The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-25
THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN SIM
MONS AND THE REPUBLICAN
REFEREE RING.

We have often Deen asheu' Io"
can the Greensboro News support
Roosevelt for President and Senator
Simmons for reelection" This seems
to be a conundrum, but it is one easy
to answer.
It is true that 1t would be impos-
sible for the Greensboro News, II 1t
honestly believed in what Colonel
Roosevelt stands for, to at the same
time believe in what Senator Sim
mons stands for. These two men are
Numerically opposite in character
and temperament and stand for di-
ametrically opposite principles and
policies. This being true, no one
who honestly supports Colonel Roo
sevelt on account of what he stands
for can possibly support Simmons.
Now, inasmuch as the News Is pre-
tending to support both and Is de-
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issue for Roosevelt and the other
half for Simmons, it is clear that
that paper is not sincerely in favor
of what both stand for. Colonel Roo
sevelt stands for the most advanced
type of progressive governmental
policy in this country in either par
ty. Mr.. Simmons, on the other hand,
stands for the most extreme reac-
tionary type of either party. There
is not so far, as we can see, single
principle of government or public
morals on which these two men agree.
In our opinion, there is not man
in the United States who is more
abject tool of every form of special
privilege, trust and monopoly than
Senator Simmons. Besides, he is the
embodiment of machine and trust
methods of the worst type ever seen
in North Carolina, if not in the whole
country.
Colonel Roosevelt is making his
fight for President on a platform
that is radically opposed to special
privileges, trusts and monopolies, and
is making an emphatic and especial
fight against machine and boss rule.
Now, which one of these two men
does the Greensboro News really
stand with? To us the proposition
seems clear and simple The Green's
boro News is an unqualified organ
not only of Senator Simmons, but of
all the reactionary and evil influences
of government for which he stands.
If the News has any convictions of
any kind, they are squarely in line
with the trust machine boss methods
of Senator Simm ons.
Pie old referee machine element
IN the Republican party in North
Carolina, which was repudiated by
the people two years ago, is and has
been closely allied with Senator Sim
mons and his machine and monopoly
element in the Democratic party.
Senator Simmons has acted as the
spokesman and mouthpiece of the
remnant of this Republican machine
in the United States Senate in trying
to defeat in every way possible the
will of the people of this State as ex-
pressed at the last State Convention.
There are two reasons for this al
lance. In the first place, Senator
Simmons and the referee machine
element of the Republican party are
the natural agents and tools of mo-
nopoly and trusts, and therefore it is
not only easy, but it is natural, for
them to work together. Besides,
Senator Simmons, as a Democratic
machine leader, realizes that there is
danger of Republican victory in
North Carolina, and he knows the
most effective way to prevent Repub-
lican growth and success is to keep
the referee machine element in charge
of the Republican party. Therefore,
it is natural for Senator Simmons to
help that element in every way that
heEcan.
Besides, it is believed that Sim
mons has assurances of, or at least
has a right to expect in the Demo-
cratic primaries, all the Republican
votes that the referee machine ele-
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