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ADVERTISING RATES: Vol.IV. SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY, JULY 12,1890. No =*% ' 'v / .47. ■> ' . iHt ncAiv ruini in me utM v OCR AT 1C PARTY. The Ablest Democrats In ICongress are From the South. , ilrtferd't Magazine. ' ■. ■ - Emerson, waiting of politics in the United States a generation ago. Somewhere says: “Of the two great parties which at this hour almost * share the nation', tiptweeii &eni,T J should say one has the beat cause, and the other contains the best men." With more- truth, in so far os concerns the Northern States, might the same be-suid of the political parties of to-day. The Democratic party, nationally speak ing, while‘ advocating the juster and sounder policy, either cannot or will not avail itself of'the servi ces of its ablest men. The charac ter and intellect of the party in the North have for the most part no share in its administration or legis lative life.' The strongest defence of the present Democratic National policy comes not front the party’s accredited Northern representatives, . but from Northern-institutions of learning and the Northern indepen dent press. Do but compare the relative ability and importune of Northern Democrats and Uepubli cans in the Federal ‘Congress. In this chief representative body of the Union, bow wofully deficient in su perior men is the Northern Demo cratic delegation in both Houses. Of the fifty-seven Northern Democrat ic Representatives, not more than a half dozen are able to cope in debate with the one Republican delegation from the State of Maine. They are, with a few notable exceptions, eith er inute mediocrists whose names are unknown outside of the capital and their own Representative dis tricts, or demagogues whose official elevation is to their party a stand ing ieproach. In the Senate whose few Northern Democratic members might be supposed to-be the strong-' est and ablest men of the party in their icspective States, all save one are so obscure that “an almanac needs to be consulted to know who they are. Never before has the Democratic party in the North been in such a condition of intellectual poverty at the Federal capital. ' Against the five or six Northern Democrats able to take Up the gage whenever it is thrown down to them, there is a whole phalanx of able and trained Republican debaters who look with Contempt upon-the sucessors of Thurman and Hendricks _ and Kerr and Horrison and Hewitt. For while money and machine politics have lowered the average, standard of ability among Republican lt-gis la tors, they have not oeen aoie to deprive the Republican party of a score or more of men, any one of whom possesses enotigh of the qual ity of hjtelleelual leadership to com pel attfention throughout the whole tjnion wherever he may have aught ‘to say. If partian advantage has Itecome the main object of con tention between political parties in the North', the advocates of great est ability and reputation are cer tainly retained by the Republican party..' ..... ... . v..., - if This assuredly is sufficient cause for party weakaees at any time; but foi the last quarter of a century it hais been accentuated by the prepon derance of the South in Federal leg islation during Democratic asccett dency. Ability and character must of necessity make themselves felt in the business of legislation as ip other business. Mr. Cleveland was oblig ed to depend chiefly upon Southern Senators and Represenatives as lead ers in Congressional action. Mr. Carlisle, froth among fourteen Rep resentatives of his party from the great State of New York, could find £?<me of sufficient character ,md- capacity W?be entrusted *ith more 'than the ohirman ghip of a second-rate committee. All the Nbrthern Democratic Sena tors and Representatives who dis tinguished themselves as defenders of the principles of their party were :-~±m ■ to be counted upon- the fingers of one hand. Yet their party possess ed a working majority in one branch of Congress, and very nearly one in the other, through the whole of Mr. Cleveland's administration. With or without reason, the ma jority of Northern men will, for the lifetime of this generation, look with suspicion, if not with hostility, upon Southern ascendency in Fed eral legislation. - Thousands of Re publican electors in the North dur ing the last ten! years have been kept from bolting their party only by this fear of Southern supremacy. “The South again in the saddle” did more to change the majority in the lower House than did “British Free Trade.” The Democratic movement towards revenue reform was opposed by a host of Republi cans who belieted in reform along the same lines, but feared entrust ing it to the Southern men. Had such Northern Democrats as David A. Wells, Edmund J. Phelps, Geo. Hoadley, and John M. Palmer been associated in charge of this move ment along with Representatives Mills, Breckenridge and Carlisle, there would have been toward it a different state of feeling. It is whol ly useless to denounce this preju dice, founded as it is upon human passion, the same all the world over. Though proved baseless, this dis trust of the South will continue to be, for a time, as it has been sq long already, the main capital of the Re publican" party, whereon the expec tations of its managers can always most surely be based. Nothing would serve