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SAYS HE CAN'T STAND THE
FORCE BILL.
A Former Republican and the Man
Whom the Third Tarty dominated
for Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, Denounces This Infamous
Measure and Says he Will Vote for
Cleveland.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF i860 ON
WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS
ELECTED.
" Fourth. That the maintenance
inviolate of the rights of the States and
especially the right of each State to
order and control its own domestic
I institutions according to its own judg
. mcnt exclusively, is essential to th3t
: balance of power on which the per
j lection and endurance ot our political
i faith depends and we denounce the
: lawless invasion by armed force, of any
'. State or Territory no matter under
j what pretext, as among the gravest of
I crimes."
j DEMOCRATIC PLATEORM OF 1 89 2 ON
I WHICH GROVER CLEVELAND STANDS
I I OR RE-ELECTION.
j "Second. We warn the people of
j jur common country, jealous for the
j preservation of their free institutions,
' ihat the policy of Federal control of
I elections, to which the Republican
party has committed itself, is fraught
v.ith the gravest dangers, scarcely less
, than would result from a revolution,
j practically establishing a monarchy on
the rums of the repubiic. It strikes
at the North as well as the South and
injuries the colored citizen even more
than the white ; it means a horde of
deputy marshals at every polling place,
armed with Federal power; returning
boards appointed and controlled by
Federal authority ; the outrage of the
electoral rights of the people ; in several
States antagonism now happily abated,
of the utmost peril to the safety and
happiness of all a measure deliber
ately and justly described by a leading
Republican Senator as " the most in
famous bill that ever crossed the
threshold of the Senate."
"Such a policy, it sanctioned by
law, would mean the dominance of a
self-perpetuating oligarchy of office
holders, and the party first entrusted
with its tnachinery could be disloged
from power only by an appeal to the
reserved right of the people to resist
oppression, which is inherent in all
veii-governing communities. 1 wo
years ago this revolutionary policy was
emphatically condemned by the peo
ple at the polls ; but in contempt of
hat verdict, the Republican party has
uefiantly declared, in its latest authori
tative atterance, that its success in the
coming election will mean the enact
ment of the force bill and the usuip
ation of despotic control over the
election in all the States."
Can any fair-minded, impartial man
draw any tangible, practical and sub--:antial
distinction between the above
dank in the Republican platform ot
S60 and the plank quoted in the
democratic platform of 18.92, except
'iat the position of the two parties is
'xactly reversed?
In i860 the Democratic party
. jught by constitutional legislation to
rce slavery upon the people of Kansas,
en a Territory of the United States,
; nd just about rising to the dignity of
State in the Union, and Republicans
tenounced them for it. And now in
092, the Republican party seeks by
egislation to invade and violate the
ihts of the State held by them so
si cred in i860, and practically to de
stroy " that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance
of our political faith depends,"
I myself in 1S6S voted with the
Republican party for the reconstruc
tion of the Southern States under the
act of Congress of March 2nd, 1867,
vhich put theballot in the hand of
the negro, and I did so as a choice of
civil government with negro suffrage,
..nd military government with no suf
irage at all, and just such laws for our
govern men t as a general of the army,
rs a department commander, from
headquarters at Charleston, S. C,
might see fit in his fancy to prescribe
tor the people of North Carolina.
1 voted with the Republican party in
1S6S to get rid of the military. Could
I consistently vote in 1S92 for men
and measures calculated to bring the
military back ?
While negro suffrage alone has
turned out to be bad enough in all
conscience, I don't want to supple
ment it now with possible and even
probable military rule without it. We j
have had enough reconstruction of!
the South for one generation at least.
We have felt and realized to its fullest
extent the wisdom enunciated in the (
above quoted plank in the Republican
1 latform of 1S60, and I for one be
1 eve to-day in the doctrine advocated
i v Mr. Lincoln in 1S60, even though
i be under the color of law, that the j
lawless invasion by armed force of
j any State, no matter under what pre-.
U xt, is among the gravest of crimes,
l.elievinsr as I do that all other party
c inferences pale into insignificance
when considered side by side with this,
and as the only hope ot giving effect
1 1 my sentiments on this subject, stand-i-g
now where I did in 1S68, 1 shall cast
r ly vote in this election for Mr. Cleve
1 nd in preference to Mr. Harrison.
