The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-30
Eor ENDORSED BY A SINGLE RE-
PUBLICAN NEWSPAPER.

Convention has not received the en-
dorsement OF single Republican
newspaper In this State. Most Of the
Republican papers have condemned
It, the remaining papers are so far
silent.
The Hickory Times Mercury, in a
write-up of the Convention, says:
About $3.50 the committee on
Credentials was ready to report;
then the fun began. An appeal
was made from every decision
except one, and in confusion a
majority vote reversed the re-
port of the committee. This
was the biggest mistake of the
convention. All saw it after the
thing was done. The Creden-
tials Committee tried hard to do
all fair"
The editor of the Hickory Times
Mercury, who was present at the
convention, and who wrote this arti
Gle, in concluding the same and COM
menting upon the final action of the
convention in voting down the
scheme of the selfish clique in trying
to overthrow the State Chairman and
the State Committee at this conven-
ton when their terms of office did not
expire until the next convention, and
after reporting the fact that a ma
jority of the convention repudiated
this scheme, says:
THE majority then adjourned,
yelling hurrah for Governor
MOreEead and Colonel Roosevelt,
our next Chairman and Presi-
dent"
The Union Republican, in an edi-
torial commenting upon the action of
the Convention, says that what trans
pired shows that the real purpose of
some of those who were managing
Colonel Roosevelts campaign in the
State, was not so much to get dele
gates for his nomination as they
pledged the people was their only
purpose, but to capture the whole
State organization and take the same
over to the Tennessee line and use
it for their selfish purposes In con-
clusion, the Union Republican says:
IF this scheme had been sue
successful, it would have given
political power to certain per-
sons and would have been of ad-
vantage to certain people no
doubt, but it would have been at
the same time a serious blow
to the progress of the Republi-
can party"
The Lincoln Times, in an editorial
commenting upon the action of the
Convention, says:
1.-The State Convention, which
WAS overwhelmingly for Roose-
welt, under excitement worked
up by certain designing politi-
clans who hoped to profit per-
sonally by the popularity of
Roosevelt, rejected the report
of the Credentials Committee
and seated several insurgent
delegations, notably those from
Wake, Franklin, and Carteret
Counties.
The editor of that paper then
goes on to show that the delegates,
thus seated were contesting dele
gates Of the Duncan referee machine
type, and that with the encourage
ment and inducement thus given them
by a Roosevelt Convention, have
since called rump conventions in the
Third and Fourth Congressional
Districts and named anti-Roosevelt
delegates to the National Convention,
there to contest the seats of the reg
ular delegates already elected. who
have been pledged for Roosevelt.
The editor of that paper also goes
OA W ohO" IAdI q uuuU0T OIL QOH0S1
Roosevelt delegates were at first fool
ed into standing by certain selfish
bosses to carry out this scheme with
out realizing what it meant. The ed
itor then goes on to show how these
same "would-be leaders" and party
destroyers" also attempted to kick
out the present State organization in
a revolutionary manner at this time,
while their terms would not expire
until the next State Convention.
The editor closes his article by ap-
pealing to the people not to be mis-
led by "a few leaders who are ready
TO wreck the party for the sake of a