Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-17

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4 the assertion-wh,ch. doubtless. is
fairly representative of existing
/ sentiment in the South--that:
| MI. Bryan is completely discredited
rs a leader. From one calamitous defeat
The has led us to another even greater.
1t would be insane TO think of the
continued leadership Of q man who
had twice failed to carry his own pre-
cinct. not tosxay the country. 1t is
well eymNeh to pass around the usual
kindly MDrkls heard at funeral. but it
| must anti.1t Wifl, end there"
Passing on it pays it's respects to
Chairman Jones of the Democratic
! National committee. whom it pro-
nounces g 4 fit subject for home for
the feeble minded Continuing it
! says:
He (Joness kept claiming the cleo
ton Of Bryan in 1896 until the i'll
| auguration the following spring. At
| last accounts he was declaring that
he did not know how the election this
! year had gone--that he was waiting
for returns.
the national headquarters in New
York. is little better off. He con-
| fessed. Tuesday night, after the whole
world knew how the whirlwind of bal
lot had gone. that he could not
think" and didn't know anything
about it. 1t is just to say that he
knew asimuch then as he did ut the
4 beginning.
L 4;
fgreat party to a dogma of finance dis
fcredited by all civilized peoples was
followed upshw ebooting out men like
bayard. Carlisle. Wilson. Olney ana
! Turner, and substituting Jones. stone,
| Altgeld, Weaver and Croker--a mot
| lev, aggregation of ineompetentS and
| moral idiots. 1t is painful to confess
these things, but it is time that the
| manhood of the South should rise and
| repudiate them. and if we cannot
shake them off We should secede from
l them.
Continuing the Telegraph says that
The time has come for Southern
Democrats to climb down off of the
back seats. and assert themselves in
the party management.
Where" it exclaims. do our North
crn brethren appear in the game!
BRYAN could not carry his home precinct.
| and scarcely his state after fusioh
| with the Populists. What have Crok-
err and Hill. .Altgeld and HARRISON
Mclean and young Thurman. and the
rest of the brethren done for us i'll
| the electoral college?
And Stevenson. like Bryan. failed
| to bring up his own precinct.
Is it not time for Southern man
hood to cut loose from the body OF
| this death?
Southern Democrats furnish tho
| votes, why not furnish the candidates?
Morgan of Alabama or Daniel ot
Virginia or Turner OF Georgia could
at least have carried the South. Any
of the three could have reclaimed
| Maryland Delaware and West Viz
| ginia and made Kentucky sure. Has
MT the tail been waggine the dog long
| enough"
These are strong words: but thoE
| come from one of the strongest DEM
| ocratic papers in the South. and are.
| doubtless. indicative of the existing
| sentiment in that section of the coun-
| try. 1t is declaration Of indie
pendence in party management. IL
serves ample notice that never again
| will the representative men of the
South submit without protest to such
| arrogant dictation as was exercised by
William j. Bryan in the deliberations
of the Kansas City convention. The
South has made it's mistakes. 1t has.
| too often been swayed by it's preju-
| dices. Race animosities have been 4
disturbing element in it's civilization:
| but there is no doubt today but what
the Democratic leaders in that
section of the country are vastly ah'cr.
safer, and more patriotic than those
! who have been at the front in that
political organization during the pas.
| eight years.
These men have hitherto per-
mitted themselves 10 remain in the
1 background in Democratic counselS,
bit it is ievident that, hereafter. they
purpose to assume the place III the
affairs of that party which their num-
erical strength entities them to occupy.
| Certainly they do not purpose to &c
on furnishing practically all the cleo
toral votes in support of party plat
forms in the framing of which their
wishes and their convictions are utter
" and arrogantly ignored.
| The Kaiser is certainly a successful
advertiser. A kidney cure or pain
Ikiller would be sure to boom under his
| management, had ne not been born tC