The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-26

HANE sk& s~@& 49,
Editor The Caucasian:--In It's ed
ftorsal columns OF the 18th instant
the Chatham Record has this to say:
Some OF the oyer-xealous friends
of Governor kitchin and Senator
simmons are more bitter against
each other than against their COM
mon enemy. the Republicans This
IL most unfortunate as well as very
foolish. and yet Is Just the state OF
affairs predicted by The Record long
ago. when we warned our Democratic
brethren not to allow their zeal for
their Senatorial fAvorite TO weaken
their zeal for the success OF their par
". which Is more 10 be desired than
the personal preferment of any indi-
vidual, and which cannot be attained
If Democrats wrangle and fight each
other. Again. we call on the over
zeaIous friends OF the Senatorial as
pirants TO remember that they be
brethering.
Also in his local records We find
this:
= any CT AaI ANA& "a
any OF our ticket being defeated. he
c.n have none now. since the Repub-
licans last Monday dominated SO
weak a ticket"
Now, you see that Major Lon
don admits that the Senatorial con-
test is weakening their chance for
success in Chatham County. In his
editorial columns, and in his local
records, he intimates that other Dem
ocrats were probably in doubt about
a part OF their ticket being elected,
and he offers them a lot of assur-
ances that none OF their ticket will
be defeated, by saying the Republi-
cans nominated so weak ticket.
Fellow-Republicans OF Chatham
County, | take ii that this Is the best
way that Major London (who is the
bell-weather Democrat of Chatham,
! with thirty-four notches cut on his
| "Hasns," with a year for each notch.
as editor and proprietor of the Chat
, ham Record, a red-hot Democratic
newspaper, and whose long term OF
servitude for the Democratic party
has naturally gotten him biased)
can find of saying that We have a
clean ticket.
/ And the above clipping from his
editorial columns indicates that he
is getting "skeered" little bit
J l probably would not think this SC
strong but for the fact he would not
close his write-up without stating
, there were three negro onelookers al
the convention and tried to make
capital out of the fact that they were
even there as onlookers.
! When | read the above / said the
Major is certainly scared, and scared
bad, too. Now, everybody knows
that the uneducated negro is out Of
politics.
Now, | want to tell of little Incl
dent that happened under my owl
observation at our voting place las
election. We have a few negroe:
whose ancestors were free men, anC
most of them usually vote the Re
| publican ticket, but last election i
was said that one of them wanted Il
vote just one name on the Democrat
ic ticket and the rest Republican
and to my surprise and establishment
| saw two Democratic henchmer
come leading this negro up to tn,
polls; yes, actually had hold of him
and was pulling and pushing him OF
: to the polls, so that he might vot,
for this one Democrat l asked tn.
Democrat that the negro voted for /
: he Endorsed the scene, and he sal,
yes; that the negro wanted to vot,
for him and he wanted him to do it
That vote helped to elect him; but
predict that it will help to defea
him this fall, and | further predic
that Chatham will swing over int,
the Progressive Republican column
this November. Yes, fellow-Repub
, licans, the Democrats are getting un
: easy, so let's all work hard and vic
tory will be ours.
: Yours for success,
CHARLIE V. TALLY.
Siler City, n. c., Route 2, Septem
10, 1912.