The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-07-12
THE TALK OF a SOUTHERN CAN.
DIDATE.


and OF the two parties have had some
thing to say about running a southern
man on the presidential ticket. The
Messenger has avoided any opinion be-
cause il is far too soon to agitate
it, and secondly it has no evidence as
either wise or desirable. II you would
study the animosity of the north, or
a large element in ii, towards the south
even at this late day, watch the news
papers and read Foraker's political
clap-trap harangue in the Ohio repub-
lican Mark Hanna state convention a
few days ago, and see the Endorsement
of republican organs and politicians.
The south is to be damned incontinent-
ly because it will not continue to sub
nit to the disastrous rule OF Ignorance
and corruption. The radical party is
still radical after thirty-six years of
misrule and oppressive legislation hos
tile to the best and truest interests Of
the south. To talk about putting a
sound. able, upright, unfaltering DEM
ocrat on the national ticket in 1904,
would be tremendous leverage to hoist
some political outcast like Hanna into
the chair once occupied by gentlemen,
men of honor, of political conscience
Washington, Madison. Jefferson. and
some others.
Governor Meyer, of louisiana, faVors
the idea of nominating southern DEM
olrat for the Presidency. He thinks 1t
w.se and proper. Fortunately not
many office-holders have as yet adopt
ed that view. When you see republican
papers favoring look out. 1t is very
like the willingness of Mr.. Bryan and
tens of thousands of other democrats
to see Hanna the republican nominee
of the corrupt party Of ballot stuffing
and vote purchase. 1t matters not what
able and honorable and perpendicular
democrat may be considered it is pre-
mature now to name him. 1t is not yet
revealed by signs and portents in the
political heavens that the time is near
for an hallucinetion that will lead thel
party to a course that will be sure toI
solidify the north in opposition. Nom-
mate one of the foremost and purest
and Wisest of southern men and suchl
a howl would go UP as to rend theI
heavens throughout all Yankeedoodle-l
dom from Boston to San Francisco.
The south deserves the place, should
command the confidence of the peoplel
at large, but the fanaticism and mean
ness that brought on the accursed, in
fernal war against the south is not yet
dead or asleep in the north.
The able and southern independent
newspaper at Washington, the Post, is
a republican exponent in most OF the
measures that distinguish that party,
and it is shrewd and influential. Seel
how it fatters the south now in the fol-
lowing passage:
seriously speaking, however, we stillI
believe that the south, which consti-
tutes the bone and sinew of the democ-
racy, should assert its claims to recog-
milton. That section has too long sub
mitted to the arrogance OF the nortn
and west. 1t has contentedly occupied
a position of servitude for more than|
thirty years; has Subordlnated itself 10
every crazy whim or Mugwump folly
seldom give a democratic vote to the
electoral college. 1t has played the
poor relation and sat below the salt un-
til it seems to have no ambition beyond
that of putting northern and western
men into office and furnishing the arm
les for battles ir which it has no hope
of glory or reward. There was once a
SORT of reason for this policy, but 1t
has no longer q warrant for existence
The south has resumed its place In the
national equation, and Is To-Day the
most promising and potent factor OF
them all. Furthermore, it is rich in
the material of patriotic craftsmanship,
of strength and brains and character.
Much of that is true, and it is sad to-
admit. Through thirty-five years the
south has been prosecuted by the re-
publican administrations and by the
congress. 1t has been suspected, ira
duced, threatened, and it is even threat
ened now with direful consequences by
the dominant republican party. IheI
passage given on Sunday from repub-
Iican sheet at Buffalo, n. Y, Indicates
the animus and the readiness TO deaI
with the south by Force bills and what
not. The south has been branded asl
an alien, as something Of an outlaw, tol
be watched and scorched if necessary,
TO keep it straight. If it listens toI
s'the wooings of fancy or vain imag1n-
ings or appeals to independence, 1t Will
simply contribute to the election OF
republican to succeed Mckinley who
may be of a worse kind.