The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-01
uIII, THE "PRETENDER" BE
ORN

RCccntIv, with a blare of trumpets,
was announced the a"ccouchment OF
patriotism to the birth of a conserVa :
tive party.
The ~ospec was sent out and IN
invitations issued. The event was to
be an important one, and in a state
vide movement, which was to control
The balance Of power between the
Republican n Democratic parties,
invitation to come in and help the or
canization was qualified by the con-
temporaneous request, amounting to Il
command. for a subscription to the
Canital st4ck of the movement of
at least one hundred dollars.
BY putting a price on the name of
conservatism. it was expected that the
t~cyirabilitv of the association would
he greatly enhanced. The purchaser
of the stock would not only get the
name of a conservative, but he would
have his own name associated with
certain gentlemen of means inc in
f~uenCe" with whom to associate
merely was an inducement to credit
and profit.
For some reason the conservative
party seems to have been abandoned,
probably because in the first instance
there is no logical place for balance
of power" organization where there
exists no balance of resource between
the alleged competitors. More potent
was the consideration hat better re-
suits might be obtained by a fight in
the Democratic primaries for ''cOnser-
vatively' inclined men than in an or
ganization that would be forced to
elect tive a party that there was
no hope of controlling and one to
which support would be useless.
While the central idea seems to have
been deserted, one of the plans of the
new organization that involved the
establishment of an organ" to look
after the interests of the American
Tobacco Company, the Southern Rail-
way and allied corporations is said still
to figure in the intentions of the pa
rents of q still-born revolution. Not
withstanding the fact that the ghost
of the Morning Post still stalks in pub
lie memory, and Notwithstanding the
fact that the veil has been drawn from
before the face of its ~re-incarnation in
the Evening Times, this project of an
organ still meets with that Hope
which is father to Expectation. The
plan of the organ is stated to he
the building up of a circulation in
Central and Eastern North Carolina.
and the same influences that met Wa
terloo in the Post are understood to
base their desires upon the establish
ment of it's successor.
since the failure of the Post merged
into the conception of the Times-and
since the parenthood of the latter has
been abortively disclosed-it will
doubtless be the plan to put the new
venture into the charge of an editor
who is a Democratic politician. not
Yet fuund out as the emissary of trusts
and railroads, who will take in his
own name and the name of like agents
the majority of the conservative,
stock subscriptions and swear until he
Is purple in the face that the resulting
Apocrypha is the Simon-pure Demo
cratic Bible, unadulterated with Oil.
unimpregnated with Cigarettes and
unrelated 20 a Railroad.
The organ may be duly delivered.
If 50, its heredity will appear in it's
face and the quality of its ancestry IN
its conduct
This is no time for another pretend
er-slnlster to the throne of public re-
spect and influence.