The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-04-03
EKE AT INAUGURATION
He Col q Shave Which Had Leeg
Been Needed
CIVIL SERVICE A FRAUD

routhexa feUfas--sA Mkn1fatg ffs@~ /
idens This Tfme-No Sentiment In .
Politics. Nor In Busiac~~--A Ca-
Iamity Now Pcnding--Has a Talk
With Presidens-Les on Easy.
Biikinsville. y. c. April /. 1919.
Correspondence of The Caucasian
EnterprIse.)
hev jist gotten back from Wash
ington. whar | went 10 help put in
the new administrator. orter
a'bin back sooner but hit took O gude
deal ov time 10 git things straight
ened up an pulled together after the
woman suffrage riot an awi the Ger
emonies wuz over. | stayed guide
bit TO help hold Josephus Daniels. fer
/ wuz afraid he would git the navy
into trouble. The woman suffragtsts
and Josephus air both fierce. An
other reason why | didn't git back
sooner wuz that | had ter stay an
git a shave. Some seventeen years
Il
Harnett County. held a mass-meetin'
an resolved that he would never git
another haircut until q Dymokrat
wuz elected President About the
same time I resolved that I would
not shave anymore till the country
should go Dymokratic. Hit went an
decided TO go to the inauguration
an git the shave an see the wo-
mans suffragists an the other side
shows. Lots ov people air sayin' that
five or six-cent cotton an other
things in the same proportion air
ahead ov us an that the country will
again be full ov tramps. What do I
care for that since got my whiskers
cut of! The civil service liz what liz
botherin' me an thousands ov others.
| An just to think. the civil service liz
a Dymokrat reform started when
| Cleveland wuz President. Hit hez a
| few guide points, but, after awl, liz a
big fraud, sort ov political trust for
the benefit ov the ins an to keep the
outs at safe distance. In that re-
spect hit IL un-American an should
hev bin thrown on the trash pile
years ago. The ordinary business
trust kin be kept in check by law, II
the laws are enforced. But the po-
litical trust knows no law except such
az hit passes 10 add to hits own
strength. The longer hit goes on
the stronger hit gets. no matter
which party liz in.
said I went ter Washington ter
help put the new President in hi7
seat an ter make the seat comfort.
able. Like more than hundred
!, thousand ov other patriots, went
hopin' to git in myself--and git q
shave. My old friend, Phillip McRae
ov Harnett County. an myself wuz ir
the same boat. He made a vow sew
: enteen years ago that he'd never gil
hiz hair cut until another Dymakrat
, President wuz elected. While hi
, didn't git into the newspapers at the
time, l resolved that I'd not git q
shave till the same thing happened
: So two ov us Dymakrats hev now got
ten relief. On with the dance, le
, Joy be unconfined! But hit cost m,
fifty cents to git the shave In Wash
ington.
They wuz a rite smart crowd o'
people in Washington to see Mr.. VIII
son put in, though not many from
the South. Our people wuz afrait
they'd, meet six cent cotton an foul
: cent tobacco. / reckon the creates
site at the Inauguration wuz Jose
, phus Daniels, Secretary ov the Navy
| ex-State Printer and "ex-State saw
= err" He put the polish on the Who'll,
business. This liz the second tim.
= the North Carolina folks hev shovet
3 him off on a Dymakratic administra
! ton. Hit gave the Cleveland GROVE
terrible jolt an will be hard on th'
Wilson folks reckon they air go
I in to sell the great battleships th'
!, country hez bin buildin' durin' tn,
t past thirty years. judgin' by the mai
they hev put in az head ov that de
> partment. An / had thought tha
/, our people air proud ov their navy
Our friend Wilson got in by acci
dent. He liz minority President |
they ever wuZ one. In round mum
bers seven million or more RepubIi
cans got divided an six million Dy
makrats elected President.
:, But a few hundred men, few
:. thousand, at most, can elect a mai
. anyway A few men get togethe
without attractin' much attention an
weigh the probable candidates. A fes
bankirs, a few manufacturers, a fe,
big railroad men an the Job liz don
0 -awl but the shoutin'. Fifteen mil
= lion voters wrangle an claw the al
e an 'imagne that they had much to d.
o with hit The men behind hit Az
: didn't go into hit blindly last year
j, But they didn't want Mr.. Roosevelt
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