The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-30

posed pTlnclpalIE Oh Iolouei Logan
himself. Colonel Logan bolted the
County. Convention and had himself
put in charge OF the boiling meeting
He bolted the Convention and de-
manded that Postmaster Briggs.
I Charlie Wildes and Buck Andrews
and a few others follow him. They
! followed him out around the corner
/ of the house and there they decided
/ to have another boiling meeting the
day after the date OF the State Con-
vention. Colonel Logan called his
boilers together again on May 18th
and cracked his whip and they named
! him as the boiling nominee for the
Senate. In fact, it seems that Colonel
! Logan thinks he can attend to bolts
and boiling proceedings better than
any one else, SO he has placed Buck
Andrews in the background. Now,
some are wondering if Colonel Lo-
gan will bolt the primary next Sat
urday Others are wondering wheth-
er he will even be able to vote for
himself.
The last political oath he took was
to the effect that he was a pretty
good Democrat, but now if he votes
| for himself next Saturday he will have
to take the oath that he is a Repub-
lican and will have to agree to vote
for himself if he should be nominal
ed. Now practically all the Demo-
Gratis are in favor of Mr.. Harris for
the Republican nominee for the Sem
ate, yet they say they will not vote
for him. 1t seems that the Demo-
Gratis want Nr. Harris nominated in
stead of Mr.. Franks, because they
know they could beat him easier in
November than they could Mr..
Franks. 1t has also been suggested
that Mr.. Harris might not fight the
Democrats as would a straight Re-
publican. Well, Mr.. Harris has help
ed out the Democrats on a good many
occasions, and it can be easily under
stood why the should feel friendly to-
ward him so long as he tries to keep
! the Republican party from hurting
| the Democrats. Loge Harris has done
more work for the Democratic party
indirectly and directly during the past
ten years than he has done for the
Republican party. In fact, his only
work among the Republicans of late
years has been to use his efforts to
burst up the Republican party and
to use Republicans to elect Democrats
/ to office.
Colonel Logan's Democratic Oath.
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 Oh.
server in giving an account of Mr.
Harris Democratic oath, in it's issue
OF April 19, 1911, says:
1.-The Colonel was ruf11ed. He
raised his voice as he stoutly main
tanned that for years he had not beer
strict Republican, that he had nib
|
that word affiliated why Of cours,
he had affiliated with the Democracy
= Had he not voted split tickets in tn.
/ last city and in the last State cleo
4 ton? Why, then, should he be ques
e. toned? Out upon you for a NEEDLE
e 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 OIL
D Saturday, had become hard-hearted
J. The challenger insisted and the poll
holders said: No oath, no vote Fl
nallyt Colonel Harris seized on a Del
and in fine large hand, wrote as fol
lows:
r Raleigh, N. c., April II, 1911.
fl 81 solemnly swear that l hav
n heretofore affiliated with the Demo
e cratic party, in that have heretofor
: voted the Democratic ticket IN part il
G the last city election and in the Stat
s election, and that / will support an
vote for the ticket to be nominate
to-day. J. C. L. HARRIS
ri sign that said the Colonel
J. The poll-holder looked at it, read i,
and asked the challenger if that wa
not all right, but the challenger sal
J no; that Colonel Harris could no
qualify how he had affiliated wit
the Democratic party; that twice vo,
q ing split tickets did not make Colone
q Harris Democrat. The poll-holders
however. thought differently, and tn
q unique sight was then seen Of Col. ]
q c. L. Harris casting a ballot to al
e in nominating a Democratic ticket
{ Later. another voter, Mr.. W. L. Col
Il Inns, was allowed to vote under tn
{ split ticket rule. This was a ne,
t tangled way of making Democrats TO
s primaries.
How this looks to outsiders is I
a be seen in the following from tn
= Greensboro record: