The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-23

out waiting for their terms 10 expirS
al the next State Convention It was
pointed out 20 Mr.. Pearson and his
associates that such revolutionary &C
ton could not in any way promote
the nomination OF Colonel Roosevelt.
but that such action. On the other
hand, was sure to jeopardIze Repub-
lIcan victory at the polls this fall.
AS soon as Mr. Pearson and his
associates realized that there was a
very strong element of the Roosevelt
delegates who did not approve this
revolutionary program, there was
then. apparently, formed by him and
his associates a deal with the Duncan
Taft element OF the convention. The
strange and peculiar things that hap
pened In the convention indieate1hat
such a deal was made.
Now let us see what did happen.
The Duncan-Taft element had bolted
and contested the Roosevelt delegates
in a number of counties where they
had been beaten, especially in the
Third and Fourth Congressional Dis
tricts. The Pearson faction voted
solidly in defiance of plain facts to
seat every one of the Duncan-Taft
delegates in the counties Of Frank
lin, Wake, and Carteret, and to turn
out the regular Roosevelt delegates
from those counties, and did it with
out regard to the facts or merits in
either case.
This was done in the face of a
unanimous report by the Committee
on Credentials which favored the
seating of all of the regular Roose
Welt delegates from these counties.
Thus 1.-The rule of the people" was
spat upon and the square DEAL was
kicked around worse than a hound
dog. And to add insult to injury,
this was done by the new ring boss
with the help of the old referee ring
boss in the name Of Roosevelt.
Immediately following this most
unjust and high-handed conduct, the
Duncan-Taft delegates thus seated,
lined up and voted solidly with the
Pearson faction on every ballot, on
every proposition. Every one of
these Duncan-Taft delegates voted for
Mr. Pearson for National Committee
man, who claimed that he was Colonel
one of them voted to support Mr..
Pearson's effort to violate the plan of
organization, to violate the call I'M
der which the convention was called,
and to kick out the present State
organization.
At this time it was also discovered
that Mr.. Pearson had picked out an
other Ashevflle man to be State
Chairman, so that the whole machine
would be in one town, if not in one
man. Thus the East, which must be
the battle-ground to win a Republi-
can victory, was to be ignored. This
began to look like the building of a
patronage machine, with no idea of
trying to carry the State.
When the revolutionary and sell
fish tactics of the Pearson faction
had reached this stage, a number of
the Roosevelt delegates who had been
following Mr.. Pearson's leadership
became aroused to the injustice and
unwisdom of such course, and most
fortunately for the future success of
the party, refused to follow him any
further and Joined with the other
Roosevelt delegates, who had been
standing for a square deal, in defeat
ing his scheme by ten majority. If
Mr.. Pearson had succeeded in this
revolutionary scheme, he would have
jeopardized if not destroyed the last
chance that Roosevelt would have
to get the electoral vote of North
Carolina.
While the party is to be congratu-
lated upon the defeat of this scheme,
yet Immediately upon the heels of the
adjournment of the Convention the
evil effects of Mr.. Pearson's combina-
ton with the Duncan-Taft faction be-
gins to appear.
The illegal Duncan-Taft delegates
from the Fourth District, who had
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