The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-07-30

from our recent financial depression
and produce business disaster COM
pared with which our recent panic
and depression wIll seem small IL
deed.
The Farmer a Great Factor.
As the Republican platform says.
the welfare OF the farmer Is vital 10
that of the whole country. One Of
the strongest hopes OF returning
prosperity is based on the business
which his crops are 10 afford. He II
vitality interested In the restraining
Of excessive and unduly discriminat-
ing railroad rates, IN the enforce
ment of the pure food laws. in the
promotion of scientific agriculture
and In increasing the comforts OF
country life. as BY the extension OF
free rural delivery. The policies OF
the present administration, which
have most industriously promoted all
these objects, cannot fail to commend
themselves to his approval
Republicans and Labor.
We come now to the question OF
labor. One important phase or the
policies of the present administra-
ton. has been an anxiety TO secure
| for the wage-earner an equality or
opportunity and such positive statu-
tory protection as shall place him on
la level In dealing with his employer.
The Republican party has passed an
employers liability act for inter
State railroads, and has established
an eight-hour law for government
employees and on government con-
Istruction.
What He Thinks About Injunction.
come now to the question of no
tice before issuing an injunction. Ii
lis a fundamental rule of general
affected by judicial proceeding
without notice and hearing. This
Irule, however, has sometimes had ar
Exception in the issuing of temporary
Restraining orders commanding a de-
Ifendant to maintain the status quo
until a hearing. Such a process:
Ishould issue only in rare cases where
the threatened change of the status
lquo would infiict irreparable injury
if time were taken to give notice ant
la summary hearing. In some State
courts, and in fewer Federal courts
the practice of issuing a temporar!
Restraining order without notic'
merely to preserve the status quo OF
the theory that it won't hurt any
body, has been too common.
/ Equal Rights to All.
The Republican platform, adopted
at Chicago, explicitly demands jus
tice for all men without regard t.
race or color, and just as explicitly
declares for the enforcement, an
without reservation, in letter an
: spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteen Amendments to the Con
stitution.
| Campaign Contributions,
By a law passed by the Republica
Congress in 1907, contributions froI
corporations to influence or pay tn
expenses connected with the electio
of presidential electors or Of mem
bers of Congress is forbidden unde
penalty.
Il Election of Senators.
With respect to the election {
= Senators by the people, personally
2 am inclined to favor it, but it
r hardly a party question. In a nun
= Republican, substantially such a sy:
= tenn now prevails.
The Charge of Deficit.
+ Again, it charges that deficit {
q sixty millions of dollars between th
: receipts and expenditures during til
4 fiscal year ending June 80, 1908, o.
4 CURED. AS explained by the Seer,
q tary of the Treasury, at least half {
4 this deficit is only an apparent on
Il The falling off in receipts was,
= course, /occasioned by the unusu
t panic, but there is ample free none
f in the treasury to meet the diffe
q Ience, and the difference itself is n,
= half of it properly deficit, becau:
4 involved in it was the retirement
some thirty-three millions of tt
bonds Of the government.
The Democratic platform nowhel
> points out the expenditures whie
l. might be reduced or avoided. It joil
:. the Republican party specifically
approving the outlay of $4,000
" 600 as pension. Is expressly favo
g also the cost of greatly increase
river and harbor improvements, tt
u cost Of doubling the navy, and
many other enterprises to which
urges the government. It's attac
. therefore, has nothing in it either
fairness or sincerity.
b Praise for Roosevelt.
VI The truth is that 1t is known
r all fair-minded men that there new
n has been an administration in tt
" government more efficiently conduc
: ed, more free from scandal, and
n which the standard of official du
o has been set higher than in the pre-
A ent Republican administration wlait
n the Democratic platform has thus d
e nounced. s.t. Fs
''Anything to Get Votes"
!, The Democratic party, under i
N present leadership in previous cal
,s paigns, has manifested itself to Ell