The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-10-27
REPUBLICAN OBJECTIONS,
[SOuthport LEADER

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collect revenue to defray its expense:
is sovereign and absolute. 1t car
take any mans property without pro-
cess, but it ought to take no more
than enough to defray the expense.
of the Government.
Having and expressing such con-
victions, there can be no surprise in
the political detection of Judge Walter
Q. Gresham, who few days age
quietly announced that he would vote
with the party which advocates such
principles.
The importance of the changing OF
man like Judge Gresham from Re-
publicanism to Democracy, cannot be
lightly estimated.
Republican newspapers will o:
course now say that he was not much
of a soldier in the war, as judge
amounts to little, and his detection
amounts to nothing in its effect on the
Republican party.
If Judge Gresham's critics will re-
call the Republican Convention held
in Chicago four years ago, they may
bring to mind the man who without
being candidate, but simply on his
reputation as citizen, a soldier and
jurist, defeated man who was backed
by the machine politicians of the State
of Illinois.
Such was the minority strength of
Walter Q. Gresham in that Conven-
ton. 1t was openly stated at Chicago
after the Convention which had nomi-
mated Benjamin Harrison, that Gres-
hams defeat was due to Jay Gould,
whose influence was used in the Con-
vention to revenge the decision of
Judge Gresham in the case Of the
Wabash Railroad receivership, which
exposed the methods peculiar to that
able fnancier, Gay Gould.
In connection with this same
Wabash receivership case, it is of
interest to note that David Brewer,
the corporation Judge whose destruc
tive work in that case was stopped by
Judge Gresham, was afterward ap-
pointed Supreme Judge by Benjamin
Harrison.
The decision of Judge Cooley Of
Michigan and Wayne MacVeagh in
deciding to vote for Grover Cleveland,
while of less Importance than Gres-
hams are indications of the feeling
which exists among Republicans who
regard principles above party.
1t is not merely the Republican
party loses the votes of these men who
are not afraid to openly take stand,
but behind them are many thousands
of votes which on November Sth will
be given Cleveland and Stevenson,
which will be found so important at
that time.
Hresident Harrison is personally
at home and elsewhere, but
the opposition which is reflected
through men like Gresham, Cooley and
is not due to lack of
in the Presidential candi-
date. 1t is due, however, to the alb
horrence with which such men regard
the present system of tariff monopoly,
proaigacy and the perverson
OF party power to promote favoites
and punish integrity.
The detection of a man of such
character as Walter Q. Gresham speaks
and carries with it an inhu-
ence and weight which cannot be esti
mated.
1t is an influence which will be seen
in the votes of those men whom Judge
Gresham has always represented, the
men. Its weight will be felt
by all citizens of Indiana, Illinois and
the great Northwest where Judge
Gresham has been sought to fill the
highest Office in the gift Of the
people.
1t is a detection which "practical
politicians may deride and scoff at
but which means the loss Of States to
the Republican party.
General Weaver and Mrs. Lease,
who have made a Southern election
eering tour for the Third party, have
caused stampede from that party
back to the Democratic fold, if we are
70 Judge by the recent election returns
from Arkansas, Florida and Georgia.
They have proven help to the cause
Of Cleveland and reform and the
Democrats are indebted to them for
he enemies they have made.-Suffolk