The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-05-13

kings would reap the benefits Of the
law and the industries and the la
boccrs would be none the better off.
If our enterprises and progress be
left subject to ale the hardships OF a
Democratic "frec trade, no impetus
would be given to the progress of
the country by the initiation of the
currency. The Republican party
has and does favor free coinage of
silver" if the value of a dollar be
put in a silver or gold dollar, but to
give the silver kings one dollar for
fifty cents worth of silver it con
siders wrong. Silver mining is an
industry just as making cotton and
wheat is an industry, and it is just
as fair to make the merchant pay one
dollar for fifty cents worth Of wheat
or cotton as it is to make the govern
ment pay one dollar to the miner
for fifty cents worth of silver. Let
them be coined at their market value
and if gold or silver rise in the scale
no harm is done. The market value
of gold and silver bullion was the
ratio used by Jefferson and Hamil
ton, and as those metals have risen or
fallen has the amount Of silver in a
dollar been changed. The ratio
has been changed to suit the tluctua-
ton of the market value at various
times in the history of the coinage Of
the two metals, and there has never
been one infexiblo ratio Of silver and
gold in dollar.
The Democratic party during all
it's life has never been progressive,
but has always been negative in its
nature. The monotonous Il object"
has always been characteristic of it.
It was bern under those circum-
stances and had it's origin in objec-
tions to what was being done rather
than in any we'll arranged principle
of affecting certain ends. This spirit
it has kept up and has always had to
be driven from it's position to other
new features by the progress and
energy of it's rival. This very same
spirit has been very largely the Sc
cret of the success Of the Reform
Movement. Men were tired Of it
and desired progress.
The idea that Republicanism de-
sires negro domination rests only
now in those minds too narrow to
see better or too preiudiced to be
able to think in the spirit of this age
and of course is as ignorant as such
narrowness and prejudice can make
it and just as false as the statement
is untrue. The negroes themselves
very well know that this new Repub
licanism must and will be controlled
by the white Republicans and they
see that it is necessary and best
that such should be. The Anglo
Saxon supremacy is necessity not
only for the negro but for the rest
of the races of men. Only q few
hundred years ago and the Anglo
Saxon were circumscribcd by the
shores of one little Island in the
Atlantic ocean, today his sons legis-
late for and are leading on to pros
perity and vital Christianity one.
third of the human family. Both
the best interests of man and the
sovereignty of God forbid any such
political stupidity and the intelligence
and patriotism the Republican spirit
where ever found is too high and
elevating to admit that such con-
dition of things can Or will ever be,
and that sucl a condition has ever
existed is directly attributable to our
impudence in 1868. Again in 1896
the same condition has largely re-
turned and the same chance to lead
the negro to his own good and to
our advantage, and will we again re-
peat the folly of 1868? But if the
Southern Democracy be right in its
position and which l do not believe,
the South has to rely for help in car,
rying out it's aims on the riff,raff and
rabble of the Northern cities very
largely for its support. 1t is entirely
safe to say that without that class
the Democracy of the North and west
are power]ess to do anything while
there are many good, honest men
there who work with Democracy, the
Democracy is dependant N that un-
fortunatepopulation for its majorities.
That is one reason and the greatest
reason why the Northern Democracy
is unreliable and uncertain. They
will always desert us when any local
issue is at stake and we can't trust
them. They have used the Southern
people for years as mere cats paw.
This the Republicans Of the north
and west will never do. For what.
ever else we may say Of them, the
Republicans have the courage Of
their convictions and they stand on
their platforms and by their friends.
In 1915 the war with Great Britain
ended and in that conflict we were
taught the need of manufactures and
in 1916 was passed that famous tariff
act for protection to American i'll
dustries and strange it was passed
by a sold southern vote and dlvid-
ed northern vote. But what a
change by the next meeting of Con
eress! The election came off the
next year, and new Congress was
the result. The Congressmcn had
supported a protective measure and
the hostility Of the slave lords were
so high against the measure, that all
who would not recant were beaten.
Even the great John G. Calhoun him
self who had supported the measure
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