The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-05-13
EyPccIAcY, THY NAME Is RE.
PUBLrcANISM.


PURLIcANISM.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found the labored apology of Col. D.
j. Knots for afiliating with the
s.Black Republican" party, in which
he attempts to justify his desertion
from the party Of his fathers and
the only party representing Anglo
Saxon civilization, progress and su-
premacy. Inhis defencehe advances
reasons which are ''as baseless as the
fabrication of dream" and as erro-
neous as they are baseless.
In all ages in the history OF man,
from the time when Father Adam
sought to excuse his act of wrong
doing in the Garden of Eden by tell.
ing Jehovah, that .'the woman thou
gavest me to be with me, she gave
me of the tree, and I did eat," down
to the time when Col. Knots gave as
his reason through the Lexington
Dispatch, in justification of his politi-
cal course, that the Democratic party
is one of incapaeity and is non pro-
gressive, men have made excuses IN
Justification of doing that which rea-
SON and theirintelligence tells themis
wrong. Whenever the conscience OF
man begins to prick him for doing
wrong act that moment he seeks to
ease his mind by making excuses, and
when he begins to do so it is safe
rule to conclude that he is not alto
eether satisfied with his act. To illus
trate. Judas Iscariotsoughtto to Justify
the betrayal of his Master BY making
excuses. Scarcely had the dagger OF
Brutus entered the body OF his friend
Ceasar than words of excuses for his
cowardly deed began falling from his
lips, but he was not justified in stain
ing his hands with the life blood OF
his acknowledged friend. Benedict
Arnold made excuses for his treachery
TO the American cause, but they
availed him nothing. Not all theex
cuses of Aaron Burr to justify himself
in his attempt to disrupt the govern
ment and set up another, did him no
good, for that act made him an out
cast and his reproach name among
men. So Col. Knotts will find that
no amount of excuses will justify his
present political course in leaving
the Democratic party.
Itwould take more time and space
than we have at our command to
notice all Of the excuses, or ''reasons"
as ne styles them. to justify himself,
therefore, we shall only briefly notice
a few of them.
As long as the white men are
unit in politics there is no danger OF
negro domination, but the moment
there is a division and one faction
goes coqueting with the brother In
black and makes of him their bed
fellow in return for his vote to ele-
vate that faction into power you
place the balance of power in his
hand and he would be big fool in
deed if he did not Use it to his adj
vantage. But even in this emer-
gency, lo-Saxon intelligence will
exert itself as it did in the enact
ment of the registration and the
eight ballot box law, but the remedy
is worse than the disease. Then, how
much more danger there is to white
supremacy when white men teaches
the negro his strength and joins him
In his fight for supremacy.
The Republican party stands for
Capitalization, and in this respect it
is opposed to a popular form OF
government. Under its doctrine OF
centralization the encFoachment OF
the Federal Judiciary upon the con-
stitutional rights of the States is
alarming in the extreme and If al
lowed to 60 unchecked will eventually
overthrow American institutions and
lead to the establishment some other
form OF government repugnant to
freedom loving Americans. The Re-
sublican, as now organized, is known
as the '.Black" party. 1t was form
ally organized at Philadelphia, June
1s, 1856, by the nomination OF John
C. Fremont for the Presidency, and
was composed largely of disgruntled
politicians, Wings, abolitionists and
a very few patriotic men. 1t was
conceived in dishonor and born in ha-
tired toward the South and Southerns.
It's whole career has been marked by
the deepest enmity toward the South
and Southern interests. Ithas upheld
the North and has trodden down the
South, leaving behind as wh:tened
sepulchers to markits progress stag
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