The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-02-29

State Executive Committee held In
Raleigh yesterday afternoon the COM
mittee, after hearing the commit
tees representing Charlotte and Ra-
leigh, decided on Raleigh as the
place for the meeting OF the next
Republican State Convention, and
May 18th as the date. Charlotte
made a strong pull for the Conven-
tion, but the Raleigh delegation pre-
sented the fact that this city now
had a nice and commodious audito-
rum, ample hotel accommodations
and that the Convention would be
given a square deal both by the pa
pers and the citizens Of Raleigh.
While the committee was not called
to meet until yesterday afternoon,
many Republicans began arriving in
the city Monday night, and other
delegations on every train into Ra-
leigh until Wednesday afternoon. 1t
was truly a great gathering Of North
Carolina patriots. In fact, there has
never before been such a gathering
of representative Republicans in the
city OF Raleigh, which, however, is
only a foretaste of what Raleigh will
witness when the State Convention
meets here on May 18th.
The banquet given by Hon. John
NJ Morehead, State Chairman, to the
State Executive Committee, was the
biggest banquet ever given by an in
dividual in this State. The banquet
was to have been held in the Var
borough Hotel, but several days be-
fore the tine appointed it was learn
ed that the hotel did not have room
for the occasion, and the banquet was
therefore held in the large and spa
cious new auditorium. 1t was a
fine spread, and it was a fine lot of
speeches that those around the ban
quet board had the pleasure of lis
| tening to. They appreciated Chair
man Morehead's hospitality, and this
fact was clearly demonstrated to
him, still those men were in Raleigh
/ because it was a meeting of Repub-
iicans and they were here to meet
other Republicans from other sec
tons of the State tc discuss matters
for the party good, and on every Re
publican's face you could see the
can success.
Meeting of the Committee.
! The State Executive Committee
was called to order by State Chair
man Morehead.
! In the Yarborough House yester-
| day afternoon at 1880, with eigh-
/ teen members of the committee pres
| ent, the delegations of business men
| from Raleigh and Charlotte were Civ
en- an opportunity to present their
! claims for the Republican State
! Convention. Both made strong ar
! guments why the Convention should
/ be held i'll their respective, cities,
| but when the Executive Committee
went into executive session it decided
! on Raleigh as the place and May Is
as the time. After this question
| had been settled a resolution was of
fered endorsing and commencing
! the present national administration
/ and to also endorse President Taft
| for denomination. Many of the com
mittee objected te this resolution,
as they did not think that question
came within the province of the com
mittee. After some debate the resO-
luton was passed by a vote of II
to s, after omitting the section en-
dorsing the Presidents denomination
Following is a copy of the resolution
as adopted:
"The Settle resolution as endorsed
| is given below:
I'VE hereby endorse and commend
the administration Of President Taft
Confronted from the beginning
of his administration until to-day
with series of difficult, complicated
and embarrassing questions, many
of them calling for legislative rem
edies, he has met the situation with
firmness, tact and judicial tempera-
ment, and largely through his per
sonality has secured much needed
| legislation from Congress, when he
has at no time during his admins
tration been able to invoke the aid
of cohesive, firm party majority.
There has not been an hour dur
ing his administration when the Re
publicans in Congress could pass a
stric. party measure.
1--WE especially commend his posi-
ton on the tariff. His insistence that
the ,ariff should be dealt with sci
entifically, with the. aid of accurate
knowledge of conditions and details
rather than in a partisan, theoretit
and speculative manner, and in the
absence OF authentic information