The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-17

! IN the Democratic record - SatsOa
or State that afsrmatixsiy produced
/ the results or % which any one can
claim that the DenocTattc victory
means . vose of confidence for that
party Of notorious lnaction. nsgation
and incompetency.
IN Ohio. where the Democratic ma
forlty reached the astonishing figure
OF more than 10000. there were
many local causes that we're cumuIa-
tire 20 produce the astonishing re-
suits. that il. the largest Democratic
majority ever polled In that great Re-
publican State The same general
conditions, with different local causes
in the different States, caused the
tremendous Republican majority IN
the State of New York TO be changed
10 a Democratic majority OF over 5o.-
changed TO a Democratic majority of
over $4,000 In New Jersey TO be
changed Ga Democratic majority OF
10000: that caused the rock ribbed
Republican State of Massachusetts, TO
90 Democratic with almost a clean
sweep. Even Pennsylvania, the Glib
raltar OF Republicanism elected more
Democratic Congressman than ever
before in Its history.
A letter Just received from a sub
scriber In Denver. Colorado. says that
even in that far-off Western State,
where the people are now more pros
porous under Republican policies
than ever before In their history, that
a Democratic Governor was elected.
who did not expect to be elected, and
whom nobody else expected to elect.
The news also comes from the old
Garfield Congressional District in
Ohio, the strongest Republican Dis
trict in the United States-one that
has never before gone Democratic,
that it has this year elected a DEM
ocratic Congressman,-a man un-
known, a man who will not be re-
elected two years from now, and a
man whose name nobody in the coun-
try ten years from now will be able
to call.
It may be that the early Demo
cratic victory in Maine had some
thing to do with setting the pace over
the country, but that State went
Democratic on grounds that were
fairly logical. That State is turning
toward free trade for the same rea-
son that North Carolina and the
South should turn to protection. That
State is crying for reciprocity with
Canada, which is sugar-coated free
trade, because the South will nc
longer furnish to Maine and Massa.
chusetts and to the other New Eng
land States raw material for nothing
letting them manufacture these prod
ucts and employ high-priced labor
, and taking a large profit for the la.
, Dor and capital employed, and then
sending the manufactured products
back to the South, and in addition
charging US with freight both ways
: AS long as that condition existed
in New England, which has no raw
material worthy of the name, an6
l which indeed has nothing but bar
. rem rocky hillside and Yankee ingen
uity, she grew rich at the expense O
= the South, while we grew poorer.
= That State had also been denied
4 local self-government by the Repub
lican party, and the rock-ribbed Re
: publicans of that State voted Demo
e cratic as protest against the denia
n to them of that great Fundamental
e principle, underlying all free govern
d ment and the rule of the people
t which was purchased by our ances
Z tors with, their lives and hallowe,
with their blood. They also vote,
It for reciprocity or free trade wit
/ Canada because it was to their finan
8 cial interest to do SO. In short, tina
It State, though rock-ribbed Republi
: can State, voted Democratic for tw
reasons. They voted, whether intel
lc ligently or not, with courage, back
e ed by convictions. That State wen
n Democratic this year for the sam
IS reason that North Carolina shout
, have gone Republican.
Ie In North Carolina there were d.
3 culiar local conditions that contrib
st uted more or less to the result, a
Is there were in every other State. Tn