The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-26
Especial to The Caucasian

says.
Especial to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. c., Dec. "a, 1912.
The new Congress, which Presi-
dent Wilson will call into extra ses
sion soon after the 4th of March,
next, is a queer combination. 1t Is a
noted aggregation of kickers that
does not agree about anything with
one exception-that Is, wanting jobs
for hungry constituents. They are not
only hot after every job in sight, but
they are damning the civil service
law and trying to find some way to
get around 1t. We are indeed sorry
for these Democratic Senators and
Representatives for they are being
beseiged by an unusually large and
hungry horde of office-seekers.
Daniels Heads the Hungry Horde for
Himself.
| Chief among these hungry Office
seekers is Josephus Daniels Of North
Carolina. He has not only had him
Celf Duffed in every possible way by
the newspapers, but he has just had
Senator Overman to go to see Gov
ernor Wilson and specially press his
claims. After Senator Overman left,
Governor Wilson in answer to the
newspaper men for the news of the
day said that he had given most of
the day to his duties as Governor of
New Jersey and that then he had
heard a plea from Senator Overman
for Mr.. Daniels to go into his Cabinet
by his negro barber, and that was all.
Senator Overman returned to Wash
ington that night, when he was TAX
en- suddenly i'll and was taken to a
hospital for an operation for appen-
dicitis. There is, of course, no con-
nection in the incidents, but at least
quite coincidence.
Not to Have a Cabinet of Politicians.
/ A few days ago Governor Wilson
stated that he did not intend to fill
his Cabinet with politicians to pay of
political debts. He referred to a chap
} ter in one of his books in which he
said that he thought Mr.. Cleveland's
!, Cabinet would have been stronger Ii
he had looked for the biggest and bes,
/ men for these great places and had
! given his active political supporters
smaller places according to their ca.
pacity. He further stated that he
. CT; ha1 m xyfnu h..$ a
he might yet put a few of his active
, political supporters in his Cabinet.
What a Tar Heel Who Was at Balti
more Says.
, In this connection what a NORTH
Carolinian, who was at the Baltimore
, Convention, says Is quite interesting G
He calls attention to the fact tha
while Mr.. Daniels was very out
spoken at one time for Wilson in hi
paper, that yet he was equally out
spoken at the same time against AM
machine or trust candidate for ths
, United States Senate. That later af
, ter Mr.. Daniels made trip to Wash
ingten that the paper gradual.
Z changed until 1t became a very gool
Simmons organ. That the delegation
> from the State to the Baltimore Con
vention was such a Simmons delega
[ ton that sixteen out of the twenty
! four delegates voted for Parker, th'
Wall Street candidate for Chairman
against Mr.. Bryan. That this SAM
delegation was also for Mr.. Daniel
to be reelected National Committee
man. Now, mark you, the delega
ton was against both Bryan ans
Wilson, yet 1t was strong for Dan
iels for National Committeeman
Queer, it is true, but there Is a rea
, SON. The same reason that mad
Daniels desert Senator Vance and 6,
{ over to Cleveland and Ransom
, when Vance would not himself sur
: render to Cleveland and Wall Street
Further, that at the Baltimor
} Convention he could not learn wher'
' Daniels stood, especially while it ap
| peared that Wilson stood no chance
But as soon as Wilson was nominates
that then Daniels, true to his strad
t ding and scyhophant nature, Jump
4 ed on the band wagon and yelle,
r loud as the original Wilson man an,
is now asking to go into the Cabine
D as an original Wilson man. Thi