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


and need man in congress, ! be
lieve. VINO Will work in harmon!
with the President in the enactment
of his beneficial laws. They do no
need a man who spends his time IL
the halls OF legislation trying tt
harass and embarrass our Presiden
for the mere sake OF partisan advant
age. The Democratic party indeed
presents a pitiful spectacle in thi.
campaign. Mr.. Z. w. Pou, the pres
ent Democratic congressman from
this district, is forced, SO ii appears
N his public utterances, to approve
the course OF our Republican Presi
dent yet, in the same breath. he asks
the people to express disapproval o
the President by re-electing hin
(Pou), the representative of hos
tile political party, 10 congress. IL
the light of such issues presented
am convinced that | have a right Il
ask and expect the support of ever!
man who is far-sighted and patriot,
enough to see that the interests o
this country demands that the peopl,
uphold the hands of Theodore Roose
welt and this they cannot do by re
pudiating at the ballot box the pc
litical organization of which th'
President is the recognized head.
There is one class of citizenship
winch / shall make no appeal il
is campaign. That man who pre-
rs the panics, the hard times, th'
arva ion wages, the debt-makini
rices, the misery and the disaster
which the people suffered under tn,
asst Democratic administration, from
1892 to 1895, to the prosperous con
ditions we enjoy under the Roose
Welt Republican administrator
should vote for my Democratic op
ponent. Let me remind you that the
good book teaches that when '.the
wicked rule the people mourn" ant
experience has taught us that wheI
the Democratic party is in the saddle
the people starve. Surely there are
few men SO blind to the welfare OF
their country and their homes as tC
again commit such blunder.
Need | remind you how vital it is
to these Southern States to be rep
resented by men who will help and
not hinder the President; men who
will vote for Republican measures
advocated by our chief magistrate?
You recall that President Roosevelt
officially recognized the Confederate
Veterans at their last annual reun-
ion; President Roosevelt has main
tanned the Monroe doctrine in which
the South is especially interested
President Roosevelt's administration
is having constructed the great Pan
anna canal; President Roosevelt pre-
vented the merger of the great rail
ways of the northwest; President
Roosevelt defied the Standard Oil
Company and the meat trust; Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration is
prosecuting numerous suits TO break
up illegal combinations of capital
designed to Cypress the people;
resident Roosevelt and his Repub-
can congress enacted such beneti-
al measures as the railroad rate
II, the pure food law, the national
,.aransine, the naturalization bill,
id otter legislation of almost equal
Importance. / therefore ask you, my
oantrymen, to show your approval
III give the President your aid BY
ending 4 Republican to congress
rom his district to uphold him in
lis policies.
Let me plainly inquire what pos
sible benefit the people can derive
from rejecting a Democrat, Mr.. E.
w. Pou, TO congress from this dis
trict? You would thereby express
your disapproval of President Roose-
yelt's fight in your behalf and you
would elect a congressman who will
be in a hopeless minority and utter
~ unable TO be of any service to you.
Sir. Pou has been in congress three
terms and pray tell me what he has
supported the free seed graft by dis
tributing at the governments ex-
pense a quantity of these useless
seeds, as his colleagues do. He made
in congress what he thought was a.
great speech against graft and cor
which all good men
condemn,-Dut when there was a
little investigation, behind closed
doors, in this state one of the first
things unearthed was that the Hon
orable Z. w. Pou, congressman from
this district, was favored with a pass
over fh., Atlantic and North raroIfno