The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-02-29

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= campaign construction q ria1k
in orr State platform - wnsch &c
declared that after that plAak I'D
BEEN placed IN the platform 10 ore
could deny that IL rueans anything
except what the EnRItah language
Aaid II meant And yes we are told
| 5ustly auIllfy the plain Instructions
% the Democracy Of The Reps bic
The proposition IL simply ridiculous
and II not ridiculous then The great
protective tariff lumber journals
have loaded him wtth praise under
the g-ossest Misrepresentation Of hIa
reasons for standing b. the Iurn ber
interests and a galnst the home
builders. The plain duty 81 = Sen
ator II 10 stand b. his party prin-
ciples and endeavor to attract al
men 10 them. not 10 Jet Others seduce
/ him TO Republican policies or drive
him from the Democratic faith.
Away back when he was In the House
OF Representatives. when Ransom
and Vance were our Senators. over
! twenty years ago. Senator Simmons
yoted for atarin bill with free lum-
| Der. In October. 1902. at Snow Hin.
| az Senator and Chairman Of our
Committee teaching the people. In a
| speech by him circulated as = cam
paign document. after answering the
| Republican argument about the tariff
| on lumber he solemnIy declared.
THE truth Is the tariff on lum-
Der has had nothing TO do with the
increase in the price OF North Caro-
lima lumber. II does not compete
with Canadian lumber. Theirs Is
the white pine and the hemlock.
> And again:
Our cotton and lumber manu-
facturers constitute our two most
important industries. Their com
bined output represents nearly one
half of our entire manufactured
product, and neither OF them is bene-
flied by protection
THAT he declared was the truth.
The last Democratic national plat
form had this plain, unequivocal
plank:
We demand the immediate re-
peal Of the tariff on wool, pulp,
|
logs, and that these articles be placed
on the free list
Senator Simmons voted for that
platform. He was on the committee
which prepared it. The immediate
repeal had no condition. 1t was
the direct mandate of a great party
to it's Representatives in Congress,
as we'll as a demand upon the Re-
publicans who then controlled Con-
gress.
Many Undemocratic Votes.
"Of forty-three roll calls con-
tinued Governor Kitchin, Senator
Simmons voted nineteen times
against the majority. (Applause.)
His friends can't defend his record
in the Senate, and Senator Simmons
himself cannot afford it. Either the
party is wrong and he is right, or
the party is right and he Is wrong"
, (Applause.)
He piled it up on protective votes,
which he charged Mr.. Simmons had
cast nthe supposed interest of far
mers and laborers, whom he had re-
peatedly declared protection never
benefited. When he quoted a IA
, nous paragraph from Vance, "a pa
, triot, a statesman and Democrat ut
tered in the Senate he brought ap-
plause by the emphasis upon Demo
crat."
The question is:
= He can not put his finger upon
r q single solitary word in which
= have advocated protection on any
; thing produced in my State--not one
= word, sir, nor any vote that I have
r 8" I say, sir, that the Senator can
: not find one single solitary word in
: my record sounding to the folly OF
r protection. Let me say to
/. Senators on this side Of the cham
f Der that when they profess to be-
0 Geve in the unconstitutiOnalhy OF
a protective taxation they should stand
/. by it here as we'll as at home. =.
Y 81 do not blame a Senator fol-
: advocating the local interests Of his
\ State if he thinks that it is proper
r but | do not think he ought to cal
-
J, if he goes back on the protested prin-
e ciples of his party, and helps all 9th
G er interests to plumber the people
b provided his own people can share
: in the plumber. This is not Democ-
o racy, whatever else it may be. | an
n tired OF being stabbed daily by pro
: fessional Democrats, and it is time
: the country understood this method
= of looking one way and rowing an
s other -
o Concluding with a transpositioT
t of Equal rights to all and specia
: privileges to nome" to read "Spe
s cial privileges to all, exemptions tc
n none," he said:
~ think Sanatnr Simmons has