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TO THINE C WN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGDT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JAYNES. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MATtCH 24, 1892. VOLUME XLIII.-NO. 12. The Full Text of an Ad mirable Presentation of Democratic Doctrine. The speech of Senator Hill, before the Mississippi Legislature, is here reported in full. Senator Hill said : GOVERNOR STONE AND GENTLE MEN : Before commencing my re - marks, I am tempted to remark that, from this vast crowd present to-day, Mr. Reed, who was once Speaker of the House of Representatives, but who is not now-(applause)-would have no difficulty in counting a quo rum of the legislature. (Laughter and applause.) / I am deeply sensible, gentlemen, of ' the Legislature of the State of Mis sissippi, how rare your bestowal has been of that distinguished honor which, with open pride, I come hither to receive at your hands, and to ac knowledge with gratitude. What statesman of our republic, most ven erable, most renowned among living or dead in the very flowering pf his fame, would not have made haste and traveled long for a gathering of such a leaf to bind with all his lau rels? (Applause.) The old world had its embassies from sovereign State to sovereign S*:Ue. In this new world, whore the people rule, shall we not brighten every tie that links our Democratic do . minions, principalities and powers in a bonded sovereignty of an imperish able Union. I will trust your white haired veterans familiar with civic cares ; I will trust the voungest man 1 who treads for the first time these j halls, and burning to hurl his heart into service of the State, to know what thankfulness I shall feel, gen tlemen of thc Stau- of Mississippi, to: have been for an hour the focus ot that reciprocal good, which I owe to your favor, and reta ni to .you, on behalf of the State of New York. (Applause.) There is good reason at all times for an interchange of thought between the people of forty four States Landed together for life and to insure one another's liberty in the pursuit of happiness. But there is excellent reason at the pres ent time for such an interchange between men whoso political philoso- ; - " - i ?."it.;,-.- ?,i;iit? "rr oeuvuu aha tov-sae oenefit of times to come, the great Democratic faith and traditions. THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC FAITH. I The ground upon which the Dem- j ocrats of the State of Xew York j hav%*fcakea their stand is the whole Democratic faith ami tradition ; not some corner. It is not merely sorae": splinter of it, but the whole. This is the ground upon which I would fain see the Democrats of the State of Mississippi with all thc Democrats of the Xorth, South, East and "West, ; both of the regular organization an.l the Fanners' Alliance, unite and take their stand in the approaching con test. (Applause.) Other duties for another dav, for, like the victories of: Jefferson and the Union, this victory will close a chapter of history, will1 doom to final disintegration the de-j graded Republican party, and will fix the direction ^: our political pro- j gross for some decades ?n the century to come. Now, as then, political principles depend for their triumphs upon par- i ties and organization of parties. They '-reate parties. It is the con servative principle which has created the Democratic party. In its union lies greater strength than all its ene- ! mies combined can evt. finally sub vert. (Applause;) It survives every disaster. It is the great and most efficient organ of the people's power. The Democratic partv is stronger than any man or set of men. Xo j man is ever indispensable to its sue-1 cess-(renewed applause)-for its' strength is v/ith the people-. It is greater and more powerful than any i class, however numerous. Therefore, it is large, tolerant, liberal, progres sive. It invites to its membership, to its center, all who will uphold the I whole Democratic faith and tradition and apply them to the people's needs. Let us confer, then, upon this. Shall we adopt and apply our prac- j tical politics to the upholding and j the triumph of the old Democratic j tradition ? Shall we commit the j long future of our great republic to ! that supreme guidance? There are! new lights, plenty of them ; there, are cracked, discarded lanterns, pol ished up to look as good as new, plenty of them. There is.theryoung Emperor who says : ;iI rule this State ; nobody else ; follow me." There is a little island where many say : ' "The State is a first-rate contrivance for doing anything we like with. Let us get hold of it and do what we think good for everybody." There is a vast empire where many starve and all gay : "Let us call upon the little father, the white czar." There . is ? great republic over the water, where ali say: "We must fight one day; I j let us give