The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-10-20

are the republicans In North Carolina
getting thcie funds? II they want
their denials believed, let them show
not only in whose name the contribu-
ton was made, but whence Il was de-
rived. VIII they do IL? l challenge
them to the proofs.
In recent speech made by Pres
ident Taft at Cincinnati, on Septem-
Der 21st, last, he declared:
.The country is aroused against
the corporate and corrupt control of
Legislative agencies" iN
In his speech at ossawatomic, Col
onel RooseveltN about the same time
declared:
1T is necessary that laws shall
Ibe pushed TO prohibit the use OF cor
Iporate funds. directly or Indirectly,
for political purposes. $500" Cor
lporate expenditures for political pur-
poses, and especially such expendi-
lures by public service corporations.
have supplied one of the principal
sources OF corruption in our political
affairs
That is to say both the president
and ex-president concur in the view
that the special interests are corrup-
ting the body polite and securing
lfoyarable legislation Is there any
more dangerous special interest than
the committee holding these special
| tax bonds9 With accrued interest,
they amount now to something like
$50, 100000. II they could secure the
payment of half of this sum through
the agency OF the republican party.
does any one suppose for one moment
that they would hesitate 10 fill the
Golfers of'that party with money, and
does any one who knows the republic
can party in North Carolina hesitate
for one moment TO believe that 1t
would accept tho contribution?
II But there il one other point made
by Mr. Meares in his open letter. He
insists that these bonds can not 3e
paid unless their payment is author
ICED by a vote Of the people. May |
remind him that this provision was
put into the constitution by demo-
Gratis: that the people Of North Car
olina owe this safeguarding OF their
interests TO the party which he Is now
!. lighting? He is compelled in his own
defense, 10 appeal TO democratic leg
islation And may | remind him al
, so that the submission OF this ques-
ton to the people with the democrats
, in charge OF the election machinery
! is very different matter from sub
hitting it to the people with the rep,u-
, licans in charge of the election ma
I chinery? For he knows. and | know,
and everybody knows. that with the
! democrats in charge OF the machinery,
the illiterate and incompetent and I'M
; fit negro vote of the state will nc.
! BE- cast, whereas with the republicans
, in charge Of the machinery, our
Z Registration books will be filled with
. the names Of thousands OF negroes
: not entitled to vote.
III II may be instructive TO Mr. Meares
: to know that the negros In the senate
!. lof 1879 voted against submitting e
i the people the amendment preventing
o these special tax bonds from beinr
r paid without the assent OF the people
and this would be their attitude now
: II permitted to vote.
III If Mr.. Meares and Mr.. Morehead
0 want to put me In q corner. let then
& show the books. How much money
= have yon got and where did they get
e Sc? Taking alllihese things into con
5 sideration and putting them together
d reminds me OF the position which
Abraham Lincoln once took. He said.
XII When we see q lot Of framed tim.
r bers, different portions Of which w
a know have been gotten out at differ
y ent times and places and BY diieren
I workmen. and when We see these tim
: bers Joined together, and see they ex
= axctly make the frame OF a house D
3 a mill, all the lemons and mortise,
/ exactly fitting. and all The lengths an,
proportions Of the different pieces ex
actly adapted 70 their respective
!. places. In such case we feel II i'm
possible not TO believe that the work
! men all understood one another from
I, the beginning