Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1908-07-30
Rainbow Chasing In the South.
News and Observer.)


News and Observer.)
1t fs very amusing to hear Re-
publicans talk ofcarrying North
Carolina in State and National
affairs for the Republican ticket,
but as the reason for this ls we'll
known it creates not the slight
est shadow OF alarm but rather
merriment to see how easily the
National Republican Committee
is worked by the North Carolina
Republicans who are IN search Ell
ther Of money-graft or Federal
job graft, two things OF prime i'm
portance to the barnacles who
hold tight to what they have in
the way of easy fruit because of
loud protestations OF what they
try to do.
North Carolina this year is 60
ing Democratic and will give
Hon. W. W. Kitchin for Govern
or and Hon. W. J. Bryan T o r
President such big majorities as
in the past have gone to III g
Democratic nominees. The Re-
publicans who talk of defeating
the Democrats know that they
are talking only for effect, a N d
their chief concern is that they
put up q hold front so as to reap
a suitable harvest of jobs after
the election, if by any mischance
this country makes the mistake
Of electlng Taft.
The same idle talk of Republi-
can success in other Southern
States is heard, but it amounts
only to talk and there is nothing
behind it. In especial there is talk
that Georgia will go Republican
because it did not send q delega-
tion to Denyer instructed for Bry
an, but Georgia is as certain to
go Democratic as are North Car
olina and South Carolina, In
Washington the other day was
Representative Charles L. Bart
lett, of Georgia, who laughs at
the idea that Georgia will not be
Democratic and who declares
that the National Democratic
ticket is going to win in thecoun
try; that Bryan will be the next
President. Mr.. Bartlett has rep
resented the Macon District in
Congress for many years, and at
the election received all the votes
cast in his District, there being
no opposing candidate, Th Q
Washington Post gives the fol-
lowing concerning his views on
the Democratic nomination and
Georgia.
Representative Charles L. Bart
lett, of Macon, Ca, is entirely
satisfied with the ticket nomina-
ted by the Democrats at Denver,
and also with the platform,
"It is a winner" said Mr.. Bart
lett at the Riggs House last
night. at amuses me, this talk
about Georgia goinng Republi-
can. How can any man in his
senses assert that Georgia will
go Republican? Do you think
reasonable Democrats will sup
port a republican ticket when a
convention has formulated such
q miserable platform as that
which the Republican conven-
.tion at Chicago promulgated?
No sensible Southern Democrat
will vote for a party with q plat
form which, in effect, declares for
d reduction OF representation in
the South, and that is what the
Republican platform does. Why,
there is no more chance OF Taft
and Sherman carrying Georgia
or any other Southern State
than there is for Bryan carrying
Vermont or New Hampshire.
Talk about Georgia going Re
publican. It's absurd Roosevelt
never lived there. His parents
did, but Georgia is beyond th Q
sentimental stage in politics
The South will go solidly Demo-
cratic for the ticket nominated