our young men to t ! array and be ready." I doubt if thc j is anything better anywhere than t I old Democratic faith and traditic j which, among men as civilized as v j find it legitimate to consolidate a: ! employ the whole physical and moi j power of the social aggregate, fir ; to resist foreign aggression, a dang j we are dwarfing daily by mere grow and wealth within ocean barrier j next and chiefly, to prevent and pu ! ish individual aggression, in order ! establish and maintain justice, th j we may all be equally and forev I free to pursue our happiness, as v j will. THE ADAPTATION" OF RACES. i Governmental structures and soci j adaptations of any group of mc as civilized as we must vary wit their location on the earth's c".:rfac To secure that end and aim, goveri ! ment help too often entails goverr ment compulsion, and implies a lowe stage of growth, or less felicity < circumstances than ours. (Applause. Every intermixture of men less civi ized than we complicates the adapt? tion. Any difference in euviror rnents, whether differences of me or regions of the earth, implie changes in adaptation. Fancy litt 1 Rhode Island, lifted up, carried hal way round the globe and droppei ! down in Mongolia with Kassia t the Westward and all China to th ! Eastward. Would Rocrer Williami : patent, King Charles* charter, Gov ernor Dorrs' constitution or her pres ont constitution do at ali ? I sup [pose that neither Ja:des Madisoi : nor Abraham Lincoln would thinl the constitution of the United State a perfect fit for the new republic o the Island of Madagascar compris ing ju*t the present white popula tion of Vermont, and thc present col ored population of Louisiana. What disturbance did the immigration of ; few thousand Chinese cause to oui Pacific coast States? What treaties aud laws have we not yielded tc their special solicitude? So thal oar policy, with that most ancient, and populous em] ?ire, may depend on taking back our own Christian missionaries in exchange for those disciples of Confucius. AU thc Pacific States may have their right ful will as to propinquity with cer tain Asiatics, whose type of civiliza tion went through monetary meas ures like ours thousands of years ago, and also created marls still past ail competition by Western races. TUE COLORED QUESTION. The South, in her propfa?jutcy with the Africans, whose type of civilization awaits the historic record, has caused the only alteration thus far made in our governmental struc ture. For the compromises at first embodied or inserted in its frame, lhere are now substitutes in the last three amendments. The substance of these amendments is that neither color nor color status is visible t<> thi eve ot thc- Federal law or ever should be visible. Xow, I do not-come here to discuss this one change in our governmental structure. What ? shall seek to h".\ your attention upon is the absence of any other lawful change, a standing marvel of con temporary history. Here is the con stitution of the United States gov ernmental structure, contrived in unity and in peace by what has been lately called a group of co-operative land companies along the Atlantic border which had been assisted to obtain a separation from the parent empire by war. Here, now, after a century of storm and stresses that same fabric almost seamless; wholly unruptured. It has sufficed, with out important change, to house the industries and liberties of the teem ing, thronging millions on millions who here have lived, or who here survive and constitute to-day our stupendous continental republic of republics between the Atlantic and j Pacific seas. (Applause.) I say it | is a standing marvel in the history of civilized man. Xow, concerning that structure j and constitution of government, 1j wish to recite three testimonies, one i from a great Judge gone, one from a ! iXreat politician and one from a great j philosopher. I spoke of the marvel Of its endurance. Its endurance is i defined in that decision of the Supreme Court, spoken of in the ..ase concerning Texas, since the war, by Chief Justice Chase. These are the words : "Xot only can there be no loss of a separate and independent autonomy to the State, through their union, under the constitution, but it may not be unreasonably said that the preservation of the States and the maintenance of their governments are as much within the design and care of the constitution as the pre servation of the Union. The national government, constitutional in all its provisions, looks to an inseparable union of indestructible"States." The greatest politician of Great Britain, Mr. Gladstone, lately said that our constitution was among the most wonderful works of civilized men, and that the group of states men who framed it were unmatched .by any other group in history. Some thing like that he said. I have bad no'time tc gearch for bis exact words. The great philosopher of mode: j