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1 s .if I i I Sf i If 5 i! i I t ' i ! i i it ( II m ' i i f i ! ' i 1 1 A1 tut '' i.'t Ui H 1'-' liPajo Four. The Caucasian ajtd RALiaan enterpbisis. PUBLIIHIO HUT THCMDAY - IT" CADCASIAH FUBL1SHIHG COUP AST uiwcniPTioa bites? i Ijoo M SO 0S YSAB. Sat Morrg. . Tsui Mostbs. COMMITTEE MEET ING AND THE MOIiEHTAD BAN QUET. The banquet given by Chairman Morehead in Raleigh last week, com plimentary to the State Committee, was probably the largest and most significant banquet ever given in the State. The State Committee had been called to fix a time and place for the State Convention. Chair man Morehead invited five hundred Republicans from every county in the State, to attend the banquet to be given complimentary to the com mittee. Practicaly every man in vited to the banquet from every quarter of the State accepted and was present. It is a most significant fact that so many people who hold no office and who are not candidates for office should leave their homes and their dally vocations and go to the State capital, many of them traveling over three hundred miles, to be present at a conference on the occasion of the meeting of the State Republican Committee. It shows the great in terest which these men have in the triumph of Republican principles in the State as well as the nation, and also their belief that there is a sit uation ripe for fruitful results. This large concourse of represen tative men were much divided in sen timent as to the Presidential situa tion, but they were practically unit ed in favor of upholding the hands of the State organization elected two years ago and completing at the next State Convention in the work of re organization started at the last. This remarkable gathering of militant Republicans would have been entire ly harmonious had not the mistake been made of attempting to put through the State Committee resolu tions about matters which should have been left to the people and to the Convention. This at once caused divisions in the committee as well as among the hundreds of Republicans who had been invited to be present. It soon became evident that the majority of the committee would never agree to pass such resolutions, and that the sentiment among the gathering of Republicans was overwhelmingly op posed to it. The majority of those present were not only opposed to such reso lutions, but there was an overwhelm ing sentiment expressed to the effect that it was not the province of the State Committee to attempt to sug gest to the people what action they should take when the State Conven tion met as to the Presidential situ ation. It was pointed out that the last State Convention represented a revo lution of the rank and file of the party against the boss and machine methods which had been used by the old referee patronage close corpora tion. It was pointed out that reso lutions attempting to bind or fore stall the people had always in the past been passed by the committees appointed by the referee patronage machine; that when the people over threw two years ago the referee ma chine they thought they had blazed the way for free thought and action by the people. This sentiment was so strong in the committee and also among the invited and visiting Republicans that that part of the resolutions were greatly modified. The Caucasian greatly regrets that friction was caused and an unfortu nate issue raised by the attempt to pass such resolutions through the committee. We are gratified that such resolutions failed, tor it shows that the will of the people is still to rule, and we are satisfied that the will of the people will be expressed without hindrance or reserve when the convention meets. The speech made by Chairman Morehead at the banquet was along the right line and will appeal to ev ' ery Republican In the State who . wants to build up the party and see it succeed. If the State Committee had been governed by the facts and arguments given by State Chairman Morehead In that speech. It would not have passed any resolutions of any kind. The Caucasian hopes and believes that the State Convention will send Its beat and truest men to the Na tional Convention, and send them free to do there and then what seems to be best to save the State and the country from the calamity of another Democratic national administration. OUH FIRST AXD GREATEST DUTY. We have received a number of let ters protesting against this action of the State Committee. All of the writ ers of these letters give more than one reason why they oppose a sweep ing endorsement of all of the acts of the Taft administration. Every one of them, in addition to other reasons, say that the President hu miliated and insulted the Republi cans of the State when he appointed a Democrat for judge, and that his action said to us and to the world that there was not a Republican law yer In North Carolina fit to be Fed eral judge. They all ask how can the committee represent the party or maintain its self-respect by endors ing such action. One of the most thoughtful let ters says: "If the committee had recited what acts of the administration should be endorsed and what acts should not be endorsed, and had then appealed to the people to send delegates to suport the administration on the whole record their action would have been more consistent and digni fied and less galling to the mass es of the people who are not seeking favors from the White House but who have been work ing for success of Republican principles. The committee made a mistake to pass any resolu tions. We elected this State Committee to serve the party as a committee, and not to tell us how to vote. The people at the last State Convention repudiated that kind of action