The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
CAN'T BUY THE SOUTH WITH PIE.

The Asheville Gazette, which sold
port the Republican party while
claiming to be Democratic, seems not
to have learned much under its new
name of the Gazette-News. It's latest
exploit is to give prominence to q
story from Washington that the
President will. give recognition to
Southern Confederates. 1t says:
when President Roosevelt returns
to Washington he will be asked to APP
point a well-known Confederate vet
eran to a Federal position in North
Carolina The average Republican
does not look with favor upon the
idea, and it is by no means certain
that the request will be complied
with but a Republican who has been
outside the breastworks for some
time thus outlined the plan:
THE question Of recognizing
the Confederate Veteran in the
administration of the Federal
government in the Southern
States is one entirely with the
President, and the objections of
the Office holding class, which is
so hostile to the suggestion now,
Z
Nothing would appeal to the peo-
pie of the State so much as the
appOintment of man like Gen
eral w. 2. Roberts as marshal at
Raleigh, or the appointment OF
Cyrus b. Watson or some man of
his calibre as district attorney in
the west The President recog-
nizes the fact that if the Repub-
lican party in the South ever
to get a supply of new blood. He
showed this when he appointed
General Rosser and Jeb Stuart to
big offices in Virginia. and by the
selection of ex-Confederates and
Democrats in other Southern
States He only needs to be in
formed as to the situation in
North Carolina-the State that
furnished more troops to the Con-
federate army than any of its
sisters-and that he will be in
formed of this, l am certain"
Here is the reason why the Presi-
dent may appoint some good Southern
man: 1.-THE President recognizes the
fact that if the Republican party il
the South ever amounts to anything
it has got to get a supply of new
blood" The good men are not to be
named to give the public good officials
but to give the Republican party q
"suDpIy of new blood" This is nc
new idea. Grant thought to capture
the South by giving Longstreet fat
office; Hayes felt sure of splitting il
when he put David M. Key in the Ca
binet Mckinley saw big Republican
majorities by appointing Lee and
Wheeler and other gallant Confeder-
ates to high positions in the army;
and Roosevelt is said to entertain the
idea that he can get new blood by
appointing Rosser and Stuart in Vir-
ginia and naming some good men in
North Carolina. The two North Car
DINA men,. wholly without Their
knowledge or consent, cannot be re-
duced from party fealty by slice
of juicy pie and the Gazette had nc
right to use their names without quot.
ing the name of the man who wa!
credited with doing the talking.
What has been the result of the
policy begun by Grant and Haye!
which it is said Roosevelt will put il
operation in North Carolina, as he ha!
done in a few instances in othel
Southern States? How has it affected
the person who gets the office? How
has it helped the Republican party
The record is that no Southern Con
federate, whose Democracy wa
straight and whose fealty to party wa
unquestioned, has been appointed
certainly none to very important posi-
tions except to commissions in tn
army. Longstreet had quarreled viii