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and political darkness. At that time
some who are now Democratic lead
ers were in the Republican party and
a part and parcel OF what was being
done. In this connection. TO state all
the truth, / must further say that
there we're some Democrats who are
still Democrats who were particl-
pants to greater or less degree with
the carpet baggers in my State. The
leaders in that awful regime have
either all left the State, or died, Or
gone to the Democratic party.
mfr. Pou attempts TO attach the
name Of the Republican party to
those days. The Republican party,
as it exists to-day, was no more re-
sponsible for the crimes and abuses
81 hat period than is the Democratic
party as to-day constituted. The rank
an5 file of o1d-line Republicans are
a. honest and as patriotic citizens as
there are IN the State, but the fact
is hat the majority of the Repu bill
ran voters in North Carolina to-day
are men who were born in the Dem
ocratic party and who have had the
manhood and the courage TO leave
the party Of their birth because their
sense Of duty and the highest call of
patriotism demanded it.
"In the last campaign, President
Taft assured the people of the
South that if he was elected the old
referee system would go, that the
political pie-counter machines would
be demolished, and that the doors
Of the party would be thrown wide
open to welcome every American cit
izen who believes that the principles
Of the Republican party were best for
himself and his country. This utter
ance appealed to the growing indie
pendent and patriotic spirit of our
people, especially to the new genera
ton that has come up since the dark
days OF reconstruction, and was re-
sponded to by 81, 900 recruits to the
Republican party. Nearly, if not
every one of this 81 900 had never
before voted Republican ticket. It
is this avalanche of recruits, which
is growing larger each day, that has
frightened Mr.. Pou and other Demo-
cratic politicians in North Carolina
into making a last desperate effort
to arouse again the feelings of
prejudice and hate following the
war. They dare not meet us and dis
cuss principles and issues and facts.
Their only hope is niger and recon
structiOn,' as shown by Mr.. Pou's
speech.
Mr.. Pou, in a further effort to
try to break the force of the appeal
and promise of the President to the
people of the South to emancipate
themselves from political slavery,
asserts in his speech that the Presi-
dent has not kept his promise, but
declares that every single appoint
ment which he has made in North
Carolina has been dictated by these
same Republican referees. In an
swer to that statement, I challenge
him to show a single instance where
the President has refused to heed
the appeals of the people of any COM
munity when they have asserted
themselves and protested against an
unfit appointment asked for by the
referees. In every such case the man
selected by the refrees has been
turned down and a man of high
character has been appointed who
represented the wishes of from 80 to
95 per cent of each community.
point to New Bern, n. c., as a shin
pYan1n1n o0I16 haun nninf-
ed to the gentleman's own home
town as an illustration if he and the
people there had continued to de-
mand what they first said they de-
manded.
The gentleman next complains
that the South has not been treated
fairly by the Republican party in
the matter of appointments, and
proceeds to show how few Cabinet
Officers, how few foreign ambassa-
doris and ministers, have been ap-
pointed from the South. In reply,
l have to say that for once Mr.. Pou
has stated the facts correctly, but
his political parners, the Republican
referees, are responsible for this.
They have not desired or have not
had the political influence to secure
such positions for the South. That
is why the President wants to get
rid of the old referee system, and
it is why my friend Mr.. Pou does not
want the Republican party to get rid
Of it.
The referee system is the great
est asset that the Democratic party
has in the South to-day, and nothing
can keep the Democratic party to-
gether and keep Mr.. Pou and the
Democratic politicians in power ex-
cept the continued existence of the
Republican referee system. When
the best part Of the Democratic par
ty walks out of that party and into
the Republican party, as it is doing,
then that condition will be changed
IN North Carolina, and we will no