which has been the habit under the old referee system." We do not publish these letters, for it could not do any good now. The above letter is a mild statement of the sentiment of all of them. We agree that it would have been better if the committee had passed no resolutions at all. While the reso lution as it was drawn and present ed to the committee did appear to attempt to dictate to the people as to how they should vote, yet, fortu nately, it did not pass in that shape. The modified form in which it did pass might be looked upon as a sam ple recitation of some of the acts of the administration which are ap proved by all Republicans. We Jare satisfied that the committee did not mean to endorse all that the admin istration has done. No single mem ber of the committee could have in tentlonaly voted for such a resolu tion. Now, as to the appointment of a Democrat for judge, we want to say that we have never felt that the President was entirely to blame. The referee ring that was then in full swing did not want any Republican appointed judge that did not have the machine brand upon him. Chair man Adams, of course, wanted the place for himself. National Com mitteeman Duncan was for Adams for judge, regardless of his notorious want of qualifications, because he wanted himself to be both State Chairman and National Committee man so as to make himself the whole referee machine. While trying to carry out this represensible scheme they "fly-blowed" all of the clean and able Republican lawyers of the East to such an extent as to disgust the President. We do not say that this is suffici ent excuse for the Presides! doing what he did, but we do say that if the people had smashed the old Re publican referee machine before that time, and if Mr. Morehead had then been State Chairman, that a Republican judge would have been appointed. Therefore, as we see it, Mr. Duncan and his re free machine are more responsible for that out rageous insult to the Republicans of the State than Is the President. Two years ago the patriotic Re publicans of the State, whose chief desire is tor the triumph of Republi can principles and who want the of flees given to high-class representa tive men to help the growth of the party, arose in their might to smash the referee machine which existed THE l II I I I I ' 11 1 only to give ont ofices to their agents to perpetuate their blighting rule. The people smashed the machine as far as they could then, but only half of the job has been done, Now, before we divide and quarrel about whom we will support tor Pres ident, let's stand together and let ui have another convention like the last and finish the work of house-cleaning and re-organlzation. This is ab solutely necessary If we ever expect to make North Carolina a Republi can State. Then let us all join hands to take such action in our primaries and at the county conven tions and at the State Convention as will make it possible for us to give the electoral vote of this State to the Republican candidate for President. We must finish the reorganization of the party so we can be in a posi tion to help at the election to save the country from the calamity of an other Democratic national adminis tration. This is our first and great est duty. Let us do this, and then the remainder will take care of it self. CUT-THROAT AND CARBOLIC ACID TACTICS. It must be that the Democrats are now using red-shirt methods on each other. Read the following from the Columbia State, the leading Demo cratic paper in South Carolina: "Says the Springfield Repub lican: 'The Clark men in Kan sas, alarmed by the swelling of the Wilson tide, made haste to get out a pamphlet at Topeka, made up largely of extracts from Wilson's "History of the American People," designed to show that he lacks sympathy for any suffering or protesting class These are the same old cut-throat, carbolic-acid tactics that Democrats invariably em ploy against one another in the brightest of election years; tactics that are enough to make even the most hope-spring-eternal sort of Democrat appreciate Grant's remark that the Demo cratic party is a fool." Columbia State. THE JUDICIARY AND RECALL. A Thoughtful Editorial Reciting Im portant Historical Facts. Washington (D. C.) Herald. But, most of all, it is said that the proposition to recall judges is the most dangerous because it attacks the very foundations of our National existence. It is not necessary to ar gue here either for or against the recall of judges, a question too large to be discussed within narrow lim its. It may not be unprofitable, how ever, to point ou tthat the present re lation of the judiciary to our Govern mental syste mis as foreign to the original idea of the makers of the Constitution as day is to night. In constructing a tripartite gov ernment, the judicial branch was mentioned last and its treatment in the Constitution was confined to three paragraphs. That this was not accidental Is evident from the expres sions of Alexander Hamilton when, in the Federalist letters, he explain ed the new charter to the people and urged its acceptance. Hamilton, in dicsussing the ju diciary, asserted that it "will always be the least dangerous to the politi cal rights of the Constitution be cause it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them." He as serted that "incontestably, the ju diciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power." He pointed out that the Executive dispensed the honors and held the sword, while the legislature commanded the purse. "The judici ary, on the contrary," he wrote, "has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction, either, of the strength or of the wealth of society; and can take no active reso lution whatever." These