The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-24

eeht Tor him n offered him tho -.
W., PIE as his piece without effect
- say from knowledge Of the facts
Welcome to a patriot
ror TOUR years\he had been regarded
us the orator laureate Of 10 O.,
- party. Now the Walls of their
-, "hu the Hood of their SANDER
WI os poured upon his head without
Ut All that his friends will have 70
Wv III order to answer their lies abont
~ II thls campaign will be to renro,
uuce III parallel columns all they have
na'u ABOUT him in the past four wears
hes ahect 10 sheer at him now but
my VIII hardly continue to do so after
the election,
Wherever there are patriotic hoar+s
to stir Davis will stir them 70 tboin
uep'ls. IN districts inhabited by large
numbers OF Beers II Germans he will
pe particularly strong in the cause of
human liberty. For years he has been
NY personal friend. have ALWAYS re-
Sarded him as too good a man to no in
the Republican party. On my own be-
halt and in behalf of thousands of 9th
er good Democrats l welcome him most
heartily into the Democratic party. He
IS only the advance guard of q great
army OF Republicans who love their
country better than they love their
party and will join us this year because
they knOw that we are fighting TO The
end that government of the people, by
the people. for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
George S. Boutwell,.
Davis belonged to the young gen
Grafton of Republicans. He is in the
flower Of his years and the prime of
his powers, but the break from the Re
publican party is not confined to the
youngsters. Just before Davis quit
them the Hon. George S. Boutwell, of
Massachusetts cut the same caper. He
is of the veterans Of the party, one
Of the men who made it. He was one
Of the earliest Republican governors
# Massachusetts and if my memory
rrveS me correctly the first. He be-
longs to hat race of New England
giants of which Charles Sumner was
the chief. He was not only governor
Of Massachusetts, but a representative
in congress, a senator OF the United
States Il 4 secretary Of the treasury.
He vas the friend and confidential adj
wiser of T.. S. Grant. 1t will not do for
Republicans to sheer at him any more
than it will do for them to sheer at
Webster Davis. The truth is that the
Republican party Of today is held to-
gether only by the cohesive power of
public plumber. If Lincoln and his CON
%o-, 49,, o~-JI r;co vo~ %1>ic
graves, they would utterly refuse to
recognize Hanna and his gang as lead
ers of the party which they once led.
Revolt Against Republicanism.
In leaving the Republican party Gov
ernor Boutwell, says:
1T is q vain hope that the Republic
an party as an organization can re-
verse his policy Of the president. The
hope is as vain as was the hope in
1868 that the Democratic party as an
organization would aid in the abolition
Of slavery"
Nor is the revolt against the Repub-
lican party confined to men who may
reasonably be supposed to have politi-
cal ambitions. 1t extends to men Of all
classes. For example. in my w coun-
ty, in the city of Louisiana, there is a
wealthy and influential lumber mer-
chant who was born q Republican and
has been a Republican all his life and
whose ancestors on both sides of the
house were Republicans and Maine Re
publicanS at that. He is a nephew or
the Hon. Israel Washburn, once a
congressman from Maine; of the Hon.
Elihu b. WaShburn, for 20 years a
leading Republican congressman from
| Illinois and both secretary of state II
minister to France under Grant; of the
late General Washburn of Wisconsin.
who was both governor of Wisconsin
/ and q general in the Union army; also
Of eX-Tnited States Senator WaShDurn
| Of Minnesota. Colonel Buffulm is II
of the few men living or dead who eve
had three uncles in the United states
| congress at the same time. He is a tine
business a independent financially,
and l doubt very much il he would ac-
cept any office whatever. Yet with
| these surroundings he feels it to be his
patriotic duty to leave the Republican
party and join the Democrats.
CoIored Men In Line.
Nor is the revolt confined to white
men of low or high degree, rich or poor.
Recently the colored people of Missouri
held a convention at ST. Joseph for the
purpose Of discussing the feasibility Of
nominating a ticket of their own OF or
Joining the Democracy. IT this move
ment should spread it would carry ter
ror and dismay into the ranks of the
Republicans in six or eight states
which usually give their vote to the
Republican presidential candidate. The
truth is that The colOred population
have been hewers of wood and draw
ers Of water ever since they were en-
f%ranchised. They are bully boys just
before the election in the RepuDllcan
estimation, and the next day 1t usually
SHOWS. so far as they are concerned
They are used as catspaWs TO pun Tue
chestnuts out Of the fire for the Repup,
leans, but they are not allowed 70 Ell
10Y any of the juicy kernels. 1hey are
beginning to realize that their interests