Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-12
SATURDAY EVENING, MAR -, 1855.

CONGRESSMAN WALKER OF Lue 9ln
district denies that he is either o rene
sade or worse than Turks. Whether
he is worse than seven or ten turks,
those familiar with him know; we do
not but we have no unkind feelings for
the Turks and our sympathies were
with them in their war with Russia,
But in respect of the statement that he
is a renegade, we have to differ with
him. A renegade is one who changes
his faith, and political renegade, one
who changes his political faith. MIR.
Walker, few years ago was pro-
nounced democrat. He changed his
faith, no matter for what reason, soon
after g State democratic convention
failed to put his name on its ticket,
turned republican, was elected to Con-
press as such, and has exhibit
conspicuous iudelicacy and lack OF
good taste by rot only allowing the
three contested election cases from his
own State to be referred to the COM
mittee of which be is chairman, but OF
referring two of them to the sub'com'
mittees thereof, of which he is
also chairman. But on the charge re-
ferred to we appeal from Mr.. Walker,
republican, to Mr.. Walker democrat. In
a letter written to Northern repub-
lican newspaper when ne was demo-
crat, Mr.. Walker said:
1.-THE South is solid against the poll
teal hereses and political principles OF
the republican party, and not against
the North as section. Southern
democrats, as we'll as northern demo
Gratis, are opposed to the centralizlng
doctrines and tendencies OF the repuh'
Iican party. which would destroy the last
yestige of states rights" and make
sovereign States no more than counties.
The Southern people are, and have al
ways been, opposed to high protective
tariffs, to the use of troops at the polls,
and to the subordination of the civil to
the military power, while all these
things have been advocated and upheld
by the republican party. The best
and only means l know OF to remove
the frightful spectacle of millions ofpeo-
ple voting their honest and sincere poll.
tical principles at the ballot box is to
corrupt them, and by bribery induce
them to vote for policy, and not for
nrincinle. IL is useless 10 DENY that
if the Northern statesmen and the
Northern press on the republican side
are the true exponents of the republl-
can feeling, the republican party OF the
North hate Eyes, that Is the word the
South and the Southern people, and
nate sown will, like the dragons teeth,
breed crop of armed men. The price
which the republican party has always
fixed as the equivalent for its ceasing to
persecute the South has been an un-
conditional surrender of its democratic
principles and the adoption of the creed
of that party. Thank God, the demo-
cratic white people of the South are not
for sale, and all the Establishments of q
republican administration could not
make them prove false to their political
principles. To democratic admin
isration we look for relief from the
onerous and unjust taxes placed upon
the industries OF the South, and from
the enormous and grinding impositions
placed upon it by bounty tariff, which
puts millions upon millions annually
into the pockets Of Northern manufac-
turers at the expense Of the Southern
producer. The time has not come nor
is it near when the white people of Vir.
ginia will seek utilization with new par
ties, and with the republican or negro
party it never, no never, will come"
All unprejudiced and unbiased peo-
pie will decide that the appeal has been
we'll taken and the charge sustained.
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