A word to you, my People's party
f iends. A few weeks ago you ten
dered me, without my solicitation,
your nomination for the hightest judi
cial office in your gift. I thanked
you then and I still feel and shall ever
feel grateful to you for this manifesta
tion of confidence, though I had to
decline it. Since then the Repub
lican managers who hold the Repub
lican party in North Carolina by the
throat, have, as it is reported and
generally believed, broken faith with
you and put up a State ticket. The
danger now confronts you of turning
over our Stale government to men who
favor the national force bill with its
attendant ;vils, and the vote of North
Carolina might decide that contest.
Let me beseech you as patriots, rebuke
that spirit by your vote, and let us
stand together and maintain inviolate
the rights of the State which are essen
tial to " that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance
of our political faith depends." That
balance of power once subverted and
destroyed, we may bid a long fare
well to the constitutional republic.
We may expect too in its stead to be
governed by orders from the head
quarters of a military chieftain, such
as our own eyes have seen in this
Southland not very many years ago.
I myself would prefer the very worst
system of civil government to the best
form of military despotism.
Wm. A. Guthrie.
Durham, N. C, Sept. 20, 1892.
THE LOST CHORD.
BY A rUOCTEK.
Ser.ted one day at theortrau,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my lingers wandered idle
Over the ivory keys.
I knew not what I was playing.
Or what 1 was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a great Amen.
It Hooded the crimson twilight
Like the close of an angel's I'salin;
And it lay on my fevered spirit
With a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow
Like love overcoming strife ;
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.
It linked all perplexed meanings
Into one perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence,
As if it were loth to cease.
I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
That came from the soul of the organ
And entered into mine.
It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again ,
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.
TWO LIES NAILED.
Mr. Cleveland Denies the Miss
Davis and Douglass Stories.
Mr. Cleveland writes a letter, which
we print below in which he nails two
campaign lies industriously circulated
in the Southern States by Third party
enemies.
Now, shut, up and discuss issues,
Third party ites !
Gray Gables, 1
Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Sept. 27. )
Clark Howell, Jr., Constitution, At
lanta, Gar.
Dear Sir: I have been fairly
bombarded for the last two or three
weeks by the reports of the falsehoods
which are being circulated by the
People's party orators in Georgia and
other Southern States, calculated to
prejudice me in the minds of the
Southern people. The latest report
comes to me from Gainesville, in your
State, this evening, and represents
candidate Thomas E. Watson as say
ing in a public speech that Mrs. Cleve
land refused to attend the unveiling
of the statue of Robert E. Lee because
she feared she would there meet Miss
Winnie Davis.
This is entirely a new fabrication.
A number of the others have to do,
however, with alleged refusals of my
wife or myself to be introduced to
Miss Davis, &c. Another public
source ot falsehoods of the stupidest
description is in regard to my treat
ment of Frederick Douglass while I
was President and he was register of
deeds in Washington. There are
some others which I do not definitely
recall. These all seem to be circu
lated by active opponents of the
Democracy and their purpose is of
course apparent. I have not thought
it necessary to deny these except in a
very few ca.e. I have thought that
when they assumed proportions
worthy of attention I would, perhaps,
hear from you or some one who like
you understands well the current of
Southern thought on the subject.
Such misrepresentation is irritating
and exceedingly monotonous. Not one
single statement which I have seen of
the kind above Teferred to has any
truth in it whatever, except this, that
when Frederick Douglass was in
public office in the city of Washing
ton, I, as President of the United
States, extended to him the same
courtesies, as far as pulbic receptions
and matters of that kind are con
cerned, which were extended to other
officials of the same grade. This, of
course, was his due as a matter of
official decency and etiquette, and I
should have been ashamed to treat
him otherwise.
If in your judgment you think it
well to make the denial above refer
red to you are at liberty to do so in
any way you think best.
Very truly yours,
G rover Cleveland.
Cloaks and Wraps, so sty
lish and Cheap; at Watkixs'.
HIS TYRANNICAL MILITARY
RECORD IN THE SOUTH.
An Unbroken Career of Oppression
and Spoliation Old Men and
Woman were His Victims.
'From the Chicago Herald.
A very interesting and significant
letter has been received by a citizen of
Keokuk, Iowa, from an old gentleman
living in Pulaski, Tenn., where Gen.
