The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-10-03
DID MIR. GRANT TELL THE Ma
TIONAL COMMITTEE?

tee mas just nelu mce1ihS' a.
IT removed seven members OF the
committee and proceeded to elect
their successors.
The Republican Convention. which
nominated President Taft after hav-
ing stolen enough delegates to &C
complish that purpose, passed reso-
luton declaring that IL any member
of the National Committee who had
been elected by the various States did
not endorse the action Of the con-
vention, that the committee itself
should have the power to declare the
seat of such member OF the National
Committee vacant and proceed to
elect some one for such State or
States as successor.
It will be noted that it was not pro-
yided that the National Committee
could declare any place vacant and
that the respective States should Sc
lect a successor, but the committee
arrogated to itself the machine boss
rule right to remove or unseat such
member and fill the vacancy created
by them.
The Associated Press reports of
the meeting of the committee were
that of the seven members removed,
Mr.. Pearson, the member of the Ma
tional Committee elected by the Re-
publican State Committee of this
State, was one of the number. 1t is
further stated that ex-Congressman
Grant of this State was present at
the committee meeting and appeared
before the committee and demanded
the removal of Mr.. Pearson, and fur
Their that he recommended the cleo
ton of Mr.. Duncan who, he said, had
been recommended by the Republican
State Convention.
1t will be interesting to know
I whether or not Mr.. Grant told the
National Committee how the social
ed Republican State Convention that
recommended the election of Mr.
Duncan was constituted.
The people Of the country general
ly know of the high-handed theft
committed at Chicago in unseating
regularly elected delegates and seat
ing those who had no right or title
of any kind. The so-called Republi-
can State Convention, which Mr..
Grant says recommended the cleo
ton of Mr.. Duncan, was constituted
by greater acts Of fraud against the
rule of the people than were commit
ted at Chicago.
The case of Mr.. Grants own coun-
ty of Henderson will serve as one il
lustration.
The Republican plan of organiza-
ton in North Carolina provides that
the people in any township meeting
or any county convention can express
their wishes on any subject and have
the same recorded, and that when
this is done the delegates there
elected must cast the vote of the
people as there expressed.
In the Republican County Conven-
tion of Henderson, Mr.. Grants coun-
ty, the sense of the convention was
taken as between Taft and Roosevelt.
OF the fourteen votes, the delegates
were instructed to cast Is 2-3 for
Roosevelt and 1-3 of one vote for
Taft on all questions.
Ex-Congressman Ewart was named
as the delegate to cast the 1-3 of one
vote. Mr.. Ewart did not attend the
Republican State Convention, but Mr..
Grant went, claiming to be Mr..
Ewart's proxy, and claiming there
fore to have the right to cast 1-3 of
one vote of that county.
The Republican plan of organiza-
ton provides that proxies shall not
be recognized; yet in spite of this
provision Mr.. Grant was seated as a
delegate and was accorded the right
not only to cast the 1-3 of one vote
for Mr.. Ewart, but was further ac-
corded the right to cast the whole
fourteen votes of the county, the
State committee having refused to
allow the other thirteen delegates
seats in the convention.
II Mr.. Grant had told the National
Committee this, he would have com
manded their greatest admiration