The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-09-20
FOR HOME FOLKS.

!
Sit at the Head of the Table
for a While-Its Able Sons
Without Recognition inDistrict
or State.
/ To the Editor of The Robesonian:
| Now that the Tariff bill Tor
Bills Tariff is out of the way,
the North Pole discovered, cotton
twelve cents pound, and more
especially since the other coun-
ties in the judicial and con-
gressional districts of which
Robson is a part-and a large
part-are beginning to sit up
and take notice of political con-
ditions, Is it not about time that
the citizens of our own good
county should look about them
and set their political house in
order, if it is their intention to
put forward candidates for any
of the positions to which the sew
eral counties Of these districts
may elect in 1910?
And first-since it is a legiti-
mate and worthy aspiration for
any county to endeavor to exert
at least a proportionate influence
in the choice of the various gov
erumental representatives as
signed, under our laws, to the dis
trict to which it belongs and of
which it is component part
Why should not oldRobeson move
up and sit at the head of the ta-
BILE for a while, at least, and take
the place in such matters to
which she is rightfully entitled
by all considerations? That she
is the largest county, with the
strongest voting power in the
seventh judicial and sixth con-
gressional districts, we all know,
yet, though we have candidates
for district and State officers,
none of them has been success
full for a number of years. Can it
be that the State of Robson"
is lacking in competent and wor-
thy men? Far be it from this
humble writer to suggest such an
absurdity, nor would any patriotic
citizen utter such a slander. On
the contrary, we have men good
and true, faithful and tried
farmers, business men, profess
ional men. What then can be
the trouble, wherein consists the
failure. and what is the solution
This writer is not politician nor
a Wiseacre, but some things are
self-evident after while. Either
we do not use good judgment and
tact in conventions, or we do not
give our man the united support
to which he is entitled if endorsed
by majority of the township
primaries, such support as the
other counties in these districts
accord their candidates. It is a
truism that a house divided
against itself cannot stand, and
as long as candidates are marked
for slaughter before they get be-
yond the county convention
stage, good men will be slow to
enter the lists. Would you, vo-
ter, not feel the same way about
it?
| am not finding fault with any
one, nor is it my intention fol
a moment to attempt any dicta.
ton q trust | am too good &
Democrat for that; and, besides
my fellow citizens have been too
good to me), but | do hold tha
some county pride is pardonablt
in these matters, and this little
article is submitted with the hope
that the spirit in which it il
written good fellowship and ;
desire for unity-Will be the key
note of all Democrats in the ap
preaching campaign.
This article is already too long
but we would like to show tha
in the judicial district we Civ
= more than one-third of the ma
jorities cast in all the countie
i composing the district, and i
the congressional pretty nea
one-half ;and besides once savin
d the State, we have always give
n a large per cent. of the vote con
: posing the large majorities
n the State in the past ten years
Il and yet Robson has no repre-
: sentation on the State ticket, r
D judge or solicitor or member {
: Congress. 1t is all right to b
is generous towards our sister coul
d ties, but justice walks side by sic
a with generosity, and we shou
10 remember our first duty is to O,
y own sons, and their talents al
a honors.
d M. G. Mckenzie.
n Lumberton, N. c..