The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-07-21
BENEFICIAL LAWS
National Administration Has
Made Good In Its Pro-
misses to the People.
UNCLE JOE'S CAMPAIGN

UNCLE JOE'S CAMPAIGN
Sentiment is Growing Rapidly in Fa-
vor OF Morehead for State Chair
man-The People Want a Man for
Chairman Who Will Bend Every
Effort to Carry the State Republi-
can and Who Has the Capacity To
Do the Work.
Especial to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. c., July l9, 1910.
There is no longer any question
about the great and increasing pop
ularity OF the Taft administration.
Such expression were heard on every
side during the closing days of Con-
gress by both the regular and insur-
gent Republican Congressman. They
were all delighted with the wonder
full success Of President Taft in Sc
curing the adoption of so many Of
the great reform measures promised
the people in the last Republican Ma
tional platform.
People from every quarter of the
United States, of all shades of politi
cal opinion, and Of every kind of bus
mess and occupation, are dropping
into Washington every day The
most prominent OF them are being
interviewed by the Washington news
papers, and these interviews show
that the sentiment is fast crystaliZ-
ing from one end of the country to
the other that the Taft administra-
ton has made good in a most strik-
ing and emphatic way.
1t is admitted by Democrats, as
we'll as Republicans, from Maine to
California, and from Texas to the
Great Lakes, that no administration
in the history of this country has
ever during the first year of it's four
year term succeeded in enacting so
important and beneficial laws, and
besides, through administrative ac-
ton, done as much for the purifica-
ton and improvement of the public
service as has President Taft.
Uncle Joe's Campaign in the West.
Uncle Joe Cannon, though over
!. three has refused to
go to the mountains or to the sea
but has, like the magnificent fighter
which he is, plunged into the midst
of the campaign for the reelection
Of a Republican Congress. During
=. the excessive heat of the past week
he has been speaking often two or
three times a day. He is now in the
Middle West going through Kansas
and Nebraska and other insurgent
territory and meeting the great
; crowds. There are thousands of peo-
pie who do not agree with Speaker
Cannon on many public questions,
yet they go to hear him speak, be-
! cause every healthy American citizen
loves a born fighter who has the
, courage of his convictions.
Uncle Joe was overcome with the
heat few days ago, while speaking
in Kansas City before a large audi
torium packed to it's full capacity, but
,, the papers announced the next day
that he was fully recovered and that
he was continuing his campaign
without any interruption. Notwith-
standing the heat and the fact that
Uncle Joe was not feeling we'll, the
papers report him as having made a
great speech.
In discussing the tariff, he said:
From the time the Dingley bill
:, was passed until the Republican plat
form in 1908 declared for a revision
of the tariff, I stood squarely against
revision. Why? Because I knew
tariff could not be revised without
l somebody lying about it and with
out disturbing business. But I al
ways look, as long as I am Repub-
: lican, to the superior wisdom of the
1 majority Of the party. For that rea-
son, I supported revision after the
Republican platform declared for it.
The Payne bill has been in oper-
alton since August 5th. Two hun
dred thousand freight cars then idle
/ are now busy. Under that law we
so arranged that more goods are ad-
l mitted free than under any other
; law in our history. The average per
cent on all importations for the last
fiscal year was eos. The Wilson law
duty averaged % per cent. We cut
the iron schedule in two. The chem
ical schedule was cut 40 per cent.
. Lets see who stands for the in
{ terests The duties on lumber, leath-
er, boots, and shoes, iron, and steel
i are all lower under the Payne Law
than under the Dingley law. Every
man who voted against the Payne
bill thereby voted to retain the high