The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-03-22

I.t NlY Be INPEACHEO.
--~zr-aRY HERBERT VIOLATES The
LIH and DEFiES CONGRESS-.
SPIRITED TALK or ihPEACHING THE
nI~Tf>GUIsHkD rLEBIAS.

.-Cuckoos'' Apprehensive That Judge
liter Clark NAV Revolt Against the
iue.''---They Hate Him But at the
, Time Fear IIim.---New Names Sug
tot - The Successor Of Simmons
Inc. Harris Brings "a Message to Billy
t,ug and sends his Gard up to Boss Ran
.,,n. The Bland Bill Passed the Senate.
WAsmINGToN, March, l1.-Con-
-ricuous in Cieveland'5 mistit Cabl-
hrt Of ''cuckoos" is Hillary Herbert, a
uodigreed South Carolina plebian
from Alabama. Cleveland offered
Herbert the naval portfolio after it
had been refused by others, and he
took it greediIy as reward for his
treachery in voting against the free
coinage bill in the 52nd Congress,
After openly buying the nomlna-
ton he cuckooed through the cam
paion as free silver man. lie was
elected and with the certaluty Of
political obscurity ahead of him, he
voted against the silver bill. Cleve
land recognized his perfidy in max
ing him secretary of the navy. Thus
has he Judased his way into Cabinet
biography and possible
IMPEACHMENT NOTORIETY.
The law directs that naval cadet.
should be appointed from the con-
grcssional district iii which they re-
side. In one case, at least, Herbert
has nagrantly violated this law and
the House, by resolution, has declar-
rd his action illegal and void. He filled
vacancy III one of the South Caro-
lima districts by appointment t ON
Alabama. Disposed as was the naval
committee to whltewash the affair
the dereliCtion was too Extensively
obvious. Consequently "a resolution de
cIariug the appOIntment voId was re-
norted and the House which with some
energy and emphasis, adopted 1t.
lie treats the action with some de-
fiance and resentment and 1t may
cuImlnate finally III impeachment
proceedings. a proposition OF that
sort would pass the House without
the slightest difficulty.
WHO Is HERBERT?
He figures in current biography
rs the scion of Alamaba aristocracN
but there are people here who know
that to be the fiction of 8nobbery.
Speaking of his boyhood he told Il
newspaper man that his daddy Gown
ed 30 nigger5 and a plantation near
Grcenville, Alabama. This, people
who know to the contrary aliege, Is
pure fiction. Tommy" Herbert his
father. was born and raised in lau
rens County South Caronlla, where
the Herbert, ancestral home, an un-
pretentions log cabin is pointed out
to strangers as the birth place of the
naval secretary. The elder Herbert
was a thriftless, out-at-the-elboWs
Old-tield school teacher, and when
he moved to Alabama, he was still not
millionaire The war came on and re-
scued young Hertbert from obServlty,
and Yankee cape short is what sent
him to Congress- \ crippled arm, a
smart wife and treachery on the sill
Yer question put him where he Is.
Humble birth is honorable, but
everybody dispises the snobbery that
affects antecedents. Herbert Is IA
prince among plebians and plebian
among princes. lie is an eminent
social success in this paradise of plea
ban plutocracy, when 'the butch
er, the backer and candlestick MAX
er" element is regnant. HIS success
Sor in the House, j. +. Stalling, Is
Il manly, brainy young fellow, a
stalwart silverite and one of the few
Democrats in Alabama, it is said, who
can make the race for governor in
teresting to koIb. Stallings ances-
try was from North Carolina and he
is related to the Duplin family.
\ FLUTTER AMONG THE CUCKOOs.
1T takes very little to disturb the
equanimity of the Washington end
of 1.-THE machine" The road and
the wires are kept hot between Sim
mons headquarters in Raleigh, and
Washington, and every day there is
something of a hutter among the
"cuckoos.' Judge Walter Clark's
contribution IN the Agricultural
Bulletin against the peanut trust Is
worrying the ''machlne" no little.
The Ransom crowd regard it as sig
niticant. ''Wha does 1t mean"
they say, ''but bid for the Populist
endorsement for Chief Justice" when
he speaks of 1.-The farmers being de-
liYeled alive into the hands OF the
trust" of "the gross imposition
practiced upon them IN this as III
other matters;' of 1.-The farmers being
plucked;" of ''our oppressors" and
OF "whO would be free themselves
must strike the blow" These SEEM
ingIy trifling pIatitudes are accepted
IFS ominous Of trouble. " hat gives
particular significance to Judge
Clark'S timely protest against the
peanut trust is the dissenting opln-
ION in Harris VS., Scarborough IN
which was vigorously sustained the
inherent principle of fair and popu-
lar suffrage. The Editor of The
CAUCSIAN forcible presented this
point last week. 1t makes platform
upon which every honest man i'll
the State can stand who is in revolt
againt dishonest election methods.
Itis we'll know that Judge Clark is
aman of nerve who stands by his
convictions. 1t was be who throttled
"the mud-cut" infany, which men
aced the taxpayers in the state with
bankruptcy and promised to scan
dalize the Democratic party. Ma
turally he is a reformer. A clear
thinker and fearless writer his es-