Weaver, the People's party candidate
for President, had command in the
latter part of the war. The sentiments
contained fn the letter will doubtless
be spread abroad throughout the South
and put the People's party candidate
on the defensive when he enters upon
the canvass in that section, where his
friends claim he is so strong. A por
tion of the letter reads as follows: "He
(Weaver) will eclipse Bull Nelson or
Ben Butler so far as the double-dyed
villain reaches. I send you a piece
cut from the Giles County Democrat
of the 20th, and I vouch for the truth
of every word. All three of the men
were oldtriends of mine. He (Weaver)
had Baker Sheperd, George Petway
and G. W. McGrew arrested, and
would have arrested me if it had not
been for McGrew. When they passed
my house McGrew told him I was deaf.
Weaver sent Shepard and Petway out
of the lines. Messrs. Newbill, Rhodes
and Abernathy paid him the money.
These are the facts andean be proved.
He was a perfect terror to Uoth men
and women. The refugees never re
ceived one cent of the money. All
the old citizens are dead now. Most
of them were very old at the time.
Weaver will get very few votes south
of Mason and Dixon's line." The fol
lowing is the clipping referred to above,
headed "Somethingabout Weaver :"
HIGWAY robbery.
fPnP n 1 Won iroi- urn II a 1 r rnnl rs o nrl
nr Pnincir; Tir,,,)-!- T c a 4
- - uitwai, in auuai y 111 1UU41 ijjuv.u
an order to Charles C. Abernathy,
John H. Newbill, Robert Rhodes and
others that they nay into his hands
$1,000 for the maintenance of refugees
(meaning negroes and renegades from
Alabama). This order was acccom
panied by a threat that, if the money
was not paid, they and their families
would be sent South and their property
given to said refugees. All of these
parties are dead now and were over sixty
years old when that order was issued.
Can any Southern man vote for such
a heartless wretch ?
THE COTTON TWIST ROBBERY.
A man by the name of C. W. Witt
sold Mr. Jasper Cox a very poor man
two thousand pounds of bacon, for
which he received the cash. Mr. Cox
took the bacon to the cotton mills in
Lawrence county and traded it for
cotton twist. This he carefully stowed
away in the loft of his little cabin,
thinking that it would assist him in
purchasing a little home after the war,
as he was very poor, with a large family
and had no home. Weaver learned
through some source that this gentle
man had the cotton twist and sent a
detachment .of soldiers to his house
and took possession of it, and shipped
it to Iowa for his own use.
This cotton twist was worth at the
time it was stolen, $2,000.
Jasper Cox is living in Giles county
to-day.
ROBBERY OF HOGS AND TURKEYS.
John P. Williams, a poor but highly
esteemed farmer in Giles county, had
twenty-five fat hogs, which at that
time were worth ten dollars per hun
dred, gross, and a lot of turkeys.
WTeaver, in person, took a file ot sold
iers out to Williams' place and made
the soldiers shoot every hog on the
place, and had them brought to camp.
When Williams asked for a voucher
Weaver said, "I don't give rebels in
the South vouchers. I would rather
furnish rope to hang every d n one
of them." Mr. Williams is still living,
and will swear to the above if neces
sary. FONDNESS FOR HORSE FLESH.
Weaver had a great fondness for
horse flesh, and whenever he found a
horse belonging, as he called it, to a
"rebel sympathizer," he took possses-
sion of it without giving any voucher
for it, and if the owner valued it very
highly and did not wish to part with
it, he charged him from one to five
hundred dollar?, according to the
value of the horse, for returning it to its
owner. lnis money ne put into nis
own pocket.
BATTERING IN PASSES.
Weaver iua.de it a practice to charge
our citizens ten cents each for passes
to come into and go out of the Federal
lines. This money he put into his
own pocket. This pass read as fol
lows: Pass the bearer through the federal
lines.
J. B. Weaver , Commander.
ROBBING AND IMPRISONING
PROMINENT
CITIZENS.
Weaver had a number of law-abiding
citizens arrested and put in jail and
then charged them from one hundred
to five hundred dollars for releasing
them. There were no charges against
them. Several of the gentlemen who
were put in jail and paid the money
are still living, among them, Mr. J. C.
Roberts, one of the most highly re
spected citizens in Pulaski.
