The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-16
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vast audience. DR.. Person looked
,round and over the great assembly,
.rd there fell the stiffness OF death
from one end OF the hall 10 the other.
Dr Person waited for a few moments
and then. with uplifted hand and
measured words. said: "Fellow-eiti-
zena IL Ia every word the God .
truth" tremendous and prolong-
ed applause.)
CowardIy Treaehery Toward sena-
tor Vance.
Next We see this cringing scyo-
phant. Daniels. in his boot-licking
course as Democratic editor. trying
10 curry Democratic machine favor
by his praise OF Democratic leaders.
Governor Vance was the idol OF
the people of the State. Editor DAN
iels, therefore, in an effort to not
only curry favor with so great a
man, but in order TO try TO add to his
own personal popularity, and to call
attention from his own littleness and
e.
tried to out-Herod Herod In his
praise OF Senator Vance. Indeed, the
tributes which he paid to Governor
Vance week after week and day after
day, were OF a nature so fulsome that
it could hardly have been appreciat-
ed by man like Vance.
1T is the habit of small and cow
ardly men to faun and pander, when
they can, before great men, and al
ways to run after and hang on to the
coat tails of such men. No editor In
North Carolina has ever surpassed
this man Daniels in playing this syco-
phant part from the days of Vance
to the days of Bryan, and he will be
just as bad in the next campaign, no
matter whether the leader is then
Harmon, Wilson or Bryan.
Daniels continued eulogiZing Sen
atQr Vance prominently in his paper
until Grover Cleveland was elected
President, and until it was known
that Senator Vance refused to barter
his convictions on great public ques-
tons at the dictation of the social
ed Democratic President. When it
began to be noised about that Grover
Cleveland would attempt to drive
Senator Vance into supporting his
un-Democratic policies, or to punish
him by Withholding patronage if he
would not surrender, then the enthu-
siasm of this man Daniels fer the
brave and noble and patriotic con-
duct of Senator Vance, appeared to
begin to wane.
Every honest man who admired
Senator Vance for his honesty and
greatness, then admired him more
than ever and was then louder than
ever in just and honest praise. While
our brave, true people Of the State
were thus lining up in their admira-
ton and support of Senator Vance as
never before, We see these two low
grade hybrids-Daniels and Simmons
hiking to Washington City.
Did they go there to see Senator
Vance? No. They avoided him,
They went there to join in the con-
spiracy against Senator Vance, and
to get their fingers in the Federal pie
counter trough. They both succeed
ed in getting their pay, and from that
hour on, as Josephus Daniels drew
his pay from the Federal pie counter,
the columns of his paper were not
only not used to defend and uphold
the hands of the brave and honest
Vance, but were either silent or used
to misrepresent that great and hon
est man up to his dying hour.
Is there a single brave, honest
man in the State who can have any
respect for two such base men? 1t
is safe to say that when the great
Governor Vance-a man brave and
true-a man with bigness of heart
and pureness of soul-the idol of our
great brave people-died, that the
two men in North Carolina for whom
he had the greatest contempt were
these two low-grade, miserable n.y.
brids-Josephus Daniels and Furni-
fold Simmons: Cloud and prolong-
ed applause.)