The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
Says the Atlanta Constitution:
Those who believe in Republican doc

Says the Atlanta Constitution:
Those who believe in Republican doc !
trine
CANNOT BE DKNocRATs,
and those who believe In Democratic doc
trines cannot be Republicans. Those who
accept and endorse the Republican act of
decentralization with all its consequences
can no more be called Democrats than an
Arab can be called Christian
But the people now have before them
the singular spectacle Of men high in Office
burying their heads deep in the bosom OF
Republicanism and leaving their hind legs
kickilg and nourisbing about In the Demo
cratic camp"
For years one Of the principal argu-
ments Of Democrats against the as
cendancy Of the Republican party was
the "infernal revenue SYSTEM" Sena-
tor Vance ridiculed and denounced
revenue officers as "red-legged grass
hOppers" The Democratic party OF
this State was pledged to the abolish
ment Of the system, or at least to a
mitigation Of its hardships.
have not heard OF anything being
done to abolish the system, and as to
whether there has been any decrease
in seizures, illegal arrests &C, and
prosecutions on shadOwy and INSULT
cient evidence, the people are to be
heard from; especially the hundreds OF
our citizens dragged before the feder-
al courts during the past two years
and more.
Have the people OF North Carolina
become less law abiding than i'm the
pastr How is it that Revenue offices
have doubled and trebled in value
since the incoming Of a Democratic
administration? Is it true as | have
seen it suggested by the highest
authority, that Democratic officials
have stretched the law, forgotten the
promises of the party and prosecuted
the people in mad scramble for fees?
1t seems that the Democratic "red-
legged grasshOppers" are quite active,
and that many of them have been met
amOrphosed into gold bugs.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
regard Grover Cleveland as the
most dangerous man to American in
situations yet evolved by American
political conditions. A traitor to his
people, a viOlatOr of the constitution,
a coward in the execution of the Mon
roe Doctrine, bungler, if not worse,
In the Hawaiian matter, pigmy
Statesman born Of chance, whose stub
bOrnness, tyranny, treachery and cor
ruptiOn are called by his friends and
sycOphants, observation-disclosures, purity
and patriotism. This Benedict Arnold
No. 2, would betray to Britain not one
army post, but he would surrender
North America to the grinding grasp
of English gold. This autocrat, this
American car, who with one foot
spurned the Democratic platform of
1892 and kicked the Democratic Con-
gress into adopting the most Of his
policies, while he placed the other up
on the necks of the American people,
sets his opinions and methods against
those of Jefferson and Jackson and
the Fathers of the Republic.
CLEVELAND AND GENERALIZATION.
Touching the tyranny and autocrat-
lc and centralizing methods of Grover
Cleveland, the following extracts will
prove interesting. This is from a
Democratic paper that warmly sup
ported Mr.. Cleveland:
What is this Administration talk? Does
it mean that the peoples servant, their hired
man, Mr.. Cleveland is now assuming to
have more power than even the Constitution
conferred on really great men like Wash
lngton and Jefferson and Jackson and Lin
coin?
Does this man from Buffalo cherish some
sort OF an idea that he is the people, and
that the battle of 1890, and the fiercer strug-
gle OF 1892, was all over the election of a
PRESIDENT Has he some sort of q notion
that the control of the House and the SEN
ate was not in the peoples minds?
A man elected by the same votes that
elected our State legislatures and Cong ress.
men; calling around him a cabinet of other
hired men. setting himself and these sub
seIyient tools up as an Administration!
To do what?
To dictate to our other servants!
This, then, is the Administration that we
are hearing about? 1t is the influence that
Is seducing our Congressman from the hon
est purpose they were elected to carry out.
and with promises of offices by which thew
may hope for reelection. this Administra-
uon hopes to please its Wall street friends
and satisfy the Eastern plutOcrats."
The truth is that round our national
capital there is growing disposition
TOWARDS GENERALIZATION.
Even Democrats are getting to act AZ if the
President and his cabinet were a supreme
power. Men who have been elected as free
ana independent representatives are in
clined to see in the Administration a little
god they must fall down and worship. SEN
ators, with ink on their credentials yet fresh.
with clearly expressed instructions from
their State legislatures before them. are dis.
regardlng everything but the wishes of the
Administration.
1t Is enough to make plain and honest
Democrat sick-all this talk about the votes
the Administration can count on: Mr.. Car
isle yoicing the wishes of the administra-
Administration; Brass-Collar Lamont barL7
ing 10 get the larger Administration dogs
started; bralny Senators getting down and
KISSING THE BIG TOE
OF the Administration; influential newsna.
Pers crawling in the dust before the Admin
The San Francisco Chronicle said of
Car Cleveland.
He began his extraordinary course by
attempting to use patronage among Renre-
sentatlves and Senators to influences them
to vote for the financial measure recommend.
ed by him. This has been asserted time
and again in and out of Congress, and no
one has cared enough for the constitutional
prophecies to deny it. Then he Organized
nstnrs al among the Representatives and
pill through. He even went 80 far as to Sc |
lect leader to represent the "Admlnistra-
ton forces on the floor of the House Rnt
It is not worth while to go into further de-
talls OF this, the
MOST DIsGRACEFUL Episode
in the legislative and constitutional history
of the Republic" '
Another Democratic journal de-
clared:
As centralizer and spokesman Mr.
Cleveland is an astounding instance Of |
change. His bestowal Of patronage and
use OF the threat to withhold it, a. means
Of bringing Congressman to the support Of
ms policies, have become perfectly open.
His assumption of supreme authority over
The legislative branch of the government
ana an ms Ignoring Of the judicial arm testify
20 ms contempt OF the Constitution and his
caTelessness OF the obligations of his inst,ea.
raj oath. If the occupant of the british
Lhrons were to arrogate to herself such i'm.
Psrial pienti'ude OF power. the throne would
BE OVERTURNED IN A DAY.
There il scarcely any constitutions, ,,or
arch OF Europe who would dare to tramnIe
upon the safeguards of popular liberty in
like manner. Mr.. Cleveland,s extension Of
the Presidential prerogative to fha ro;n. " ex