The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-10-04
A PREJUDICE FERTILIZER


cate she Fntsre yosers-tt Fssls io Msn- /
tioa abe ss~AlinE. OF the KArnts<s Of
the sta.e'a Enthusiastically Democrats !
Aba.e Marion Bssler.
The Democratic Handbook for the !
campaign Of 1906 Is out. IL was
prepared by Democratic State Chair
nsn Simmons or by his direction,
and contains the substance OF what
Democratic speakers and editors viii
say and write in this campaign.
The Washington Post, an indepen-
dent paper, says the National Demo
cratic Campaign Committee closed
its Offices In Washington and quit
business as soon as Bryan made his
government ow nership Of railroads
speech.
The State Democratic Handbook
il intended 10 be and Is a prejudice
fertilizer. It's authors have three
subjects on the brain-negro Office
holding what Democrats are doing
for education, and the alleged mean
ness Of Republican leaders. 1t quotes
the national Democratic platform
which says "the race question Is set
tIed," yet q large part Of the les
sons il lays down for Democratic
speakers to learn is about the negro,
and an effort to keep mon from being
Republicans because the coustitu-
tion and laws of the United States
allowed negroes TO vote. They seek
to make negroes hate Republicans
because men were once Republicans.
As we'll try to make men hate the
Pous and Kitchins, because their
fathers were once Republicans, or
Simmons, because he was once a
partner of Judge Faircloth, who was
always Republican.
The book glOats and revels over
the harsh things that some Kepub-
licans and Republican papers have
said about some oIher Republicans
and Republican papers. Now, If
that amounts to anything, can
break up the Democratic party by
the evidence of its highest priests
against each other. Has anybody
forgotten what Capt. Sam Ashe
printed about T. B. Kingsbury, and
what Kingsbury printed about Ashe
when they were editing the leading
Democratic papers of the State? Ii
is, too bad to print. Don't you
know that J. P. Caldwell and 10
sephus Daniels have not dared to
take each others name or their pa
pers on their lips or in their papers
for years, and that they gave each
other the - seven years age
and sat still long time to keep from
exploding? Who doesn't remem'
Der that practically every Demo
cratic newspaper in the State was
two years ago denouncing Judge Pee
bles, and that what he and his zone
N. A. Mclean" and others were
saying and printing about each Other
was causing the moon to hide it,
face as it passed across the State
Don't you know the News and Oh
server murdered the Morning Post
and that the Post gave its "dylna
declaration" to that effect? AnC
that the Raleigh Times makes Jo-
sephus too mean to live? Has any
body forgotten what Vance sale
about F. M. Simmons when he wa!
up for confirmation as revenue
doodler before the Senate? Think
how Cy Watson and Hackett and
others talked about other Democrats
who favored the Watts and Ward
laws in the last legislature. And
what was it John G. Drewry and
Josephus Daniels were saying about
each other only few months ago
When Mr.. clearinghouse and Mr.
Strudwick and Joseph Daniels
right when they lately charged that
the last State Senate and the present
railroad commission and candidate
McNeill belonged to the railroads
and corporations I could fill ten
pages with we'll known instances in
. this State without referring to what
the Bryrn and snti-Bryan statesmen
have been saying about each other,
or what Bailey and John Sharpe
Williams and John W. Daniel and
Simmons and Overman are now say
ing and feeling and thinking about
Mr.. Bryan.
The handbook admits that the fu-
sion legislature appropriated more
money for public schools than was
ever done before, but protests about
having spent still more for schools
since 1899. Don't they know that
the demands of the amendment for
reading and writing voters after
1908 made it criminal not to in
crease the school facilities? Yet
live in township with ], 1928 white
children OF school age, only 63S
of whom were enrolled last year,
while the average attendance was
only 442. The attendance of blacks
is not half that large. Has the Dem
ocratic party done anything to brag
on yet? This is so average town.
ship, if not the average In the State.
l. L. L.