times, Herbert Spencer, told us I few years ago that he saw a disparit I between our old magnificent fabr of government and the modem or j now administered ; and that wi before my committee, colleagues thi j Senator Chandler, of New Hamj ! shire, questioned the comparativ lvalue of some later immigration: And tlys philosopher saw, or though he saw, increasing tendencies toward a perversion of its use 'to establis justice and equal liberty, to pursu j our happiness as we will ; a p?rvei ! sion of its few powers ? ^ards man; kinds of governed aggressions and by this consequence, a too will ing submission to one after anothe aggression, and a less fine, keen lov of liberty. The blood of many race has mingled here with the earl] strains. For him, therefore, th< whole decalogue of our politica moralities would have been sumracc up in this one commandment, live uj to your constitution, the way, th< truth, the life indeed. (Applause.] These are three great testimonies The old constitution of these United States exists with its indestructible parts and its indestructible unity. It is fore.-u^st among mankind's poli tical dee?s, being quite authoritative, still supreme; live ivp to it. IX SPITE OF USURPATION. Now, I think we shall find that the object of our constitution, the spirit of it, the letter of it, explains that enormous miracle of its equal adjust ment to our past, our present and our future. The powers which it grants are few and specified. It con centrates and centralizes these few it needs most, but after prohibiting many powers to the States it expli citly distribute* the whole residue of power not thus delegated to the United States, nor by the United States prohibited to the several States, as reserved to the States respectively or to the people. Nor is this enough. The power of Con gress to make laws for carrying into execution these powers vested in the government of the United States is again explicitly restricted to such as shall be necessary and properly execu tory of thc same. There is no limi tation of government by a written constitution possible among men, if this be not a sufficient written limi tation. There is no sound construc tion possible thereunder unless it be j strict construction. That old doc trine of true Democrac} -nd that last worn of high poHueal philosophy ..al. Liv? up to your constitution, j This Ls the spirit of our constitution, conforming to all its letter. Now hin?: to the Federal government, except granted powers; nothing w)hich can be better done by the State' government and more jeal ously watched ; nothing to the State governments that can be better done by>the municipal, by the county, by ihe neighborhood governments, and mare jealously watched, and even to ! these neighborhood governments,! nothing which can be better reserved j to the people: to their voluntary ? association under the rule of justice! enforced by equal laws. Were its objects different from those which it names-to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the bless ings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity-this ordained and estab lished constitution of the United States of America could never have emerged unimpaired from the tocsin of war, or its expansion over half the hemisphere. It is not any legalized excursions by Congress outside the | constitution, which explains why we still live and move and have our j being beneath its a?gis. It is in j despite of the transgressions, not by help of them, that we still live. We have not profited by them; we have survived them. It is the abridge ment and limitation of functions of the government to its own proper i business, despite its transgressions ; it is the distribution and devolution j of its powers, despite usurpations, j its prohibition of State powers ; it is ! ' the declaration of State rights, it is J the reservation and surrender of the j < residue to the States respectively j 1 and to the people, by which we have j 1 truly lived and still bear our life. It . is individual freedom, not parental ; < government rule, which explains our j 1 swift expansion from the fringe of j 1 thirteen feeble colonies to a conti- ? nent of mighty States. It is indi- j vidual freedom, not paternal guid- < ance through the censors of an 1 inspired press, an established church, 1 an ennobled class, which has *con- < verted collisions, competitions and s all interiors of human society into < the heat and stimulus of life and 1 energy and progress. It is individual t freedom, not Republican force bills, nor Congressional leading strings, that will enable you, a strong and t highly civilized race, to guide for- ! t ward your less gifted fellow-citizens I c from a plane of equity before the ! i law to higher levels of thrift, econ- 1 omy, good husbandry, social order, 1 self-imposed and household virtue, t and thus traosform the present j unimaginable difficulties