seem strange words now adays. Hamilton, with all his great ness, never foresaw that the time would come when the Supreme Court of the United States would practical ly make a law for the land or that speaking of the wealth of society the distribution of immense cor porate wealth would be dependent upon the approvl of a judge. What Hamilton did not foresee unless, indeed, he was willfully misleading the people others plainly recog nized, even before his life was ex tinguished on "the field of honor." It may not be generally known that when President John Adams was about to . be succeeded by Thomas Jefferson, whose election was rec ognized as the first development of the desire for pure democracy, the less than three weeks of Adams Federal Congress passed a law, when less than three weeks of Adams' term remained, creating a large number of Federal courts and judge ships, the latter being immediately appointed, while Adams himself placed John Marshall, an ardent Federalist, In the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court exactly thirty-three days be fore going out of cofflce. "The Gov ernment of the country passed into Mr. Jefferson's hands as stoutly forti CAUCASIAN. fied against change or iaUo as a solidly Federalists personnel In the courts could make it-" The people could change the lw and they did so In the next Con gress; but they could not displace the Chief Justice; and to it has pass ed into a proverb, that one man on the bench did more to shape the des tinies of the nation than all the people In legislative halls. From that day to this, the judiciary, which Hamilton characterised as the weak est of three departments of power, has grown stronger and stronger, until now the courts, as In Califor nia. gi?e to a State constitution a meaning never Intended by the peo ple who framed it, and, as In Iowa, promulgate from the bench a law which the people have never enact ed. When, therefore. It Is asserted that one of the issues of the ap proaching campaign is whether the people shall remain faithful to the Constitution, it is worth while ta bear in mind that already we have gone far afield from the original ideas of the Constitution makers, and not the least radical departure Is the assumption of power by the judiciary. The probability is. of course, that the people are, as a whole, still bound by the traditions which for nearly a century have at tached to the courts, and that they will not ,for a while at least, en deavor to exercise the power which rightly belongs to them. It Is this fact, this conservatism, which pre vented popular suffrage for nearly thirty years and which postponed the abolition of slavery from the time of the Missouri compromise in 1820 to the dark days of 1863, which will operate against immense adop tion of the principles now so boldly declaimed. If they are ever ingraft ed upon our governmental system, however, either at the approaching electlo nor at any future period, there will be no necessity to cry an archy. The whole history of this government is one of evolution, and with each change there has come progress toward a higher and better degree of self-government. The man who predicts that any step taken by the American people as the result of their deliberate convictions will wreck the nation has not read Amer ican history aright and lacks that confidence in the country's citizen ship which is fully justified by past events. Mr. Roosevelt's Position on the Third Term. Boston Dispatch, February 26. Colonel Roosevelt's position in re gard to the "third term" was ex plained to a number of his callers to-day. "My position Is perfectly simple," he said. "I stated it as clearly as I could in 1904, and reiterated It in 1907. I said that I would not ac cept a nomination for a third term, under any circumstances, meaning, of course, a third consecutive term. "I could not have said less at the time, nor could I have said more. Of course I could not then know whether or not there would be a de mand for me to accept a nomination at some future time. And believing as I do that the selection of candi dates for the Presidency rests en tirely with the people, could not say at no time in my life would I accept another nomination. "It must be clear to any reason able man that the precedent which forbids a third term has reference only to a third consecutive term. It grew out of the fact that a President of the United States under the pres ent convention system of electing delegates can, if he knows how to use the machinery at his disposal, re nominate himself, even though the majority of his party Is against him. But after he has been out of office for a term he has lost control of that machinery. He is in the position absolutely of any private citizen. The machinery is then in the hands of the man occupying the office of President. The Last Week of Special Sales HALF PRICE For Every Winter Suit and Over coat for Men and Boys SPRING ARRIVALS ONDISPLA YNO W E' & Wi e Sf Hats and Caps Medium Weight Underwear Besides the Suite Overcoats at Half Price, the Entire Line of Winter Wearables is Reduced. WJiS OF ORGANIZATION. IU1 and Regulations for th Or-sllsaUo- ef the Iteupbliea Pat ty of North CaroUs. (Amended and adopted at the State 1 Convention, held la Greensboro. Augut 10, mo.) (1) County Organisation. The election precinct shall be the unit of county organisations. Each pre cinct shall have an executive com mittee consisting of three active Re publicans. They shall be biennially chosen by the Republican voters of the precinct who shall also designate one of their number chairman. They hall convene at such time and place as the majority may elect. There shall be elected biennially by the County Convention called