The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-05-25


and. therefore. untsr e1ual OF
LEGATION to every rnan- Goanx
"a tie Senate In tbs Say wuals
ruf me in . posttloa 10 gre 70
the people tie highest service
Of whsxh I AZ capable. shah.
therefore. sntrnss ny candidacy
without reservation to the PEG
PIE OF the state. and shall not
seek 20 shape the selection By
organization or b. personal
appeaig TO them"
Tins IL will be seen that Governor
Aycock and Judge Clark both join
in pointing out the danger Of the
use OF money 10 control the nomina-
ton OF 4 Senator as The great over
shadowIng evil. and q danger which
they appeal 10 the people 10 arouse
themselves TO resist and over
throw. Governor Ayeock says that
he has not the money to perfect =
personal organization over the State
in a fight for the Senate, and be-
sides. that he cannot command the
money. He next says that IL he had
friends or strong influences that
would furnish the money that he
would not accept IL, because Il have
a feeling that the senatorship would
be worthless 10 me is secured by any
such methods"
Continuing, he said: IF l shall go
TO the Senate l must be free from
special obligation to any set of
men" When Governor Aycock
strongly emphasizes his position in
this respect, he points, as Judge
Clark did, to the growing evil OF
the increased use of money by the
Democratic party to control cleo
tons. They both know that the
Democratic party had and used an
enormous campaign fund at the last
CiCS1AoA, oAu tEcy hAoW tHdI lHdL
money was not furnished by the
plain people. They know that that
money was furnished by those who
got special favors or immunity from
the last Legislature, and that those
people were the corporations and
trusts.
Their purpose in giving this warn
ing now, at the beginning of their
campaign for the Senate, can mean
but one thing, and that is that the
corporations and trusts are going to
stand ready to finance the campaign
of some one or more candidates for
the Senate who will stand by the
trusts in the United States Senate,
just as the Democratic machine
stood by the trusts in the last Legis-
lature. They know that if they do
not warn the people that the trusts
are putting up the money to make
some one a Senator, that they will
both be beaten in the race before
they begin, because money will win
every time unless the evil is pointed
out and the great rank and file can
be aroused in righteous indignation
to overthrow the men who will place
themselves under obligations to the
corporations and the trusts.
Continuing, Governor Aycock,
says:
cannot, under any circum-
stances enter into a canvass
with view to presenting to
North Carolinians my own de-
serts. If l have any they are
known to the people of this
State, and they know best
whether whatever talent have
is likely to be useful to them"
In this paragraph the Governor
expresses his condemnation of such
a campaign as was made by Governor
Kitchin when going over the State
urging the people to vote for him
by advertising his own merits and
reform principles. Judge Clark even
went further in giving Governor
Kitchin a dig in this respect by re-
1erring to those who make loud
promises before they are elected and
then forget them after they are
elected.
When Governor Kitcbin was -un-
ming Tor Governor he posed as the
leader of the progressive reform ele-
ment OF the Democratic party. His
record since he was elected, however. !
has been SO much the revarso tho.