The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-10-20
MR. WEBB AND HIS sr.@oo JOB.
Who b. Responsible for the Defeat Of
Hon. Charles Rs Thomas for the
Nomination at .oassf,oro for Cou-
gr~ssy-who IL tire Bet Man TO
send to Congress TO DO What We
Want Doneg
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Beaufort. y. C.. Oct Is. 1910
When the Democratic primary vas
held IN Carteret County some pre-
cincts voted straight out for Thomas.
while some voted for Hood But the
final instruction was given and en-
phasized. and that was. II they should
{ see no chance 10 elect Hood 10 vote
/ for Hon. Charles r. Thomas. Did
+ they do SO? No. WHY Because
Willie Webb had been promised q
$1,000 job By Hood. that Hood would
make Webb his private secretary.
| Yes, they voted ass times, and out
! of those many ballots not a vote was
| cast for Hon. Charles r. Thomas, the
man who had done so much for his
| Gould any one have believed that the
county that gave him his birth, the
| county that he had done so much
| for. would have gone back on such
loyal son? But alas, That prom
| Use of that 81 200 job did 1t.
Did Hon. Charles r. Thomas sup
/ pose, or think for a moment, IL was
/ teret County for her vote? Why.
Morehead City would have sent a
| solid delegation for Hon. Charles r.
/ Thomas; and the majority favored
it, but Willie Webb got up, with tears
/ in his eyes, and told them why it was
| SO essential to him that the delega-
ton be instructed for Hood; that Mr..
Hood had promised him the 1900
| job, and he plead to his friends and
relatives to come to his aid and save
the $1,000 job. With his pitiable
plea, they, or a majority, did lose
sight of what Hon. Chas. Fl. Thomas
had done for Morehead City, and es-
pecially Carteret County, and agreed
that they would instruct for Hood.
While they were voting at the con-
vention in Goldsboro 48S times on
two occasions, had Carteret County
cast her vote for honorable son, Chas.
r. Thomas, he would have received
the nomination. The delegates from
Craven, Pamlico, and Jones, begged
the delegates from Carteret to come
to Thomas, and that If they would
do so they had all the votes they
: needed to elect him; but Carteret,
or the trio who represented, or was
: supposed to represent Carteret Coun-
: ty, says, 1--WE would go with you
= but we see at long distance that
$1,000 job, and the $1,000 job we
must have or go down in defeat.
4 What was the result, gentlemen?
Willie Webb lost the $1,000 job and
Hon. Charles r. Thomas failed to get
: the nomination. Isn't it to be de.
t plored, friends, that We should lose
t Hon. Charles r. Thomas at such a
critical time, when we need him the
} most? When the convention was
over and the delegates returned
r home like a poor hunter with nc
1 game, inquiries were made on every
l hand to the trio, which consisted OF
3 Willie Webb, G. P. Hancock and w
: S. Chadwick, as to why,-when they
l saw they could not elect Hood and
save the $1,000 job-why they did
1 not cast their vote for Thomas? Mr.
= Chadwick, when he was asked, would
tell them that Hancock and Webb did
= it. Ask Hancock, and he would say
= Chadwick and Webb did it. OF
course no one was fool enough to ask
= Webb, for everybody knew he could
2 see nothing first and last but the
= $1,000 job. When the subject was
? up before the War Department as to
= deepening the harbor at Beaufort
I and Morehead City the delegates who
2 were sent to Washington, D. c., from
= Morehead City and Beaufort f1ocked
S around Hon. Charles r. Thomas and
= pleaded for his support and assured
| him that though all the world might
1 forsake him, but they would be loya,
t friends and that they would never
leave or forsake him. But the cock
, had not crowed thrice before they
1 forsook him, and went against the
I awishes of 90 per cent of the people
$ of Carteret County.
Will the people of Carteret Coun-
ty be driven by this trio as in the
/ past. w III Lucy VAIN up III NON
> Der and vote as this trio dictates
like soldiers march before their COM
manders?
What We want, gentlemen, and
need, is a man as our Representative
, in Congress, who has the ability to
take up the work that Hon. Charles
r. Thomas has been forced to lay
down.
Shall that man be Hon. George
E Butler or DR.. Faison?
With a Republican President. a
Republican House of Representatives
and a Republican Senate, which one
of the two will be able to command
the most influence to get appropria-
: tons to continue the inland water