Mcclellan, lepudisted |
hat disloyal creed, just as Judge
'arker had to send to that discor.
ant, temporizing Democratic Con-
entiOn at st. LOUIS his famous gold |
elegram. The country, however,
id not consider Mcclellan 4 SAT.
IAN When backed by q diseordant
arty.
Again, 1872, the Democrats were
hopelessly disnnited On all the
wing issues that they nominated
[orace Greeley, who had just
the Republican Party
ecause Of his disagreement with
8 policy Of reconstruction. Aud
10 country did not see any safety
/ such . combination.
Years later, along came Mr..
leveland with his avowed free
'ade-policy, His party was net
nited on a wholesale chance of the
rim, but they all voted for theI
ian, though, many blinked at the1
sue. AS soon AS he was elected
that platform, business men got !
mid and depression began. IS II
This disastrous condition, con.
nued till the election of Mckinley,
hen the Republicans framed the
'nsistent Tariff which has given to
II whole country it's sense of Ger
inty and . prosperity never before
'proached In our history.
Then, in 1895 and 1900 came Mr..
ryan with his free silver. That
ction gained supremacy in the ,
.rty. Probably most Of the Demo- ,
attic voters failed to see the fatal ,
ror Of the free silver doctrine. ,
ut . large minority of the more ,
t0lfiQent Dom0crata did aea hoI: