The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-12-16
ANOTHER ATTACK ON MORE
HEAD.

A Question and Answer: "What
Republicans are Displeased With
Morehead, and Why?"-An An
swer That Does Not Answer.
The Ashevills Gazette-Nsws, one
of the organs Of the patronage ma
chine, In answer to a letter, makes
the following tame reply:
''Mr. Morehead's Standing.
I'VE are publishing on this page a
letter from Mr.. Harris Of Dillsboro.
asking that we inform an anxious
reader what Republicans are dis
pleased with Congressman Morshead
and why?'
"As likely as not we shall have to
leave Mr.. Harris unsatisfied, or alone
in anxiety. In 90 far as our personal
knowledge extends Mr.. Morehead
may stand just as high in Republican
circles in North Carolina as Mr.. Har-
ris thinks he does both at home and
in Washington. In the first place
we are not very we'll acquainted with
the distinguished subject of Mr. Har-
ris' letter, albeit we are not unmind-
full that the admission cannot be re-
garded as complimentary to our
selves. What little we know, how
ever, has not had the effect of en-
dearing him to us. He was elected to
Congress by Republican votes in spite
of himself. He had no faith in his
own candidacy, and repeatedly said
so. 1t was only the despised ina
chine" that felt that he had any
chance, and that insisted on making
Cumstance that warranted one in con-
Guiding that he had more than a
passing interest in the result was the
| charge that emanated periodically
from Morehead headquarters, in the
| form of a slanderous accusation that
lhe was not receiving the loyal sup
port of the Republican leaders. Fol-
lowing the election, the legitimate re-
suit of patriotic and concerted par
ty effort, he was heard to remark, as
we understand 1t, that he was under
no obligation to the old time party
leaders, and his friends did whatever
| they could to push along the allega-
tion of the Democratic press that
Morehead would never have received
the support of the Republican organ
ization had those attached thereto
| had any idea he was to be elected.
The Morehead followers fostered and
pushed along that gratuitously false
accusation, just as it has the latter
| day charge, upon which the Demo-
cratic press Is now ringing the
changes, that the Glasson appoint
ment was to be attributed to the
Vaccinations Of E. c. Duncan, q
charge which they know. upon no
less authority than the Associated
Press, to be without the slightest
foundation in fact.
$50 much for the personal and pri-
vate movements of Mr. Morehead, Of
which we have any knowledge. AS
to his Congressional career, we as
sumo that his legislative achieve
ments have not as yet been compiled
He has been represented to us as
one apart, as not being as other men.
This process of reasoning may sound
mass of unwashed, unrespectable Re-
publicans understood what was
meant when they were assured that
Mr.. Morehead was a Commercial"
with what the Charlotte Chronicle
calls democratic affiliations" The
one thing that Mr.. Morehead particu-
larly abhorred and deprecated, along
with his party chief, was any move
ment inside his party household that
suggested an organized chase for
Federal patronage. The eighty thous-
and plebs of his. own party must,
therefore, have regarded the spec
tacle with some surprise, not unmix-
ed with disappointment, when they
observed that the most conspicuous
act of their superior's Congressional
career had taken the form of pal
pitating chase for a piece of census
patronage, a chase that. for heat and
singleness of purpose, made the ef-
forts Of the old-line professionals In
that direction look like a cool, col
lected Indifference.
"But, as we have before remarked
it Is possible that Mr.. Morehead
stands just as highly in Republican
circles as Mr.. Harris says he does
The Chronicle editorial, to which oul
offending remarks had reference
says that the machine" is against
him, and Mr.. Harris knows as well
as we who constitute the organiza
tion of his party. The Chronicle may
be wrong. Mr. Morehead may be hel6
by his party in a sort of blanket af
lection. 1t is certain that this il
one of the things that the future
. will determine.
Congressman Morehead denies
that he ever said he proposed tt
, resign if he were not permitted tt
name the census supervisor in hi
district. 1t was even said that h
told the President that such was hi
intention, should Mr.. Taft fail to re
, woke the Glasson appointment. Il
considering this denial 1t is of mino,
interest to recall that the story wa
first set in motion in a special from
Greensboro, we believe it was, by tn
custodian Of the Morehead Guberna
t torial boom"
: The letter referred to is as fol