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

<nw He Wants to BE Nominated
for the senate on the Republican
Ticket-True Republicans Should
Vote for Mr.. T. VI. Franks in the
Primary June 4.
A. the boiling convention held By
q few Republicans in Raleigh last
saturday. Mr.. J. 6. l.. Harris man
sged TO have himself endorsed for
the nomination for the Senate though
the regular Republican Convention
would not do SOL. Mr.. Harris filed
his name with the Register OF Deeds
70 be voted on in the June primary
n see If he can be the Republican
nominee for the Senate from Wake
County. But Mr.. Harris hasn't got
ten the nomination yet. The friends
Of the regular Republican organiza-
ton in the county invited Mr.. T. NJ.
Franks to enter the race for the Sen
ate and they and many others will
vote Tor Mr.. Franks and not for Mr..
Harris Mr.. Franks, known by his
intimate friends as Cad Franks, is
one of the most successful farmers
in the county, is a man of fine char
acter and is fully competent to fill
the position as Senator from this
county He stands high in his home
township, Swift Creek, and, in fact,
all over the county, and will be the
Republican nominee for the Senate
BY an overwhelming majority.
We hope every Republican who
wants to see the party grow and be
truly represented will go to the pri-
mary Saturday, June 1st, and vote
for Mr.. Franks for the Senate and
for Mr.. A d. Upchurch of White Oak
Township for the House of Represen-
tatives Also cote for the list of dele
gates and precinct committeeman ia
yorable to the regular organization
in this county. Even if there are no
opposing delegates or precinct COM
mitteemen in your township go to the
polls anyway and vote for Mr.. Franks
and Mr.. Upchurch, for it is a we'll
known fact that the true Republicans
do not want a professional bolter and
half-DemOcrat for the Republican
nominee for the Senate in Wake You
can prevent it by going to the polls.
Mr.. Harris has told some one that he
is not a Democrat now, but if he was
a Democrat last year he might be a
Democrat again after the election this
year, and the Republicans would hate
10 think they had helped to put a
Democrat in the Senate. Some of the
Democrats say that Mr.. Harris is the
best asset their party has still they
say they are not especially anxious
for him to go over to them bag and
baggage They are probably afraid
he might bolt their next Convention
as he is getting to be a professional
along that line. 1t is also remem-
bered that he sent out fraud circu-
lar over this county just before the
Republican primaries in April and
made statements that were untrue.
Even if Mr.. Harris was full-f1edged
Republican then he would not be the
right man for the Republican candi-
date, and his Democratic proclivities
make his nomination all the less de-
sirable.
The Colonel has sworn once that he
was very Democratic, but if he has
ever sworn that he was a Republi-
can the fact has never been called to
this writer's attention. 1t is under
stood that he voted for Edwin w
Pou, Democrat, for Congress, and he
also took the oath in the last Demo
cratic primary. The News and OBJ
server in giving an account of Mr.
Harris Democratic oath, in its issue
of April 10, 1911, says:
The Colonel was ruff1ed. He
raised his voice as he stoutly main
tanned that for years he had not been
a strict Republican, that he had nib
bled in Democratic pastures. AS tc
that word affiliated why of course
he had affiliated with the Democracy
Had he not voted split tickets in the
ton? Why, then, should he be ques
toned? Out upon you for a NEEDLE
some one,' was what he thought, ever
if he did not say it.
But the poll-holders, who had ex
cused Colonel Loge from the oath or
Saturday, had become hard-hearted
The challenger insisted and the poll
holders said: No oath, no vote FL
nally Colonel Harris seized on a pei
and in fine large hand, wrote as fol
lows:
" Raleigh, N. c., April IT, 1911.
I solemnly swear that l have
heretofore affiliated with the Demo
cratic party, in that I have heretofr'
voted the Democratic ticket in part il
the last city election and in the Stat
election, and that I will support an,
vote for the ticket to be nominatet
to-day. J. C. L. HARRIS
I'll sign that said the Colonel