The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-07

all the things that be had written
that struck the popular fancy. we're
those that were addressed to the AMI
NAL aDpetites OF North caroIinians-
But for those good easings OF the
East would have lived to be iso.
am IL years young now" he said
When Colonel Wooten told how
the good liquor Of the old days tASt-
ed and the banqusters pat Up =
great shout Drunks on the new
booze, he said. lay one out
Mr.. /. b. Tucker. for the Sixth
District. raised the roof. He con-
graduated the oftce-h holders He
had seen them at many conventions
Il Ike their looks" be said. They
appeared 10 be well fed. rather than
bled. Great applause And IL
you want to be fed and not bled.
stick TO Mr.. Aorehead. and | am not
a poet" This sally at the Duncan
ties caused a great cheer. Mr. Tuck
er declared that il the party would
come over to help them and they
didn't win. the district would be will
ing TO be annexed to Governor Blease
OF South Carolina.
Mr.. Clarence Call, OF the State OF
Wilkes," spoke for the Seventh Dis
trict. He told how the county Is
hated, swung from ocean to Tennes-
see, now tagged on TO the Seventh.
He said II would carry that district
| Rad dNna al ntharu
Mr.. Call raised great cheer when
he said wilkes started Settle into
politics and made him the boy Solicit
tor over r. B. Glenn. And / hope
to help make him Governor of North
Carolina he said.
Mr.. r. C. McNeill, of Wilkes. spoke
for the Eighth District. spoke for
that bailiwick In the place Of A. II.
Price. who was absent. 1t Is worth
mentioning that Mr.. Price was with
Congressman Cowles In the contest
for Salisbury's postmastership, Mr..
Price being a cousin of Mr.. w. H.
Hcbson.
Mr.. McNeill declared that the fine
assembly that Is transacting business
here and dining, Is one that must
command the respect of the people.
| A speech that brought the great
est applause was that from Colonel
Thurston T. Hicks. He was discuss
ing the "Non-Partisan Judiciary" 1t
was an exceedingly bright one, and
when he referred to a non-partisan
judiciary's coming in North Carolina
to mean "a Democratic judiciary"
the applause was tremendous. He
caused another outburst when he re-
ferred to the policy of Governor Will
son to publish the endorsers of Fed
eral judges, he said: I'VE will wait
till Mr. Roosevelt steals that plank
from the Peerless One before we
adopt it." The speech was an ex-
ceedingly clever one.
Mr.. Charles J. Harris spoke for
the Tenth District and he prophe-
sled the continued growth of his
party.
District Attorney A E. Holton
toasted, 1--WE Can Win Again" TAX
ing as his text Democratic inactiv-
passenger rates which they had to
correct, he declared, and their fail
ure to urge and secure freight rates.
Mr.. Holton declared an article in
this paper few days ago criticising
; the Corporation Commission in this
matter, got into the paper because of
the illness of it's editor. 1t didn't
cause much of a ripple. 1t happen
ed to be mistake on the part of the
speaker.
Mr.. Fred W. Thomas, toasting
Back to the Constitution made a
most dignified address, almost free
. from partisan references. He ap-
, pealed for the rule of the courts
against the mob.
Former ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chas
A. Reynolds, on "Our Debt to Our
Papers," said: 1--WE owe a great
debt to our Republican papers, one
we can't pay. We owe nothing to
some papers pretending to be Repub-
lican, but which deserted our party e
principles. They died and deserved
to die. We owe nothing to them and
God knows nothing to our Democrat
: ic papers,
He complimented the school law
of the Republican Legislature, charg-
ed Democratic extravaganza and
asked where was Aycock's mocking
bird in the New Bern trouble?" He
: is a good story-teller and had some
that ratified the dry bones of the
crowd. He thought some of the
Democratic papers as fair as they
knew how to be, but "they need
, much educating" he said.
,, Mr.. T. E. Owens introduced al
midnight, came out for a big morn.
ing daily in Raleigh and a county pa.
per in every county. eff we had a
justice (referring to Mr.. Reynolds