The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-11

i,esuagogeTy-9rvsi 81 tlss. state ]
Destroyed by Democratic Party.
In letter 20 the Shelby Auro~a.
Hon. ID =. Morrow. prominent Iaas- /
yer who has been a lifelong Demo /
crai. gives his reasons for leaving
that party and joining the Reuubli- !
cans:
To the Editor Of The Aurora
My Dear sIr:-PIease alIow me
through the columns Of your valuable
paper 10 say for % years have been
IN the Democratic ranks. voted /,
when II Tas In the minority. stuck TO
her while others fauItered. and until
the Constitutional Amendment was
carried. and like the lamented Vance
thought her principles immortal;
but in the first place. when the free
silver and populistic craze swept the
country, and many OF the Democrats
seemed 10 think IL mete and right 10
40 after any wild cat scheme. or do
any act to win. I did not. and adyo-
Gated the gold standard and for this
was criticised by many. Time has
proven that / was right. The next
thing we find that the Republican
party incorporated in their platform
the gold standard plank, and thus
the Democrats lost one Of their
strongest planks, but still chung 10
the old ship. though without a lead
er. and with but few OF the old prin-
ciples left. Tarif reform was a hob
by and a plank in the old part, and
finally the Republicans came along
and incorporated this plank In their
platform also, and not only incorpo-
rated 1t. but have been living up to
it. | felt then, as / do now, that
the principles of the Democracy
which the lamented Vance said was
immortal were slipping from under
the old-time Democrats, and that but
one Of two things were left for me
and those old-time fellows to do
either to follow the principles as
they had been engraved into the Re-
publican party, or continue to go af-
ter strange political leaders, such as
Bryan, Hearst, or Cleveland. Cleve-
land was ostracised by his own party
because he stood for the principles
upon which we elected him, and we
could no longer follow him. AS to
the others, they stood for nothing but
demagoguery, political clap-trap, wild
catism, and, in short, anything that
would catch votes, regardless of the
interest or welfare of the country.
Every man who has read, and re-
members anything tina: he has read,
will recall the strange and wildcat
argument made by the free silverites
that is, if the issue did not carry
that the country would go forever to
the pow-wows. However, time has
| taught the most skeptical that the
nation has never in it's history pros
pered as it has in the last fifteen
years, and that under gold standard
and Republican tariff reform. Yet,
there are those Especially the So
called leaders of the Democratic par
| ty who are only in it for pie) who
will not admit these things, but /, for
one, when convinced, will always
take off my hat to the man or the
| principle that succeeds. Like the
Spartans, even at the foot of fallen
| greatness, bare my head.
But how about State and county
| politics? Well. in the good old days
of yore, we fought carpet-bag rule,
and I am still in for the same prin-
ciple, but the rank and file of the old
party seem to have forgotten this
| mir io1n cir in tho T ocicl a 1lr nf
North Carolina, from Rutherford
| County, was sent carpet-bagger
! (not four years ago. by the Demo-
cratic party to misrepresent them.
This representative was none other
| than a Jew of the first water from
! Maine.
when 1 survey the legislation, ex-
travagance, unnecessary expenditure
of the peoples money, the credit Of
the State being ruined by such man
agement, enormous debts being Gre
ated, both in State and county, I can
no longer endorse it, having never
but once cast a vote for any one ex-
cept the regular nominees, and that
against the Jew and for G. w. Pruett.
/ told my frlendS IN the party aIter
the last election that was done, hav-
ing fought for her principles till,
from my standpoint, the last vestage
of her garments, though tattered and
torn, was gone forever and nothing
but a reorganization could bring her
back, and that not as whole for the
best had been absorbed by the Re-
! publican party. felt there was moth
ing left for me to but to go to that
party, and to promote, as I see it, the
best interests of nation, State, and
county. Feeling that this is duty
that every man owes his country,
have cast my lot with the Republican
party.
''Mr. Editor, thanking you for your
indulgence, I beg to be,