The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-08-30
LErrxm rnom JOHNSTON COUNTY


Smiihheld. n. c.,
August Goth, 1905.
To my Fellow Citizens. and Old SOL
der Brethren Of Johnston County /:
Txo years ago I ssv 1T to with.
draw from tbs. DemoeT& tic party.
assigned sixteen reasons for 80 doing.
| said that the Democratic party gas
not In favor Of letting the people
decide their own local qaeSiions II
the ballot box. | said they made
their laws by the uae OF bogus pesI'
tions. They denied it. Well let's
see what they have done.
Have they let us vote on the stock
law. No. They refused. Have
they let Us vote On the question Of
prohibition No. They have re
fused that, als6. Now, my friends,
you see that they are not willing &c
let the people manage their own at
fairs. | will also ask you If that i.
Democracy?
Look here, Mr.. Boss Democrat,
and tell me what Democrat; is.
think true Democrat Is man who
Is In favor Of government by tho
people, hut that Is not the way you
look at the question OF Democracy,
and you will not even allow any
resolutions to pass through your con-
vention that gives the people right
TO vote on loca, affairs. Are you
afraid of the people: Don't you
know what you did in your recent
County Convention: AT the sug-
gestion of your GREAT boss, you
tabled and would not even permit
the delegates to vote on the resolu-
tion asking you to let the people OF
Johnston County meet at the ballot
box and decide for themselves If
they would manufacture and sell
spirituous liquors.
Yes, you think you have fooled
the people in regard to that cider
resolution you, by the advice of your
bosses, permitted to go through the
convention. We are up with your
tricks, and don't you forget it.
! Now, Democrats, / want you and
your boss to tell me what you mean
by prohibition Do you mean TO
tell me that it is something / shall
not do, but you will reserve the right
to do it yourselves? 1t seems that
way by what / have seen
We Republicans are temperance
people, and We teach our children
and friends to be temperate, but we
do not say to our neighbors that it is
disgrace in the sight of God and
man to take drink of grog, and
then take one ourselves! o, We
whited sepulchres! Your outside
appearances are very clean, but inside
there are dead mems bones. Whis-
key in your closets! Tell US what
you want. Why don't you come out
right plain and tell US that you want
to mOnopolize the sale Of whiskey
and put it in the hands of the Tenn.
perauce League! Aud then put up
your medical dispensary, IS you we've
advised to do, by your great John
ston County boss. Yes, when You
do that, you will sing hallelujah to
your boss, and you will tell him to
come and get sill the French brandy
he wants at cost. / understand your
great boss is very fond of French
brandy.
Well, what about your Sunday
campaign? You have two men
going over Johnston County on the
Sabbath making what they call tenn
peranee lectures. Now, / will ask
these gentlemen if they are not try
Ing to make votes for the Prohibi-
tion-Eemocratic party? I will say
to those Sunday campaigners I had
rather be guilty Of drinking cider
on the Sabbath than making speeches
TO gain votes for my party. will
have to tell you that you are a set
of political demagogues !; you are
pretenders. You know you have
got to fool the people if you carry
your points.
Now, as to that article in recent
issue of the Smithfield Herald in
regard to the cider law. 1 consider
it to be one of the greatest insults
ever heard Of to our old cider men
throughout Johnston County. will
say to that gentleman that my John
ston County folks and myself are
just as far from running blind tiger
whiskey through our cider barrels
as he is. Now, what you old farm
ers think Of man who will make
SUCH charge against you? Are you
willing to accept him as q leader in
anything2 He has forgotten some
thing on which his mind will be re-
freshed if he don't mind.
Give US a vote on prohibition and
all local laws, and we are willing 10
BE- governed by what the De III ocratic
bosses say. We are a free people,
we brerthe the spirit of freedom, and
your Democratic bosses have no
right to debar us of any personal
right guaranteed to US by our fore
fathers and by the Constitution,
without first getting our consent ~
letting us vote on it. / will advise
our people everywhere to wake up
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