The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-05-05

ing-Democratic Machine Policies
i'm Wake County Should be Les
son to Republicans Who Want 10
sec Their Party Grow.
Especial to the Caucasian.)
Washington, ID. c., May Sit will
be remembered that soon after the
passage of the tariff bill that the pol
ticians raised a howl about high
prices and said that the tariff was
responsible. An agitation was begun
in Congress to have a congressional
committee to investigate the high
cost of living, which the Democrats
all joined in declaring was bad
thing for the country.
Senator Overman's Queer Position.
The other day, when the question
of appropriating sixty-five thousand
dollars came up in the Senate to de-
fray the expenses of this committee,
Senator Overman of North Carolina
led the fight in defeating the appro-
priation, and strange to say gave as
his reason that he did not want to
vote this money in order to furnish
the Republicans with campaign argu-
ments. The fact is that Senator Over
man realized that the more the rea-
son for high prices was examined the
more it would help the Republican
| party, and so now he is trying to
prevent the real facts from coming to
| the front through an official investi-
CATION.
The Democrats wanted to be per-
mitted to denounce the tariff as being
responsible for some great evil, but
they are afraid for the facts to come
out and contrast how much better
off the farmer and all producers are
under the present conditions than
they were under the last Democratic
| tariff bin. North Carolina is largely
an agricultural and wealth producing
State, and there is no State in the
Union where the great masses of the
people are prospering under present
conditions more than the people OF
that State.
While everything that the farmer
and wealth-producer has to buy is
higher than it ever was, yet the pro-
ducts of the State are selling for such
high price that every farmer to-day
can buy all that he wants and still
have money left to put in the bank
hut bn 10 7icfr
ton he not only had no money il
the bank, but could not buy what hi:
family needed, and besides had {
mortgage on his back.
A Striking Case in Point.
A letter which this writer has Jus
received from a subscriber to Th'
Caucasian in Wake County says:
= THE present conditions in Walk
County remind me very forcibly O
: the truth of recent editorial in TIL
Caucasian. The point was made tha
= ever patriotic North Carolinian, n
matter in which party he was born
should want to see two strong partie
in North Carolina, so nearly event.
2 divided that it would be easy for tn
r people to turn out one party and pu
\ in the other. That editorial pointe
o out the fact that only by such a con
+ dition could the people get the bes
: government from any party.
THE machine government wnic
the Democratic party in Wake Cour
tu Sc
bad that it has caused revolutio
9 inside the Democratic party. A gres
J. mass meeting has been held by tn
8 citizens to denounce the bad; incon
r. petent ring rule. If the Republica
If party had been about of equ
e strength with the Democratic par1
i in this county, no such bad cond
= tionS could ever have occurred. tt
,e Democratic machine is drunk vii
power, and it has felt like it has hs
= nothing to fear from the Republics
a. party, so they have run things wi
v high hand and without any regal
~ for the interests of the people al
the taxpayers"
i'd The conditions described by t
s. writer of the above letter are mo
ne or less the same all over North Car
ge lima, and it shows the absolute 4
v cessity for strong vigorous Repub
n can party. Every Democrat W
ed wants to see his party purged a
RS. stand for good government ought
in turn his hand and help carry I
ne State Republican, SO as to purify
own party and force it to respect I
will of the people. And this is WI
will happen in North Carolina if /
ies rank and file of the Republicans y
re-organize their party and put at
T. head men who not only want to ca
sell the State Republican, but who a
eet have the character and Capacity
lead the party to victory.
tol Victory can never be won un
lit the leadership Of pie counter boss
um. first, because the bosses do not W
Dme to carry the State. and, second,
rom cause the people would not fol
them IL they did.