The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-12
Germantown, August 25.
Why the Dispatch Changed Its Sup
port From Taft to Roosevelt.

burlington State Dispatch.)
Perhaps some OF our readers, not
being fully acquainted with the facts, |
have wondered why this paper shift
ed its support from Taft TO Roosevelt !
The following are some OF the rea-
sons:
First. The principal reason for
the change was the deep-rooted con-
victiOn with those now in control of
the paper that the principles and poll
icies for which Mr.. Roosevelt and his
followers stand are right and just
and therefore the best for the Amer
lean people. 1t is now a fact of COM
mon knowledge that Mr.. Taft procur-
ed his nomination at Chicago by
fraudulent methods. The sentiment
among the Republicans all over the
country was then, as now, over
whelmingly for Roosevelt. This was
shown by the primaries. But the Re-
publican National Committee dared
to override the will of the people and
unseat enough regularly elected pro-
Roosevelt delegates to give Mr.. Taft
a fraudulent majority. Thus they
prostituted the Republican organiza-
ton to the commission of a crime
that smells to high heaven, and now
Mr.. Taft and his followers have the
audacity to insist that all Republic
! cans should lend their support and
endorsement to this fraud by casting
their suffrages for him in November
Mr.. Roosevelt, who has always shown
+ himself consistently the friend of the
great mass and body Of the people
! and who is the greatest benefactor of
his generation, was quick to detect
| the gloved hand of special privilege
, and corruption in this nefarious
scheme to defeat the will of the PEP
pie and drag the Republican pc y
through the mire and filth of braZAn
fraud and highhanded theft. Then
he simply told what he saw and re-
fused to countenance the crime, both
before and after its com mission. He
saw that he could not stand for the
people and at the same time endorse
the action of the Chicago Convention.
/ office. He had been President that he
was seeking no new honors. He was
! then, and is now, simply seeking to
effect the genuine rule of the people,
as opposed to political bosses and ia
vor-seeking interests. His fight IS for
the elementary principle of self-gov-
eminent, for which our forebears
Frl.
for him and that is the chief reason
for the change in the editorial policy
of this paper.
Second Another reason why this
paper turned its support to Roosevelt
, was the fact that at least ninety per
cent of it's friends are for Roosevelt.
To carry the names of Taft and Sher-
man in bold type on the editorial
page of this paper was nothing less
than a huge joke. 1t was a travesty
upon it's subscribers. When you elm
mate the Federal oficeholders and
}. their immediate friends, where are
you are your Taft supporters in Ala
nance County? You can count them
on your fingers; and yet We have had
the ridiculous spectacle of one of the
leaging papers of the county being
committed to the candidacy of Taft
and Sherman. Thegood people of Ala
nance County who have heretofore
voted the Republican ticket, have
enough of Taft and Taftism. He is a
colossal failure. AS President he has
bungled his job all the time. He has
disappointed his friends and treated
North Carolina Republicans like red
headed step-children. In his public
speeches and in the matter of ap-
pointments, he has branded them as
renegades and imbeciles. By holding
up appointments in an effort to re-
nominate himself he has degraded
his high Office to the low level of a
political pawn shop.
We do not so much blame federal
offlceholders if they vote for him.
They are helpless. They dare not
vote against him, and they are p1edg-
ed to get others to vote for him, if
they can. But, as for us, we will not
lick the hand that is raised to smite
US. We are opposed to political boss
: ism. We are in favor of government
"Of the people, by the people, and
for the people," Away with Taft and
Taftism forever! Away with fraud
and special privileges. Give us that
Ipeerless patriot, the greatest living
American, Theodore Roosevelt, the
last real President, and by the suf-
frage of a free people and the grace
: of God, the next President of these
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