The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-06

ter to see that an army of voters can be
raised in this wav amounting to FIVE OF SIX
millions. Gire any President that start
and you can never overtake him by any
| election. He will re elect himself or ap-
| point his successor in office. lr this mat
| ter this demand is undemocratc and The
! sooner our Alliances find that ont the bet
| ter for Us. say It is not Democratic be-
! cause Democracy has ever opposed the
| centraiizing of power IN the hands OF the
government and this demand Will Ger
tainly lead to that end The entire MS
tory of Democratic existence SAoWS Its lie
| long hostility to this idea.
James Madison was cent1alizer.
! Thomas Jefferson vas its formidable tp.
ponent. The Democratic idet has ever
been to restrain the power tf the tXecn-
| tive except so far as it is absolutely ncceS-
sary. The Alliacemen now calls him
! king Grover" hut King Grover Of to-
day is only petty little pli zee compared
to the successor who would be clothed
with this cloud burst OF power. These
two forces in government are like the cen,
trifugal and centrlpetal forces in nechan-
ics. In rotating bodies vi en- the centrltu-
gll overcomes the certripetal the machine
flies to pieces. The proper WY IS to let
them bring abont an equilibrium. The
Democratic force is the centl nSal or
tendency to tv from the center: the Re-
pubic n 10 ce Sis the cel trioetal or dis
position to centralism or natlonai!Sm
This plank appears to me to rather have a
Republican tendency aud encourages the
concentrating Of too much power In the
iS ct
archy and Americans are the last people
who shonid encourage such a scheme.
Democracy is rather the resnltan: of the
two forces: one to one man absolute rule
and the other TO absolute personal indie
pendence. We had no railroads in Jetfer-
sons or Washington's day, but we had
commerce aud the line OF vessels OF their
age and OF this are just rs much SUBJECT
of governmental ownership as the rail.
roads. Railroads were in the days of CAL
Lonn and Webster, but not once did either
of those great lIen in their great fights
for States rights and constitutional su-
premacy ever propose that the United
States take charge of these interests,
The political aSpirants would seize this
advantage to make other sectional fights,
disturbances and combinations and our
Southland would be the sufferers. If sec
tional combinations are trying to be sprung
on the silver question how much mole
tiercely will the sectional lines be drawn
on question which contains so much
greater proportions than the silver ques-
ton and against which in dollars and
cents the silver trouble dwindleS down
to mere nothingness. Besides the rates
of freights would be against US in all prob
ability. for the capitalists could unite sec
tional strife against us.
Then, again, who would build our new
roads to develop our country in the future:
These and many other question very serl-
ously are in my way to accepting this de-
mand, and unless they can be shown to be
grouudiess. are that there are advantages
which overbalance these objections, | AIN
enpbatcally opposed to its enactment into
l.W.
But all these demands are to be taken in
"salido" and q candidate is to be asked to
take them all down. [ don't believe L
would advocate anything rs a candidate
that could not vote for as n private citl-
zen at the polls Looking at this issue
from my position without prejudice, but
in all fairness and as a patriotic citizen, l
could not vote for q law that | am con-
vinced would bring such countless suffer
ings on my country. an not looking at
this trust in any other light than rs
public spirited citizen. and if there is any
better light on it shall be glad to have it.
do not care to be deceived, do not care
to believe falsehood and do not want to
teach an error. am trying to look al
this Issue fairly and honestly. In another
article will give my objections to the sub
treasury plan. With best wishes for truth
and fairness. D. J. KNOTS.
Swansea, April 10, 1891.