The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-02-15
MIR. aogEHEaD FOR GOVERNOR

We publish in another column ar
article written by the chairman Of
the Republican County Executive
Committee Of Sampson County and
published In the Clinton News Dis
patch. Sir. Seasons urges the re-
election OF Hr. Aorehsza as State
Chairman and the nomination Of Mr..
! Settle for Governor.
We heartily concur that Mr. More
/ head should by all means agree 10
serve the party again NJ chairman
and the party will certainly call up
on him TO do so. Mr.. Settle would
make a brilliant canvass and an able
/ Governor. But we believe that Mr..
Morehead is the logical candidate for
Governor this year.
Mr.. horehead Ia not only o man OF
splendid ability ami the highest type
OF Carolina manhood. but besides. he
would draw recruits TO the party at
the present time that neither Mr.. Set
tie nor any other person mentioned
for the Governorship could so effect
lively appeal to.
We suggest that the Grst State
Convention, which will be held some
time in May, should re-eiect Mr..
Morehead as State Chairman, and
that the second State Convention,
which will probably be held some
time in August to nominate a State
ticket. should nominate him for Gov
ernor. With Mr.. Morehead at the
head Of our ticket the Republican
party has a splendid chance to carry
the State. Indeed, We think the sit
uation more favorable to Republican
success now than it was in 1894,
when we did carry the State.
AS to the suggestion made by Mr..
Seasons that Mr., Marion Butler should
be elected National Committeeman
this writer does not care TO express
an opinion We do not know whether
or not Mr.. Butler wants the place, or
even would accept it, but We do agree
with Mr.. Seasons that this position
or the position of State Chairman, If
Mr.. Morehead is the nominee for
Governor, should certainly go to the
east.
The battle-ground of the Republi-
can party, in order to win a victory
is in the counties east Of R&leigh. In
many of these counties the Republi-
can party is still very weak, due to
having been dominated by the old
referee patronage machine system,
which was a close corporation and
did not want recruits. Some few OF
these counties are still dominated by
the remnants of that old machine,
and under their leadership the party |
never has grown and never will grow |
except when the masses of the people |
rise up and run over the professional
fellows.
However, there is not a single one
of these counties in which the Repub-
lican party is any weaker to-day than
it used to be in Sampson County.
Sampson County was at one time one
of the strongest Democratic counties
in the State Under the leadership
of men like Mr.. w. F. Seasons, the
present alert and efficient county
it has come to be one of
the strongest Republican counties in
the State.
Mr.. Seasons has been County
Chairman for many years. He has
never asked for Federal office. He
has every precinct organized with pa
,riotic active workers, none of whom
,re Federal ofice-holders or candi-
lates for Federal Office. Mr.. Ses-
sons and his County Committee are
ireless workers. They work every
lay in the year between campaigns.
lust the kind of organization and
work that has been done by Mr.. Ses-
sons and his committee would make
every county in Eastern North Caro-
ina a Republican county. With this
lone, or even when half of the east
I'm counties have become Republi-
an, or even when a third OF them
lave become Republican, and befor,
hat time, the State will go Republi
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