The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-09
ReNouNcEs THE c. Q. p.
One cf virginia's Ex-Governors Tells whs
 re Has Len fhe Republican Party.

mo following IS e&-0ONefH0r NitI fam F. Cameron's letter announcing his determination to leave the Repub- lican ranks:
 To w. s. DAsHrELI. Eso.. Richmond Va.- DsaF Sir; have been taught 5y the events Of eighteen months past that men of our anie cedents and convictions can no longer, with self-respoct lend our voices. our votes or even the negative support Of silence to the Kepub lican party as it is cxpounded by the organiza ton in this State or as it Is adTninigtered by the present executive and legisiative depart ments of the United states Government
 The Republican party preserves no longer the semblance Of speaking for the entire country, but bases its claim to supremacy on sectional prejudicess and sectional interests, pure and simple. Not only SO, but the direct ors of its policy have not hesitated in the at- tainment of their ends to prostitute the plight cd faith Of the party in sight of all the world and to renounce in their Congressional enact ments the promises solemnly made to the Chi cago platform They stand self-eonyicted' not only of false pretense and punic faith, but or mathematical malignancy in seeking 10 retaln power by awakening the war sentiment at the North and West, and by resurrecting OH the stock phrases of fanaticism and sectioualism which could stir the Sonth into resentment and retort This object was and is to force tho fighting as between a solid North and solid South and at the same time to use the small contingent of Southern Republicans In Con gross to minimize the power of the South by such political abominations as the Lodge bill- and by so framing Q tarid law lunder pretext og protection to Amarican labor and Americaa 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 revenue tax upon the tobacco of Virginia. Carolina, Tennessee, Kentuekyt Missouri Maryland and Florida.
 f.F hTaFF ira1 m fsn ofthe House, he the patron Of the Chicago plat form and the leader of tho House of Representa- lives and the chairman Of the committee which framed the tarif bill, and the action Of the Sen ate in regard to the tobacco clause, constitutes an open declaration Of war against Southern development and must realize that this action apart from its inherent injustice is de- liberate wanton and absolute falsidcation of a solemn promise given to the tobacco States by the National convention. r4a
 The record on the Blair bill is no better, ant the tariff act, with its so-called revision ane equalization of import duties, bristles with diseriminations against the South and those industries and products in which Southern Re publicans have the same interest as Southern Democrats. The Lodge bill IS miscaled the force bill" because in operation 1t would be impossible of enforcement 10 the ends pre- tendedly sought. To enact 1t would be 10 par alyze the commercial progress of the entire
  ment iu which Northern capital is large ly engaged. q half century But the main sufferer would be the negro who, by this vicious effort to neUtralize in cyitable conditions, would Dc deprived of all the safeguards which now surround him. Personally and politically he would be- come the scape goat in a local strife in which MT Lodge and Mir Reed would have no concern and no influence. The passage of this act into law would be public calamity. Its passage by the majority Of the House of Representatives fixes the responsibility on the Republican par ty. The call fora halt by Senator Quay in the Senate only voices the protest of frightened financial and commercial North, and only proves that Mir. Quay is afraid to risk this cam paign on an issue which one section would re gard as Q blunder and the other as a crime.
 see no reason to believe that the President has not been in active sympathy with all that his party has done and left undone in Congress- His own performances have not, however, been one whit in advance of the legislative depart ment. He has done nothing south of Mason's and Dixon's line since his inauguration, except to recognize with reluctance that any such country existed. His appointments with just a few enough honorable variations to prove ths rule, have been of men not representative iii character, influence or capacity. He has shown utter inaptitude to square his actions with his utterances, his performances with his prom ises, his principles with his projudices, or his status with his statue. He has been the tnstru- ment, willing or unwilling, Of the machine ele. ments of his party, aud for want of bold and brave and catholic action he has made himself responsible for the fact that in the North and West there is a divided Republican party and that in the South there is none worthy of the name
 e After less than two years of his administra- ton, Mir. Harrison has removed the last vestige with which We had hoped that the Republican party, by fostering an American policy, by sub ordinating the past to the present, by equal consideration fer all sections, by removal of un necessary burdens Of taxation, might prove it. self the restorer of the Union as well as the preserver Of the Federal Government
 It Is not worth while for one man or one thousand men to seek to stay the current of partisanry which has swept Repuhlicanism from its legitimate moorings. But one thing remains in my judgment for us to do--for men who recognize a higher duty than that which can be expressed by party name-and that is to free ourselves from all part and lot with a party which has no faith too sacred for viola tion and recognizes no pledge as too solemn to be broken I can not lend myself to the op- pression Of my people and if there Is no polit- ical organization which meets the full measure of our approval we can at least leave that which violates ourevery idea of right and senti- ment
 Not presuming to set up for any other man or set Of men a standard Of duty, and willing to concede to every one else that freedom of thought and action have always claimed for myself, my resolve, founded on desire to be true to myself and my country, is to refuse all sympathy or cooperation with the Republican party in the crusade against this section which 1t now espouses and under the leadership to which it submits Sincerely your friend,
 WILLIAM E. CAafERos