The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29

and against the poverty stricken mas
ses OF TINS country. IL it not time for
the greater part Of the party TO do as
senator Vance predicted ii would un-
ger such circumstances, deliberately
walk out leaving nothing behind but =
smell OF tr'mstone and Wall StrsetH
LITERAL ALLEGIANCE TO PARTY
POLITICAL sERFDoM.
l know not what others will do, but
as Tor lie, i shaft d>tiberateIy .eaE out.
am told that l will be attacked. No
doubt, the party lash has ever been
one OF the most potent arguments of
Democracy. But it was not made for
me. l am an American citizen. |
know my rights. dare maintain
| them. Democratic partisans will al
lege Inconsistencies between my past
laboys for the Democratic party and
my present withdrawal from and de-
| nunciation Of that organization. /
defy them to prove any Inconsistency
| on my part. When my "soul was last
poured out" for that cause, Democrats
| still had ''chance"-the last session
| of Congress. The Democratic record
was not then made up. 1t is now closed.
| did not then know what
lam NOW PREPARED TO PROVE.
/ do not believe in Literal Allegiance
to Party, the allegiance Of the SUBJ
ject to his king-party vassalage, po-
litical slavery.
81 believe in the craftsmanship, the
allegiance, that forces parties to de-
pend for their membership and their
life upon their usefulness and fidelity
to principles and promises"
There is one class of men, sane on
| all other subjects, who cling with the
pertinacity Of insanity to mere party
name when all else is gone, and shud-
der under the mere contemplation
Of the charge of treason to party.
Sensible on all other subjects, their
minds seem to refuse to act where
party is concerned. They continue to
stand by the whited sepulchre of party
though full of dead and decaying
| promises
| AND VIOLATED PRINCIPLES.
There is another class of citizens, of
whom | am proud to say | am one, who
think about politics and parties as they
think about business or professional
problems. They vote with their party,
or if need be, with some other party,
| because it seems to promise the defeat
of unworthy men, or to elevate worthy
men, or to carry forward the ideas and
| principles cherished in the quiet of
their own tiresides.
Who is the more useful, he who holds
his party
| TO STRICT RESPONSIBILITY,
or he who is held to a strict response
bility by his party? He who never
moves from his place in the ranks of
the party may be standingfOr no mat
ter what the,party may be standing for
what principles it has violated, what
promises broken, what hopes it has
crushed, or who its leaders or candidates
may be, and hos nothing better to boast Of
than such loyalty as that, or he whose
independence is notice to his party
| that it
MUST DO RIGHT OR FAIL?
Blind party spirit and devotion to
old organizations without regard to
principles, or the voice of justice, will
in the end destroy free people.
| 1t would be we'll for us to remember
that Washington, in his farewell ad-
dress, warned future generations
against the baneful effects of the spirit
of party.
1t is time for those who have princi-
Piles to advance,
TO ACT THE PART OF MEN.
Are you slaves? What do you fear?
Is it possible that for home and
country, and wife and little ones, you
| dare not break the chains of party,
and brook the intOlerant partisan
spirit that will prosecute you? He
who pauses for this reason is a politi-
| cal
sERF AND COWARD.
The Democratic party, Clevelandized,
| Shermanized. RansOmized, FOssiliZed,
Nepotized, Civil Service Humbugized,
| Centralized. BondiZed and Trustized,
has been on a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on sue
cess. 1t is having gold administered.
DR.. Cleveland and his assistants have
produced blood poisoning. The grand
child of jefferson seems doomed.
can no longer support a party that |
cannot defend, and in which | have lost
all faith and hope, and for which |
have no more charity.
POPULAR Discomfort AND ITS SIG.
IFICANCE-THE POWER OF THE
MASSES.
| Not only the student of history and
Of political conditions, but every intel
ligent man knows that this is an era
of great and almost universal popular
discomfort. To quote the words of DR..
Josiah Strong, THE discomfort of the
people is more significant now than
ever before, because now the
PEOPLE ARE DETERMINED TO RULE.
When they were slaves, crushed under
law. customs, institutions and all the
rigid strata of the social structure
their discomfort signified little until il
gathered the might of an earthquake
sufficient to shatter society with its up
heaval. Now, numbers possess the
power and can exercise it through the
, establis he'd channels of the law. What
, king, or emperor. or aristocracy may
think or propose, is of no consequence
r but what the
, MASSES THINK OR PROPOSE
is of the utmost consequence, for the.
are to determine the future of civiliza
lion. The rich and powerful are nat
urally conservative. 1t is of course
those who are discontinued with thei
!, lot who want to change, hence il is tina
i ns,r ideas. whether political or religious
e generally gain currency
e FIRST AMONG THE POOR.
) Evidently, popular discomfort has pro
!, found significance. What is that sig
;. nifcance. 1t is as true of society a
:. of the individual, that dissati*faction
a sign of uprard. not downward move
ment. Popular discomfort marks
:. staonant civilization,-China. Popula
!. restlessness marks progressive civil
= zation,--Japan. New wants are rung
u in the ladder of progress, and civilizs
ton reaching up to them mounts t
something higher. The discomfort q
the masses means that they feel tn
/, pulsations of new life born of
= INCREASED INTELLIGENCE.
l. As we have seen, to add to man
e knowledge, is to enlarge his horizon
l. to make him conscious of new want
e and to show him new possibilities.
't Twice before in modern times, ha