The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-07

J i"oy are utterly unaple TO right their 7
] own wrongs, and have. by their secession
I from US, retarded US In our efforts to re-
] dress the grievances of which they so
! Justly complain. They should come back
I to US as quickly as possible and help US
to fight the battle of the common people !
I under the old fag-the flag of the dem.
! ocratic party-after ALL the only peoples &
party that ever has or ever will exist as a y
I national party in this republic. Let the
( democrats, therefore, by a liberal policy. Z
invite them back into the house of their +
] fathers.
They are our brethren, and are as
honest and as earnest in their demands
Tor good government as we ara We recog-
nize and suffer from the same evils that
they do We differ only as to the remedy
Let US extend to them hearty welcome
The best and most patriotic of them will
come. The worst, those who Joined the or
ganization for the spoils of office, will not
come, and we do not want them Let US
welcome the one back to the home from
which he wandered, and speed the other
on his way into the camp OF the enemy.
Tho democratic platform is broad enough
for all honest white men to stand on and
In Georgia they should get together again
There 10 not room enough in the state for
Two Whlo Lneal pdrUe6 we want no
gold democracy nor silver democracy,
no young democracy nor old democracy,
no rcrth Georgia democracy nor south
Georgia democracy. We want only the old
fashion Jeffersonian democracy of our
fathers which has stood the test OF an
hundred years, and which accords to mono.
nigh or low, rich or poor old or young,
special privileges, but to all, white and
black, corporation and Individual, equal ana
exact Justice All re
j dlnal doctrines, and while this is the
case. We can afford to differ on doctrines
not cardinal. We should all, therefore, get
+ together for the great battle of 1900 to
which the state campaign in Georgia this
year Is preliminary skirmish. the gold
democrat, the silver democrat and the
MOI est populist. 1t will take the united
eHort OF all of US to whip out in the
struggle two years hence the champion of
monopoly and the enemy of prosperity.
and our arch enemy, the republican party.
which was born of fanaticism and hate
nrst achieved power by our dissentions and
folly, retained 1t by the bayonet and now
rules the nation by means of a corrupt
ballot and a purchased vote Like the
anaconda, 1t has wrapped it's fold around
the body polite and tightened its deadly
coils about the business of the country
I'LL 1t has paralyzed our agriculture, i'm
In our furnaces and driven our commerce
from the high seas. The first thing to ba
Done to restore prosperity is to drive
this party OF usurpation and hate from
power, destroy the monopolies it has built
up, dethrone the golden calf It has erected
and re-enthrone the goddess of liberty
driven from her lofty pedestal by this mon
grel offspring of fanatacism, hate and
greed, when the country groaned in the
throes of civil war. So much for national
matters which concern the whole country
alike.
As to State Matters.
OF equal and perhaps in some respects
OF greater Importance to us are the Quss-
lions Of state policy, because they come
nearer home to u.s.
Georgia is a great state, one Of the
greatest in the union. With an area OF
nearly sixty thousand square miles, G
greater variety of soil, climate and pro-
auctions than any other of the forty-six
states and a population Of more than two
millions Of people whose diversified inter-
ests must be consulted and whose rights
must be guarded, the responsibilities of
her governor and her lawgivers are the
gravest, and he who would lightly assume
them is unfit for the trust
Within her borders live on terms of per-
feet equality before the law two races of
people in nearly equal numbers. Fifty-two
per cent of her population are Of the eau
casian race, and most Of these are sprung
from the Anglo-Saxon, the most
aggressive, enlightened and enter
prising race on the face Of the
earth. F'orty-eight per cent are /
the sons and daughters of the dark con-
dnent, the least enlightened and least ca
pable of self-government OF the races Of
man. Separated by only a few genera
items from their ancestors who preyed
upon one another and roamed naked in the !
tungles of Africa, and lived ON the uncook- |
ed flesh of wild beasts and the spontans-
Gus productions of the earth, ard removed
by only one generation from a state of
slavery and the utter ignorance and de-
pendence which such q state implies these
people, for whose slavery we were not re-
sponstble. were by single stroke of the
pen endowed with citizenship and the
right of suffrage. But they are among
US and are our equals under the law, and
while We are not responsible for either
their slavery or their emancipation, we
have to wrestle with a problem never be-
fore presented to any other people In the
history Of the world, the question as to
whether or not it Is possible for two races
as opposite as the poles. not only In color,
out in taste, habits, endowment and ca
pacity, to Live together on terms OF perfect
equality. We have wrestled with this
problem fer more than thirty years. The
result has not been satisfactory. Many of
these people, who, while in state of slay-
cry. were nearest to the white people. emM