The following are a few of the gen
tlemen in Giles county, from whom
Weaver coerced money at the point of
the bayonet. They were all law-abid
ing and highly-respected citizens :
Thomas Martin,
Dr. Wm. Batte,
Charles xVbernathy,
Robert Dickson,
J. II. Newbill,
J. W. Morris,
David Reynolds,
B. Abernathy,
Charles Ii. Daly,
$250 00
100 00
250 00
250 00
100 00
100 00
250 00
200 00
200 00
Total $1,700 00
This money was taken Jtjuuary 26, 1864
The above parties were old men,
staying at home and interfering with
no one. Several of them had borne
their muskets and followed the stars
and stripes through the Creek, Florida
and Mexican wars. They are all dead
except Dr. Wm. Batte, who is now
living here and substantiates the
above .
State Tennessee, 1
Giles County. j
This day personally appeared before
me Dr. Wm. Batte, to me known as a
man of high standing aud credibility,
and says that he was a citizen of Pu
laski, Tenn., during the war of the re
bellion and has been ever since. That
he was personally acquainted with J.
13. Weaver, who as Colonel of the
United States troops was .in control of
the forces stationed iu Pulaski, Tenn.,
in 18G3-4. That said J. B. Weaver
was very oppressive and extortionate
upon the citizens of said town and
vicinity. That said commandant J. B.
Weaver issued a military order requir
ing the above parties and perhaps others
to pay over to him a large sum of
money for the alleged purpose of sup
porting refugees then within his lines.
This order was accompanied with the
threat that if not complied with im
mediately that the parties on whom
the demand was made would be sent
South. Under this threat affiaut paid
over to said J. B. Weaver the sum of
one hundred dollars, and affiaut verily
believes the other parties on whom the
demand was made paid the amount re
quired of them.
Wm. Batte.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me August 22, 1892. j
J. W. BR ADEN,
Clerk Circuit Court.
J. P. Abernathy, son of Charles C.
Abernathy, has the original receipt
which Weaver gave to his father for
the $250 taken from him.
Weaver had David K. Cox arrested
and imprisoned until his friends paid
$500 for his release. Cox is dead,
but his son, E. R. Cox, is living here
and will substantiate the above, so will
Major J. B. Stacy and Col. S. E. Rose,
friends of Cox who furnished part
Of the money.
He had John P. Williams, an old
Mexican soldier, arrested and impris
oned until he paid him $500. Mr.
Williams borrowed the money from J.
P. May, President of the People's Na
tional Bank, Pulaski.
Hon. Pleasant Smith, an old citizen
and former Mayor of the city, was
here during the war. He says Weaver
was the worst man that was ever in this
county, and that every Southern man
who votes for him should hang his head
in shame.
D. T. Harrison, an old citizen of
Pulaski, Tennessee, was there while
Col. T. B. Weaver was commander of
the post.
He states of all men he ever knew
Weaver was the worst that he seemed
to have a perfect hatred for the Southern
people, and took a delight in abusing,
persecuting and robbing them, that
he had no respect or feeling for old
defenseless men, women and children.
Mr. Harrison also states that Mr Lanier,
of Nashville, had given him (Harrison)
$1,935 with which to buy some cotton,
but as soon as Weaver found it out
he had Harrison arrested and took
$935 of the money, and t..en added
falsehood to robbery by reporting to
Mr. Lanier that Harrison had made
way with the money.
D. T. Harrison.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
August 23, 1892.
J. J. McCallul, J. P.
HIS POLITICAL RECORD.
General J. B. Weaver is the nominee
of the People's party for President.
Below we give some of his utterances
in regard to the Democartic party and
the Southern people. The appended
quotations are taken from reliable
sources.
He said at Albia on July 18, 1866 :
"I want to congratulate you first,
fellow-citizens, on the suppression of
purely Democratic rebellion, gotten
up by Democrats for the Democratic
purpose of dissevering this Union, and
perpetually establishing human slavery.
Now and forever it is established as an
eternal truth that the Democracy in
no place or State can ever be trusted
with government. As a party it should
disband, just as a section of it did at
Appomattox."
"Here we have the old fight over i
again. The Confederate Democrats,
North and South, in which the in
famous copperhead division of Iowa
appears, again contesting with Grant
f,-,r ,he fet vnf the Union. As at Donel-
j
son. ne nroooses to move on ineir
1., . A,uro;e .,-.iof plutocracy. Thoughtful men bee
for this rank, traitorous horde except
in another surrender. Charge on them,
fellow Republicans, and spare not one,
not even a deputy road supervisor,
from total political annihilation."
