The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-04-14
Especial to The Caucasian.)

terstate Republican Clubs held here
on last Saturday night.
1t had been announced that the
President would make keynote
speech for opening a campaign to
elect a Republican Congress. In his
! opening remarks, the President said
that this announcement was a mis-
| take; that a keynote speech for the
campaign would have to be made af-
ter Congress adjourned, for such a
! speech would have to be based upon
the record which Congress had made
in redeeming the pledges made by
the party in the last campaign. He
said that if the party kept it's pledges
it would win; if it did not, it would
not win.
Who Are True Republicans?
Then turning to the Congressman
and Senators seated at the banquet
table around him. he said to them
that they must prove within the next
few weeks who were Republican and
who were not Republican. He said
that he would not himself undertake
to read any one out of the party, but
that those who failed to vote to carry
out the party's pledges would read
themselves out of the party.
His speech was an appeal to the
members of Congress, whether regu-
lars or insurgents, to redeem party
pledges so as to enable the party to
successfully appeal to the voters Of
the country for endorsement. The
speech was enthusiastically received
and he was given great ovation
One Of the leading insurgents in
Congress said to-day that the Presi-
dents speech not only showed that
he did not want to read them out of
the party, but that he would endorse
their position if they stood for party
pledges, and would condemn the reg
ulars or reactionaries if they failed
to do likewise. To-day, a statement
was given out from the so-cal1ed in
surgents to the effect that they could
be depended upon to vote for and
support every measure recommend
ed by the President for carrying out
the campaign pledges, and they pre-
dlcted that number of the so-called
regulars, who they say are in fact re-
dictionaries, would try to defeat such
measures, and that therefore the
President would have to read these
so-called regulars out of the party
after Congress adjourned if they pre-
vented the passage of any of the Taft
reform measures.
RoOsevelt's Courage and Diplomacy.
The action of President Roosevelt
in refusing to call upon the Pope
under the conditions prescribing his
other calls and actions while in
Rome, has not only attracted the at
tention Of the whole world and been
the subject of comment in every
land, but has been the overshadow-
ing question of interest in the ma
| tional capital.
The gen 4ral opinion here, as else
where, is that the Pope was badly
advised, and everywhere President
Roosevelt's course has been general
ly approved. The Presidents state
| ment following the unfortunate Incl
dent deprecating the bitter contro-
versy that might grow therefrom and
in making an appeal for religious toll
erance has struck a responsive chord
with Catholics as well as Protest
ants.
The prompt and courageous man
ner in which President Roosevelt
met this most delicate situation in
Rome has served to emphasize his
action in the speech at Khartum in
boldly advising the natives not to be
too hasty in attempting to change
their present governmental condi.
speech at the Egyptian University in
Cairo in denouncing the action OF the
Egytian Nationalists in recently as
sassinating their Prime Minister
These speeches of Colonel Roosevelt
4 have been applauded in America a.
we'll as over the civilized world gen
orally, and have all served to reviv.
to an acute stage the discussion O
the future political course of tn,
President when he returns to tn,
United States.
See the Patronage Machine Boss.
1t is reported here that a few day
ago a delegation of prominent Nortl
Carolina business men of a certain
: thriving city came to Washington
t | and called upon one OF the Depart
). ments of the Government to presen
i a matter of no little interest to tn
people of their town and commun