The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-18

D5nAs1FAfion 10 encourage and pro
mote the great movement towars
good roads. which means 30 much Il
all OF our people. and especially u
the farmers and producers
The neutrality-suspicious. also de
clares In favor of eiecting Con.
gressmen who wiII advocate ut the
national capital the establishment oil
. system for the reclamation OF our
Southern swamp lands by drainage
similar TO the great project OF reclaim
alton OF the serni-arid lands In the
West by irrigation. and endorses Con
gresham Morehead's bill introduced
at the last session OF Congress 10 &C
complIsh this great purpose. There
is more swamp land in the South cap
able of being drained than there is
arid and semi-arid land in the West
capable OF being irrigated, and when
once reclaimed these Southern swamp
lands can be maintained without any
additional cost and will be much
more valuable than the irrigated
lands OF the West
The platform also declares for a
non-partisan judiciary in the State
Court of last resort. The Republican
party declared for this great principle
in 1894 and offered to the State a
ticket composed of men of the high
est character, majority Of whom
were Republican and a minority Dem
ocrats. The people of the State by
large majority endorsed this prin-
ciple OF non-partisan judiciary, and
also endorsed the character of the
men offered for the great and impor-
tfnt positions of justices of the Su-
preme Court of the State.
AS soon as the Democratic party
regained control of the State, they
spat upon the principle of a nom
partisan judiciary and proceeded to
elect complete ticket of men all be-
longing to the same political party.
The people of the State have seen the
evils growing out Of such a partisan
judiciary too frequently for the sub
ject to need further comment at this
time
Sufficient to say, at present, that a
number of the States in the Union
have a provision in their State con-
stitution declaring that the Supreme
Courts of their States shall always
have representation from the minor
ity party. Thus we have seen and
see now that State like Pennsyl-
vania, with four hundred thousand
Republican majority, has two mem
bers of it's Supreme Court Democrats
and three members Republicans
the ticket thus formed of three Re-
publicans and two Democrats being
voted for unanimously by the voters
of all parties-and so it should be in
every State in the Union.
While there is no such provision in
the constitution of the United States.
yet every President of the United
States has been so impressed with the
necessity of having a non-partisan
Supreme Court, that from the founda-
ton Of the government to this hour
the minority party has always had
ample representation. There have
been SO few Democratic Presidents in
recent years that it has frequently be-
come the duty of a Republican Pres
1dent to appoint a Democrat on
the bench SO that the minority
PARTY would be duly represented in
that august tribunal of final resort.
the Supreme Court of the United
States, as the Supreme Court of
North Carolina is the tribunal of
final resort of our great common
wealth.
These are few of the great con-
structive policies for which the Re-
publican party stands in the State
and the nation, and it is the party
that stands for such policies and that
steps forward on every occasion to
meet every emergency and solve
every problem that has made our
country what it is to-day.