by the County Executive Committee to nomi nate candidates for the General As sembly an dcounty officers, a County Executive Committee to consist of five members unless the Convention shall designate a greater number; and said County Convention shall auso elect at the same time a chair man of the County Executive Com mittee. Vacancies in precinct com mittees shall be filled by .the voters of the precinct, and in the county committees by the county conven tion; provided, that in case a va cancy occurs within thirty days pri or to an election, such vacancy may be filled by the votes of the remain ing members and in the event of the removal of the chairman by death or resignation or any other cause a chairman shall be elected by the committee. (2) Congressional, Judicial and Senatorial District Committees shall be composed of no less than one member from each county, nor less than seven members, biennially elect ed by the several district conven tions, which shall also designate the chairman; provided, that a Senato rial Committee shall only be elect ed in districts embracing more than one county. Vacancies occurring within thirty days of an election may be filled by the vote of the com mittee. (3) There shall be a State Ex ecutive Committee composed of one member from each Congressional District In the State to be designated by the district delegation at a State Convention assembled, ten members at large, to be selected by the State Chairman and shall also Include the chairman of the convention at which election Is held, and said committee are required to call a State Conven tion of the Republican party at least sixty days prior to every election for members of the General Assembly, and oftener if necessary in the in terest of the party. Members of the State Executive Committee shall be bienially elected at the State Con vention, and shall elect a Secretary, who Is not a member, and the chair man of said committee shall be elected by the State Convention. (4) The chairman of the respec tive County, District and State Ex ecutive Committee shall call their conventions to order and act as tem porary chairman until a permanent organization is effected, with power only to appoint and receive the re port of a committee on credentials. (5) No Executive Committee shall have power to elect or appoint dele gates to any convention, whether County, District, State or National. 16) No member of any Executive Committee or delegate or alternate duly chosen, shall have power to delegate his trust or authority to another. (7) Representation in county con ventions shall consist of one dele gate for every twenty-five Republi can votes, or fractional part thereof, cast in said precinct at the previous election fo rthe Republican candi date ror Governor. Provided, that each township shall be entitled to one vote, at least, in the county con vention. . (8) The basis of representation in and State Conventions shall be ap portioned so as to consist of one riplpfntf anri tn nWn . a I vfo auciuaio lur every one hundred votes or fractional part thereof cast for the candidate of the Republican party for Governor at the last general election in the THE ONE PRICE CLOTHIER u counties la the Stat each county shall be h5 least two delegates to tl Stat. Congressional, JujV4" Senatorial Convention, (I) Delegates and aiu- the County Convent ir" 3 elected only by a vote of ti, T1, llcans of each precinct t- . ISA1 , sera bled, and titrates im ... 11 to the District, Stat 7 Conventions shsil t convention of delegate -. i and sent by the peopi .'or I pose, -cr nouce ans2 not less than fifteen djff nlaf and Durmw n , -V Hon, and not other l. :C , egates so elected hai l- "ciuj ih rnnntt from vMA . v . "4 ed and that in all prisur.M Ing delegates, a poll of present shall be taken sa oruP ascertain the strenrth of ! - to be voted for and said 0'm be pro-rated and cast 4i District or State Conetb first ballot acordlng to the Lt of each officer voted for. tli primaries and the delgt fr senting the minority hli t by the minority. (10) The certificate of tte man and secretary of tfc setting forth the regularity c 7f primary meeting or content!. the election of delegate tzi nates thereat, shall be when uncontested, as kck4 ' i?J sufficient credential for tuch u gates and alternates. (11) The Chairman of the su Executive Committee shall, tor flclent cause, have power to r-; any county chairman at bit $'fn. ore, and to appoint some luiuu successor; provided. howeT.r. tit: tne cnairman tnus removed iu have the right of appeal fro a g action of the State Chalrm&a t ti State Committee, whose duty it iU: be to pass upon the queitloa u whether or not there wo auZcin: cause for such removal. (12) It shall be the duty of U State Committee to prepare a tt porary roll of the delegates eleoi to the State Convention, and ss temporary roll shall be used for lit purpose of effecting a temporary . ganlxatlon. (13) There shall be a Campiin Committee appointed by the Su: Chairman to consist of five mecben and said committee shall ucz management and control cf the as palgn In such sections of the Suu as may be designated by the c man; said committee shall at C times be subject to the direction of the State Executive Committe.. (14) This plan of organization ul procedure shall continue in forrt until changed or abrogated by a 13 sequent Republican State Con? tion. When writing advertisers. pt mention this paper. Uncle Ezra Says "It don't take more'n a gill ut eor. git folks Into a peck of trouble." ui a little neglect of constipation, fc2 lousness. Indigestion or other Ut? derangement will do the same. If ailing, take Dr. King's New Life PiUi for quick results. 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