The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-19

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SOUTH CAROLINA.
main reliance for this end was the
restoration of the Democratic party
to power in the branches of congress;
but 1t has been in vain, for now that
We are IN control We are asked to
yield to the forces which have al
ways and persistently opposed us.
AN ELOQUENT PROTEST AGAINST RE-
AS the representative of our people
| would be derelict in my duty were
| to fail at this time to voice their
sentiments and to utter in this pres
encc their solemn protest against
what Is now threatened to be enact
ed. Our people are Democrats from
principle. The Democratic party is
their party. They do not propose to
be driven out Of it by the President
or any of the self constituted leaders
OF the Democratic party of this ma
ton. a party is what the people
who belong to it make it and demand
that it shall be. My people were
honestly opposed in the first place to
the nomination of Mr. Cleveland.
am now opposed to the proposition
under discussion. | am opposed to
1t because it is wrong and undemo-
cratic. | am opposed to it as "a man,
as Senator, and as Democrat.
IRRECONCILABE DIFFERENCES.
This country is now supposed to
have "a democratic majority in the
House and Senate and Il democratic
Executive and | wish to say that no
man in this honorable body, or out
of it, has tried harder to reconcile
his ideas of duty and responsibility
with the wishes of the Executive and
his friends who now propose to CO.
cree the Senate than | have. | come
sir, from the cradle Of true Democ-
racy. 1t has produced some of the
greatest and best Democratic states
men that ever lived | believe as
firm y in Democratic principles as
do IN my Bible, and | always will
contend that the only way to steer
the ship of state clear Of the shoals
and rocks of socialism and anarchy.
is by a return to true Democratic
principles in the administration OF
affairs.
THE BANNER OF DEMOCRACY.
1t IS this love and fealty | bear to
the cause Of Democracy that has
prompted me to keep silent and
strain every nerve in an effort to
conform, if possible, to the wishes
and policy of the powers that be in
the democratic party; but, sir, when
see the mantle of democracy used
to coyer Republican monopolists
while they rob the great common peo-
pie, this same sentiment that has
prompted me to silence and obedience
bids me imperatively to call halt
and revolt against such an impoSi-
ton upon democracy and justice as
is now proposed. | cannot keep my
seat and see the banner of democracy
submerged in the cesspool of Wal
street greed, nor can | remain silent
and see it polluted to the basest uses
by the protected hand of monopolist
ic avarice from New England.
RACY AND CLEVELAND.
Call it what you will, propose t,
stand for true democracy, so true, il
fact, that | will denounce those VIII,
propose and follow republican meth
DDS while masquerading in democra
tic clothes. no matter who they be
even to the President himself. | an
deeply grieved to say this, but hon
esty and truth compel me, and befor,
shall have finished my brief re
marKs-for | shall occupy few min
utes-I propose to draw the line 0
demarcation between the democrac,
and the administrators methods o
to-day so plainly that never again il
the history of this country need the
be cOnfOunded.
A FUTILE AND HUMILIATING RESORT
am opposed to this measure as
man because my manhood revolt
against the idea of settling a grea
national questioe by the physical en-
| durance of the Senators. 1t is bot
humiliating and futile, Humiliatin
because it is an effort to apply clC
ture by physical force in order t
| shirk the moral responsibility; an
is mere makeshift that must excit
: the contempt of thinking, decent an
, honest people throughout the worlt
D Futile because the minority will Nc
Weld while life remains. | mean b
this that knowing as ! do that larg
ma jority Of the people of South Ga
I olina are not in favor of the repe;
0 of the Sherman law without substltl
e ting some provision that will improN
|. the financial system of the nation
is my duty and the duty of all WI
believe as | dc to resist any and Il
r physical opposition to US in the di
+ charge of our obligations and r
~ sponsibilitles as long as there is
Il breath of life mus We have no a
. tentative compatible with honor; al
{ should we die at our posts | have !
y doubt that our constituents won
= elect others to fill our places wi
a would do the same. Hence the ba
is barous effort to coerce by brute for