Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-10-03
Get on the Outside First.
Lexington Dispatch.

not all, but some-tf his tri. nds
have recently turned their guns
momentarily away from Senator
Simmons and fred on the demo-
cratic party, saying that h e
convention which represented it
in Raleigh, snd the executive
committee it named are packed
! in the interest of Simmons. The
Dispatch has always thought
aud still thinks their attacks on
Senator simmons are unjustlfa-
ble and to he condemned, but
they put up The excuse that any
mans public record is fnir tar
get. However, even this pretense
will not apply to the democratic
party; il they do not like t h e
party's record they are at per-
feet liberty TO get out, but they
should not make voci'erous
claims to the possession of the
only simon pure democracy one
minnie and the next declare that
the party is corrupt and rotten.
That is what their stand am
cunts to, for if the party haSgot
ten into such q state that the
convention OF a thousand dele:
gates from all over the 81 ate can
be packed it is certainly rotten.
Nevertheless, Governor kitchin
is seeking Office at the hands OF
that party at the same time that
ne denOunces it IA l,Oss ridden,
and seems to be able to see no in.
consistency in his course.
The Governor seems to forget
that there are closply-contested
counties in North Carolina, where
the democrats have q hard en-.
ougb time electing their county
ticket without having a demo-
cratic governor going up and
down the state furnishing the
republicans with campaign thun-
der. He should remember that
when h. dencuces the party as
b~ing under the absolute control
of Senator Simmons or ANY other
man be is imperillng the eIertion
oi the very Legislators that he
wants to elect him to the United
Statrs senete The party, up to
the time hp started on this tact,
was in q position to make vast
inroahs on the republican vote
inthe state; nobody took lredell
Meares seriously and Tom Settle
was drowned in liquor; in fact, it
looked like the republican party
WAS in Il fair way to he practi
cally wiped out of existence in
North Carolina. Then the strange
freak seized Mr.. kitchm and he,
lwho ought above all men be fight.
Ing for US. seeing that he has been
so highly honored, fired a broad
side into the very party that haG
put him IN the gubernatoriaI
chair.
The democratic partv is toe
strongly entrenched to be over
turned in the state at large, but
irreparable damage is being done
to many a county ticket by this
campaign Of the Governors. Ton
Settle never was dangerous, but
kitchin, by reason Of the fac,
i.iat he has borne the name .
democrat, is in a fair way to wreck
;he party in many counties. Ii
is n matter of congratnlation to
senator Simmons friends thai
his first thought is and ALWAYS
: has been for the county ticket
and his second for the party il
the ST ate; after that we can at
tend to national affairs at oul
leisure. OF course, there is nc
law to prevent Mr.. Kltchin from
: assailing the democratic party
all h. pleasas, but before he at
tncks it he should at least hay,
the grace to get on the outside.
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