The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-07
NOT FOR JO>EPH-NOT IL HE
KNOWS 1T"

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r.r~on into who's hands 1t came. II
tha story Of the use to whicl. Republi-
can campaign money sent into North
CsroIina has been put could b. told II
would make the insurance erafters
pale With envy.
But. no matter how much experience
the Northern politicians get. they still
| cherish the hope OF carrying North
Carolina some day. That eminent
humolist in the House who bears the
/ name Of a novel and whose political
stories are mostly i now
| booming Speaker Cannon for Presi-
dent. ana has 50 far succeeded ~ 70
convince the Chicago journal that he
wasn't joking. The Journal takes Nj
! Rede seriously and makes his absurd
prediction the basis Of the following
editorial:
..Can Cannon Break the solid South?
Congressman Adam Bede has
found another reason why Uncle Joe
Cannon is the proper Presidential can
didate for the Republican party two
years hence.
some weeks ago. as was noted by
The journal at the time. Mr.. Bede
pointed out that Speaker Cannon had
The essential and important qnalifica-
ton: and also that he is a statesman
of the school Of Abraham Lincoln.
wise, patriotic. strong.
but it is not until now that Mr..
Pede calls attention to another of
Speaker Cannon's claims to the Re
publican nomination-namely, that he
could undoubtedly carry his native
state of North Carolina. That is more
than any other Republican could do.
congressman Bede thinks North
Carolinians are SO proud of the dis
tinguished achievements of the Speak
err that they would forget the ftradi-
tons of their Democracy and give the
States electoral vote to him. The con-
lecture is plausible, and if it should
be verified by events the transfer OF
North Carolina to the Republican col
umn would unquestionably result be-
fore long in disintegration of the solid
South.
"This wOu be as good a thing for
the South itself as it would be for tho
country as a whole. SO long as the
southern States o~bstinately refuse ts
consider anything on election day but
their distrust of the Republican party
it is impossible for them to make the
progress in wealth and civilization they
could make easily if they voted in sup
port of their own interests. If they
can break that old habit and vote for
men who are working for American
prosperity, a new and glorious day will
have daWned south of Mason and
DixOn's line.
i'Near North Carolina there are at
least two Southern States that await
only an eXcuSe to break away from
the ancient neutrality-suspicious.. with
her iron and coal and her thriving
city of Birmingham the Pittsburg of
the South; and Georgia. With her pro-
ereSsiVe and huStling city of Atlanta
North Carolina would not have to go
Republican more than once before
Georgia and Alabama would follow
her"
The talk that the nomination OF
Cannon would change the political
complexion of this State is regarded
as silly where folks know the true
facts. AS a matter OF fact. North
Carolina is a Democratic State upon
principle and votes the Democratic
ticket from deep conviction. No Re-
publican can carry the State though he
pays subsidized papers and politicians
to hold out false hopes. If Mr.. Can
non had lived in North Carolina all
his life. and if the people here knew
well, he could not carry this state
a Republican candidate any easier
than Mr.. Bryan can carry Maine as a
Democratic candidate. But, even if it
voted on sentimental reasons, why
North Carolina folks vote for
1t is true that Mr.. Can
non was born in Guilford county. this
State, but since his father moved to
I~llionis when the Speaker was a young
boy, he has never put his foot upon
it's soil. and, until the Presidential bee
got to buzzing in his head, has shown
interest in the state Of his birth
than in the subject Of the Sultan Of
Zulu. He has been a Republican of
hand over to help North Carolina at
any time or for any ON he +
when a majority of the House t
had pledged themselves to vote for the /,
Appalachian Forest bill that had t
passed the Senate-a measure to which /
both political parties in North Carolina \
are committed-Mr. Cannon refused to
let the measure come to a vote in the
House. If he wished to oppose it, no. !
body would object. but When he used /
the power of a Gar with which he has t
been invested to deny a vote on a /
that greatly concerned North |
and half a dozen other SOUTH s
arn States-when he did that the peo- Y
pie of North Carolina didn't see any f
reason why they should point with I
pride" TO the Speaker as a native of Y
North Carolina. :
Nj. Cannon could not get as many s
Sotes in North Carolina as Nj. Taft
1r Mr.. Roosevelt. and neither of them
come within thirty thousand
totes of carrying the electoral vote.
the Republican pie-eaters and sub $
;idized newspapers. desiring to handle I
campaign funds will put on a s~erious I
and repeat the Adam Bede Joke 2
very time they get q free pass that t
.arries them to Washington City. s
Adam Bede. as a humorist ia q suc- I
,eSS, but when he comes to put North