The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-10-31

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By q Democratic House The Senate
amendments TO one Of the Democratic
House pop-gun tariff bills. which pro
posed TO reduce the duty on sugar
two cents . pound. the Senate amend
rnent providing o ~ise and Intelligent
amendment 10 make that provision
effective By repeating the Dutch SIX
teen standard test which was orig!-
mated and enacted ~ the request OF
and In the interest OF the Sugar
Trust. was defeated by the Democrat
ic House after having been adopted In
the Senate by the combined votes OF
the regular Republicans and the pro-
gressive Republicans.
II would take too much space 10
record their false record OF omission
and commission OF this kind. How
ever. there 10 one fragrant piece OF
politics that We cannot at this time
and at this late hour omit. and that
is the effort OF the Democratic party
TO buy the national election In order
to furnish Offices for the horde OF
hungry Democratic politicians by q
bold steal OF SIS. 100000 from the
public treasury. We refer TO the bill
passed through the Democratic
House to appropriate SIS. 1000. 900 az
an additional sum for Federal pen
sions.
For forty years every Democratic
politician in this State and the South
has denounced the Republican party
for taxing the people and robbing
the public treasury to buy the Union
soldier vote through extravagant and
enormous pensions to men who did
not deserve them. This Democratic
House, hungering for the fiesh-pots
Of Egypt, recorded as It's first act not
only an endorsement of all the liberal
pensions hitherto provided by the Re-
publican party for Union soldiers and
for soldiers who actually fought, but
deliberately passed a bill to appro-
pirate 100000 in addition for
different and additional so-called
Union soldiers who never fired a gun
n hot 10
There could have been no purpose in
such an act but to try to buy the
Presidency for the Democratic party.
On top, and in addition to these
pregnant facts, we cannot feel justi-
fed in failing to call attention to one
further fact. and that is that the
Democratic machine of this State and
the Democratic national machine con-
spired to nominate for President a
man thoroughly satisfactory to the
Standard Oil Company, Thos. F. Ry-
an, to the American Tobacco Com
pany, the Belmonts and the Roths-
childs, and that they succeeded in do
! ing this at Baltimore, though they
have attempted to fool the people
with the statement that a progressive
was nominated in spite of the trusts
and money power. 1t is true that
| there was a diversion of sentiment
among the agents of the various big
! special interests in this country as to
the Democratic nominee, each one
desiring, If possible, to force the 9TH
, ers into selecting the special man of
their special choice.
Within the last few DAYS, a state
ment has been given out from Demo-
cratic headquarters in New York to
the effect that Governor Wilson in
dignantly declined to receive a contri-
button of $12,500 from Cyrus Nc
Cormick, the head of the Harvester
trust. 1t Is, however, a fact that
while this sum had been used in help
ing to secure his nomination at Bal
tfmore, 1t has since been returned
but that its place has been filed bv
one Cleveland H. Dodge, of New
York, who is the protege and agent
Of the Standard Oil interests. Mr..
Dodge Is a director in the City Ma
1onal Bank, that is owned by the
Standard Oil Company, and is a d.
rector and officer in at least twenty
more corporations that are controlled
by Rockefeller and that group of in
terests, and serves on these boards
with Rockefeller as a member of the
same. 1t Is fact that will not