The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-15
TELLS DEMOCRATS NOT TO
DESERT PARTY .RECKLESSLY
If Wilson Administration is Disappointing, There is
j No Hope For Relief at Hands of Not Less
Reactionary Republican Party
BY w. o. SAUNDERS


counties recently and met and
talked with scores of men from
as many more counties. One
thing hear repeatedly from the
lips of men who nave voted the
Democratic ticket all their lives:
"I have voted the Democratic
ticket all my life, but 1 don't ex-
pect to vote it again"
I have heard this so frequently
of late that / would be inclined to
believe that the Democratic party
had gone by the board in North
eastern North Carolina, if I did
MT know the fick1eness and un-
certainty of human nature: l
kpw that thousands who are tir
ed and disgusted with things as
they are will go right on voting
the Democratic ticket in the next
! election, just as they have always
DONE I know they will do this
because there is nothing else for
them to do. NO DISSATISFIED
DEMOCRAT CAN GAIN ANY
THING BY GOING OVER TO
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party hasn't
single reform to offer and its
platform in the next campaign
will differ from the Democratic
platform only in phraseology and
trifles. 1t is now generally known
that the same plutocratic inter
ests will finance the campaigns of
both parties, and the plutocratic
interests will be the winners, no
matter which party gets the reins
of power.
My advice to my friends thru
, out this district is to stand by the
party of their fathers until some
d thing radically more attractive is
} offered them. Conditions are ra-
pidly shaping themselves in this
I country for a political realign-
ment twill only be question
/, of time when@Democratic and Re-
publican bosses and campaign
maaagers will openly unite and
! declare themselves as of one par
y ty in name as in fact Imme-
v diately before or after that open
s alliance of the reactionaries ne,s
g party will spring into being in
IS this country, party whose prin-
ciples will be not altogether IN
n, like those of the National Labor
lie Party and the Nonpartisan Lea
in que. Such a party will make a
strong appeal to the farmer anc
workingman. The dissatisfied
ne Democrat who is doing nothing
y y and trusting to blind fate for pol
= itical relief can do we'll to wal
ne ne another season, since waiting ha'
been our lifelong attitude.
What shall it profit a man t.
swap blind jackass for a spav
IS ined elephant?
Can party controlled by Root
in Lodge and a Penrose offer yo'
anything better than a part.
controlled by Ryan, Murph
and Wilson?
IL In your own state, can you ex
y, pect better representation in Con
~ gress from C. R. Pugh and
,! Marion Butler, than from job
n H. Small and F. M. Simmons
u Tn your own county, can yo
II expect better government at tn
,es hands of Mr.. J. Q. A. Wood an
er Mr.. Jack Munden than from tn
splendid men who fill most {
in your county and municipal Of
" fices?
ro Take your postoffice for II
for stance: Could you get bette
IN service from w. H. Keaton, tn
last Republican appointee, tha
of from your present highly efficier
tax Democrat, DR.. A. L. Pendleton
nd Again, my advice is, stand b
md the party you have always bee
OF affiliated with, until some part
that can offer you definite prt
n mises of reform is born. 4
rn- things now stand l wouldn't az
wise either Republican or
democrat to change his yok
Moving from one neighborhoe
c. to another, just to be movin
without bettering ones env1rol
at ment and opportunities is a toe
lay, ish and expensive experiment. r
and nv part, 1 am going to- stand
z1ll IL the party I was born in until 81
lols reforms or busts. I'm dead su
~ she'll do one or the other IN