The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-24

ism, In the person OF +. ID. Winston.
who, while still serving his noviti-
ate, was destined To rise 10 the
leadership Of a sort OF Jacobin Leg
islature, and TO be- known hence
forth as the Danton OF an Opera
Bouffe Revolution-but should he,
hereafter, be found numbering the
Girondists, As he did in his speech
on the Suffrage Amendment, ! must
beg that We will not again apply
the epithet OF "old" to Barbaroux,
who persisted SO young. But grea-
ter far than this, than these, than
ail-the Wyman among politicians
and thu aspiring Goebel Of this af-
fiicted State-and exercising with
out asserting il, an ascendency over
all, was one whose name, is like
unto no other name in North Caro-
lima, and is none other than the
name Of
FURNIFOLD MACCLENSASD SIMMONS.
This is he, who has been described
as strange and mysterious being,
with a stealthy tread, and down
cast look, but this description,
protest, does him great injustice,
for / can testify that, oftener than
once, have seen his eyes elevated
in the direction of seat in the L.
| S. Senate.
These are some of those High
| Councillors who dominated the
meeting Of May 20 1895; and if
have taken the trouble to preserve
their names, it is only because the
major part of them, together with
others of only local celebrity, con-
stituted at that time, the Mechan-
ical Department of the Democratic
party, and some of them are still its
Master Machinists. And scarcely
one of them has lost, since then, the
smallest share of his influence in
the councils of his party, while all
of them, with the single exception
which / have noted, were either
cold or hostile to any scheme Of
Negro Colonization.
But to return to the Resolutions
themselves. Their avowed object
was to REORGANIZE the Demo
cratic party, In such way as *
make Of it new party, that should
be, not merely in name but in fact
White-Man's Party, and such al
should be built not upon the i'm
possible basis of White-Suffrage, o.
, the fuctuating basis of White-Of
fice-holding, but upon the granite
, foundation of White Labor, which
: is the only security for the othe
: two.
, The first Resolution of the Serie
+ declared for the Deportation of TIN
: negro race, and all of them had tina
, one end in view. And all Of them
, after the fullest debate, were vote'
, down by majorities so large tina
no division was called fc7. i me sig
: nificance of such vote amid al
. vne circumstances surrounding tn
D case-the party had just been dis
!. astrOusly beaten---could not be mis-
: taken, and could only be unde1
: stood, as revealing a fixed pull
: pose to keep the negro foreve
r among us, and to make of hin
Y hereafter, as heretofore, politica
J., stalking-horse, forgetting that sue
a thing might yet become a hippo
! griff that would carry its ridel
over a rougher road, and upon
s wilder chase than that of MaZepp;
a And fully satisfied as l was, an
/, am, that such was the inyincibl
determination of this party Of Fal>
Pretenoo, there Was nothing le
d for me TODD, but "to acquiesce in til
j. necessity which denounced our SCI
l. aration," and to withdraw from a
y association, to which l have sint
j. felt no inclination to return.
= r. B. DAVIS.