The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-04-13
WHAT VIZ HAVE HEARD
AND WHAT WE WITNESS HERE n
NORTH CAROLINA AND AT THE
NATIONAL CAPITOL.
STATE LECTURER THOMPSON ON ONE
PHASE OF THE SITUATION.
CONGRESSIONAL SALARIES IN
CREASED,

Protested Love for the Farmers DevelOpe
Into Fool-Hardy and PusilIanimou
Hate--The Sage of Duplin Roads and Hi
1nconsistency--The Reed Congress Out
dcne--The Tariff Hobby i'm the Lumbe
Room.
The days of Jeffersonian simpliclt,
are gone, and we live in time O.
magnificent splendor. The chic
magistrate of the nation no Ion.
affects the sturdy plainness of tn,
founders of the republic, but dazes
the strict constructlonist in our own
land and rouses the quiescent fancs
of the foreign representatives. Read
ing of the magnificent special palace
cars of the presidential party, their
splendid apartments costing S475
per day at the Arlington, anu the
royal grandeur of the Inaugural
cerem'nies, you could hardly believe
you were on this side the Atlantic,
and If not reused from your reverie.
you would have sworn you were not
in the land of him who, suffering at
Valley Forge and seeing daily the
cruel snow stained with blood of
unshod feet to establish simple
democracy, never dreamed of day
when 'sthe, contempt of our people for
economy and frugality in their per-
sonal affairs deplorably saps the
strength and sturdiness of our Ia
tlonal character" But the times are
changed, and we may not have an
other Washington of whom it can be
SAID:
Fortune, who SO oft. so blipdlv
sheds
The brightest halo round the weakest
heads,
Found thee undazzled, tranquil as
before,
Proud to be useful, scornine TO he
more;
Less prompt at glory's than at suty's
claim,
Renown the need, self-applause the
All thou hast been reflects less fame
on thee,
For less than all thou hast foreborn
to be-"
we see transition no less marked
than from Scion to Pisistratus.
But there have been sharp transit
lions IN all ages, and this is not the
only instance that butts against the
unsuspecting of to-day. Sir Tbos
Wentworth said. off | do not
faithfully insist for the common
liberty of the subject to be preserved
whole and entire, it is nv desire that
may be set as beacon on a hill
for all men else to wonder at,o and
then, admitted to the ROYAL Council
he almost Immediately promises s.to
flndicate the monarchy forever
from the conditions and restraints
OF subjects" And even here in
North Carolina, hitherto famed far
the honesty and fairness of bar
elections, We have witnessed our
ancient system of election char oed
to system of counting. We have
witnessed the friends of the Chair
man of the State Democratic Execn-
tive Committee urging him into
notice for a cabinet position and
then thankfully acquiescing in his
promised appointment as Collector
of Internal Revenue. We have
witnessed double-extra Robbins ell |
bowling the vice-President in his
tour OF this state, with the mad lone
ng to secure In the Mexican mission
m opportunity to talk Spanish to
olive, soft-eyed women of the south, |
gwen only an opportunity to speak
spanish to the utter CONSERVATION Of
lis neighbor. We have witnessed
! great party which lad attribn ted
III evils to the tariff, suddenly re1e.
'ate its hobby to the lumber.room
that the question of silver
the paramount issue before the
american congress. We have wit
essed a white Democratic Ieo;sla
ure usnrp as by force the negro's
rerogatlve to talk 'possum. We
ave seen the oft-repeated love of ;