The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-05-01
An Explanation.
70 the Editor of the Dispatch:

70 the Editor OF the Dispatch:
Several times during the campaign
last August I was asked by intimate
friends if I had any arrangement
with the Republican party for taking
the position I did. To all such l
answered no. What I did was known
to no one, except my wife, till the de-
cision was fully reached and only a
day or two before I sent the an
nouncement to the Dispatch did l.
tell any one except one or two OF the
County Executive Committee. l.
told him I would force the Executive
Committee to accept or reject just
that situation. In 1896, when /
said in an article TO the State, that
I was Republican, it was expressly
expressed that I was only one under
white mans control. I stated the
same to the Republican County Con-
yention in Lexington, assembled to
elect delegates to the State Conven-
tion for Presidential nominations. l
told them that no other form OF
Republicanism could or should sue
ceed here. When [ say white, l
mean pure, genuine Anglo Saxon
native born Americans, aud Of Saxon
blood. BE is the hope OF not only
this, but every other Republic must
build On his achievements. That is
just my objection to the National
Democratic party. At the North
the Democratic party is controlled
by the whites, but alas! those whites
are largely foreign born and very
largely Catholic in religion. They
show the same opposition to political
progress that their fathers do in the
Old World. The Democratic psrty
at the North is stranger to Ameri-
can progress and civilization and its
\ Ntriumphs only means something like
negro rule means down here.
The late elections in cities are
largely Democratic and it is in the
cities of the North, where Demo
cratic success depends for its tri-
umph. They very largely control
the foreign element and are very
largely in control Of the C'tholic
Z vote and for its success these need
give my poor deluded fellow citizens
any consolation.
The Northern Democracy is. non
progressive and non American in
feelings and hopes and only takes up
the Southern vote to carry it's ends.
It is an unreliable, non trustworthy
class of men as whole, but possess
ing small, but helpless minority of
free traders, which can't control any
influence at home.
When you leave the cities in the
North the Republicans surely can
control the situation. We will be
helpless and powerless to do any
thing or have any control in Ameri-
can politics till We leave off our asso-
Citations politically and we had just
as we'll face that issue right now.
To talk about the Southern Dsmo-
cracy being progressive or up to date
is to talk in total ignorance Of the
very conditions, which confronts the
Democracy Of today and the minute
that is done that moment the South
ern Democracy will have to cut
loose from its Northern arm and
fight The latter single handed and
alone. To talk about Democracy
and Anglo-Saxon is mere political
and newspaper hash. They are
antagonistic and hostile and can't be
united in wedlock. There is no love
nor common bond of fraternal union
between the two. The Arglo Saxons
are the foremost vanguard of the
human family. We are the future
rulers of the destiny Of man and
where he does not reign the world
has but little political and much less
religious freedom. The devil knows
his enemies too well TO be deceived
and he hates the American flag be-
cause it breaks the bonds of religious
intolerance and bids all men be free,
and the devil is the chief enemy of
expansion and imperialism because
he suffers most from American suc-
cess. We had just as well fight the
wind and the tides than that, that is
latter day Democracy. In the earlier
day when the Southerner controlled
the party it was expansive and ac-
quired nearly all Of our possessions
till 1860, but since then the foreigner
controls its policy and now the
policy of jefferson and jackson is
dsmnabie heresy and crime. The
Democratic party tried for years to
get Cuba and offered Sl00,00O,0o0