The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-09
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f~ankuess. courage. chifaIry. broad
ness. greatness: = typical gentleman.
typical patriot. and 1pical
.,,rtb CaroIsnlan. Then turn TO look
=, .he other face. OF the dimInutiTe
< snmons-IittIe IN statue and small
or in character. Behold: 4 psgmy.
uho could not look an honest maa
atraight in the face: q man With
iowerlnx and scogIing countenance,
xfth A dropping elongated and furtiye
eye. and features that showed that
be vas the opposite OF the great
Vance In every great and noble quail
5.y-a contrast as marked as the
Inference between day and night,
hstWeen light and darkness face
that shows insincerity. double-deal-
ing. treachery and cunning OF very
I8u order.
AS you look into the eyes and
the face of that man Simmons, va
rfous thought would no doubt arise.
What blood runs in his veins? The
cate that there might be some Chi
negr blood Of the Cooley class. There
would no doubt also occur to the
average mind that there must be
some dark and off-colored Portuguese
blood that may have come from a
buckaneer ship stranded on Ameri-
can shores. Next, there would no
doubt occur 10 one that there must
be trace of Indian blood, but blood
which carries with 1t none Of the
noble virtues that the Red Man has.
And even then 1t would no doubt
occur to the average mind that in
that dark, sinister vacillating, cum
ming. double-dealing treacherous
face there were indications that there
was still other blood of lower and
worse kind mixed in the awful con-
glommerate composition.
We have all been more or less
greatly disappointed at some time
in our lives by certain persons who
were our neighbors and supposed
friends. We do not stop to look
critically into the face and the eye
OF the man who has been raised by
us, whom we have seen always, and
whom we have become to judge more
by his professions of friendship than
by the unmistakable marks which
the Almighty placed upon his face
and in his eye. Most of us have
had the experience Of having our
faith shapen in such supposed
friend when an opportunity has .oc-
ar nrnfif
betraying us, and then we have
found that those who had first look
ed upon that face as the face of a
stranger had read his true charac-
ter while he had been blind to it.
'In the light of this thought, it is
not strange that so many people who
saw this man Simmons for the~first
time in Washington City were sur
prised, not to say astonished, that
the great State of North Carolina
should send man with suchaa coun-
tenance as one of it's representatives
to the greatest legislative body on
earth.
Some of the door-keepers Of the
Senate could not believe that such a
looking man could be United States
Senator. There were some who, de-
spite the fact that every feature in
his face showed everything but a
senatorial look, were constrained to
believe that back Of that unprepos-
essing and un-senatorial face there
must be some element of genius in
disguise. But even that qualified
hope or belief was soon dispelled,
when this senatorial pigmy showed
by his words and actions that there
we're no hidden talents or virtues in
disguise, but that his true measure
was no larger than indicated by his
plgmy countenance.
"Fellow-citizens, aside from this,
[ call upon any man in this audi
ence to-day, to state one single pub
lie act of this man since he has been
in the Senate in which the State can
take any just pride. It is case OF
small hybrid, denounced as being
chiefly distinguished as the profess
sional head Of ballot-box stuffffers.
getting into a seat in the great Unit
ed States Senate mistake and a
misfit horrible to contemplate. CAP
plause.)
Vance's Contempt for Simmons.
Fellow-citizens, this is not only
my estimate of Mr.. Simmons, as his
true measure, but I will refer you
to the highest Democratic authority
that the State can produce. Sen.
ator Vance had occasion to observe
some of the conduct of this man Sim.
mons sufficient to enable him to de-
termine his true measure and size
It is well known to the people of the
State that the beloved Vance had
not only great distrust of this man
but, indeed, had. to his dying day
the greatest contempt for him. It Ii
known that Senator Vance declared