The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-02-03
OUR WA>IilNhT3N LETTER.



1hc Niairo! ~" Jr,>,; la, brn
iookcl mon and !, once ,hc plyo'u
States ~ I'll" campaign Of rhi5 year
!; Is one Of III" states 'lat th,. Demo
clHcy must cnnry in nrdcr L" win The
"irrllpn. ir leaders Of The party
here III the national capital have had
Their eyes On thar State ion some time
and lave been watching htyrlop,nrnts
over there They rraiI/". ~ does
every man who has any political know
ledge OF til" situation IN that State,
that the democratic party OF the State
OF Ncw Jersey has Eccn singiilarly nm
fortunate during the past six years
from the fact hat il has had at lis
mead rs executive an assistant Irpnb
ilcan III the pri.On OF Vim. Il. t,onr
icy. OF l'h,tcison Gonllcy wilinliy
and deliberately ni,irpIrs,iItrd Tie
sentiment nt his party at he meeting
ot illc dcnncrhlic national cunminlitcr
at tins city on January -, by dtclallng
himself and his State for cleveland
toi President, when he knew that New
Jersey would have none OF Cleveland
or any man or plan in the least tinctur-
td with Clcvclan,lSn. And 10 make
his action the more ubhOircnt to the
democrats OF New Jersey, Gourlcy
WAS the only member of the national
committee who publicly declared him
SELF Tor Clcvcllnd'S candidHcy. In an
interview published in the Newark
News OF january T., tiouilcy, not con
tent with bctInyinS the party III his
own State, paid his respects III cllaIac.
trilstIc style To the great democracy of
the south, which always has been
true to the principles of Jefferson and
Jackson, in the following terms
"lhc Southern States will go demo
| cratic even if the national ticket is
headed by Il NANCY yellow dog"
This malicious villiiicati0n OF his
own party in the South was due to the
fact that he was we'll aware that that
| section of the country despises demo-
Gratis of his ill1 80 thoroughly that If
never heard of beyond tho confines of
their own political tOmbs. lie knew
also that Mr.. Cleveland Is held at his
true value by the loyal and valiant
democracy Of the South. Hence his
petty slunder of that section.
Several weeks ago wrote para
| graph in this letter about the Hon.
Jessie Overstreet, of Indiana, and ac-
custd him of doing the very thing
which Mr.. Fourth Assistant Postmas-
ter General BristOw had inveighed
against in his report, that of members
| of Congress asking for an increase in
some country post Office and placing
some favOIite in the Office to draw the
| increase as q salary. was given this
information by man here in whom
had confidence or ! would never have
used it. Since it was published have
seen and talked with MIR. Overstreet
and he assures me ON his word of hon
or that the act attributed to him is not
true, and that he never has made Il re-
quest for an increase for any post office
outside of his district in all the history
of his Legislative life. | have known
! MT. UvcIstreet here for he pHst seven
been misinfOrmed and have accused
him wrongfully, and knowing him to
be IN honorable gentleman, the only
| thing for an honest man to do lS to re-
tract tho accusation, to be sorry for
| the spread OF the mislnf OF nation and
regret that he has done any man an in
Justice am playing politics in writ
ing thes" letters, but never will i'm
| pose Il lle on the readers of them il
know it. This is the first instance in Is
year that any man has said to mo that
| l either mlsQuOted him or accused him
| wrOngfully. | am sincerely sOrry that
it has occurred and hope that every pa
per which published the statement
about MIR. Overstreet will do me the
favor and him the justice to publish
| this retractiOn.
The late speech Of Hon. William j :,
Bryan. In the city of Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, in which he outlined his position
on the next democratic platform and
advocated the ratification and reaffir-
nation of the Chicago and Kansas
City platforms, thereby making the
money issue again the leading issue in
the campaign OF at least one Of the
leading issues, has attracted much
attention here among the leaders of
the DBrty in CODpreaS
careful poll OF the democrats in
Congress fails to reveal any consider
able number OF them who agree with
MIR. Bryan. More than nine tenths OF
them are opposed to making money
ISSUE prominent III the platform or even
mentioning it at all.
They say that the money issue for
the present is a closed issue That the
influx Of gold to this country on ac-
count OF the new gold strikes in the
klondike and other places, the failure
OF crops In the older countries and the
money dumped into circulation on ac-
count of the late Spanish merican
war, has proved conclusiveIy the Demo-
cratic contention in those two plat
tallc money III circulation to do the
business of the country on, that this
increase Of the gold has supplied the
place Of the silver tor which they con-
tended, that the consequence was what
they eontended it would be, viz =
Prosperity.
This refusal to agree With Mr. Bryan
in his idea of;sRhat the next platform
should be has attracted widespread
attention here to the recent interview
with Hon. William Randolph Hearst
published in the Chicago Tribune of
January 10. In that interview Mr.
| Hearst outlined what he believed IN he
the vital issues OF the next campaign
and he struck note Of sympathy in
the minds and hearts of the majority
OF the democratic leaders. when he
said: ''The main issue ola party of the
people il to attend TO the business be-
fore tho people.
| ''ln this country of sudden trust de-
vei0pment the one dominating issue
made SO by the trusts themselves-is
tho trust issue"
| Those two sentences struck the ma
jOrity Ut the democratic leaders here