The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-10
~Postmasters From East;
Moonshiners From West.
Red LUST OF PELf


'dh-'iS.
Greensboro like the snow bIanketed
...n I.iudcn' with the low down sun.
...h used to be the school-boys Fri
... afternoon friend, will this week
..t.Iv see another sight"
last week it was d gathering of mon
~.5 had won their fight, come to-
..Iber in peace to prepare for a great
g.. victory.
IHIs time there is to be war to the
knife over the leavings of greed and
|eg thc right to prey.
The contending ranks form a mon
Et"I InlXtry OF q similar type. From
the mountains come the long .Iank
a'uiZcus OF the coVcs, these who have
tHnu accustomed to lead a life of
guerrilla war fare with society for the
@~JSicnancc OF a copper still; the red
faced Revenue officers of the Samuels
aud HaSty type who have learned how
10 use their office for double decked
DrOlt from government and law
break crs; all the rank and file that
listen to he drum of Blackburn.
From the east come long-coated
post masters, the dOOdlerS whose occu-
patton has been taken away except to
Go to conventions and draw their pay;
sI the candidates for pOStofficeS and
The crew that is looking for something
To- turn up.
ON the ground already is Martyr
Blackburn, waiting for his forces to
arrive, q picture in clothes. Black
burn is nothing if not ''nobby." He
suggests a clothier'S AS
some one said of him during the Dem
"cratic convention, he looks Iike the
captain of the village nine in the new
uniform before the game. Black
burn is threatening fire and murder
aud sudden death.
Judge Adams is keeping quiet, al
though he is also in Greensboro, be-
cause his big boss is not on hand. But
Ter, the tWO-time renegade, is in Wash
ingon, waiting to come to the scene
as escort to Secretary of War Taft,
VINO has consented to the loan of his
aV0Irdupois. When Butler and Taft
arrive the fight may nave said to be
on.
The Squalid Truth.
1t might as we'll be understood that
TINS ight for the craftsmanship means
SIMPLY the control of a corruption
fund. The merits of the candidates
are about on a par except as Black
burn may have the moral advantage
OF being his own man while Adams
IS simply Buffers tool. 1t is six of
one and seven of the other. And the
crowd is all of the same type, differ
ent as they may appear on CcOun of
locality and training. There has been
much noise raised by the Subsidized
News on the one hand and the Tar
Heel on the other to the effect tina the
other side was out for the offices and
the money with which to wage a
Campaign," and hat it was indiffer-
cnt to the success of the party"
Nothing has been too bad to call Black
burn by the Butler aggregation; But
Ter and Adams are pariahs, accord
ing to the Tar Heel and h Black
burnites.
The truth of this matter is that
either side in these respects has been
telling the truth. The RECORD of But
Ter and Adams and the record and
affiliations of Black burn are not such
as can be easily slandered. The dan
ger is in doing them too much honor
by failing to charge something else
that is true.
1t is the pie brigade on either side
and under different control. In the
West where the Republicans are
strong. Black burn has the upper
twenty-five is a large con-
veution, Duncan rules the roost
for Adams. In some few counties,
torn with the terrible thought of what
might happen if they should make a
mistake in selecting the man who will
control the sWag, there have been a
few political jannisaries holding off to
sell out to the winning side. AS a
rule, however. the ofice-holders have
had the courage of their beliefs. The
tight in the east and in the west has
been in their hands. They compose
the fight, i'm fact. In the east the
rostmasters and the doodlers have
run over any Blackburn sentiment
that may have existed. In the west
the moOnshiners and the storekeepers
and a have equally throttled
any Adams partisans who have dared
i, 11y- to 1ift ., voice And IT is TINS
GROVE which will compose the con-
F%cutiOn.
Concealed i'm store Clothes.
It Will be a crowd on review. They
wjl have on store clothes. Most or
Them will be wearing collars. IT, VIII
h. the annual effort at d
'FRONT.'" But it is the same old gang
and the same old snarl. Butler IS
bringing his three hundred pounds OF
administration along in a private car.
THE hands Will look their best Tor M
h"ucft. When he is gone, tney WI
take off their coats and enter into the
1"f with a. vim. 1t is then that Will
-mEne the bleeding times.
IU order that no one may be de-.
f"Ired by any glittering platltude Oh
"ratorv or any convention deliVerance.
The News and Observer has taken the
trouble to coIlate the character anu
action Of a number of representative
county conventions which named the
..".egates to this convention. A pref
IE fair rule IF character is an~teceuents
and a survey of where the delegates
,o10e from and how they got their
seats will be Illuminating. There Is d
monotony about the reports which IS
Impressive. "Chairman," postmaster
of so and so. "Secretary' deputy
HarshaI this and that. III
."" convention We're revenue men tliS
nd that and the other. IL IS an u
=. r-hOI6prS fight and an OIllce-SCCh-
'rS scramble. And the parlies nlos.
ar interest are the combatants-lh-eiitthb =
Follow some fair samples ol ~
conventions. showing the p~efsohn1 "
The delegates who will attend. iIess
"r" facts which fix the off1ce-hololnt
'htrge and indicate that from ta9.
+"d west Blackburn man or Dut =
Anw-tOw one and the other. are the
sauna type with a different brand:
Tie Postmaster-Doodle SymphohE'
in Allegheny the county convention