and unshared i burdens of the South into the solid a foundations of still more prosperous f societies, and still more powe: States. It must be admitted t for a few brief years our constitu? did not perfectly avail to ins domestic tranquillity. That wat the last generation, and broken hes must be healed by time or dea One or two more generations m pass away. In doubling and redoi ling your incredible achievements the last twenty years, your magn cent progress in the production field, farm, forest and mines, it v become palpable that war, with levastation, :ts passions, its gri? may not. perhaps, have been too hi i price to pay for transmuting insoluble political problem into .?oluble social problem. To comp; fte serenity of State rights, whi ?vere and are general along with t security of the State rights whi vere sectional, by means of compi nises, which were not coincide ivith dividing lines between Fedei >owers, the State powers and po ;rs reserved to the people, but whk levertheless, were concerted in t jonstitution and attempted in lav vas too much for domestic tra juillity, and the result, as I ha ?aid, was through war at last, tl ransmuting of an insoluble politic problem into a soluble social problei 3ut that sectional disparity, th ;ectional pressure, has now cease sectional interference has lost i >nly fulcrum. State rights surviv 'Applause.) FORCE KILLS SD OPPRESSION. The late Republican Congress tri( o put manacles on Southern limb The Democratic party answers 'Shall Northern limbs, then, wei he like, or are we all freemen now: Cever beneath this canopy of ot urviving constitution, and of a ndestructible union of indestruct ?le States, will color-blind the Den icracy of the great North and greate Vest, .and confound and confuse ot: ?resent social problem with past an ;one political problems. It is ou aith in the sublime principle c ndividual freedom upon which yo aay rely for our sympathetic intel st and confident pride as you prc ced to work out, unhindered, you olution of that social problem, th ontract, intermingling of two race 0 diverse in the measures of thei nhcritance from the bounty o ature, so diverse in the measure o heir capacity for contribution to th' tructurc of our civil policy and th unctions of our ?civil order. I hocks historic senjse to witness tha ecent forging of S-r.w? i>:11 ;V>: harrison should by ison that slavery is dead, even whit' lavery. Bryant or Wadswortl hould be alive to put forth in loft] erse the deep, respectful sympathy pith which nobler hearts among you :indred race now follow your exceed ng trial. "There is not a breathing of th< oramon wind that will forget thee ["hon hast great allies, thy friend; re exultations, agonies and love am ian's unconquerable mind." It is for our going forth into th< uture without fear, with hope ano nth manly, fraternal hearts beneath, he banner of our old constitution. ;>yal to the old Democratic faith ano radition, that I have taken such i.ains to set aside this which seems bstructive, but which should be no bstacle in our Federal politics. 1 rould speak with you just as if New fork was a Pacific coast State and lississippi a New England State. Applause.) How otherwise, among equal States, hould a considerate and equal free lan speake? Shall we not go ogether and try to live up to this onstitution of ours, which survives ?ni-npaired in substance, and supreme a authority ? Shall we recur to the rhole Democratic faith and tradi ion and re-establish its supremacy? Supremacy in our politics! Shall few York not stand by Mississippi ? Applause.) Will Mississippi not tand by New York ? (Cheers.) Our 'Vderal constitution, I say, unim paired in substance, admirable in 'urpose, clear in letter and prescrip ion, is supreme in rightful authority. And now what is the condition of ur whole land and people ? I sub ait to the candid adjudgment of our ellow-countryroen, and I ask the udges of our Courts, the lawyers of ur bars, the statesmen of our Legis atures ; I ask all competent persons o test in detail the truth of ray ssertion. I submit to your candid ndgment that every trouble, every iisturbance that exists, every disas er that impends and every danger hat is feared at this time through ut our whole land, not merely in onie parts of.it, is the dire and obvi us consequence of Republican legis ition in disregard of the spirit and he letter of our constitution. WICKED REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION. 1 specify for brevity, now, only wo great items of present and in olerable disturbance, though many ; thers might be named which are larked by egregious violation of the ; etter and spirit of the constitution, ?bt for one hour during the last hirty years has the Democratic ?arty possessed, nor does it now 'ossess, the power to repeal or mend these, and other laws, the ount and origin of ?very present "l I disturbance to the general peace ai j