more toward the over coming this feeling than the bring ing forward by the Democrats, os Congressional candidates, of the many honored Union soldiers who, since the close of the war, have act ed with their party. Offset the Democratic “Rebel Brigadiers,” eve ry one, with a Democratic Union Brigadier, and at the same time in vite to the front civic ability and intellectual power. How shall the Democratic party hope to be sup ported by the character and intelli gence of the North so long ns, it ielegates the business of legislation to men whom the great body of character and intelligence either lespises or ignores. Certain political thinkers and students of government declare that i democratic constituency can have superior men for its legislators. Such ones assert that modern dem ocracy indirectly works the sauie re sult as the ancient Athenian dem ocracy compassed by the law of os tracism—the exclusion from its ser vice of the best; enmity toward whicu is democracy s ruling genius, [f this is true, American democracy must abandon its main principle or jo the same way as did the democ racy of Athens. Do, however, the majority of the Democratic party of he North really prefer Cleon to. Pericles for office? or‘do- they have [Jleon thrust upon them unawares, >r whether they will or no? Does ;he honest industrious, and. think ing portion of. our Democratic elec »rs really desire graduates from ;he bar room and police-court, or wire-pulling experts, or dumb dogs with “influence” to represent it in she conduct of legislation ? Doea it aot desire and expect that its polit jal leaders shall be natural leaders —men of mind, of character and of sourage? Did not Mr. Cleveland’s brave message in advocacy of reve nue reform do more toward inspir ing the Democratic heart than did the shuffling and double-faced poli cy of expediency during twenty years? T- . The National Democratic party of the United States is a gieat party, the. leadership of which in time past, if not upon the whole equal intel lectuality to tKe leadership of its'op ponents, has contained men who in vigor of thought and action were the pjers-of uny whom this coun try ever produced. Consider ing that the leaders of both its original and its later op ponents wpre men who had, carried off the laurels in two , suc cessful wars; considering the follies and rascalities which have been 'per petrated in its name; it should be fore this have ceased to exist as an organization. Nevertheless it has outlived two antagonists, and to-dav confronts theithird and most pow erful one of' all with a strength equal to that of any period in-dts his tory. The seret of this extraordina ry vitality 13 in the fundamental principles of the party being in touch with the age spirit. Its ad versaries have prevailed against it only as they have, appropriated to themselves those principiles which are peculiarly its own. The partisan, prodigal, and cen tralizing policy of the party now in power, its championship of special and disregard of general interests, have provoked against it a felling of resentment equal to that which pro duces the political transformation of 1847. That this feeling will be reflected in the coming Congression al election is almost certain. The Republican leaders do not deny it. Do they, however, make any effort to dissipate this feeling? On the contrary, their every movement Ap pears as if designed to liighten it. Their apparent end is the making sure of a senatorial majority for the next six years, hoping thus to block all repeal of their legislation for that length of time, though, mean while, they lose the House of llepre senatives and even the next admin istration. They reckon as a fore gone conclusion that the Democrat ic Congressional delegation from the North will continue to be made up mainly of dullards and demagogues who will do .either nothing or worse than nothing; that the brunt of re sponsibility will fall upon the South, and thereby furnish them with their old shibboleth, of which again suc cessfully to make use before the Senate passes from their control. In this way their protected industries may be made secure in their mono, poly, and fat may continue to be fried therefrom as partisan or per sonal exigencies may require. Will the Democratic party again throw away its opportunity? The main political battle-ground of this country is the lower House of Con gress. Upon the quality of its rep resentatives in this arena, largely de pends the snceess of either party. Of this the Republican party is well enough aware. Whomever it may elect for the Chief Magistracy or for the Senate, be assured it will not fail to be well 'represented here. Cannot the Democratic party in the North next full send to Washington more such Representatives as it sent to the Fiftieth Congress from the State of Massaeh usetts, or its pre sent Representative from the. Nine teentn district or me oiaie or i\ew York? Does any Democrat doubt wliat would be the moral effect upon the electors of the whole North could such Representatives as these supersede the ten or eleven “Hall” ind Ring proteges from the cities of New York and Brooklyn. In these two Democratic . cities are to be found Democratic soldiers, scholars, Drators, publicists, jurists, and men of affairs whose names stand for in tegrity and ability all over the Union Yo elect a Congressional delegation