He said in Bloomfield on Septem
ber 26, 1869:
'What is the use of further arraign
ing the defunct Democracy, with all
its hoary crimes, at the bar of public
opinion? We know that its acts com-
prise murder, treason, theft, arson,
fraud, perjury, and all crimes possible
for an organization to connive at.
"It would be mercy to put its record
a million miles deep in the pit that is
mentioned in Holy Writ ; and I may
add that if a large and distinguished
assortment of its alleged statesmen
were sent along it would be common
justice."
He said in Fairfield, September iS,
1S70 :
"The Democracy as usual are loud
in their opposition, but what did they
ever do when they had a chance? Here
in Iowa they stole the school fund and
nationally they stole the arsenals, the
navy, the treasury, everything that
was not red hot and created the very
devil's rebellion. And these men ap
pear and ask for your support. They
should come on bended knees asking
for forgiveness for the unspeakable
crimes they have committed, and the
wretched miseries illicted upon our
common country."
In a public speech he said :
"No Republican can ever, under
any circumstances, have any part or
be with the hungry, rebellious, man
hating, woman-selling gang, corpcr-
ated under the name of Democracy,
a name so full of stench and poison
that it should be blotted from the
vocabulary of civilized man, and
handed over to the barbarism that it
so fitly now and in all the past has
represented."
He said at Stiles, September 11,
1873, in referring to the financial
policy of the Democratic party :
"But then what could you expect
from the poor, blind, diseased, decrepit,
dismal, damned old Democratic
party."
WHAT IT MEANS.
fltichmond Times.
The abandonment of the Republi
can party by such men as Judge
Gresham, Judge Cooley and Wayne
MacVeagh has significance.
These are not mere politicians,
actuated by motives of self-interest or
ambition. They are not ignorant:
J they are not fickle; they are not cor
rupt; they are not soured.
Why then do they leave the party
of which they have been members and
leaders for a generation?
It is because the party itself is
changed in character, purpose and
practice.
The purposes it was organized to ac
complish, and which at the time ap
pealed to the patrotism and conscience
of such men, are substantially accom
plished. This ' they recognize, and
doubtless each of them is proud of his
share in aiding the results.
But the party has now become the
instrument of selfish classes to serve
their selfishness. It despises the broad
and safe principles of constitutional
right, esteems power and privilege
above duty and responsibility, and has
contracted itself to a conspiracy of
plutocracy and corruption for service
in defrauding, oppressing and debauch
ing the people.
It has relieved the rich of taxation
upon their wealth, while it burdens
the poor with taxes upon the neces
saries of life and the tools of their
labor that are heavier than those
imposed in time of war and heavier
than are required for the support of
the Government.
These burdens are not imposed for
the purpose of supporting the Govern
ment, but for the purpose of putting
more money into the coffers of the
already rich.
The natural, the logical, the inevita
ble, the actual result of this perversion
of power is not only the ceater
poverty of the poor and the creation
of a vulgar aristocracy of wealth, but
the subversion of the principle of
equality in rights and privileges, the
corruption of the national life and the
debasement of public morality.
Seeing this and rightly dreading it,
patriotic men everywhere are publicly
withdrawing from a debauched party
lest they may seem to countenance its
iniquity.
Mr. MacVeagh, after reviewing the
economic aspects of Republican pro
tection, so called, says:
But the economic evils, lioweyer
great, of the McKinley bill, and the
uureasonable sy.-tem of protection it
represents, are of far less importance
to niv mind than the moral evils wiiieli
follow in their wake. While
such a system endures political cor
ruption is absolutely Mire to increase,
as such a system not only invites but !
it requires the corrupt ue of money
both at the polls and iu Congress.
Owing to his judicial office, Judge
Gresham has been very careful about
publicly discussing specific political
questions, Lit lie lately gave utterance
to these emphatic words :
I would say that the control of elec
tions and legislation by the corrupt
use of money more than anything el.e
menaces popular government aud the
public peace. If these causes are not
speedily checked the consequences are
likely to be disastrous. The most
insidious of all forms of tyranny is that
r r- i e r m lin4
and admit that our ccuilrv is becom- 1
ing less and less Democratic and more
aud more plutocratic. The ambition
and self-love of some men are so
great that they are incapable of loving
their country.
