The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-02-10
THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE AND
THE RALEIGH NEWS AND OBJ
SERVER PULLING TOGETHER.

THE AsHEVILLE GAZETTE AND
THE RALEIGH NEWS AND OBJ
SERVER PULLING TOGETHER.
The AshevilIe Gazette News, which
Is the organ OF the patronage ma
chine, Is very much disappointed and
worried that Congressman Morehead
has been put on the National Con-
sresslona1 Executive Committee with
a view to electing more Republican
Congressman In North Carolina and
the South.
That paper. instead OF congratu-
lating the party and the State upon
the selection OF Morehead and the
bright prospects for party growth,
writes long editorial attempting TO
bslittle Mr.. Morehead. and at the
same time attempting to make the
old line Republican voters dissatis-
ned with the prominence given to a
recruit to the party like Mr.. More
head 1t seems to be especially wor-
ried that the Ninth Congressional
District has been selected by the Ma
tional Committee az one that can be
carried.
That paper wants to know IL the
old line Republicans in the Ninth
District are to be required to follow
the leadership Of some near Demo
crat" like Morehead as a candidate
for Congress in the Ninth District
1t then proceeds to tell the old-line
Republicans that they may expect tc
get ready to receive orders that they
must follow the leadership of "theil
betters." This final fling at Mr.
korehead is to refer to him as fol
lows: THAT Observation-Disclosures
Democrat, John Motley Morehead.
The whole purpose of the Ashe
vile Gazette News editorial is to try
to make new recruits to the Sparty
like Mr.. Morehead feel like the!
are not wanted, and try to dis
courage other recruits from coming
and at the same time max,
the old-line Republicans feel that
Is humiliation to them for any on
to be a candidate for Congress wh'
was not born a Republican and hi
ancestors before him.
When 1t Is remembered that Their
are not half enough old-line Repub
licans in the State to make the Stat
Republican, how In the name of higl
g heaven, Is the party to elect NOR
Congressman and carry the Stat
unless it gains recruits from tn
Democratic party? Hence, the posi-
ton Is that the party is already to-
large, and they would like to driv
out men like Morehead and reduc
the party to a number small enougl
where there would be piece of Fed
eral pie for every little machine lead
er and heller.
This attitude on the part of tn
patronage machine, which is nov
coming to be well-known to every
body, Is exactly the position of nth
Democratic machine. The Demo
cratic headers know, In the frs
place, that the patronage machin
Republicans don't want to carry tn
State, and they know, in the mex
place. that 1t could not be carrie
under the leadership of the machine
If they wanted 1t to be carried.
Hence. we have the spectacle c
the Raleigh News and Observer copy
ing this editorial from the Ashe
Vile Gazette News and endorsing i
The editor of the News and Observe
also attempts to belittle and ridicul
Mr.. Morehead. and also quotes an
puts in capital letters what the Ashe
Vile Gazette News says about tn
old-line Republicans being humil
ated in following the leadership {
their betters.''
In order that our readers may sc
for themselves the exact harmon
between the Democratic machine an
the Republican patronage machin
headed by Duncan and Adams, W
copy the editorial of the News an
Observer and the editorial Of tn
Asheville Gazette News referred t
in another column.
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