The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-04-03
A WARNING TO DEMOCRATS
"THE MAN ON IIORSEBACK.v -
Arbitrary Power the Motor and
the Almighty Dollar the Trade
Mark.

Mark.
, Hon. Henry Wattcrson, editor of tn,
Louisville Courier Journal, made &
speech several nights ago before tic
Virginia Democratic club ut the Metro
politan hotel in Washington, ID. G..
and spoke as follows:
There is no drop of blood in m,
veins which is not Virginia blood. AL.
though forpurposcs Of my own, having
Il deep design beneath them, | chose
this capital of the nation for my birth.
place, my earliest vision of Paradise
the very dawn of all my conceptions
of honor and duty and glory--ncs;lcd
among yondcr hills across the poto.
mac; and when 90 hence, my ashes
shalt rcpOsc upon the hos, I'm OF Ken.
Virginia's first born and farcst
daughter. There seems, therefore,
some illness in my sitting among YOU.
" Anyhow, being a Ecntuckian and
Il Democrat, am glad to be here and
you will not, | hope, think me assum-
ing any consequential airs and graccs.
| if add that feel very much at home,
"Wc are Democrats. We love oar
country. Our hearts beat true TO its
| institutions. We wonld rescue the
government from the hands of those
who arc converting it into a govern
mcnt Of the trusts, for the trusts and
by the trusts, and restore it to the
hands OF those who will have some re-
gard Tor the rights of the people.
"Thc Republican party is Il syndi
Gated party. Arbitrary power is its
motor. the almighty dollar IT'S trade
mark. If il be not checked in the GAIT
it is going, it will in the end surely
McXicanize the republic.
"Oncc again in the White Uousc
we have the man on horseback. Ar.
fccting the simplicity of the cowboy,
he cOnccals beneath the sclr-cOnlidcncc
and queer manners OF the broncho
buster, the sentiments and ambitions,
II not the talents, Of Diaz. 10 him.
htlle thing like treating an admiral
OF IN navy, wearing the laurel leaves
Oh lmpcrlShaDic renown, as if he were
a baby III aims, now to be dawtllcd
and now to be spanked, is merely an
undrcss affair begun and ended dur
ing oi1-mOmcnts between breakfast
anu luncheon. TO him the rcprimand-
ing OF the acknowledgement OF the
army, grown gray in the fighting Of the
battles OF his country becomes an anus.
ing horse play, meant to relax lis
muscles and illustrate his high. might
mess, whilst warning lesser officers OF
| thc army TO obey orders and say moth
ing.
l." AS these things go forward, par
taking somewhat Of the character of
feats to divert and blinds to hoodwlnk
public opinion, bill Of army re-
organization is prepared and urged
upon Congress, which, if it becomes q
law, will make the powcr Of the prcsi.
dent absolute, and which it is not toc
much to say ought to be entitled AN
act to make the President of the United
States a military DICTATOR because
the rcprmandcd ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
answering the summons of a committed
OF Congrcss-as was his duty cX.
presses an opinion adverse to this bin
1t Is proposed to retire him from the
service. Taken in connection with
some other matters of mere or less
sinister suggestion, these are menaccs
OF most OminOus import.
"But, turn from the White House
to the capitol, and look at the Rcpubli
cans in Congress. The trail of the
trade mark is over them all. Old hiri
tariff dances the can-can IN the House
whilst Old ship subsidy does the rcgu
lation cake walk in the Senate. Every
thing for the syndlc ttcs. Nothing f0l
tho people. And, not content will
their arbitrary power in the White
House and their mcrccnary power in
Congress-, the leaders of this party OF
Federalism and false prctension would
rip open IandOra's box to Iilch thence
the black, piratical flag of negro dom
ination-thc equally disrcpulabIc and
bloody shirt OF sectional agitation
and, III order to make sure Of the next
House they arc proposing to bring for
ward another Force bill to smiLc the
Sor h, to blight the North, and to con
vert a land tccming with love and
peace into a land rccklng with hate
and strife. Such is The banquet tt
: which the exit of Mckinley, the states
man, and the advent of Roosevelt, tn,
Rough Rider, has Invited us.
" am something Of jingo myself
believe in the expanding grcatncs
and glory of my country. never Sc
the flag floating above the dome OF
} yondcr capitol that my heart does no
. throb with the proud, glad thought
G that my eyes do not fill with happy OK
ultant tcars--thaL | too, an am Amer
can citizen.
"God bless the flag, and God blcs
C the boys that fight beneath it. | woul
Y carry it lnviOlalc, and would kec
), them spotlcss. And with this in view
h ] wadt to know what is going on ava
out yOndcr across the multitudrn0u.
n the mysterious waves of the I'acll
sea. ] want other witnesses than sci
seeking politicians and sclf-cXploitin
soldiers to come here and tell me.
refuse TO hold my tongue. refuse
rest content. And, if am told by
whippcrsnappe in shoulder sLra]
that, unlcsi | do, | am traitor to n
country, my reply to him shall be sla
III the face.
" Friends, brothers, Democrats, l.
us have done with disscnson. Let
turn our backs ON the past our eyes
the future, calling against 'Lhcsc thin
is my comradc, no matter what