The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-30
THE BEST THING FOR THE DEM
OCRATIC PARTY IS FOR THE
REPUBLICAN PIE COUNTER
MACHINE TO REMAIN IN CON-
troll OF THAT PARTY.

We clip the following from the
editorial column of the Greensboro
Telegram:
Some seem to think they
know how the leaders will line
up If Mr.. Morehead is a candi-
date for State Chairman, but
we confess they have US guess
ing.-Durham Herald.
ut is hard to forecast what a
bunch of politicians will do. II
we were going to guess what
would happen at the Republi-
can State Convention, we would
predict that a fight quite wor-
thy of the name would be made
on Mr.. Duncan, the acknowl-
edged leader of his party, but
that Ii would be unavailing. 1t
is big undertaking, something
requiring more than a lot OF
talk, to overthrow a well-oiled
political machine. And we rath-
er think it will be the best
thing for the Democratic party
for the Republican machine as
control of the party"
The Telegram frankly admits that
the best thing for the Democratic
party is for Duncan and his pie
counter ring machine to stay in con-
troll of the Republican party. This
IS the simple statement of fact that
IS known by everybody But the
Telegram also says that the effort to
anhorse the pie-counter machine sis
a big undertaking" and that paper
further predicts that while there will
DE strenuous fight made to un-
horse the ring and put the people in
charge of the party chat it would
be unavailing"
The Telegram further says that it
will require more than a lot of talk
to overthrow "a we'll oiled political
machine" OF course, in the case of
the Telegram and the Democratic
politicians, their wish is father to
the thought, as expressed above. But
the Telegram fails to correctly esti-
= mate the earnest and intelligent
: protest by the rank and file against
the domination of the Republican
party by the pie-counter crowd,
which exists in every neighborhood
from the mountains to the sea. The
rank and file of the Republican par
y has at last been aroused to a full
FeaiiEation of the fact that the pie
counter bosses do not want the party
TO grow, for the reason that they
would be out of business if more
Congressman were elected and the
State were to go Republican.
The knowledge of this fact has
aroused thousands who have not, in
The past, troubled to attend Repub-
Eican primaries, to go to the pri-
marfes and see to it that the tools
of the machine are not sent as dele
gates to the county conventions, and
from there as delegates to the State
convention. The people will have
no trouble in wiping out this selfish,
odious and treacherous machine
when once they realize the true stu
alton and determine to take the af-
fairs of the party in their own
hands
President Taft, in his Greensboro
speech, correctly pictured the &C
cursed effects Of the old patronage
referee system in the South, and ap-
pealed TO the people TO help him
TO make wholesome and healthy
change, to open the doors of the
party to welcome the thousands and
tens Of thousands Of recruits who
believe in Republican principles,
but who would not follow such in
Over thirty-one thousand voters,
who had never before voted the Re-
publican ticket, responded to the ap-
peal made by the President This
thirty-one thousand recruits and the
norest and patriotic rank and file of
the Republican party, which has in
the past been ignored by the ma
chine and treated in a manner so as
to cause them to be Indifferent and
dsgusted, are now rising in their
might to clean out the stables and
put at the head of the party an or
ganization of men who not only hon
estly want to make the State Repub-
Ican, but who have the character
and capacity to lead the party to