The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-11-06

There are no doubt many Republic
cans who are Disguised by the capture
Of their party by Butler and Adams,
who keep it on the same lines that
it was run by them in 1895 when it
was badly defeated. An "Old Time
Republican, Of Forsyth has written 4
letter to Republicans Of Forsyth coun-
try in which he says that the Republic
can party has been false to its prom
Use to forget the negro and be de-
cent, but has been as Greedy and Ger
rupt as ever; and he does not mean To
support the leaders any further. These
leaders are mentioned as the"Reynolds
Brothers ofice-hoIding trust" and are
condemned in no uncertain way and
the conclusion is an appeal for Re
publican voters to stay away from the
polls next Tuesday and let the lead
ers set their medicine.
The Caucasian, IN defending the
Littleield Legislature for selling the
! $500, 900 of stock in the Wilmington
ana Weldon Railroad for $14&.000,
when today that stock is worth about
three million dollars, does not inform
! It's lt,tlGl = lIIdI IllC SiiC.VOo ii cE1IN
cent invested in fraudulent special tax
bonds. and the State lost every dol
lar. But the suppression Of that fact
is about as near being fair as you can
expect of any Radical paper.
Almost every day some Republican
is forced to get on Bryan's platform
to get a hearing. Attorney General
TlN1,- 60 i-l, -. .o;l Ts-.-.-.
was right when he said the trust ques-
ton was the paramount issue OF
course it is, and it is not going to be
settled by fining the Standard Oil
crowd $4,000. The only thing to do
with such law breaker is to put them
in stripes.
The President is never quite so an
CRY as wnen d~enouncinG men who
stand for real reforms. He believes ia
~legislating against trusts and filming a
two hundred million dollar trust $4,000
and then exclaiming: Look VIVA a
trust buster I am" But when a gen
uine man says, put the trust macnatc
in stripes and break up the trusts,
his ~strenuosity is nightly offended ana
calls him al sorts Of names.
vice have the people of Raleigh
declared for municipal ownership of
water and nothing else will satisfy
them. If the answer of the present
company wish to sell at a fair ~valua- !
ton, the aldermen viii purchase it. II
mot. let them put in a modern, up-to-
date plant and they viii find it profit
IabIe, sanitary. and bcnelicient.
When Pettigrew and members Of
that Wall street syndicate who expec-
Butler and the subsidized News to ge,
the LfttIefeld bonds paid, hear tho
election news from North Carolina on
Tuesday night, they Will see that while
politicians and newspapers can be
controlled, the people Of North Car
olina can neither be fooled nor
bought.
According to the subsidized News
simmons and Overman are dema-
cogues. Aycock a ''iuggler;" Glenn 4
bitter ranter, Joyler an incompetent.
Kitchin a trickster. and all lesser
Democrats are worse. That's the de
cent. way the decent Republican
party" has run the campaign that
closes on Tuesday night.
The negro State Fair was we'll at
tended and showed that the negro Il
getting along better than eyer. \ re-
turn To Radical rule would iujure the
Industrious and law abiding negroes
Nv restoring them to the sway Of the
negro political slave drivers who DOM
;,ota1 than priDr to 800. |