Volume 17 , Issue 45

1912 - An Old Time Republican Asks Questions

Here is another news article, dated 23 October 1912, Wednesday, page 1, from The Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina, concerning "An Old Time Republican Asks Questions," in a letter to the editor of The Dispatch.

Found on Newspapers.com

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you permit an old time republican to say a word in your paper and allow him space to ask a few questions?

Some people have been saying the republican party is split up in the nation. Well, I can not see it that way. The party of Taft, my party, is the same republican party we have had in the nation since the days of Lincoln. When Roosevelt lost the nomination which he demanded so brazenly for a third term at Chicago, out of spite and to get revenge he quit the grand old party which had honored him. Since then the bull moose has been trying to break the republican party to pieces, and all who follow him are also bent on destroying the G. O. P. in the nation.

I am reliably informed that the so-called republican candidates for county offices in Davidson are all Bull-Moosers. Instead of being republicans, they also are joining Mr. Roosevelt in his big brag to kill off the republican party forever. As for me I had rather vote for a democrat than a bull moose. I know what the democrat stands for, but all the wise men of the world can't tell that the Bull-Moosers stand for.

Who is Mr. J. T. Hedrick, the republican chairman, in politics now? He is a bull moose and almost had a fight, I heard, with Carl Duncan the Taft man at Chicago. Who is Mr. R. H. Biesecker, secretary in charge of republican headquarters in Lexington? He is the state secretary of the bull moose party in North Carolina. Who is Mr. Z. I. Walser, who is going round telling republicans how to vote? He is the bull moose elector in this district, and if Mr. Roosevelt knew he was making republican speeches his political head would come off quick. Then there is Wilson Miller, who used to be a democrat, then a republican, now a bull moose, who is now like Ped Thomas, an honorary member of all parties and sailing under the republican flag - just to get votes.

How can these men honestly play any such game. Half elephant and half Bull-Moose, trying to serve two masters, blowing hot and cold, running a double-barreled campaign, trying to straddle between two parties. They ask us to support them for office,a nd on election day they will vote to destroy the good old republican party. Republican brethren, are you going to be thus beguiled and misled by them? - Old Time Republican
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