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



last Nouday. returning from mr. ap-
polntmsnts in Madison County. >
gentleman on TIRE train told nas hat
rs the morning Of she day before.
xays Walter Henry. IN he Greensboro
DAILY News. he Witnessed q pheuos,-
enon that was quite ~ beautiful -
IT was wonderful he said be xaw
a mountain peak seemingly eoveye.d
with snow. whilst the foliage Of sss
trees and shrubs giittered witl coat
lngs and pendants OF ice lie said
that o. he CARED upon The peak he
remarked 10 = group Of men that Il
vas strange that other peaks nearby
thereupon one Of the group. q noun
taineer. said: That is not snow. a
cloud settled on that peak and Iust
froxe there"
Now. how long, think you. did that
cloud thus transmitted By the magic
touch OF the Ice king into shroud
for the mountain top withstand the
rays OF the sun as IL climbed higher
and higher toward the zenith?
So, the Republican party has been
temporarily shrouded BY a Demo
cratic frost" though not "kiIIiag
frost" that has "froze" on it, from
the Kennebec 10 the Gulf, but before
the rays of the sun Of truth, in a
little while this Democratic frost that
has fallen upon the mighty mountain
OF Republicanism will vanish as doth
the mists of the morning. / would
speak a word of comfort to the
boys" In the trenches" 1t is this:
Despair not-here in North Carolina
We still have an army just out OF the
firing line greater in number than
that with which Wellington won
Waterloo, and greater in number
than that with which Meade at Get
tysburg hurled back the mightiest as
sault Of the grandest army that ever
trod the planet, and remember, We
have now a reserve. under new con-
ditions, of some 10000 men.
The object Of this paper, how
ever, Is other than to write of the Re
publican party and its future. / wish
to write here, not Of Republicanism.
but of a Republican. One whose
worth and work not only deserve. but
demand proper recognition and laud
through the columns Of your able
paper.
1 do not at this time write of the
head Of the Republican party in this
State, whose ability and character
entitle him to the eulogium:
I'm his honor impregnable-in his f.
deity sublime,
No country e'er had truer son-no
cause a nobler champion
Than John Motley Morehead."
do not at this time write of that
indefatigable human dynamo of legal
and political energy and profundity
Hon. A. e. Holton.
l am not writing Of our Republi-
can Congressman, nor Of our recent
congressional nominees, all able men,
distinguished in their party and a
credit to their State; | do not refer
/ to the brilliant Settle, the able Wal
| ser, the versatile Price, the eminent
/ jurist w. P. Bynum, nor to the edi-
/ tor of the Greensboro Daily News
who performed his part so valiantly
in the recent campaign. l do not
emphasize here Charles J. Harris, the
great champion Of Republicanism in
the mountains; nor Henry c. Dock.
cry, the "wheelhorse" of the Repub.
lican party on the Pee Dee; nor do
write Of ex-senator Marion Butler
who has received his share of dis
tinction; nor of Jake F. Newell, who
has labored long and we'll for tn.
party; nor yet does the witty anl
eloquent Meekins; the fiery Har
shaw; the thrilling Skinner; tn.
scholar-orator, w. S. Pearson, o
Charlotte; the powerful campaigners
Alexander, Britt, Ewart, and ex
Lieutenant Governor C. A. Reynolds
or the eloquent and caustic pens O
J. J. Mott and of c. S. Wooten com
within the object of this communi
cation.
In naming the Republican, tn
special object of this article, you will
find that it is not Hon. S. B. Adams
or Col. E. Carl Duncan, or Tom Rol
, Inns, or Richmond Pearson, or Fran
Linney, or John B. Spence, or my oil
friend, that valuable worker an
, counselor, Ben Sharp. To what Re
publican, then, do 1 refer? I wi
, tell you. 1 refer to that Jealous Re
, publican, that untiring worker 70
the cause who has many of Talley
rand's excellencies without Talley
q rand's vices; that man who has Ia
q bored as untiringly for the good G
, the Republican party as any man i
: the State; that man whose love fo
the Republican party is the inspire
: ton of his life. that genial gentle
) man whose modest and unobtrusiv
, nature shall no longer shield hir
. from the admiration OF the Repubi
cans of North Carolina mean
: Gillian Grissom.