Erora these Democratic strongholds, composed of such material, would bring the party greater strength than would be brought to it by the election of a President. Speaking from the Book. A Republican on Ms Party* “I am an old line Republican, one if thejfire-tried sort, and am a Repub lican, today; but I will confess that [ have never seen the hour when I thought a Southern white man could be a Republican and be decent. [ was a Repulican for money.” The above are the words of D. L. Bringle, Esq., former postmaster of Salisbury. The New York Herald is for a Southern man as the next presiden tial nominee of the democratic par ty. If there were a great many such great impartial, independent patriotic thinkers as the Herald!V people this proposition, fair as it is, would be acted upon at once. As it is the old rule of the nominees from the doubtful States will doubt less prevail. , - . THE SCHOLAR IN POLITICS. Bishop Potter Should Study Him in Washington. National Democrat. ■ In hisaddreBs before "the Phi Be. ta Kappa Society Bishop Potter give the impression that the Uni versity man is a creature whom, mueh learning.ha* made 'fiad “with sublunary things, and that his hab it is to stand, “grand, gloomy and peculiar,” and frown upon the un educated men who take narrow, selfesh views of things, and are glossy partisan and rather callous in ithcir moral natures. The Bishop begs the members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to descend into the political arena, and with their liber al ideas, and broad minds, and un selfish purposes and high sense of j honor, rescue public aSairsfrom the | ignorant and self-seeking populace. I Insteadof going to. Cambridge the Bishop should have couie to Wash ington. He ought to have, studied that interesting insect, the Scholar in Politics in Congress instead of in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The scholar is already iu polities; he has not waited for any appeals from. Bishop Potter. %He is in politics, but he did not bring his broad mind his liberal ideas or his tender eon science with him. Ho found,them impediments to his political progress and he left them in the halls of the Phi Beta Kappa, whose motto “Philosophy is the Guide of- Life,’’ he has laid asidevjor the watch word “Get There, Eli.” And he gets here. If there is any thing more intensely partisan, more deeply prejudiced, more oynically selfish, more unscrupulous in the application of political methods than the Scholar in Politics, yis have pot encountered it. For example, there is our lexicographical friend, John James Ingalls. His scholarship. is not very wide, but it is deep enough in certain lines, ly to words, but It is devoted main words are mighty things, even when they are frequent' ly mispronounced. Mr. Ingalls has recently promulgated the dictum, which, with a slight amendment would thrill every penitentiary iu the land and evoke an amen from the throat.of every convict. The purification of politics, he says, is an irridesceut dream, and the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer has no place in politics. Long before the day of Ingalls the Alge rian pirates were confident that the purification of the higher seas was ail irridescent dream, and the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer had no place in navigation. If any unsophisticated person ac cused the Atchison statesman of be ing broad or liberal minded politi cally he would laugh aimably at him, but if any one said he was otherwise than narrowly and bitter ly partisan he would repeal the ac cusation with scorn. And there is George fTisbie Hoar. He is a Scholar in Politics He has taken all the degrees that Harvard can confer. He has shown how much conscience and candor he car ries into politics by his report in fa vor of stealing two Montana Senatorships. The Monana Legis lature never met as a whole, and there never was a regular election of Senators, but Doctor Hoar took the lead in the presentation of seats in the United States Senate to a couple of gentlemen from Montana who probably would have been elected if thS Republicans had had a ma jority in the Legislature, and he felt himself warranted in so doing, be cause the poll book of Precinct 84 gave voters names . alphabetically, which was conclusive evidence of fraud, while the poll book Precinct 17 also gave the voters’ names al phabetically, but this was a trifling inaccuracy fhratfdidn’t affect the in tegrity of the election. Precinct 17 was Republican and precinct 34 was Democratic, and throwing it out af fected the Complexion of the Legis lature and the Senatorships. We call the attention of. Bishop Potter to the fact that the report in the Montana case was written by a member of the Phi Beta Kappa So ciety. And then there is our young friend Ilenry Cabot Lodge, a grad uate of Harvard, an bistoriaff'and a professionrl literary gentleman. In 1884 he was a-low tariff man and abhorred Blaine. But hri party went in for Blaine and more tariff, and there was a Senatorial election coming off in Massachusetts, and the learned Lodge shed his opinions as a crab does its shell and ambled off, crab fashion, from his convic tions to his" interests. He is now championing a Federal election law, which purports to be in the interest of the Southern Republicans, but which they protest against; which the people of his own State would