prosperity. A little while the Dem . eratic party had the Senate ; a 1 j tie while the Executive ; for long j periods the House of Represent tives, but not for one moment durii j thirty years has it had all three, I that all these evil-producing la j have been absolutely beyond o I reach, and went on operating and ? on operating now, just as if tl overwhelming Democratic majorii of the House of Representative were a Republican majority. Evei disorder in our finance ; every ii justice in our taxation is not on? the consequence, direct and obviou of Republican legislation, but < i legislation so plainly outside of tl constitution, sc plainly disregardfi 1 of its inhibition, or of its limitation that not one statesman of any part prior to 1860 ever dreamed of adv< eating such transgressions. That is not all nor the wors Three years ago the Democrati party experienced a disastrous ovei throw, and lest the House of Repn sentatives, which till then it had cor trolled for many years. Bot branches of Congress and the Es ecutive being theu in Rep?blica hands, its power was complete t write new laws upon the statut books and to do with the Govern ment and its administration what ever they would. A block upon an; further new, bad, unconstitutiona legislation, which either a Demo eratic House or a Democratic Execu tive could have effectually interposed was thus lost. For two years on country was once again abandonee to their designs. What did they d< with their unhindered power. Die they repeal one of those unconstitu donal laws for which they had beer pleading excuse of war, its bardens, its necessities? Let our worse-than war-tariff taxation reply. Let thc disorders of our currency make an swer. No ; they first cheated mort power into their own hand, and then doubled its prostitution. (Applause.) Their Speaker in the House, by vio lent and unparliamentary procedures, distended the actual small to a fraud ulently large majority, all of whom followed him with dog-like docility. (Laughter.) In the Senate six new Republican Senators were seated to represent a smaller population than their census left uncounted in the city of New York, and ono Slate was defrauded of its Democrat Senators, Their object was i : more and worse u'iconstitutio j station, Wt also to put that legisia tion beyond the people's amendment or repeal. This they did, and their occupation within these intrench ments and the occupation of thc whole Republican and Mugwump press has ever since been to plant political discussion on j ?referred bills, which their President would veto and their Senate won't pass. FALLING INTO REPUBLICAN NETS. I regret that some unwary Demo crats in the press and in Congress, thus render daily assistance in tak ing off public attention from the unsurpassable monstrosities of their living laws and assist the Republican party in hiding the scope of that resolution in purses. These "cut parses of empire and rule1' run up the expenditures to ?1,000,000,000. Of course they tried to pass the force bill. They did pass the two McKinley laws, superadding to the protected taxes of the tariff of 1883, the reciprocity humbug and the new subsidy and bounty swindle, still higher protected taxes. Thc tariff on imported sugar, every dol lar from which went straight to the Federal Treasury, they abolished for the sake of crowding up and per petuating higher protected taxes, which, besides taking a no less sum from the people's pockets for the needs of the people's treasury, takes also many times greater sums from the people's pockets, not one dollar of which^oes to the people's trea sury, nor to raise the workmen's wages, but all goes into the private cash boxes of a few employers of less than 7 per cent of our industri ous toiling millions. (Applause.) To call Republican taxation like that unconstitutional, is like calling ; highway robbery a fault of conduct \ and flat burglarly and indecorum.; (Laughter and applause.) But I seek to make it clear that to repeal, the McKinley laws, to wipe them off the statute books, reviving the lesser ; wrongs they supersede, is merely to take the first step toward living up ; to our unimpaired authoritative cob si itntion and to keep in plain sight of the people till next November the Republican crime, the people's verdict, the need of its renewal. (Applause.) Against united Democratic votes the Republican Congress also passed the Sherman silver law, into which every Republican monetary heresy is crowded, that nas kept our finance in perpetual disorder for thirty years, tortured our merchants with uncer tainty and fear, and turned our foreign commerce, our sales of wheat, our sales of cotton, into a daily gam- ? ble. It revives the most dangerous i heresy for which the Republican i party once packed the bench of the I Supreme Court to get false judgment ; upon as cen st itntion al. Bat that ^ -v- ?-? -i'-.''-';''''-~".':-V.'<:".. -, * .