The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-16
TWO LEADING TOPICS.
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.--~-.art and solid front. but when
100 that party is thrust IN power.
d.. chen develops suddenly that there
g.. no unity Of purposes or cohesion
rat would enable IT 10 become an
l-s-...c organization 20 carry out
or. obstructive legislation.
A. the approach Of the extra ses-
,.l- ~ Congress draws nearer, more
s.y-s Il division and pickering among
us~ocrats appear each day. One
s.-.on % the Democratic Senators.
..-s.- the leadership OF Senat0a
Icy seems TO be diameterically OPP
-oscd 70 the views OF Champ Clark.
..e Democratic Speaker OF the House
and the views OF what are known
- nc progressive Democratic SEN
s.r~e Mr Bailey and his followers
.-e utterly opposed 10 what Is known
% free trade and. especially to the
4n..-uc ~ free raw materials. They
,.q no. cYer claim 20 be tarin-for-
revenue only Democrats: they are in
fer. sed as protection Democrats.
pa.Feen the few that are known
a. protection Democrats, at one ex-
IRENE. and those at the other ex-
irene. known as free-trade Demo-
rra.s. there are as many different va
renes Of Democrats as there are of
ue.uzes pickles. Indeed, you can
hardly refer to the difference in opin-
ions Of any number OF Democrats as
bcjrg the opinion OF different classes
Of Democrats, for nearly every sin
gle Democrat has q party platform
Of his own. Take those Democrats
who style themselves as tariff-for-
reyenue-only, with incidental protec-
ton as their brand of democracy, and
yet nearly every one OF this kind has
some special interest that he wants
TO protect, and claims that he Is do
ing it in the interest of revenue,
while he is opposed to protection to
another industry.
Another Democrat, claiming to be-
long to the tariff-for-revenue, OPP
poses the protection which the other
Democrat favored, has some other
pet industry that ne wants to favor.
This was illustrated when the last
Democratic Congress made a tariff
law. in that Senator German wanted
10 favor the sugar trust in the inter-
est Of tariff-for-revenue, and as a
result, he gave to the sugar trust
greater protection than it had ever
had before, and when so doing, he
soIemnly declared that he was
against trusts, and that he was a
tariff-for-revenue Democrat.
Senator Simmons and His Lorimer
Vote.
A North Carolinian here on yester-
day, commenting upon Senator Sim
mons vote in favor Of Lorimer, re-
ferred to the fact that Senator Sim
mons, in the Congress before the
last, voted for the ship subsidy bill,
and declared when doing so, that
while he knew it was not popular
with his people, yet he did it from
a sense of patriotic duty. This par
ty then called attention to the fact
that in the last Congress, when the
ship subsidy bill again came up, that
Senator Simmons shifted and voted
against the bill, and said that he did
1t not because his convictions had
changed, but because he found that
MS people were against ship sub
sidy.
This North Carolinian said, that
IN the light of this action of Senator
simmons, in voting against what he
declared to be his patriotic convic-
uonS and duty on the ship subsidy,
IN order to bow to public opinion or
popular clamor, that he took it that
II the Senator had to vote again to-
morrow in the Lorimer case that he
would shift and vote against Senator
Lorlmer and would make the same
Kind of explanation.
Fusion Between Progressive Demo-
Gratis and Progressive Republicans
Falls Through.
In our letter in last week was set
out the efforts to get a working ar
fangement between the progressive
Republicans and the progressive
Democrats in both the House and the
Senate for the extra session. This
movement has completely fallen
through; first, because the so-called
progressive Democrats, while very
bitterly opposing what they call the
Tory Democratic faction, under the
leadership Of Senator Bailey, wanted
the Republicans to agree to attack
the principle Of protection in their
scheme of tariff revision. The pro-
gressive Republicans promptly and
hatly turned down this proposition,
on the ground that they were pro-
tectionists, and that they were in IA
Vor of tariff revision because they
were protectionists.
The progressive Republicans take
the position that the stand-pat Re-
punllcans are doing the cause of the
Republican party and the cause of