The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-17
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r,o Southern Republican (char-
,o,te y c. commenting on the cleo
ton results, says;
?. tho general Democratic ava
III. If Tuesday. North Carolina
shows M. all things considered. well.
.ha Iast of year (1e06) We lost
&C II 1928. so that despite
raroraI and enormous losses else
- xe show a relative gain No
.ahIa also r. the similar result in our
ea.,.rarn sisters of Tennessee. Okla
-. virginia. Missouri and Ken
.,cgr Prior 10 the election a con-
1-~sfgve view OF the State gave
.,cngtse OF great gains in this State
=. our party The very cause OF un-
-ce. IN the North. the high price Of
s-ef products.-it was thought would
cause our great agricultural class TO
-sgr ID force 10 the banners OF Re
--bf3canIsm. Many reasons are Civ
~ Fe- our failure TO live up TO our
erper. atoms. Some say that the re-
al. IS due 10 the fact that practically
I'll our Congressional nominees were
recent converts like McNinch, Meares,
Cooley, Parker, etc, and that the
old lines were ignored. Others say
that It was due to President Tafts
treatment OF the Republicans of the
State in his appointment OF Judge
Connor; others say IL waG due 10 Ex-
Senator Butler. A conservative view
would be that general causes were
responsible and that local matters
but aided therein. We believe that
Senator Buffers activity In the cam
paign contributed TO the result TO
some extent, but not in the way 1t Is
generally charged. We think that
while the Senator's campaign brought
out many old Poplists and lined them
up, that at the same time he thor
oughly alarmed the Democracy, made
them extremely active and loosened
purse strings of their wealth; in 9th
er words Ii was fright at ghost and
Senator Butler was that ghost. We
do not believe theb ond question az
fected the result or that the people
the News and Observer, but simply
that he frightened Democracy and
put them on guard. Certainly Chair
man Morehead left no stone unturned
in his fight for our success. Thou
sands of documents were sent to
every corner of the State, eloquent
speakers, of not only State but Ma
tional prominence, addressed great
throngs and added to this mastery
organization was placed by the State
Chairman in the field. We know
that nothing succeeds like success,
all that a man could do to guarantee
victory.
And then you know the State de-
sired to get ready for 1912 and a
Democratic Congress was needed as
a warning.
Mr.. McNinch's Democratic friends
failed to rally to him, for only 112
voted for him in the entire county.
While he reduced Congress Webb's
majority Of 400 in the county, he did
not make the run that his friends
anticipated. Despite considerable feel
ing engendered between him and
many local leaders, the Republicans
stood by him loyalty. Possibly the
result was due to the intensely bitter
fight made on him by the Democratic
leaders. Certainly he had them thor
Oughly alarmed.
However the result, it is consoling
to know that the principles of Repub-
licanism are deeply rooted in this
State and that without financial help
We did better than the States of the
North. The Democratic majority Gao
cording to Democratic count in the
State is only six thousand more than
was Governor Kitchin's and three
thousand less than it was in the last
off, year. Much different was the
showing of the great States of the
North. Pennsylvania majority of
10000 fell to 100000. Where New
York went Republican in 1908 by
$1,000, now she gives a Democratic
majority Of $4,000. New Jersey g
majority of two years ago for Repub-
Icanism was $4,000; now her Demo