-7;. ?>?A^V. . v was the last and final tribute their political hypocrisy to legal i tue. (Applause.) Never once sii they compelled this Supreme Co to reverse it*? own righteous rulii to fiount histor}- and nut our pul law to public shame; never sir then have they cared enough to <t fig leaves for their indecencies pack that Court again. (Laugh: and applause.) And while Shi man's silver law is draining off c gold to Europe in steady st rear and driving us headlong to an c elusive silver basis, not one Repu lican lawyer, not one Republic merchant or board of trade, or chai ber of commerce in all the Xor has raised against that law a demai that we repeal it for that constit tional reason, and reviving a less b; law which it superseded. THE ISSUE FOR NOVEMBER. But that would be the first st< toward living up to the constitutio and would keep in plain sight of tl people until next November, tl Republican crime, the people's ve diet and the people's duty to uni in its renewal. Propose to a Repu lican to return to the constitutk just where its violation is most tres most flagrant, and he will start wil genuine surprise. Yet inhibitions ? criminal codes are not more sacrt than the inhibitions in the writtc constitution of the govern men Restraint upon malefactors, like tr restraint upon Republican Congres: tuen, is for the purpose of preven ing evil. There is no certain penalt tor the violation of the constitutio is there is for each violation of th criminal code, to be sure, but ther is no more reason why the peoph still living under an unchanged cot <titution, shouid let tolerated viols .ions become the normal way of lifo Jaan there is for making murdei .ape and theft canonical becaos litherto unprevented. It is idle t< expect help fr m the Rep?blica] ?artisans in our endeavor. They tim t profitable to make laws "to pro note the general welfare,'" but to ;hcir particular welfare. That most stringent limitatioi vritten upon the very premnble o >ur constitution, they convert into : )lankot clause for a cover for even tretcb of lawless license. Permit cd to make laws in order to promet? he general welfare, which can mear lothing eise but what is for the wei '..V of alL 'bey put into it malignity d breathe in their own ?ift?? ras y permissions to promote any. i*\ "} that can bribe n? ipproprlation from the people's taxes >r force his way in government part icrship willi protected monopolies That is the way they "promote th? general welfare." They promote heir own welfare. But we need no help from Repub ican partisans in the next Novembei .lection rf the good people of thc united States will make alliance with >nc another and the Democratic -arty, to place their verdict on thc wrongdoings of the Republican Con gress and upon the Executive who indorsed them ail and made them aw. (Applause.) That is the first ind greatest step in the pathway of >ur return to the old Democratic aith and tradition. That is the way .0 begin living up to our constitution, n full obedience to its unqualified supremacy, instead of taking pater nal guidance from the Republican .evolutionists over a crucified consti :ution. We need no help from the Repub lican partisans. It is enough that ive all of us unite to hate these Re publican wrongdoings in order to .dect a Congress and Executive that viii put a stop to them. Repeal :hcir odious laws and restore the country to its peace and prosperity. (Applause.) WHAT DEFEAT WOULD MEAN. We must never depair of the -epublic. But I can truly say, that f these enemies of the republic who low possess its powers shall escape tn overwhelming defeat next Novem ber by our divisions, or our failure to mite and conquer, they will be able with that reprieve so to buttress ibout their stolen powers, so to Forty and entrench themselves, that mother generation wiser and more self-sacrificing than we, may have to suffer and take up the noble effort which has faihd and dropped from , >ur unworthy hands. (Applause.) But by unity and concord in our .anks now, we can surely triumph. Unity will endow with needful power he great Democratic party, to-day ;he sole efficient instrument ^f re form. Unity will enable it to force : .elief from unjust tariff taxes. L'nity will enable it to call a halt to ; :he growth and spread of grinding nonopolies. Unity will enable it to .estore to the South safe, sufficient noney of our fathers when cvery lollar was as good as a gold dollar. ^Cheers.) AX APPEAL TO TnE FARMERS. But to discard co-operation with he great Democratic party, organ zed in every State, as old as the government, incapable to die, is to rind the hand and foot of every far ner of our land and hand them over ; ,o the cruel mercies bf their thirty- ; rear-long Republican spoilers, from ? < vhose clutcherthey are now almost j i xf ? finally freed. The day of the deliv- i erance of the farmers of the United States draws nigh. It is set down