The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-21

farmer would give employment to hundreds OF
hands, he again shows total inaptitude for his
business. But there is one thing that Gen. Lee
may reasonably claim distinction in. and that is
seltshness. In that line he can surpass any and
all competitors. Neither friendships claims
nor party considerations and pledges could in
duce him for one moment to take the shadow of
a risk for anybody or anything. While he
wants the best that his party can bestow, If his
party gets into "corner" it might stay there
so far as he is concerned. Though the Demo
cratic party time and again has pledged itself
to uphold the Riddleberger settlement, and
violation of that pledge would again consign her
to defeat, Gen. Lee, who now tries towhoop the
boys up to his support by appealing to them to
stand by the party, has persistently refused
to fund his bonds under the provisions of the
Riddleberger bill. The button-hole explanations
of that matter that he has given to various
parties won't do. We have heretofore charged,
and now reiterate and defy contradiction, that
Gen. w: H: F. Lee, through his attorneys,
Messrs. r. H. Maury 81 Co., received Coupon
Bonds Nos. 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 13,0l5,
1906, 1907, and 1908 of $1,000 each, and
Nos. 1850, 4,S51, 1852, and 1883, January 6,
1873 and to this dag said bonds hare 1,eUer been
funded. These were consol coupon bonds, with
tax receivable coupons attached. We repeat
that we defy contradiction of this charge. We
are prepared to sustain 1t upon official informal
ton. Has he been true to his party in this mat
ter?
Nor has Gen. Lee been true to his party on
the question of the tariff. In direct opposition
to the avowed principles of his party, he pri-
vately requests the Republican chairman of the
committee to place duty ON sumac, promising
him his "blessing" therefor, but with his usual
"frankness" telling him he would Shave to"
vote against the bill. Ye gods and little fishes
Gen. Lee always suffers by comparisons
Imagine Carlisle, Breckinridge, Mills, O'Ferrall
requesting the Republicans to do anything
of that kind, and promising in return their
"blessings." oh! what profound statesman
what true party man the Eighth District has
in Congress-
Again he furnished another evidence of in
tense selfishness to the utter ruin, if needs be,
of his party, when during the deadlock in the
Alexandria convention his competitors patrioti-
cally proposed, in the interest of harmony to
withdraw, if he would, in favor of new man,
he refused to do so, and rather than relinquish
his cherished hopes for political preferment,
compelled the convention to adjourn sine die
without making nomination. Did he evince
loyalty and devotion to his party then?
AS citizen he escapes his just share of the
burden of taxation. While the poor men and
the men of moderate means pay taxes upon
everything they possess, even to the very bed
they rest their weary bones upon, and to the
dog that protects their property from depreda-
tions, Gen. Lee invests in bonds to the extent
of thousands and tens of thousands of dollars,
upon which bonds he does not pdy one cent of
tareS, thus avoiding his just share Of the burden
of taxation. Do you Democrats who are now
urged to again sacrifice the interests of your
district to accommodate Gen. Lee believe that
he is ''touching elbows" with you in bearing
the burdens of taxation Your small amount
of property is taxed heavily, while his tens of
thousands of dollars go "Scott free" One of
the planks of the Farmers Alliance platform is:
"e. Equal distribution of the burdens of taxa
tion, that capitalists bonds, etc., shall be re-
quired to bear just share of taxes, and the en-
actmenJ of such laws as will insure this end"
Democratic farmers, do you believe that Gen.
Lee would seek to relieve your burdens by
shouldering any of them himself? If you do,
then you don't know your man, that's all.
The talk that the times are too critical to vote
against the nominee of the party is extremely