The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-01-04

Party Will Make Strenuous
Effort to Defeat Democrats
ia Fifth District

Socialist Hold State Convention In
Winston and Declare In Favor Of
Placing Full State and Dietr1ct
Tickets in the FieId--wiII Not
Fight for the American Flag.
The State Convention OF the Soci-
aIist party In North Carolina was held
In Winston Monday and the JouTna!
OF that city gives the following &C
count Of the meeting
with leading delegates declaring
that a strenuous fight vas TO De made
to wrest the Fifth Congressional Dis
trtct of North Carolina from the
Democracy during the next campaign
and also that Socialists would refuse
to fight for the flag Of the United
States regardless of what nation fred
on 1t or for what cause. the Socialist
party Of North Carolina flung It's red
banner to the breeze in formal
manner yesterday in the courtroom
OF the city hall.
THE meeting was attended by
about one hundred delegates from
the following counties: Beaufort,
Buncombe. Wayne. Forsyth, Gull
ford. Mecklenburg, Rowan. Davidson.
Durham, Dayie, and Stokes. Nomi-
nations were made for State Execu-
tive Committee, State Secretary
and a State member OF the National
Executive Committee OF the Socialist
party constitution was adopted
for the party in North Carolina, be-
ing almost a fac-simile Of Socialist
party constitutions in other States.
Among the speakers were: L. R.
Carter, of New Orleans, National Or
ganizer of Socialist clubs; r. H.
Hodges, of Beaufort, and j. w.
Shields, of Guilford. Mr.. Carter pre-
dicted that North Carolina would be
the first State in the South to throw
off what he denominated the joke OF
Democracy Mr. Hodges said he had
been mobbed in his home county for
preaching Socialism and declared
amid great applause that Socialists
were not only opposed to mobs but
to wars, and fairly shouted:
Socialists will refuse to fight
in the next war in which the
United States engages regard
less of what nation is the at
lacking party. We will let the
capitalists who caused the war
do the fighting for Uncle Sam If
there is any fighting dOne!'
"Mr. Sields, of Greensboro, said
that Socialists of the State would
center their Congressional District on
North Carolina during the next cam
paign and boosted that six thousand
votes would be cast against the Dem
ocratic ticket for Congress in the dis
trict We will put a strong candi
date in the field he said, and when
the votes are counted some folks will
be amazed and chagrined and it will
not be the Socialists, either He was
heartily applauded.
There was fully two hours dis
8 cussion over the adoption of the con
stitution, after which it was unani.
mously adopted with only slight
cnanSo IN pnTdSO1OSy- Inc IOIlO"lHS
State Executive Committee was then
nominated: F. A. Vouse, Durham
s. Otto Won Steimen, Charlotte; H. E
Hodges, Washington; r. J. Morton
Greensboro; B. T. Tiller, Asheville;
D. H. Hendrix, Davie County; V. T
Grabb, King; w. A. Speas, Forsyth
County; J. B. Denavant, Spencer.
walter S. Bradford and William
T. Bradford, brothers, and bother
residents of Winston-Salem, were
unanimously nominated for State
Secretary, while R. J. Smothers, OF
Winston-Salem, was nominated fol
National Committeeman. All of the
nominations will be referred to the
members of the party in the State
and officers chosen from the list OF
nominees. The constitution will be
sent to the National Committee fol
its endorsement before effective.
Most of the delegates at the con
vention expressed themselves as
heartily in favor of placing full State
and district tickets in the field in
North Carolina in 1912, and a State
Convention will be held in the spring
to select the nominees. 1t was dark
before the convention adjourned
sine die.