never put up with; which cannot have any effect in politics, except to make it easy for the Administration, through its hired men, to steal £he House of Representatives, and he is advocating this bill for reasons Which if valid, would brand the elections of New England as corrupt and frau dulent. , This particular Scholar in Politics is an enthusiastic advocate of civil service reform, with a half holiday on Saturday when he goes out as a spoilsman and gets all the Democrats in the Charleston Navy Yard re moved, ani has them replaced with Republicans. We beg Bishop Potter to notice how much politics is elevated and purified by the accession of Phi Beta Kappa men to the ranks of the active working politicians. Chances Against Mr, Lodge’s Bill. Because iu this hour there can be nothing else of such moment to the patriotic'citizens of America and be cause the New York Herald of yes terday bids us hope, we publish in full its report of the situation on the Cabot Lodge bill. It is as fol lows: There seems to be no question that Mr. Lodge’s bill to deprive the people of their representatives in Congress will be in the Senate. Senator Ingalls says ‘ that the Chandler resolution to cut off debate and authorize the counting of a quo rum will not, in his opinion, be made one of the rules of the Senate and that many Republican Senators will vote against it. Senator Ingalls, like Senator Hale, Senator Stewart ami other prominent Republicans congratulates himself on the fact that the Senate is still a deliberative body and is in favor of keeping it so. He says that any party that filibus ters unduly and without cause will be punished by the people at the polls, and he is willing to trust to their judgement. The outspoken language of many Western Senators makes it evident that there would be a tremendous Republican vote in the upper House against Mr. Lodge’s measure of Mex ican -imperialism, even If so "many Southern Democrats had not voted for free coinage with the expectation that the. silver Republicans would reciprocate by voting < against the Lodge bill. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is chairman of the Judiciary Commit tee. He is somewhat conservative 'in his views and reference has al ready been made in these despatches to his views on preserving untram melled the freedom of debate in that body. Here is his exact language which indicates that pfr. Chandler’s’ proposed previous question rule ha8 no hope in Mr. Edmund’s judg ment:— a “I wish to say in response to my friend from Maine that the differ ence is entirely immaterial so far as it regards the personal honor and obligation of Senators, and I have neve): known it, except in some ex treme emergencies, to be departed from, and I hope it never will be. But an order to the Senate changes >ts standing rules in respect ,of the liberty of debate in this body, i “If a Senfttor wishes to - debate in .order to procrastinate affairs hit brother Senators who do not like it i -- Mg can stay as well as lie can awl have it out. There ought to lx: one body in this country where freedom of debate may coniine as it has always in this body. It has always been understood Uiat these unanimous understandings, while they bonhd the honor of gentlemen fully and fairly were not a rule" of the Senate, but I assure that every gentleman present is just as much bound as if it were an order of the Senate.” This is a clear indication on the part of Edmunds that he is opposed to changing the rules and degrading the Senate to a pitiable condition of the House of Representatives under its present rules and management. THE FARMERS' CANDIDATE. Capt. Ben Tilman, Hopes to Be Gov ernor of South Carolina. A few miles back ,.jn the country from the little railroad station of floors, Edgefield county, lives a man who fs to-day the most re markable political character in South Carolina. Captain “Ben” Tillman is a plain every-day, well to-do farmer, who had never made apolitical speech. At that time he became connected with a movement to reorganize the Agricultural De partment, and it was then that he first exhibited the wonderful ability as a stump speaker which has since caused him to be the best hated man in the State by those who have incurred his displeasure. S<* effective was Tillman against the Aricultural Department that he brought about an entire reorganiza tion, which greatly increased. its ef ficiency. This was done despite the fact that he was then an unkown man. On March 27, of the present year, a convention of, about two hundred and fifty farmers, regularly elected at county conventions all over the State, assembled at Colum bia, and suggested the name of Cap tain B. R. Tilman for the Demo cratic nomination for Governor. This has opened upon what promis es to be the warmest political cam paign in fifteen years. The Demo cratic State convention meets Sep tember 10, when the fight within the party for the regular nomina tion which means an election will come off. A New Question in Ethics. Wilmiufften Messenger. ^ The Baltimore Sun has a feeling article on the wife beating case in Georgia. It discusses wife-beating in connection with religious life and Christian development. The reli gious body condemned the angry preacher who beat his wife,-hut as slired him that he had not lost their *e©a£4ence in his Christian character. This moves the Sun to say: “Without