The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-16

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liberties Of the people II only show
ed the tendency % the Democratic
organization 10 perpetuais itself IN
power by political machinery and
rule and control without regard 10
the wishes OF the people That this
was the tendency OF Democracy
throughout the entire State. That no
doubt some Of them who are stand
ing By this law wiII find that some
other man will get hold Of the crank
and turn the machine and they will
then begin 10 howl as Joe Daniels has
in the streets Of Raleigh
That in his News and Observer OF
last Sunday instead OF headlines he
had read lines In large letters
Death Knell Sounded 10 the Wake
County Machine" OF this own Great
ing when that machine had driven
him and his followers from the Acad-
envy OF Music and from the court
house into the public streets o. the
city OF Raleigh. The description OF
the scenes read like accounts OF the
French Revolution. That he is nov
feeling the grinding of the machine
he has for years ground others be
meath, while he is now about TO be
ground between the upper and meth
er milestone.
He warned the people. OF Cleve-
land County to vote against Democ-
racy as a rebuke 10 such methods a.
are now inaugurated in this county
for control by the machine.
Mr.. Holton then read four OF the
planks of the Republican State plat
form Of 1908 as follows:
III I'VE favor the policy OF the
State furnishing, free of charge. and
under proper regulations, TO every
child in the public schools all neCes-
sary textbooks.
90 I'VE favor the exemption from
taxation of 5000 worth OF personal
property owned by each householder
in the State of North Carolina
(3D I'VE favor restricting immi-
grafton rigidly. admitting none but
the better class TO our shores and
protecting American labor against
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the Orient
(4) I'VE believe in the dignity OF
labor and the elevation of the wage
Garner, and pledge our party 70 the
enactment of such laws as will best
promote this end
Relative to the labor plank, he
said this is the first time in the his
tory of politics that any convention
of any political party south of the
Mason and Dixon line has ever SO de-
clared, and that these four planks
above were the cause Of the Won
derful gains made last year.
He read from Congressman E. Y.
Webb's speech made on the 7th OF
April, 1910, as follows:
The Republicans promised in the
last campaign that they would re-
wise the tariff. The people trusted
them and elected them again: but,
10, instead of revising the tariff
downward and lessening the cost OF
living, they actually raised it at the
command of the greedy trusts who
furnished the money to put the party
in power, and the people must con-
tinue to suffer.
The people asked the party for
bread; they have been given a stone.
Do you not think we had better have
a change by electing 4 Democratic
Congress this fall, and Democratic
President next time?"
Mr. Holton said that this is a sam
pie of Democratic misrepresentation
in reference to tariff laws. That
there was not an article in common
use and consumption for the neces-
saries of life On which the tariff law
raised the duty, but, to the contrary
he read from a speech Of Congress
man VIM. B. Mckinley of Illinois
: made in Congress February "a. 1910
: in which he said that the tariff had
been reduced on large majority OF
, articles of daily consumption and
/ remained unchanged on others. That
: the duty on beef was reduced 25
: per cent, on veal Is per cent. or
: pork Is per cent, on bacon and ham
20 per cent. on lard Is per cent. OF
cabbage 33 1-3 per cent, on salt &c
; per cent, on corn meal 5 per cent
, That there were no changes in duty
= on -four, potatoes, beans, eggs, but
, ter and milk; that the duty on soft
! coal was reduced 33 Is per cent and
5 that there is no duty on hard coal
' That hides were placed on the free
r list and the duty on boots and shoes
? reduced 60 per cent: on harness
$ and saddles 55 per cent, on agri
= cultural implements 8 per cent: or
| bar iron from 25 to so per cent. Oh
| tin plates 20 per cent, on cottor
, thread 16 to 90 per cent. Thai
2 there was no change OF duty on cot
: ton goods, except in certain finer
t grades which are luxuries. Raw cot
r ton has always been on the free list
No change of duty on woolens. ex
= cept in unimportant details. Petro
= leum oil and its products were plac