The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-24

.." So spoke Capt. JOAN La1nbrith
.. Mr.. John Motley down in Barren
..uutE. Ky. Ills sixty years since"
.... Two We're nCighbOrs ana had been
..uis. They We're partners in bus
u..-- Lambrith furnishing the money
..l Motley the experience. with the
#.IaI result. The assets Of the firm
m.r1. a jaCkaSS. some mule colts, Il
#..uu of hogs, several barrels of Whis-
key, some hundreds of pounds Of to-
.H-rp in the plug and some thousands
off pounds of tobacco in the leaf. They
frrJcd all the way from Kentucky to
Georgia, and their operations covered
. period of several years. When they
...mc 10 settle Motley had all the
.uucy. and Lamhrith instituted Il suit
.. equity 90 suttlc the partnership.
Iu.Tr was an issue out of chancery
Submitted to a jury, and the common
.# rule then maintained in Kentucky
fItt a party to Il lawsuit was not Il
competent witness in his own behalf,
mU hc could be put on the stand and
Ht.rrOgated by the opposing counsel.
IHmbrlth had an excellent case that
appealed strongly to a sense of justice,
hHf no proof to sustain it. 50 he put
Motley on the stand and Motley, the
witness, dcpOsed swiftly and effectively
tnr Motley, the party, with the result
fHat the verdict of the jury and the
judgment of the bench were very dis
.@lfouS to capt. John Lambrith, who
tlmcdiatcIy walked out of the court
house and extended the invitation:
"Comc out here, Motley; come out
here: | want to tell you how mean
you arc'-an invitation which Mr..
MntIcy did not accept, for Mr. Motley
WaS a man of prudence as we'll as 4
mau of cunning, and had the shreWd-
u.~s TO know that however safe it was
tu contend with Captain Lambrth in
81 lawsuit. it was very different mat
fur to go a-prOjecin' With Captain
Lambrith in a fight, and it was then
and there manifest that the Captain
Was in a fighting mood and he was al
WAYS in fighting trim.
Secretary Taft has been down South,
and if | understand his mission it was
lo tel the Southern Republicans how
.mnln they are. At any rate, that is
what he did He said they We're a
hfrad-and-butter brigade, and that
lhry would never be worth the dcNil's
bnnEtng until they ceased to billet
Themselves ON the United States blue
book. Mr.. Taft seems to have forgot
ten that Il place in that same blue
book is the highest ambition of the
aVorage Southern Republican. and if
there were no blue book here in Wash
ington. there would be no Republican
party down South.
There has never been q real Re
publican party at the South though
There are some capable and excellent
@eutIemcn III that section who sincere
parity must SAVIOR of the soil; it must
have sympathy; it must have senti-
mont; Ii must have principle; it must
have faith. Whatever the Republi-
can party may be at the North, it has
ne of these elements at the South.
Except the eight years Mr.. Cleveland
Was President, the South has been
h"thing politically but so many sa-
trpics. For ten years they were mil
uary Satrapics. They are satrapies
t,f L -
region between the Potomac and the
Rio tirandc. If there is any patriotic
sentiment down thCrc associated With
This great big government at Washing
]'io 1t Is in spite of the Repubhcan
PARTY. for if all the cunning of all the
devils had been invoked to devise a
scheme TO crush out all love at the
south for the national establishment,
no Improvement could have been made
nn the plan of the ''Republican South
.tn policy and Mr.. RooseVelts is the
worst of all of them. 1t Is lntolef-
able. He would patrOnize the South.
If Mr.. Lincoln had lived the South
would have been rehabilitated. Upon
his death the South was reconstruct
'd. 1t was us impossible as it was in
I9mous-that reconstruction-as vain
us 1T was atrOCiOuS. Tn3ddeus stevens.
1@rles sumner, Ben Wade, Zach
handler, Ben Butler, John \. Logan,
il"nfN Wilson, and the other RepuD-
Hrau leaders are great names in our
t'Ilucal history. and yet as states
mon they We're the most hopeless
h0nderers of all history. Their sys-
tenn was very Simple-the negro should
If. set to govern the Southern States,
.Hd turn their votes in the electoral
college and their Senators and Rep
lt~'ntHtiVcs i'll Congress over to the
t,-puhlcan party. OF course. it took
.'v army to sustain that vileness, and
'H many of the Southern States the
White people seized control in spite
ut the army. AS lon~ as there are
..'n and women at the South who re
.' 1!her carpetbaggery and nesro
domination. upheld by bayonets. there
tI be no real Republican party at
81" South. and the organization down
."'To Will pursue its old trade OF har-
>.sjln@ a crop of delegates quadren-
iIlT and marketing them in the
0+uonal convention. That is the show
has been for forty years, and that
the show it will be the next sue
|""dng forty years-a bread-and-but-
"r brigade that lays awake Of nights
@leTlng its wits trying to pick q
WINNER in the Republican National
convention.
Secretary Taft advises the South to
''l jhlS concern. eat of this mess Oh
-"I page. In the main. the South has
"''h Il poor gueSSer in Republican ma
."h2I conventions. 1t was divided be
"'"n Morton and Conl<ling in 1876
''hjfacted to Sherman III 1871. but
.."ugh it got the price. the goods
''r short. 1t was for Arthur in 1884
ih" OK kuOWeth his owner and The
his masters crib" 1t was unfor-
adJc in 1883, and in 1896 it was foi
IE llama up to the handle and de-
"F.lod the goods
"a" South has no more intention O.
hinS Republican than it has o.
,I' "u& pagan. And why should It
| lr rs nothing Southern III the lie
"l'1u party, nothing national III II
~ "7@ born n Northern and a sectiona
h'I ". As such it has lived, as such /