The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-04-17
A NOTE OF WARNING.

the intelligence that the President
has appointed Mr.. John G Capers
attorney of the Uuited States Court
for the District of South Carolina,
succeeding Abial Ls,hrop, Esq, OF
O:angeburg.
MIR Cspers is descendant from
some of the best families of South
Carolina, the male members of
which have been life long Democrats
and have taken an active and promi-
nent part in the councils of the party
from time immemorial. 1t eau be
said that he was literally rocked IN the
cradle of Democracy and has re-
manned faithful to its principles up
to few years ago when he refused
to support the silver plank in the
Democratic platform and declined
to follow the leadership of Colonel
BRYAN. Ia the last National cam
paign he canYassed the State Of West
Virginia for Mr.. Mckinley and this
appointment is possibly reward for
his services on that occasion.
The appointment came as startling
as clap of thunder from clear sky
to Democrats and Republicans alike
and the dry bones in both parties
ratified as they never ratified before.
With the Republicans and their party
machinery we have nothing to do.
That party as now known was born
in hatred to the South and conceived
in inquity, which alone is enough to
damn it in the eyes of all Southern
ers as an unholy and unclean thing
that defleth all that it touches. 1t
is true that good men, have identified
themselves with it form patriotic and
unsel6sh purposes, in order that their
presence and counsel might have the
tendency, at least, to cheek the wild
extravagauces and reckless violations
of the laws of decency which cbarsc-
terized that party in the Southern
States. It was not from love Of the
methods of that party that they made
the great sacrifice of principle. There
are others today who would doubtless
surrender their principles for the
sake of the spoils offered as re-
ward for their desertion, but they are
few and carry no weight nor strength
nor respectability with them.
To the Democrats this appoint
ment, as we'll as others which it is
reported are to follow, presents an
object lesson that it would do well
for the leaders to pause and consider.
That there is state of unrest and
dissatisfaction existing within the
party ranks can no longer be denied.
This unrest has passed that stage
when longer concealment of apps-
rent facts is neither policy nor wis
dom. The reconciling of the an
tagonistic elements in the party
calls for the exercise of the broadest
and most liberal craftsmanship aud
he who succeeds in the task will be
entitled to the pludits of all lovers
of liberty. 1t is essential to party
unity and party integrity that the ia
tai mistakes which have been erected
as monuments of defeat in the history
OF the party; that the party should
adjust itself to the progress of tho
times and adopt such policy that
will fully meet the requirements and
demands of the necessities arising
from our changed conditions; live,
progressive and aggressive Issues
must be raised to foster and pro-
tect the interests of the New South
in all her varied industries and at the
sametime protecting those of the
North, East and West and thus for
ever wiping out the hatred and pre-
iudices of sectionalism; we must
inspire the great industrial masses
with confidence in the sincerity Of
purpose and ebility of the party to
faithfully carry out toe pledges
of the party, and then will the Dem
ocratic party stand some chance at
the polls. All this can be accom-
plished within the Democratic party,
as orthordoX Democrats and without
doing violence to the time honored
principles of the Fathers, if the
party will only cut itself loose from
the dead issues which come to as as
voices from a forgotten past and from
all other entaDgling alliances which
have so often carried the party TO
disgraceful defeat.
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