The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-06-07
THE ONLY WAY TO GET HARMONY

be State Chairman of the Republi-
can party, and could not accept it.
1t should be some one that can har-
monize the two factions.-Hickory
Times Mercury.
The above editorial utterance by
the Times Mercury Is meant In good
spirit, but we cannot refrain from
calling attention to the fact that the
party In North Carolina is not di-
vided into two factions. All the
factions that may have existed here
tofore and the great mass of the
rank and file of the party we think
are united solidly behind the State
organization, save and except one
faction headed by Mr.. Blackburn.
Every possible effort was made to
harmonic and bring that noisy fac
tion also into line. When the Daily
Industrial News was organized, those
who put up the money to establish
that paper went to the extent Of offer
ing Mr.. Blackburn and his few fol-
lowers the privilege of naming one
half of the directors of that paper,
regardless of whether they invested
one dollar or q hundred or ten
thousand, provided they would stop
their selfish party warfare and get in
line to make united fight against
the common enemy for party sue
cess. There was but one condition
to this offer, and that was, whoever
was State Chairman should always
be Chairman of the Board of Direc.
tors and cast the deciding vote. This
was necessary If the paper was to
stand by and support the party Or
ganization, and it should have been
eminently satisfactory to Mr.. Black
burn, because at that time he was a
candidate for State Chairman and
claimed to be confident of his cleo.
tion.
If he had accepted this PROPOSE
tion he would have done q great deal
for the advancement Of the interest
Of his party, and at the same time
he would have made friends and
would have been stronger personally
today than he is. So if he had any
chance before of being elected State
Chairman, the acceptance of this
proposition would have increased
his chance, and if he had accepted
itand ever succeeded in being elected
State Chairman, he would have had
control of the Daily Industrial News
as well as the party organization,
though not one dollar in q hundred
behind the paper was furnished by
him or his friends.
Mr.. Blackburn, had he not been
entirely wanting in both patriotism
and sense, would have at once &C
cepted this proposition, because it
was one that appealed also particu-
larly to his overweening selfshness.
Mr.. Blackburn did not accept this
proposition because he was inflated
with the foolish notion that he, as
the lone Republican Congressman
from the State, would control and
dish out ALL federal patronage. It
was the hungry pap-suckers behind
him, who also believed he could do
this, who advised him to his own
detriment and the detriment of his
party.
Now, to friend Click, of the
Hickory Times-Mercury, who is a
fair man and Q man with an abund-
ance of common sense, we submit,
what more can be done to secure
harmony?
The party has elected one of it's
brainiest and best men for State
Chairman, Judge Spencer B. Adams.
Our position is that Mr.. Blackburn
and his faction should and must get
behind Chairman Adams, the party
organization, and Loyalty support it,
or else they deserve no consideration
from good Republicans.
Yes, we are in favor of harmony,
if we have to fight for it, and we
are ready to fight if that is the only
way.
Is there no man, who lives in the
Eighth Congressional District, who
is bona fide citizen of the district
and who pays taxes in 1t, who is fit
to be a candidate for Congress ?
Those who claim that it is necessary
to go outside of the district to look
for candidate are guilty of very
grave SANDER against the district