The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-07-21
A NEW MACHINE FAISEHOOD
NAILED.


my neighborhood. and probably
over the whole county. 10 the ef-
feet that II Mr.. Morehead is
made State Chairman that he
will be In favor OF filling all
the Offices In the State with
Democrats am surprised 10
find that some good men who
honestly want TO build up the
party. and Ehc have no patience
with the methods OF the bosses.
have been so misied by this re-
port that they say they cannot
support Morehead now, though
they were formerly in favor or
him for State Chairman. Please
give US the truth about this re-
port in the next issue OF The
Caucasian"
There Is not one word Of truth in
this charge which is being circulated
in Cumberland County, and which is
probably being circulated all over
the State Indeed, il is so absurd
that IL Is hard 10 understand how
clear-headed and we'll informed men
who do their own thinking can for a
moment be misled by 1t. The ring
Is beaten, and they know 1t, and all
that they can do now in their desper-
alton Is to manufacture and circulate
such falsehoods.
Has Mr.. Morehead appointed a
single Democrat in his Congressional
District? No; every appointment
that he has made has been a loyal
Republican, and not a Republican
who simply hunts office, but a Re-
publican Of character and standing -
a man whose appointment will be a
credit to the administration, and a
man who has already shown his 10y
atty to the principles CT the party by
his efforts towards party growth and
success.
What Mr.. Morehead did say, and
which possibly gave some cover I'M
der which to circulate this Infamous
falsehood, was that he believed in
the truth of President Taft's great
speech at Greensboro, pointing out
the causes that had prevented Re-
publican success in the South, and
further, that he stood squarely by
the President in his efforts to abolish
the old rotten referee system and to
build up a strong, progressive and
victorious party in North Carolina.
1t will be remembered that Presi-
dent Taft, in his Greensboro speech,
pointed out the evils of the referee
system. He showed how certain
referees would use the Federal Of
fees to build up a personal machine;
that they would try to select men
who would swear loyalty to the
bosses, instead of loyalty for the
success of the party; that is, men who
would take orders from the bosses
who distributed the patronage.
The President also pointed out how
the ring referees would then attempt
to use these appointees to pack con
ventions to perpetuate their rims
rule. He showed how this machine
worked as a close corporation for sci
fish ends, without any serious effor
being made to win victories in tn,
counties and Congressional District
and State for the principles of ths
party.
President Taft, after pointing GU
how the Offices were thus used TO
unpatriotic and selfish ends, proceed
ed to say that, under these condi
tions, in his judgment, "the Repub
lican party in North Carolina woul,
be much stronger as a voting part
if all Federal Offices were filled b.
Democrats"
Everybody in North Carolina VIII
knows anything about political con
ditions knows that President TAT
correctly described the evil whicI
has cursed the Republican party il
North Carolina and in the Who'll
South.
Everybody who knows anythin
about politics knows that when W
succeeded in defeating the Democra
tic party in 1894 that we would hav
failed if there had been a Republ
can administration at that time an
the ring bosses had had control c
the Federal Offices. The fact is, W
ATTEMPTED to make the same fight t
overthrow Democratic rule in 100
that wo made in 1904 apd x.-o fo;lo