The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-09
SOME DEMOCRATIC u.roCgi>r
Mr.. J. L. RamS~r. Ia a ssronx AFttzl~.
Tells Why He Left the Democrats
Party. and Why lie ts New a Re-
pahlican-A Review Of Political
Condition. I'm North Carolina.
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have visited IredelI County scx,
eraI iimes since and have been hers
for some time lately. am gestlnE
more substantial food than spFinE
water and Ackberrses But the va.
ter Ii powerful good. and the black
berry hriers. just now in bloom.
seem 10 nod their heads al me and
say: Stand firm. nay friend. We
neser fail" And that causes the to
think that the blackberry bTiers are
ali Republicans. for If they wers
Democratic the crop would miss en-
tireiy three-fourths Of the time. aud
when the briers would bear at all
the berries wouldn't be larger than
No. 5 shot. and they'd be as sour rs
beet pickles that have been in acid
vinegar SO long that they have NOR
titled.
National affairs seem 10 have been
in competent hands for some years.
Mckinley. Roosevelt. and TAFT,
though none OF them have reached
perfection. have done well. Demo
cratic men have endorsed their con
duet OF affairs: Democratic children
and chronic political grumblers have
at times criticised each Of the states
men and their most influential as
sociates. But the wise Democratic
farmer, business man and artisan
has said from his heart. II not audi
bly,: Give US other Mckinleys
Roosevelts, and Tafts." And they
are beginning to help to pick them
out and elect them. too.
Some years ago / was in a village
some distance from Raleigh. The
National and State election was but
two days of. The citizens OF the vii
lage were about equally divided poi.
itically. A few Democratic "rooters'
from the vicinity had come in that
day TO help gather In any lukewarm
Republicans there might be. / had
dropped into store and found sew
eral discussing the coming election.
| took no part in the talk, for | did
not intend to vote. Pretty soon
; most of the Democrats gathered
around a Republican farmer who
lived near and began TO plead with
him in neighborly way TO vote the
Democratic ticket, using the usual
stale Democratic arguments. The
Republican probably had only a linn
tied common school education. He
listened patiently for a time, then he
said: Gentlemen, your talk sounds
good, and Mr.. Bryan may be all right.
But when the Democrats had this
country | got four. five, and six cents
per pound for cotton. Now l get
ten, twelve, and fourteen cents
more than twice as much. Under
Cleveland rule | got four and five
cents for pork; now | get eight, ten
and twelve cents. Under Cleveland
my family sold eggs at seven, eight
and ten cents per dozen; now we gel
from fifteen to twenty-five cents pei
dozen. We get at least twice as
much now for our butter" By this
time the ardent Democrats had melt
ed away by ones and twos. and mos
OF them mounted their horses and
cut for home. The Republican shift
ed his chew of tobacco, got up, and
said to the merchant: Put me III
dollars worth of good coffee and 6
dollars worth of sugar. | am ex
pecting a beef man out from Raleigh
to-day to look at some cattle and
must go home" | noticed that ht
threw down a ten-dollar bill TO pa.
for his purchases. which was anoth
er evidence that Clevelandism hae
gone hence probably never to return
And Organism, the other extreme
t has also run It's last race.
Coming to the State, there ar
commendable features about Demo
cratic rule. There are many excel
1 lent citizens in the Democratic or
ganization, men who believe they ar
: right Some of the leaders are yer.
good men. But with Daniels. Sim
mons, and Glenn In the saddle IL !
but another case OF when the wick
ed rule the people mourn" Their
are other leaders, OF course. Blu
, they hardly know what has happen
!, ed and have no idea as to what ma
, happen Josephus Daniels is the rea
leader in this State. He probabl
has daily and nightly communicable
with Satan and gets telegraphic In
O struction. Simmons does some o
the base-note thinking and Glenn ha
been doing the principal hypocritica
stunts in the greatest OF all com
. on games-Democratic moral re
form. Modern Democracy Is tn
o only agency of a political natur
y that processes to be able to hurry u
the millennium by taking charge Q
the spiritual and moral welfare G
the whole people. Benjamin TIL
man, OF South Carolina. was, and II
q the prime mover. Some years az
- he lifted up his voice in South Care
lima and brayed like a jackass fo
A many days. Result: A great disper
sary for the State OF South Carolin
for the sale and manufacture of licl
=, er, the manufacturing feature bein
an after-thought. Political corrul
g. ton and scandal after scandal 10
% lowed. But Tillman became Co
20 ernor of his State and United State
Senator. This looked good TO th
Democrats in North Carolina
number of them quit carrying tici
Iers holding from a pint to a quar-
ate few cloves. put taleum powde
on their red noses, and began Z