The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-04-20
JUSTICE YLAYs THE NKwe AND
OBSERVER.

The Psopis Of xorth C.roiins Believe In
Rale - the Matorfsy--l3se do they
Get isf
Justice In Union Republican
"The People Of North Carolina
believe In the rule OF the majority.
arc when II Is declared they bow 70
1t without questioning, resdy to &C
quiesce in the rule OF the major
ity News md Observer.
Is this 50? Then Why did your
last Legislature appoint 1000 JUS
ticss Of peace, many Of whom were
for counties and town hips where
thav could not he elected? You be-
lieve In 1.-THE rule of the majority
do you? Then why not restore to
For,yth county the right TO elect
our magistrates? We have thirteen
townships and nine Of these town.
ships have Republican msjorities.
Yet there Is not. so far as / know, .
Republican magistrate in the county,
" htle if 1T to "the rule Of the ma
iority" there would not be Demo-
cratic Justice of the peace in nine OF
eheee townships. You say you be-
lieve in 'the rule Of the majority"
and yet you have appointed every
school committeeman for every
county in the State. Why did your
party kill a bill in the last Legisla-
ture to leave the election Of these
men 10 the people and then appoint
a lot Of Democrats for Republican
counties?
You say you believe in "the rule
of the majority" and yet you have
passed an election law that puts the
entire election machinery in the
hands Of a partisan commission
which has taken the control OF every
election officer entirely from the
people. You have gone further and
created returning boards with power
to absolutely destroy the rule of the
majority by throwing out townships
in order to elect Democrats, power
they have often used.
You say you believe in "the rule
of the majority" yet two. years ago
your Democratic caucus passed q
rule that no bill introduced by q
Republican member of the Legisla-
ture should be passed until it had
been approved by the chairman of
the Democratic party in his county.
You did the same this year, when
your party killed local bills intro
duced by Republicans, who repre-
sented the majority of the people of
their counties. simply because the
Democratic leaders OF these Ounties
were opposed to them. Why did
your party do this if they believed
in the rule of the majority? Did
Grant represent Davie or rather the
Democratic ring at Mocksvill? Did
John Dobson represent Surry, or
Butler and Fowler represent Samp-
son, or Rector represent Henderson,
or Robe -ts represent Madison, or
Cowles and the other Republicans
their counties? You know they did
in the name only and not in fact.
Did you believe in 1.-THE rule Of
the majority" when you tried to
take DR.. Abbott's Office from him
and give it to Beddingfeld? Did
you believe in "the rule of the ma
jority" when you undertook to take
Theophelus Whites Office from him
and give it to seven Democrats? Did
you respect "the rule of the major
ity' when yon undertook to i'm
peach our Supreme Court judges
because they upheld the law, fol-
lowed precedent and tried and did
uphold "the rule Of the majority"
Did you seek to follow ''the rule of
the majority" when you passed the
Watts bill and later the Ward bill
when you arbitrarily refused to al
low the great mass of the people to
vote on these questions, or In any
waH give an expression to their
opinions on them? Did yeu believe
in ''the rule of the maj Gritty" when
you appointed the five extra Com
missioners for this county in order
to destroy the power of the three
the people had elected? And now
in the city Of Raleigh itself you
have established rule absolutely
to destroy 1.-THE rule Of the major
ity" by your primary law, and the
construction you have placed on it.
as is shown by the following from
the Caucasian, which says:
.'Raleigh will soon have prima-
~ ele :tion for city officials. Some
of the authorities have decided that
the poll tax restriction shall not ap-
ply to the Democratic primary, but
each voter must swear that he ID
reody to abide che result of the cleo
teon before he can vote. If you
can't swear to support the machine
you needn't vote. And 1t seems
that the poll-tax restriction was only
intended to apply to Republicans
and POpulists.
Hundreds of instances of the ap-
pointment of treasurer's commits
sions, tax collectors, etc., could be
named where the Democratic Legis.
latures have not only ignored the
will of the majority but have 80 alb
done these things to de-