Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14

ESPECIAL TELEeRAh TO THE DIsPArcH.I
PETERSBURG, VA, September 13.-Ex-
Governor William E. Cameron, Republican.
has written an open letter, addressed to W.
S. Dashiell, of Richmond, In which be says:
1 have been taught by the events of Is
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 as it is administered by the present execu-
tives legislative departments of the United
States Government. The Republican party
preserves pr NO 70 longer the sem semblance nee
bases its claim to supremacy on sectional pre-
JUDGES and sectional interests, pure and sim
pie. Not only so, but the directors of its policy
have not hesitated in the attainment of their
ends to prostitute the plighted faith of the
party in sight of all the world, and to renounce
in their Congress enactments the promises
solemnly made in the Chicago platform. They
stand self-convcted, not only of false pretense,
but of
MATHEMATICAL MALIGNANCY
in seeking to retain power by re-invoking the
war sentiment at the North and West, and by
resurrecting all the stock phrases of fanaticism
and sectionalism which could STIR the South
into resentment and retort. Their object was
and is to force the fighting as between solid
North and a solid South, and at the same time
publicans in Congress to minimize the power
OF the South by such political denominations as
the Lodge bill and by so framing a tariff law,
under pretext of protection to American labor
and American products, as to increase every
burden of the customs upon the weaker Sec
tion and leave IN force in all its shameless in
equality, the revenue tax upon the tobacco of
Virginia, Carolina. Tennessee, Kentucky, Mis-
sourl. Maryland and Florida.
The utterances of Mr.. Mckinley on the floor
of the House and the action of the Senate on
NJ ,11wr NAl~o ala
tute an open declaration of war against South
ern development, and we must realize that this
action apart from its inherent injustice, is
deliberate, wanton and absolute Justification of
a solemn promise to the tobacco States by the
NationalConventioD The Lodge bill is miscalled
1.-THE force BILL" because in operation it would
be Of to the ENDS 81 pre-
paraiyZe the commercial progress of the entire
country and to set back Southern development
in which Northern capital is largely engaged
But
THE MAIN SUFFERER
would be the negro, who by this vicious effort
to neutralize inevitable conditions would be de-
prived of all the safeguards which now sur
round him. Personally and politically he
would become the scapegoat in a local strife
in which Mr. Lodge and Mr.. Reed would have
no concern and no influence. The passage of
this act into law would be public calamity,
and its passage by the majority of the House
of Representative es fixes the responsibility on The
Republican party. The call tor halt by Sena-
tor Quay in the Senate only voices the protest
of frightened financial and commercial n orth.
and only proves that Mr.. Quay is afraid to risk
this campaign an issue which one section
would regard as a blunder and the other as a
crime
Not presuming TO set up for any other man
or set of men a standard of duty, and wiling to
concede to every one else that freedom of
thought and action have always claimed for |
myself, my resolve, founded on a desire to be |
true to myself and my country is to refuse all |
sympathy or cooperation with the Republican |
party with the crusade against the new section |
which il now espoused. and under the leader |
ship to which 1t submits. Sincerely your |
friend, WILLIAM E. CAMERON.