in the Democratic calendar for the 8th of next November, if then again ; the farmers themselves shall, as they j did in November, 1800, reinforce the j Democratic party and empower asl to dethrone the endorser of every j Act of thc billion-dollar Congress, as your help empowered us to drag down the billion Congress. (Ap- j plause.) Alone you can do nothing, hut defeat all your own hopes. Alone you will but re-cieet the party whose ' policy of protected taxes is plunder ing us all, has always plundered the farmers first and most and worst of all. That has b'-en for twenty years lhe Democratic indictment of the Republican party. At last you arose with us against the common spoiler. j < At last you helped us drag him down. | J And now their President comes to j his trial, whose - signature endorsed j i every Act of the billion Congress, j whose veto now blocks every possi- : ble reform by the Democratic House. ? Had his official term expired then, 1 our victory would have been as com- i p?ete as it was overwhelming. But i his term had two years more to run, ? and, therefore, two victories were 1 indispensable to do the work of one. ] The last citadel of Republican power i stands now at the mercy of our < united assault. Is this the time to 1 livide our forces? Is this the time ? tor the army of the Farmers' Alli- ] ince in any State to renounce co-ope- 1 ration with the Democratic hosts of j J ill the States? Is this the time to J livide and separate and split? Gen :lemen, it is madness. Once more j ' io the breach, my friends. All to- j 1 pether just once more. (Applause.) J The people's victory requires but 1 :he union of together one;* again, I ind then it stai ds complete-(cheers I ' -for then the \ eople's servants will < JO empowered as they cannot be . int il then, empowered to execute the > people's will. (Applause.) Xo. 5 gentlemen, we cannot afford a di vi- I ?ion next November. Our strength ! s enough, but it needs cur united i strength. Division is defeat. Dh i- s iion even in Mississipi is nothing i .lse but a vote to prolong Repubii- " ?an domination and renew that 1 ?arty's life. But unity now will ? lestroy the Republican party and t ?weep it off th? :. " the earth. ] Itcann?- ? - a renewal of 1 nc peopie - :>r "heirgreat ?prisin?? two years ago.*' The K.?pn an par? wi:! go win n ? ?he Federal party wi t. It will go i where the Whig party went. 1* : vii! go where the know-nothing ' varty went. (Applause.) Let us once more unite, and once i nore defeat the Republican party ?cxt November and its defeat will ' )c its death. It will disintegrate, j lissolve and perish. The curse will l?e removed, the < reign of the autocrats and plutocrats 1 . i. will be over and gone. The conspi- ? racy of the Republican revolution- < ists of the billion Congress to wreck i the great experiment of Democratic justice and liberty will be crushed, md we shall awake from this long ? harkness and its foul dreams to sun- I rise, morning and a new life. (Pro- 1 longed applause.) Terminal Reorganized. NEW YORK, March 16.-Import- ' ant meetings of the Richmond Ter- ; minal and Richmond and Danville ' roads were held to-day and the devel opments which have been expected i for some time transpired. John H. Inman resigned his position as I re- 1 aident of the Terminal and Danville companies, R. T. Wilson resigned as Director of the Richmond Terminal and S. M. Inman resigned as Direc lor of the Richmond and Danville. 1 Then Walter G. Oakman was elected President of the Richmond Tenni- 1 na! and Richmond and Danville com- : panics, John II. Inman was elected j : to succeed Pt. T. Wilson as Director sf the Terminal and H. C. Fahne *tock, vice-President of the First ; National Bank, was elected Director rjf the Danville in place of S. M. Inman. After these changes had been made the report of thc reorganiza tion committee was read and adopted. Thc reorganization committee con sisted of Frederic P. Olcott, Oliver , H. Payne, Frederic I). Tappen, Wi!- ? liam II. Perkins and Henry Bri?lge, : ? and also these gentlemen who have!1 been added : H. C. Fahnestock and ' J. Kennedy Tod. The committee's plan of reorgani- , iation, which was adopted, provides tpr an issue of 4 per Cent first mort gage thirty-five-year gold bonds, in terest from March 1, 1892; coupons quarterly, March 1, June I, Septem- S < [>er 1 and December 1, ten millions . ' of which are not to be used for ?j reorganization purposes, but only ? ^ 'or the acquisition of additional pro- ] r,erty-a total of *170,000,000 ; pre- j 1 'erred 5 per cent stock, non-cumula-1 * :ive, 870,000,000. 