The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-02-23

PENDENT F4FE1s-
Uhan /. vas announced that II
Greensboro Daily News had been so''
IN certain parties and would 10 'oHs
a. - rua as Republican paper. eu
as an independent paper. We suspect
ed that there had been noreai SAFE
but that this play had been maae Il
order that the editor Of the AsneFiii'
Gazette-News. who had run that p
ner as the organ of the remnants o
the old referee system. might aiS<
,sa the Greensboro Daily News fo'
the same purpose. The columns o.
that paper have borne evidence 1ena'
ing TO Justify this suspicion
In a recent issue before us. there
Is a Washington letter. written %
the editor Of the aforesaid Asne-
vile organ: attacking Mr. More
head and the Republican State or
~apizatiou. which has been a thing
Of nearly daily occurrence in that pa
per. In the same issue there IS q
special from Washington which Is Is
follows:
willis Briggs Confirmed
Washington. D. C, Feb 1e-
60. .h;s afsarunou con-
firmed the appointment OF VIII
lis G. Briggs 10 be postmaster
If Raleigh, the Aorehead-Butier
faction Of the State Republican
PARTY thereby losing out in Its
attempt TO defeat Nj Brlggs
through objection or Senator
Carter, OF Montana, who vas act
ing in their behalf.
'sThe victory is distinct one
for National Committeeman Dun
can and Mr. Briggs, Who has
filed the Office 10 the satisfae-
ton Of the people OF Raleigh
This special shows that the paper
Is being run as an assistant Demo-
cratic paper, and as q Republican
factional organ, in that it attacks
constantly the Republican State Or
ganization, and also in that il loses
no opportunity 70 blow the horn OF
the diseredited remnants Of the old
referee system
II will be noticed in the above spe-
cial that the statement IS made that
the appointment of Mr. Briggs is q
slap at Mr.. Norehead and the Re
publican State organization. and that
IL Is q great victory for Mr.. Duncan
The editor Of that paper knows
that the President has established 3
rule applying to the whole country
to the effect that every one-term
postmaster shall be re-appoiated. IN
less there are charges sustained
against him and proof Of mis- disQual-
ification, etc. The editor Of that pa
per also knows that the Republican
State Committee, at its recent session
at Greensboro, endorsed this rule es-
tablished BY the President, and that
since that time the State organiza-
ton has lot had an occasion TO even
make an exception TO this rule in OPP
posing the re-appointment OF any
one-term postmaster. no matter
whether that postmaster was a sup
porter Of the Republican State organ
ization or part OF the remnants o.
the old referee system
No real newspaper, whether Dem
oeratic, Republican. or Indepen-
dent, that has any regard for the
truth. would publish such a state
nent As the above about the re-
appointment of Mr. Briggs That
statement Is On the low plane that
third and fogrth-elass organs usually
occupy.
Again. in the same issue Of that
paper. there Is an editorial which i
clearly intended 70 III 70 help the
Democratic Legislature ont Of its
hole over the three hundred and 6fry
thousand dollar Democratic deacft.
and which Is also intended to uphold
their efforts % T-y ID Seeure = million