Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-04-02
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Expresses an opinion adverse to
this bill, it is proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in connec-
tion with some other matters of
more or less sinister ggestion, these
, are menaces of most omino us import.
"But, turn from the White House
to the Capitol and look at the Re-
publicans in Congress. The trail of
the trademark is over them all.
Old high tariff dances the can-can in
the House, whilst old ship.subsidy
does the regulation cake-walk in the
Senate. Everything for the syndi-
Gates. Nothing for the people.
And, not content with their arbi-
trary power in the White House and
their mercenary power in Congress,
the leaders of this party of Federal
ism and false pretention would rip
open Pandora's box to filch the
black, piratical flag of negro domina-
tion-the equally disreputable and
bloody-shirt of sectional agitation
aud, in order TO make sure of the
next House, they are proposing to
bring forward another force bill to
smite the South, to blight the North
and t,' convert a land teeming with
love and peace into land reeking
with hate and strife. Such is the
banquet to which the exit of Nc
Kinley, the statesman, and the ad-
vent of Roosevelt, the rough rider,
has invited us.
81 am something of jngo myself.
[ believe in the expanding greatness
and glory of my country. l never
see the flag floating above the dome
on yonder Capitol that my heart does
not throb with the proud, glad
thought-that my eyes do not fill
with happy, exultant tears-that I.
too, am an American citizen. God
bless the flag and God bless the boys
that fight beneath it. I'would carry
it inviolate. l would keep them
spotless. And with this in view
want to know what is going on away
out yonder across among the multi
tudinous, the mysterious waves of
the Pacific sea. | want other wit
nesses than self-seeking politicians
and self-exploiting soldiers to come
here and tell me. l refuse to hold
my tongue. refuse to rest content.
And if | am told by whipper-snap-
per in shoulder straps that unless /
do l am traitor to my country my
reply to him shall be a slap in the
face.
"Friends, brothers, Democrats, let
us have done with dissension. Let
US turn our backs on the past. our
eyes to the future, calling the old
fight off and the old scores square.
He who stands with me against
these things is my comrade, no mat
ter what he thinks or ever thought
about silver and gold. He who
would deny me place by his side
to fight them must be either per-
verse or very blind. Let us cross
no bridges till we come to them.
But already we can see far enough
ahead to take our reckoning. There
will be but one test of Democrat
in l9O4--toe the line-toe the line,
saying to arbitrary power and abso-
lutism, thou shall go no further; we,
too, are in the expansion busine ess,
but our expansion is for the religion
OF the Constitution no less than for
Christ and Him crucifed; our ex-
pansion means peace, not war; the
honor, not the degradation of the
flag, and just as surely as Jefferson
wrote the Declaration of Independ-
ence and Jackson fought the battle
OF New Orleans--to resist despotism
shall we make new Fourth of
July and celebrate another 9th of
January in resisting this unrighteous
scheme to abolish the Constitution
and Mexicanize the government"
Lewis Nixson was next introduced.
After few felicitous remarks re-
garding Virginia, his native State,
he drifted for moment into n rational
politics. He declared that the Demo-
Gratis of New York had made up
their mind to stop fighting one ano-
ther and turn their energies of war
against that great opposing party,
which so often had achieved success
through dissensions. in the Democ-
racy. The Democratic party of New
York, he said, promised itself to re-