The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-05
is MR.. HENRY TO BLAME?
lie Only Did what ilany Others Have
Done Before.
TALKS or IT.

The Colonel Defends Walter
Henry and Shows that the
i Democratic Press is Chewing
the Sourest Kind of Political
/ Grapes.
/ The so.called flop" of Wal
ter Henry seeming to be just
now the issue before the Ameri.
can people, and the newspapers
OF the state having devoted d
great deal of space to him the
last few weeks, the Recorder
asked Col, Fairbrother, who as
a free born American citizen
enjoys, along with other SOW
ereigns, the liberty Of frees peech
and the glorious privilege Of
depressing his views, his real
opinion as to the situation. The
Colonel, who, for lack of some
one TO talk to, has had little
opportunity to unburden him.
self on this and other subjects
TO which he has been giving
some thought during the te-
dious weeks of a more to dious
illness, finally broke loose,
speaking with his usual direct
ness and warming with his sub
ject. As he spoke rapidly and
at times impatiently, the Re-
corder scribe could not catch
all he said, but it was, IN SUBJ
stance, as follows:
81 have not seen anyone but a
few Of my friends, who called
during my illness, the past five
weeks, but if have done any
thing religiously it has been to
take DIR. Manning's medicine
and read the newspapers. l
see that the flop" of Walter
Henry has called forth a cy-
clone of satire, bundles of abuse
and columns Of serious com.
ment from the rock-ribbed
democratic newspapers. They
have been full of it. This is
very amusing. Wise men
change their minds; fools never
Such has been the idea handed
down to us for several genera
tions, and il sometimes looks to
me like pretty good doctrine.
Walter Henry is Of age. He is
brainy. He is a scholar and a
politician He was with the
demscratic party for some
years. He is young. The first
words he lisped on his mothers
knee might have been Andrew
Jackson, for all I know. It
might have been that he said
he intended to be a democrat. /
/ do not know. But do know
that If he wanted to leave the
democratic party he had an un-
doubted right to do SO. ] = i'm
that he had an unq - i /
right TO do so. II is IT,, :. i
tics and free religion .A t"..
country. Henry den an 90 t.rc
party he has quilted Il strong |
terms. / do not remen~.r all
the adjectives, but when a man
finds that he is in a fostering,
scrofula-eaten and 4 ... . a,
NANCY, bloated, putr i.'ty-
ing, decomposed, rotten =" IL
eaten, maggoty org ,ntz .,Ol,
and he decides TO escapJ to |
save himself from pollution, he
has, I say, the right TO exercise
the first law of nature, which |
is self.preseryation. The pa
pers which have abused him
enjoy the right TO abuse him.
That is true, but 10 looks to one
lying on his back, with a lobe
or two Of his left lung gone
and nothing else TO think about
but the Henry case, that the
said papers are eating sour
grapes.
"The Third party, or at least
q very decent majority Of it is
composed Of former democrats.
Thousands Of farmers, seeing
that the democratic party has
broken every promise, betrayed
every trust, spurned the plat
form which it offered to the
people for their benefit, have
left the party Of lies and broken
pledges; the party that has
hopelessly plunged the nation
In debt by borrowing money
from q foreign syndicate at
high rates Of interest; the party |
OF spoilsmen and European
sympathizers-the party which
has drifted near the rocks Of a
ragged cost and which will 90
down in November '96. But
the democratic press has not
abused these farmers. IL just
seems TO be giving Walter Hem
ry down the country. Let loose |
the dogs Of war. ] don'tcare q
continental what they say-but