Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-26


all of us with respect to political par
tizanship to wipe out those lines as
far as we1can, and to see sc far as we
may that in each state the tolerance
of opinion shall continue until there
kshall be respectable parties on both
sides of the line, because it is essen
tial to have a good opposition to have
a good government. Now if there is
anything that / a do in my admins
tration to make that feeling of union
more close. 1 shall do it.
Position on Appointments.
"I am anxious, of course, speaking
from a partizan standpoint and leav-
ing my official position for a moment,
that the Republican party of North
| Carolina should be strengthened
merely to have a good fight at every
election and of course, insofar rs I
/ may legitimate1y do so, I should be
/ glad to build up the Republican par
ty. Now l understand that some of
my Republican friends think that I
AVE lost sight of the Republican par
ty in putting to office in North Car
| olina a gentleman now upon the SUI
preme Court bench of the State, a
lawyer of the highest eminence and
| learning and integrity, but a Demo-
| crat.
81 promised, after / was President
elect, not before the election, to the
South that I would do the best I
could to wipe out the feeling that the
central government, at Washington,
was a government alien to the South
land, and 1 pointed out hat the only
way by which the executive could cure
that feeling was, insofar as in him lay,
to put into office men in which the
community at large, without regard to
party, would nave the highest conf
dence. Now I am trying to do that,
and I am going to appoint Republi-
cans, and / am going to appoint DEM
ocrats, striving in each case to get a
man who will commend himself to the
community in which he lives.
ct is suggested that it is an insult
to the Republicans of a district to ap-
point a Democrat as judge because it
is to be inferred that there is no Re-
publican worthy of the appointment,
and 1 understand that there are some
men in the Democratic party who are
willing to make hat inference as
strong as possible. But I venture to
say that when the whole account is
III o5 ~ thai o-S,;& 81 Lo-o z-. 4
peared and the Democrats who seek to
utter it will find that it is not such a
popular method of attacking the Re-
publican administration, after ali.
Federal Judiciary a Bulwark.
81 plead to my Republican friends
as a Vindication and justification for
course, the course of as orthodox
a Republican as ever filed the exec
utive chair and a man than whom
there never was a President who did
so much to maintain the standard of
the Federal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Har-
rison, who deemed it his duty to put
one Democrat on the Supreme Court |
bench and two OF the Circuit Courts of
appeal. The Federal Judiciary, my
dear friends, to my mind is the strong
est bulwark that we have in all this
country to protect ultimately our in-l
situations of civil liberty and those are
the things in the Federal constitution
that we must love and must hug to
our bosom if we are to continue this
And therefore there is no more
sacred duty that the executive has
than in the selection of men whose
appointment and service on the bench
will strengthen it with all the people
large. Ordinary considerations of
political partnership have much less
to the appointment Of
judges than they do to others and
offices.
No Political Revolution in South.
point where there is to be political
in the South. | never had
such a dream. But I believe we are
on b eve of such a condition in the
South that there shall be complete
tolerance of opinion and that there
grow into respectable power an
in each state which shallJ
tend to the betterment of the govern-l
ment as it exists in the state which |
shall give us occasionally, as you
have already given us in North Caro-
lima, a Republican in a crowd of Dem
ocrats, in order that we may have rep
resented in the Congress at Washing
ton your views without regard to the
ghost of an issue that really ought
not to influence you in enforcing those
economic views that you really enter
tain.
II hope you will forgive me for an
apparent reference to political condi-
lions when / am really only extend
Ing to you the right hand of fellowship
as Americans explaining possibly by
inference some of the difficulties of
conducting this government as it's
chief executive"
NnUTGE