stopping to inquire what sort of a resolution the wife has passed, or how far she still re tains confidence in the Christian character of her husband, it may be worth while to consider what cir cumstances a man may beat his wife and still preserve a reputation for piety and good citizenship,” It then discusses the grave ques tion and towards the close advances this view: “The position of the Georgia ministers would seem to be that while a carnal and un regenerate wife may not know what is good for herself and may object at first to the chastisement which is fitting her for Heaven and a bettsr life, the hus band should never hesitate in the discharge of this solemn duty, feel ing assured that she will finally come to see how entirely he has her welfare at heart and how earnestly he is working for her spiritual sal vation. Women, nevertheless, are so perverse that it will probably take a longtime to bring them round to the Georgia doctrine.” A new!field in ethics opens and casuistry may play its part. When may a wife be beaten by her bus. band, and how far can he go, witlu out forfeiting his Christian charac ter and ministerial respect? How provoking may a wife become before it becomes a Christian duty to use the fist or to apply the lash P This is an age of novelty in many things, and new views in morality are con stantly springing up. We hear /things defendfiifnow that thirty yepra ago would have sent a man to Coventry or put him in the limbo of repentance. SENATOR RANSOM . Has Polled the Senate on the Federal :■’ Election Bill. XtnUtry’t at. Vault OMa-Bemtamv f / Senator Ransom has taken a sort of canvass of the Senate, and he has concluded that an election bill will ' pass that body. “If the Wit is to’ be beaten,” he advises his Democratic t friends, “it must be beaten in the House." There is no doubt the de- x bate on the measure, after it gets i into the Senate, wilt be very , . lengthy. It is a long bill, and the : Senate is a long-winded body. It > delights to call itself “a dignified, . deliberative body,” which is much the same thing. There are no rules . in the Senate by which debate may ^ be limited, an'd the opportunities iu which it will afford Senators Call and Harries and other prolix and prosy speakers will be so extraordi- , 4 nary as to rejoice their souls. Fur-* thermore.it will be a part of the p', Democratic programme to talk it to death, if possible. Even Senator ' Vest says he will talk all the sum mer and until the 4th of next March before it shall become a law. ' The Silver Bill. AVw York Tinralii. The Republican members of the silVer conference held a long session to-day. Two propositions were fully discussed. The first was the ques tion whether the monthly purchases 1 of silver should be 4,500,000 ounces or dollars’ worth. The President is known to favor the latter. Senator Sherman and Mr. Conger, the chair man of the House conferees, are with the President on this point and decline to yield, and the ebanees - seem to be thattbeothcr Republican members will accept and give wav to them. The second point for extended dis cussion was the legal tender charac ter to be given the new certificates. Tt was urged that there should not be a legal tender to any greater ex tent than the silver certificates now in circulation, and that it would “ not be fair to make the new certi- ' ficates legal tender for public and " - private dues and debts, when the old ones are only so for public dues A proposition came from the Sen ate side to provide that hereafter customs dues should only be paid in gold. The argument was that this would continually supply the Treasury and prevent any trouble from the drain of gold which some feared as the result of the Silver bill. The free coinage and bullion redemption features have been aban doned by the Conferees, so it is said ' on high authority. The Republican ' conferees, feel confident that they will be able to reach an agreement and probably at their next meeting.’ The Kissing Point on Note Paper ImwIoh CmvupaHOmm Ck«w«» A fad in writing paper is what is called lover’s stationery. It is fine note paper delicately tinted, the most fashionable shade being lights Pn£j uThu !^ter-mark. to be de tected by holding the sheet ift> to the light, is a blending of two hearts pierced by an arrow. Jn the lower corner of each fourth page (or re verse of each second half-sheet) ap peals what at first sight looks like a blemish. But this is the charming feature of the novelty; it is the kissing spot, for here the correspon dent pressee his or her Ups, and hus a salute is wafted to tCabsent lover: The kissing spot is about tbejsiz* of a shilling [twenty-five cent piece] and is covered with a thin aromatic gum that imparts to the lips a pleasing odor and taste, A more ingenious bit of maudlin sentimentality could hardly be de vised, yet we most all confess that it is of just snch lunuoceat and in ane follies the joy of human life largely con sites. y-rr? The sentence ofA very Butler, the boy who killed his father at Clinton, has been commuted to a life term in the penitentiary. This was.on .the recommendation of the Judge and Solicitor and others. * C: The Medical Society of North Afi Carolina at its lastssssion resolved ta memorialinetlie next«enerol Aseem* bly to establish an Inebriate Asv- ' lum. V... ' .
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