The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-06-28
HOWTO GET EEPUBLI An HAIR
MONY AND SUCCESS

the Republican party in this State
no one will deny. Can it be stopped?
is the question that all good Replb-
IIcans have keen asking.
A number of efforts have been
made TO secure harmony, but so far
ALL have failed. We would be will
ing 10 bury the past and TO join in
any reasonable aud equitable plan to
bring about harmony il there was
the least hope Of success.
1t Is proper in this connection to
stop for q moment to find the cause
of the friction, and if we can find
the real cause 1t will point TO the
real remedy, if the remedy can be
applied.
In the first place, the factional
troubles arose ont Of Congressman
BIackburn's desire to not only be
the patronage dispenser for his own
district but to be the State boss for
the distribution Of patrOnf &c for the
whole State. Along with this de
sire. he announced his candidacy for
State Chairman. In short, he began
by determining IS the one Republic
can Congress man from the State TO
run everything his own way, and
in order to make his domination
absolute, he determined TO make the
Congressman and the State Chairman
one and the same person.
In order to better carry out his
plans he began declaring loudly that
he was in favor of establishing a
daily newspaper and in building up
the Republican party. Now it hap
pened that there were other people
who were honestly in favor Of doing
what Mr.. Blackburn declared he was
in favor of doing. There were q
number of men who were already
engaged in raising stock for com =
pany to establish and run a daily
Republican newspaper. When the
men who had already pledged their
money and efforts to start this paper
approached Mr.. Blackburn to join
with them in starting q paper aud
making it one of the most power
full factors in building up the R
publican party and making North
Carolina a Republican State, he re-
fused to have anything to do with
it and declared that he would start
a daily paper Of his own.
The Republican party had made
several Efforts to establish a daily
newspaper and make 1t success, but
all these efforts had failed, so it was
plain that two Republican dailies
could not succeed, while one, with
united support, might succeed. Ia Or
der to secure harmony for one Repub-
lican daily newspaper, those who had
already subscribed to the Industrial
News made Mr.. Blackburn propo-
sition that he might name half of
the directors of that paper, regard
less of whether he put up one dol
lar or twenty thousand In its capital
stock, with one condition-thatt the
State Chairman now and in the fu-
ture should be President of the
Board of Directors and thus have
the deciding vote.
This condition was imposed so as
to make harmony certain and to in
sure that the paper would always
loyalty support the Republican State
organization. This more than lib
eral offer was made because it was
thought Mr.. Blackburn would be-
You'd question accept IL. But he de-
clined it.
Let it be remembered that at this
time Mr.. Blackburn was an avowed
candidate for state Chairman, and if
he should succeed, he would then
have control of the daily newspa :
per. Then why did he decline? It
is hard for any rational excuse to
be given. 1t certainly showed that
Mr.. Blackburn was wanting In sense
as well as In patriotism, because if he
had Joined in this newspaper enter
prise and secured harmony it would
have strengthened him and increased
his chances Of winning the fight for
State Chairman. But there were a
number of hungry pie counter men
who advised Mr.. Blackburn not to
accept this offer. thinking that he, as
the only Republican Congressman,
would control everything anyway,
and that If be made az arrangement