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

+ Deadlock-Aycock's Activity VIII
/ Make Him a Formidable Candi-
/ date in the Primary.
/ Especial to The Caucasian) =.
/ Washington, ID. G., Feb. :27, 1912.
The Democratic leaders in Con-
! gress have become frightened at the
storm of criticism that has come up
! from all over the country of their
proposed sham investigation of the
money trust"
1t will be remembered that Con-
! gressman Henry, Chairman of the
| Committee on Rules, offered a reso-
! luton providing for a searching in
yestigation of the money trust and
! directing the lines of investigation
/ to be followed. At once a protest
/ from Wall Street went up against
such an investigation, and all of the
Congressman who were thought to be
! most friendly to the New York con-
centrated money power got busy to
! beat the Henry resolution. The fight
I waged warm and strenuous for some
time, and finally when the vote was
taken the Henry resolution was de-
| feated and the milk and cider res
olution simply to direct the banking
/ and currency committee to inVesti-
gate the currency" and report up
on the same was passed as a substi-
! tute.
| 1t will be remembered that every
one Of the North Carolina Congress-
! men voted against the Henry resOlu-
ton and for the wall Street resoiu-
ton" Since then protests have been
coming to Congressman from their
constituents from one end of the
country to the other. The North
Carolina congressman got frighten-
ed early and got together and pass
ed a resolution declaring that they
were in favor of an honest investi-
cation, and addressed a letter to the
Chairman of the Committee to the
effect that they meant searching
investigation and did not want a
whitewash.
The Caucasian has pointed out in
a former issue how ridiculous these
congressman made themselves by
declaring that they were in favor of
an honest investigation, when they
had just joined and voted down the
resolution that Wall Street opposed
A majority of the Democratic mem
bers of Congress have now gotten so
frightened that they have met and
declared for the Henry resolution,
except that they have left the inves-
tigation to be made by the banking
and currency committee, instead of
by separate committee as directed
by the Henry resolution. What will
be the outcome of this new shift the
people will wait anXiously to see.
Roosevelt Would Accept Nomination.
All other questions have yesterday
and to-day been overshadowed here
by the publication yesterday morn
ing of the letter written by former
President Roosevelt to the nine Gov
ernors who had urged him to accept
the nomination for President. Col
Roosevelt frankly states that if the
convention nominates him he will
accept.
ent opinions being expressed about
the situation that has thus developed
as there are Congressman and poll
; ticians here. The progressive Re
publicans are all delighted" and
declare that this will mean Roose-
velt's nomination and his election
They further declare that they now
For
the first time because they were sat
isfied if President Taft was nomi-
mated he would be defeated.
Of course, the stand-pat Republi-
cans, on the other hand, take the
opposite position. They declare that
Roosevelt cannot be nominated. and
that if he was nominated he would
| be defeated. They point to Mr.
Roosevelt's speech before the Con
stitutional Convention of the State
of Ohio last week and say that his
utterances are too radical to be &C
cepted by the country. Between
these two extreme views there is
) every kind of an opinion that can be
imagined among Republicans.
The Democratic Congressman and
politicians are discussing this situ-
alton with equally as much interest
, as Republicans. Some declare that
they are glad that Colonel Roose,
welt has announced his candidacy
and others shake their heads and say
that they are not SO sure it means
anything good for the Democratic
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