The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-25

80 xInxs. or one os Wade aarnp-
tons plantations than ali
could show. bat as hal no.
abolished slavery ~hen secession
came. the Ssz.t~ has always bern
counted part 81 tho solid south. a.
are West Virginia and Missouri one
Of which IS thoroughly P~n~nsslVaniA
lied and the other y great Teal more
Western than southern ~ an cary
day MAS somewhat Inclined
10 the Federal party The RayATd
Of that period was a Fe3eraliHt. who.
advised by AieKander Hamilton de
cided the tie vote Is Jefferson
and Burr N fHvcr OF the former Iais
10 one Of the capcrs of that harlequin.
fortune. that made a FedeTalkt me
instrument TO elevate the father of TIC
then Republican-wand now Democratic
party to the PresidsncS II the Amer
can republic IA FedeTatlsts were
cut down about the beginning of tho
last century. but later. from the stump.
came ths shoot that grew into tnF
Wing party. hat was strong In Della
ware. giving. as q did John NJ Clay
ton. To ornament American statesman
ship and lend lusJer 70 the United
states senate.
No man can name a thing that has
received more advice than the negro
race. unless Ct be the Democratic
PARTY. ana, +ske the negro race the
Democratic perns Is loftily contefuptu
GUS OF advice. II just plunRes along
without guide on Land. or compass on
sea. n tramp and "A derelict trusting
To the Puck that Is ever elusive And
yet there has never been "A single day
that a majority OF the American peo-
pie did not incline To the true prin-
ciples OF the Democratic party as IL
Illustrated in the preachments Of JeTer-
son and Tflden. and i~ncarnated IN the
Aaal0 80 InnLGnr ar1 ElAA.t2n4
Just now the Democratic party is adj
vised 20 nominate George Gray for
President Cut bono2 Alton Il Par
ker would be President his blessed
moment II the Eastern Democrats had
striTen as sincerely and as zealouFly
for his election as they did for his
nomination. and II the friends OF VIII
liam j.. Bryan had supported him as
Loyalty as Judge Parker supported
Mr.. Bryan In 1895 and IN 1900. Who
will go bail that the Eastern Demo-
Gratis would not lay down between the
convention and the election in 1908,
as they did in 1904. II Gray were
nominated? And who would under
take TO deliver to the ticket the full
Bryan vote west of the Allegheny
Mountains?
And il is this uncertainty that has
brought the conservative element Or
the Democratic party to view with
absolute complacency the pospect for
the third nomination Of Mr.. Bryan.
and what disturbs them is the fact
that Bryan will win If the coin falls
heads. and they will lose If Il falls
tails-that is TO say. that Mr.. Bryan
will shirk the battle II ii appears hope
less. sending another Parker to the
slaughter, and Selling the nomination
for himself If the signs are propitious.
What would the world have thought
of Robert f. Lee If he had surrend-
cred the command to Gordon or
Longstreet when Appomattox became
clearly inevitable?
George Gray was born at New Cas-
tie. Del, MAY j. 1910. and has restd-
ed there ever since. suppos his
was a Presbyterian family, for he
was sent to Princeton for an educa-
ton, and was graduated there in the
class Of 1859. when he was 10, re-
ceiving the degree of a. b, and three
years later the degree of A. NJ. He
studied law in his fathers office. and
then attended the famous law school
of Harvard University. In 1863 he
came to the bar. He was twice At
torney General Of, the State. and rank
ed with the foremost lawyers of the
North Atlantic Seaboard. He was a
delegate to the Democratic conven
lions OF 1876. 1880 n 1884, in all OF
which he stroye for the nomination OF
Thomas Francis Bayard, the greatest
Democrat and the greatest statesman
Delaware ever produced.
While Bayard left the Senate to be
Secretary OF state in Mr.. Cleveland's
first cabinet. Delaware sent Gray to
supply the can in the Senate, and
he ranked with the ablest and best
men in that body during the entire
fourteen ear he was a member OF II.
In 1886 1t had not yet come in fash
ion to pull down great statesmen and
put in their stead hopeless mediocri-
ties. And here just a little p~endantry
may not be resented.
When that big, bluff. coarse, vulgar.
rude, b~eef-eating. ale-guzzling Eng
lishrnan, Robert Walpole, vas master
Of Great Britain, the one man he was
determined should not be his rival in
the state was Bolingbroke. BY q cap
rice of fortune B~olingbroke a lost
on the throw Of the dice when Queen
Ann He attempted TO restore
the Stuart. and would have succeeded
If the old Queen had not been so pre-
cipitate in dying. The house OF Han
over came in. Bolingbroke went into
exile. became prime minister of the
pretender's court without a realm. was
tried and convicted Of treason, and at
tainted.
Old Walpole had as much good ma
ture as he had good sense and suffered
To return TO England and
Tut himself at the head of he Tory
party-out of Parliament. MacauIey
cites the following array of talent
who assailed the administration Boil
ingbroke. Carteret. Chesterfield, Ar
gyle, Pulteny. Wyndham. Doddington,
Pitt, Littelton. Pope. Swift. Gay. Ar
puthnot, Fielding. Johnson. Thompson,
Akenside and Glover. OF these Boiling
broke was the most brilliant. and the
n WalpOle most feared. Though
a Tory, Bolingbroke's political writ
ings in that great WaIpoleon battle"
would serve for a great deal better
Democratic platform than any we
have had since 1892. The spirit Of
liberty and the a~rraignment Of arbit-
rary power is magnificent in every
paper, couched in the brilliant liter
cry style Of the foremost political
writer of even that splendid age. He
was eV2n a greater rator than he was
a writer and that was why Walpole.
who might have sent him TO the scat
iold, held the attainder over him to
Keep him out Of Parliament.
WalDole lost. and was kicked m
stairs TO the House of Lords. where
MS rival in the Commons. Pulleny.
soon Joined him-also kicked mn
stairs But B~olingbroke gained no
Ihlng. He died an attainted traitor.