The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-09-18
ROGERS vs.. CHEATHAM.


and in their personnel is presented
the nature Of The contest. View these
men, as they stand to-day representing
the two great parties, and determine
under whose flag you will muster.
Forget if you can-if such a thing
is possible-that one is a white man
and the other negro, and let US see
whose success will most efectually pro-
mote the best interests Of the district.
Who is H. p. Cheatham? He is the
present member of Congress from this
district Admit, if you please, that
he is a progressive man; admit that
he is entitled to credit for having over
come many obstacles in the way to
high and honorable station admit
that he is one of the foremost men of
his race, and the fact remains that he
is not fitted by nature and education
for the position he occupies. He has
had the opportunity and has shown
his inability to comprehend great
questions Of State, and his utter ina
bility to see their bearing on his con-
sttuents.
Besides, were he ever 50 wise, the
policy of his party-a policy which
he blindly follows-is destructive of
the best interests of the people Of this
district.
Take the tariff. If the people of
this district were a manufacturing peo-
pie, there would be some plausibility
in the pretense that protective tariff
would benefit them but everybody
knows that the people of this district
are an agricultural people, and the
only effect of protective tariff on
them is to take money from their
pockets and put it in the pockets of
somebody else. A protective tariff
supplies the deficiency in the profits of
the manufacturers out of the hard
earnings of the farmers of the country.
Cheatham is in favor of a protective
tariff, and to that extent, is repre-
sentative of the interests of New Eng
land not Of the South.
Cheatham is in favor Of the Force
Bill. Leaving out the hundred and
one intricate passages in the measure,
the fact that it holds free and peace
full citizens at the point of the bayonet
is enough to damn it in the heart of
every patriot. But it does more. 1t
DISCREPANCIES society separates friend
from friend invades the sanctity
of homes, and precipitates race
conflict of whose significance no man
has dreamed.
How stands Mr.. Rogers? A cult
waited gentleman, read in the litera-
ture of the day and educated in the
science of government. He has had
no experience in Congressional life,
but from his boyhood he has studied
the history OF his country; knows
every rock on which the ship of State
has struck, and every whirlpool that
threatens to engulf it. He knows the
people, stands shoulder to shoulder
and heart to heart with them. He
is one of them and their interests
involve his destiny.
The party he represents opposes a
protective tariff, not because of hos
tility to New England, but because it
is the duty of government to protect
all interests alike. Equal rights to
all special privileges to none," has
been, is, and will forever be, cardi-
nal doctrine of the Democratic party.
The party Mr.. Rogers represents is
opposed to the Force Bill as opposed to
Republican institutions, hostile to the
| rights Of the States, and rninous to the
interests of the States, and ruinous to
interests OF the people of this district
and the country at large.
Mr.. Rogers would have the kindly
relations existing between the races
perpetuated, and the material interest
of the country advanced until there
shall be Righteousness and prosperity
within our borders, and contentment,
happiness and good cheer in the homes
of our people.-New Berne Journal