In these quotations may be disco--ered
the sufficient reason why these
men have felt it to be their duty to
abandon the party that is led by Harri
son, Wan-maker, Quay, McKinley,
Ried and Piatt.
COWARDS TO THE REAR.
The Ring of tho Tun Metal.
1 Chicago Herald, j
Before the lienginning; of hosti!!tr
in time of war it is customary ..
civiliz-M people to give strangers n.
in sympathy with them safe conduct
boyond the lines.
The time is now at l:r.d when til
Democratic p.irty must grapple wit .
the most gigantic wrong of i'u- oe. It
position as t, the qu'jstLm of pro
tective tariff, has been auilK-t i'.ativelv
pronounceo iy t;e ..;?i.-toai 1 .-invention.
The party, pledged no le-s !,
tradition and history and fundi
mental belief than by the platform
adopted at Chicago in June, is f :
free trade, it is not fir trade that is '
taxed a little in the interest of mo
nopcly anymorethan.it is for t rati. -that
staggers almost to destruction j
under taxes piled mountain high if
the interest of a privileged class. 1
is for trade that is wholly and absolute- :
ly free from protective taxes large or
small, for trade that is open to all or
equal terms and for trade that thai: :
bear no tax burden at all save tha- ,
which may be imposed for revenue. i
The existing tariff, the most mon
strous abuse of the taxing power evei
known to a free people, is not for rev- ;
enue. It is for plunder. The govern
ment's share of the imposition is inci
dental and comparatively insignifi
cant. The chief aim of its author:
was to reduce revenue and to increase
the profits of monopoly. Against I
this barbarous law which has robbed .
and degraded American labor and
filled every honest man's heart with a j
lively sense of the wrong done to him
and danger that threatens to his !
country, the Democratic party is
arrayed honestly and fearlessly, with
no misgivings and with no equivoca- !
tions.
A tariff for revenue only is free
trade the only sort of free trade that
the world has ever known. A tariff
for revenue only is a tariff that gives
thieves, liars and confidence men,
bilks, maligners and trillers, in
competents, drones and lazzaroni,
bride-givers, fat fryers and bounty
beggars absolutely nothing. If they
do business the do business as other
men do as honest men do. If they
make and offer anything for sale they
must depend on their own sagacity
and on the character of their product
to find a purchaser as honest men
do. If they are capable of earning a
living they will live as honest men do
not by the sweat of other men's
brows but by their own exertions. If
they are incapable of making a living
without robbing their neighbors they
will go hungry and naked as many
better men than they have done and
will do until the end of time. A tariff
for revenue only is the highest and
broadest manifestation of national
obedience to the divine command
"Thou shalt not steal."
It may be that there are men call-
ing themselves D.?mucra's whj can
not or will not subscribe to this high
resolve. Perhaps some of them are
dishonestly taking loll from their fel
low men. Perhaps others arc mis
guided and ignorant. It is possible
that still others, knowing the truth,
but mistakenly anxious for party suc
cess at any sacrifice, do not believe in
risking all on a principle when in their
estimation an expedient of some sort
would answer erery purpose. If so,
the time has now come when all such
should be given safe conduct to the
rear.
Democracy has been clearly enough
defined this year. He who runs may
read. It will take no step backward.
The man who is not for free trade is
against Democracy. The mm who
quibbles, the man who mouths plati
tudes about incidental protection, is
against Democracy. The question has
passed beyond the bounds of e.)edi
ency. It is a political question in a
sense, but now wholly so. In a wide
view it is a moral question, and when
the gathering wrath of the j-eople
breaks upon the strongholds of rob
bery little robbers as well as big rob
bers will be put to flight. Percent
ages will cut no figure then. The
man who took 5 per cent, will go
along with the man who to k 20 per
cent. The oppressors of many will
find themselves in the same dock,
convicted of the same crime and sen
tenced to the same penalty.
Thus clearly outlined, there should
be no question from this time on as to
the meaning and purpose of Demo
cracy. The party is aij :t to tn ve
forward. Let him who wjul 1 turn
back, turn back. If there are a iy s
called leaders who doubt or hewtate,
let them give place to braver and
honester men.
If there are any cowards or any .vho j
long for the flesh pots of m n poly. j
let them have a sale conduct b.-yond i
the lines. In unity is strength. With- j
out unity, devotion, singleness ! pur-
pose and an unflinching determuu;- !
tion to root out and destroy this tariff
infamy nothing can be accomplished.
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