The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-04-30

The contest for the Southern dele
gates in the next National Rspubls-
can Convention has already begun
The administration ST Washington has
LEI all the ofice-hoiders know that
they must line up for whatever policy
Roosevelt wants carried out. When
he announced hat uBder no circuns-
stances would he accept a renomina-
tloa, the office-hoiders thought they
would he free To line up as they desir-
ed. They now md out their mistake
They viii be required under penalty of
Icing fired To 10 their utmost 10 car
~ a Roosevelt delegation To the Ma
tIonal Convention-either TO vote Tor
Taft or Roosevelt or any other candi-
date desired by the President-and Ia
stand in line for full endorsement OF
the policies of the President Against
the demand OF the man who ladies
out Offices will come the men who
put up the tud" to buy the dele
gates. Which will win-the bride of
office or the bride of money?
That is the situation in every south
ern State. The decent element in the
Republican party viii have neither in
fluence nor voice in the attitude Of
the South in the next National Re-
| publican Convention. And everybody
knows this.
In order to try TO hide This con
fessed infamy OF its own party. But
ler's Subsidized News. after discussing
the Democratic talk about a Southern
candidate, says:
The Southern Democracy Will do as
it has always done. allow itself to be
dictated To by a crowd of men who are
thus described by the Charlotte OBJ
server:
The thoroughly disrespectable
eme of politicians who. to the
shame of the Democratic party.
control its fortunes in most States
North Of Mason and Dixon inc"
THE News hould not quote the
Charlotte Observer as to anything
about Democracy except as an enemy
of Democracy of the same character
as the News, the difference being that
the Observer claims no party a,legi-
ance but is nearly always in accord
with the News which is a Butlerized
and jim Youngized Republican organ
tNti hoS III tIfS yCoI- II dllt
that the Democratic party in the North
is controlled by a Thoroughly disre-
| spectacle element of politicians" has
heen repeated 50 often that some folks
have come to believe it. Nobody who
has read the book of Sun Set Cox or
been associated in the councils of the
! party with the men who lead the
Northarn Dem0cracv wnuld cast that
s!ur upon them. In most States Of
the North, without reward or the hope
Of reward, they have been true to the
Democracy when their business inter-
| ests or political ambitions would have
been promoted by Joining the domin-
ant. party. There is not in history a
| spectacle of nobler and more unselfish
devotion to principle than hat which
has been displayed by the leaders and
rank and file of the Democracy since
1860. In high ideals, in devotion t.
correct principles of government, in
hostility to special privilege in all
forms, in willingness to fOrego political
hOnOrs in order to stand by their po-
litical convictions. the Northern Demo-
Gratis have set an example worthy of
emulation by true men everywhere.
The delegations from Pennsylvania.
Vermont, Maine, Iowa and Oregon in
the National Democratic Convention
are the equals of the delegates from
| Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia or
any State that casts a Democratic
| electoral vote. Sad to say. there are
thoroughly disrespectable'' men in
every party organization in every
State. Nowhere else in America ex-
cept in the Republican party in the
South is that element in absolute con-
troll, n by the general admission the
only way to get the delegates is to
buy them with Federal Jobs or hard
cash. Sometimes both are enlisted
on the same side-and then there is
no room for controversy!
WHAT is THE STATUS?