1 A vote of the majority of the pre- j ?erred stock is requisite to authorize j ' my addi) ional mortgage on the pro- ? perty covered by the first mortgage ; j '' :ommon capital stock ?110,000,000, nsking a total capitalization of $350,- - 000,000. This total capitalization is to cover securities of the Term i il Company, Richmond and Dan1 !e and East Tennessee in the hand ? i the public, and owned and control 5 by companies, amounting to 8304, 503,101, exclusive of car trusts. Thc plan provides for the retirement of existing car trusts amounting to 8=2,309,004 and floating debts amount ing to 86,310,000. The present fixed charges, includ ing car trust-, amount to 80,474,837; against net earnings of 8S.744,730. The fixed charges under the pro posed plan, when carried out, will amount to ?6,400,000, to which should be added rentals of Cincinnati South on, 81,000,000, and the North Caro lina Railroad, ?260,000, mak'-g total fixed charges 87,660,000. T uis leaves apparently 81,100,000 in sight for iividends on the new ? per cent pre ferred stock. The committee calls attention to Lhe fact that in view of pending liti gation affecting the Central Railroad ard Banking Company, of Georgia, and of questions winch are before the Courts and undetermined respect ing the existing lease, and consider ing the legal difficulties attenoit?g" J*r2 3onsoli<3 .tion of. that, company, it lias found it advisable to make no provisions for the present for caking up outstar.dir-jj stocks and securities rf the Central Railroad and Banking Company, of Georgia, hut the inter ?sts of the Richmond Termin . Com pany in these stocks and securities will vest in the new corporation and form part of the security for the lew first mortgage bonds. It is contemplated by the plan :hat the rights and interest of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia Railroad Company in the s?curi t?s of the Aiahania Great Southern Railway Company, Limited, Ala bama Great Southern Railroad and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas ['acific Railway shall be subjected to he ?ion of the first mortgage ; that satisfaction ami discharge of the Richmond Terminal collater.-il trust ?ix per cent mortgage will be ?leierred mtil the collateral deposited to .ecure the bonds issued thereunder nay, in the judgment of the <-om tiittee, be directly subjected t<> the ?en of the new first mortgage. Li the pinion of the committee .he concentration of numerous cor porations under one management viii result ht a largo reduction ill -?'?V -._.".-c.-.,. * ruc allowance for requisite improve ments and betterments during the ?ext two years, the addition of which will result in a material reduction of Lhe operating expense. Thee? ^mil lee is to name thc fir-t Hoard of Directors of the new corporation, kvhich will be calle 1 the "S'^uthern Railway Company." lu determining tit-. basis of thc -j\<\ securities for new the committee aas endeavored to exercise absolute impartiality, and bas reached this x>nclu>i?Mi after careful study of the merits of each security. Terms upon which ti:e present securities are to be exchanged for those of the new L-omjiauy cannot bc set forth in tho iimit> of this summary, as they occupy nearly a score of pages in a pamphlet copy of the plan. An important feature ol' the plan is thc rights which are given to hobl ers of the Terminal common and pre ferred stocks and collateral trust 5 per cent bonds to subscribe to tho securities of thc new company. Each hoi'ler of one hundred shares of tb se stocks and of 81,000 bond is entitled to subscribe 81,600 to the cash fun?! of 811,588,640, which i> ne?-essary to meet thc cash requirements of the ??lan. For such subscription of i;l,000 they will receive 8:J,"'i''> of the new 4 percent bonds and 8700 of ew preferrcil stock. Holders of less amounts than one hundred shares of stock and 81,000 l>on?l may sub scribe to tho new securities in the same proportion. A syndicate headed by Hallgarten <fc Co. has been forme? i to provide the 81 t,5S8,000 cash neces sary to insure the saeecss of the [dan, but st?x-khoi?ler- ami bondhold ers will be given privilege to sub scribe for tho new securities on terms that will make th<- rights very valua ble. NH man or woman was ever created t<x> good to do honest work, and those who shirk their duty are <>n!y sowing seeds <?f trouble. There is work to do everywhere-in th" oflice. on tho farm, in the store, on the ranch, at the bank counter and in all departments of life. The true philosophy and general happi ness of life is only found in doing h?>nest work. "titer all. occupation. Foetal position, human achievement, are hugely the results of circumstances. No one has thc right to scorn a brother man because )f his station in life. Ii* the beggar had been given thc banker's opportunities. ie might be a l>ctter man than the banker. If, on the other hand, the jankcr had all through his life known coverty ami contamination, abuse and ;emptation, it is by no means certain :hat he would bc a l>eggar rather than a robber. SEEMS RATHER Koro u.-Little Nell: 'What's the matter?" Little Dick: 'Top caught me smoking ind he's going to lick me." '.When?" "Quick as he gets through smoking.*' "Good .Veics.