The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-23
UNITED NORTH and SOUTH
TEXT OF UNITED STATES SENATOR
BEVERIDGE,S SPEECH AT
LOUISVILLE
CHEERS FOR THE OLD FLAG
The Orator Heard Them Given Alike
in the Philippines by Sons of
UniOn1sts and Sons of
COnfederates.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct 22.-Library
hall was too small to hold the crowd
that wanted to hear Senator Albert ].
beNerldge, of Indianapolis, speak to-
night. While the senator was speaking
Tor Mckinley in this hail. Bourke Cock
ran was speaking for Bryan at the Au-
ditoriuln, so the clans were to a large
decree separated. Senator Beveridge's
audience greeted him enthusiastically
and cheered him continually.
The exercises were opened by a state
ment explaining under what device a
voter should put his cross mark in or
der to vote the straight Republican
ticket, and several voices from the audi
ence greeting the voting directions with,
That's where lam going to put it,
Among the vice presidents on the
stage were number of Brown Demo-
Gratis. E. I. Morgan, of Chicago, who
campaigned for Bryan in 1856, preceded
Senator Beverage. The senator was
introduced by John T. Bashaw, a Brown
Democrat. Mr.. Beveridge said in part:
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.
The South has grown too great to be
sectional. The South ought now to be,
and in its heart is, American in politics.
Not reason remains why the South
should be solid on sectional ines. The
lines which once divided US, but which
shall divide US no more forever, nave been
erased from the republics map because
the conditions which created those lines
have passed away. Industrially, the re-
public is a single nation; commercially,
the interests Of the North and South are
perity of the North makes for the pros
perIty of the South The nationals f1nan-
cial system as vitality affects the Southern
business man as it affects the Northern
business man. Our tariff policy creates
factories in the South as well as in the
North. Our whole internal economy is
common in its application, common in Its
benefits and common in it's defects, where
land. 1t is impossible that any policy
shall benefit the nation without ulti-
mately benefiting every portion of the
nation. The philosophy of sectionalism
was that the good of one section of the
country could best be secured at the ex-
pense of other sections of the country;
the philosophy of nationality was and is,
that the real good Of any section of our
common land can only be secured by a
policy broad enough to benefit the whole.
SECTIONALISM IRRATIONAL.
Is there anything in our domestic policy
today which furnishes a reason why the
South should be solid as against the
North? If there is, then let it be solid,
but do not let it be solid because of some
reason which has long since passed away
Does not an honest standard of money
benefit the South as much as it benefits
the North? Then, for the same reason,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia should
vote the same way as Illinois, Indiana
Ohio and New York vote. Does not the
policy of the internal development benefit
the South as much as it benefits the
North? Does it not benefit the South to-
day more than it benefits the North, be-
cause the period of development has just
begun in the South, whereas it is nearly
finished in the North? And, if this is SO,
is there not every reason why Virginia,
Louisiana and Alabama should vote now
and in the future as Pennsylvania votes
now and has voted in the past? Will not
the foreign policy which is now being de-
veloped by the Republican party, the
purpose of which is to secure markets
for American products, benefit every sec
ton of the country alike? And if it ben
efits one section more than another, is
not that section, that splendid area Of our
common land called the South? And, if
this is So why should any Southern man,
living in the present and not in the past,
and VINO will live in the future, vote
against that policy which will give him
the largest prosperity and his section the
highest development-a development all
the richer and all the nobler because it
is a development in common with that of
every other portion of the land?