The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-09-14
EX-GOVERNOR CAMERON
WATHDRAWS FROM THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY IN A
STRONG LETTER.

Pledges, Made Itself a Sectional
Party, and Made it Necessary for
all iSeIf-Respeciing Southern Repub-
licans to Refuse all Sympathy and
Co-Operation With it.
[By United Press.l
PETERSBURG, Va, Sept. 13.-Ex-Gov.
VIM. E. Cameron, of Petersburg, Va,
an able and influential Republican, has
written letter to ". S. Dashiell, Esq,
announcing his withdrawal from the
Republican party. His letter is par
ticularly strong one and in it he says:
81 have been taught by the events of
eighteen months past that men of our
antecedents and convictions can no
longer, with self-respect, lend our voices,
our votes, or even the negative support
of silence, to the Republican party as it
is expounded by the organization IN this
State, or it is administered by the pres
ent executive and legislative depart
ments Of the United States government.
The Republican party preserves no
entire country but bases its claim to su-
premacy on sectional prejudice and sec
tional interests, pure and simple. Not
only so, but the directors of it's policy
have not hesitated in attainment of their
ends to prostitute the plighted faith of
the party in sight of all the world, and
to renounce in their Congressional en-
| actment the promises solemnly made
| to the Chicago platform. They stand
self convicted, not only of false pretense
and punic faith, but of mathematical
malignance in seeking to retain power
| by rel voking the war sentiment at the
north AMI west, and by resurrecting all
the stock phrases Of fanatic;sm and sec
tionalism which could stir the south
Their object was and is to
force the fighting as between
q solid North and a solid South, and at
the same time use the small contingent
of Southern Republicans in Congress to
minimize the power Of the South by such
| political denominations as the Lodge BILL
and by so framing tariff law (under
pretext of protection to American labor
and American products as to increase
every burden of the customs upon the
weaker section, and as to leave in force,
in all its shameless inequality the reve-
nue. tax upon the tobacco of Virginia,
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missou-
ri, Maryland and Florida. The utter
ances of Mr.. Mckinley on the floor OF
the House (he the patron Of the Chicago
platform and the leader of the
House of Representatives, and
the chairman of the committee which
framed the tariff billy, and the action Of
the Senate on Monday in regard to the
tobacco clause, constitute an open dec
1arat1On OF war against southern devcl
Opment. And we must realize that tlli.
action, apart from its inherent injustice
is a deliberate, wantOn and absolute
Justification of q solem npromise given t(
the tobacco states by the Nationa! con
vention The record on the Blair bill i
no better. And the tariff act, with it
so-called revision and equalization 0
import duties, bristles with discrimina
tions against the South, and those il
dustries and products IN which South
ern republicans have the same interes
as southern democrats.
The Lodge bill is mis- called the 'forc
| bil," because in operation it would b
Q impossible Of enforcement to the end
| pretendedly sought. TO enact it would /
!. to paralize the commercial progress G
; the entire country, and to set bac
: Southern development, in which Nortf
i ern capitalists is largely engaged, ha
q century. But the main sufferer Woul
} be the negro, who, by this vicious eHol
to neutralize inevitable conditions, Woul
be deprived Of all the safe guards Whic
i now sorround him personally; and poll
i ically he would become the scape goat
local strife in which Mr.. Lodge an
Mr.. Reed would have no concern and 1
/, influence The passage of this act int
n law would be a public calamity. I
s passage by the majority of the House
or Representatives fixes the responsible
IS on the Republican party The call f
lg halt by Senator Quay in the Sena
le only voices the protest of a frightent
financial and commercial north, and on
proucs that Mr.. Quay is afraid to ri
lg this campaign on an issue which o.
xt section would regard as blunder al
10 the other as a crime. | see no reason
es believe that the President has not be-
th in active sympathy with all that his ps
a ty hes done and left undone in Congre.
tn His own performances have not, ho
er ever, been one whit in advance of t
of legislative department. He has do
ty nothing South of Nasons a
ut Dixons line since Inauguration {
ess cept to recognize, with reluctan
of that any such country existed. His 8
he pointments, with just few enough hc
orable variations to prove the rule, hs
been of men not representative in ch
en- acter, influence or capacity. He
ci- shown utter inaptitude to square his
1t ton with his utterances, his performs
is ces with his promises, his principles W
&C. his prejudices, of his status with
ing stature. He has been the instrume
ed. willing or unwilling, of the machine
ments of his party; and for the want
ion bold and brave and catholic action
ub- has made himself responsible for the f
the that in the North and West and ther
the decided. Republican party, and tha
ing the South there is none "
thy of the name. After
than two years of his administration
nd Harrison has removed the last YES
viii with which we had hoped that the
Ted publican party by fostering an Am
ef- can policy, subordinatng the past to
son present, by equal consideration, mi
prove itself the restorer of the Unio
yuoll oc tho proSorvar Of thc fo6ara1 Z