The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-10-22
That Trojan Horse.
Norfolk Virginian-PilOt.

One Mr.. Walser, of North Carolina,
has been giving the Washington
Herald some of the reasons why he
thinks the South should cut loose
from it's traditional political moor
ings and unite it's fortune with those
of the Republican party.
OF course the gentleman ignores all
the crimes perpetrated against the
Southern people by the Republican
party during the reconstruction
period. He is probably too young
to remember the degradation. and
spoilation to which his own State
was subjected in the era when IL
travesty on government was main
tanned at Raleigh by the combined
agencies of Congressional edicts and
Federal bayonets. He is of the new
generation, which belongs to that
New South of which Temple Graves is
prating, and addresses himself to the
politico-commercial view of the situa-
ton, holding out the bait of public
office to the ambitious sons of the
South is n reward for their abandon
ment of faith and enlistment in the
ranks Of an organization which has
always ostracized and sometimes
prosecuted them.
Mr.. Walser utilities the pregnant
hint which Mr.. Taft threw in his
speech at Hot Springs-that South
ern leaders had been debarred from
participation in Executive affairs at
Washington by their stubborn re-
fusal to make common cause with
the powers that have been and be.
This, when translated, means "VOte
for me and share the plumber"
But the Carolina convert is not
satisfied with Offering temptations
for the future; he has the temerity to
point to the past distribution Ofpat-
ronage by the Republican admins
tratiOns and to assert that the
South has been recognized with far
greater liberality by those than under
the single Democratic regime since
1860. And here MIR. Walser chal-
lenges contradiction. During the
forty-three years subsequent to
Lincoln's death, Republican Presi-
dents have called to their cabinets
seven individuals who may be credit
ed to the South, including Alderman,
from Georgia. who was Northerner.
Within the same period there were
named to the Supreme Bench by Re-
publican Presidents, Harlan of Ken
lucky; Woods of Georgia, and Jack
son, OF Tennessee. OF foreign APP
pointments reaching the dignity of
ministerships, Pearson, of North
Carolina, seems to have been a soil
tary exception. A beggarly array,
for nearly half century of time. Only
a bare dozen of posts of dignity as
signed to representatives OF Il section
comprising a third of the Union dur
ing the terms of Grant, Hayes. Gar
field, Arthur, Harrison, Mckinley
and Roosevelt.
Contrast this with the favor shown
the South by Cleveland, the one Dem
ocratic President since the War. The
Charlotte Observer published a list
which speaks for itself. though not
complete:
Garland. of Arkansas, Attorney
General; Herbert, of Alabama, Sec.
rotary of the Navy; Bayard OF Della.
ware, Secretary OF State; Lamar, oil
Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior
Smith of Georgia, Secretary OF the
interior; Francis, of Missouri
Secretary of the Interior; Car
Isle, of Kentucky. Secretary OF
the Treasury; Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia, Postmaster General; Lamar
OF Mississippi, and White, of Louisi
ana, Justices of the Supreme Court
American ministers, Bayard, of Della
ware, to England; Eustis, of Louisi
ana, to France; Breckenridge, of Ar
kansas, to Russia; Kelley, of Vir
ginia, to Italy; Alexander, Jarvis
and Ransom, all of North Carolina
to Greece, Brazil and Mexico, respec
lively.
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