The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-07-14

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Is . Democrat The result II that
you have taken bread out % he
mouths Of eleven motheri@ss cali
dren. as far as you could do 80. AMI
also attempted TO humill2te the nan
and his family who bad done 50
much for TIRE party and have pu. IN
the Office = man from another county
who Is giving the patrons very poor
service. / myself heard one % his
bondsmen. Mr.. g. Il West. say !
teS days ago tha, the service wAs
very poor.
The people generally are begIn-
ming 10 believe that you and Nil Of
your bcss referees not only don't
want tn build up the party. 81; that
you want ii 10 grow smaller. because
you are afraid that il Is already too
big for such men as you TO boss IL
From what | can hear. the people
even including the old-line Republt-
cans. are making up their minds 10
get rid Of such men and such meth
DDS, and that they are going 10 the
primaries and will send delegates 10
the State convention that will put
men at the head of the party like
Hon. John NJ Morehead. who every
body knows Is able and honest. who
want to see our great old State be
come Republican and become more
prosperous, and under whose leader
ship there are enough men who think
that way TO come and give us vic
tory. | am glad 10 say that there
is daylight coming. for when a ma
chine man like you sits astride the
neck OF the Republican party and
keeps it down. and when the Demo
cratic party is bossed by a machine
ballot-box suffer like Simmons, il
leaves the people where there is no
place for them to go. In fact, some
people say that there is an under
standing between you Republican
machine bosses and the Democratic
bosses, and that If one is satisfied to
hold the Federal jobs and dish them
out to their hencemen, the other is
satisfied to run the State machine,
and they also say that the Demo
cratic leaders will never be afraid
of Republican success as long as
. the Republican party.
/ Now, Mr.. Duncan, we have a great
State and a great people, and they
are too big to be ruled by such bosses
at the head of their party. Besides,
everybody knows that it would be
better for the State to have two
strong parties so that the people
could make a change when it was
for the best It is clear that neither
you nor Simmons want that. Be-
sides, it is clear that if our State
was in tha Republican column that
we would send men to Washington
who would do much more for the
State than Democratic Congressman
have been able to do, who are pros
pering now under the Republican
policy of protection, and other Re-
publican policies, but how much bet
ter we would have Jared if we had
had Republican Congressman of
character and standing there to rep
resent us. AS long as North Caro-
lima is ruled by little patronage
machine we will never be honored
with Cabinet officer Or with any of
the big appointments. If the State
was to go Republican we would be
honored with many such appoint
ments, but the trouble is, Mr.. Dun
can, you know you are not big
enough to hold one of these appoint
ments, and you therefore don't want
anybody else in the State to get
them. In fact, you are afraid that
men of character and standing will
get into the party, and that you will
rule game.
You are not even in favor of the
best man being put in little Office
like Dover, either because you think
that the appointment of such a man
would help build up the party and
make it dangerous that the State
would go Republican, or else you are
afraid that man of the character Of
Mr. Outlaw might some time refuse
to take orders from men like you
and Hancock. The people down
here, however, have had something
to rejoice over recently, and that is
the appointment of Mr.. Basnight as
postmaster at New Bern, and we are
proud of our President that he re-
spected the wishes of the good people
of the town and community of New
Bern by refusing to appoint man
that was unfit in every way; but, on
the other hand, in appointing man
and a Republican who has the char
acter and standing to command the
respect Of every person in New Bern
regardless of party.
We understand that you did not
want Mr.. Bastnight appointed, and
) did everything you could to get Mr.
Hancock or some other one of your
referee tools appointed. We have
also heard that YOU even tried to get