The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-23

anu advance Dy every NonofdDle eAoIt
the interests of those people through
whose favors have place in the halls
of legislation. When to be a successful
politician one must cater alone TO preju-
dice and follow blind passion in its lead
ership, / shall even if tainted by the
latter-day saints of Democracy, prefer 10
believe that my conduct is in strict ac-
cord with the policies of those grand old
Democratic heroes of the past. who in
their day and age. gifted with patriotism
and wisdom, made the Democratic party
known throughout the nation as the party
OF progress as well as the party of power.
Ia Prosperity So FrightfuI a Phan-
tom
Whenever prosperity is so frightful
phantom that / must either get scared at
that phantom or stand by the issues that
promote prosperity, you need not fear
that shall dodge. Whenever certain
'latter-day saints" attempt to force me
to the acceptance of the doctrine that
dead issue of the past is vital force
in the living present, shall make my
personal protest. Whenever, to be an ac-
ceptable Democrat according to the def
iition OF a party led by Allen, Pettigrew
aud Teller, 1 must attack and oppose
every man and every measure that is
not marching backward, / shall reserve
to myself the right to state that South
Carolina turns her face with hope and
with courage towards the future.
Whenever in the face of a pending po-
ltical contest, one must have a cold chill
each time cotton goes from five to twelve
cents or wheat to a dollar a bushel; each
time cattle or hogs go up cent pound;
each time he reads an advance of ten
per cent in wages; each time he sees
notice in the paper of Men Wanted" in
our great industrial army; each time that
an old, lingering mortgage is cancelled;
each time that he sees a new roof put
upon the house and a few more comforts
for the old mother at the fireside: each
time he sees the burdens of domestic toll
Hghtened for the weary wife, to be COM
PEELED to have chill for fear Mr. Bryan's
chances would be hindered by each and
all of these varied circumstances during
the last three or four years, would have
kept me in perpetual shiver. For my
self rather than be a sufferer from an
imaginary egue, I shall prefer to glory
in these evidences of prosperity and hap
piness, rather than conjure them up as
specters, even IL some politicians chances
are thereby lessened.
When to be approved by 1.-THE Latter
day Saints of Democracy as consistent
party man, one must turn his back to
the rising sun and watch alone it's set
ting, and when, instead of viewing the
glories Of the morning. he must conjure
up the phantoms of night, I shall rest
content to place my faith in those i'm
mortal principles which the fathers of
Democracy promulgated at the forma-
tton of our government and which have
been sealed by the devotion of patriotic
men and consecrated by the blood of
heroes.
When marching from condition of
misery, when fleeing from a land of
,Sodom. must one needs look back with
yearning?
When, like the chosen of God. escaping
from the task-masters of Egypt, and
marching towards the land of promise
flowing with milk and honey, with wealth
of corn, vine and olives, Astounding in
fairness. must We still attempt to salts
fly the morbid cravings of that appetite
which yet yearns for the fleshpots of
Egypt?
Give the Young Men of the south n
Chance.
When pig iron was stacked up in the
yards at Chattanooga and Birmingham
unstable at IS per ton, furnaces cold
men idle, and l now find furnaces blazing
yards empty, men working, and customers
knocking at the door to buy that iron
at prices which have ranged from SIG to
$40 per ton; when, instead of cents, l
sold my cotton this year at II cents, shall
I, as loyal citizen of this glorious South
land, with the visions of the greatness
that lie before her. standing as she does
at the open door of opportunity. shah l
follow the leadership of a Pettigrew, Alt
geld, or Tillman; or shall exert every
honorable effort in my power to make the
present measure of prosperity but as a
faint glimpse of the coming morn, com
pared with the splendor of the sun at its
meridian?
Am to be turned from my course, con-
scicus of the absolute unselfishness of my
purpose, to do all that may lie in my
power for the welfare and happiness of
the people whom l love; am l TO be de-
TERED from my course, because some 20
litical wolves are heard bowling upon my
track?
l see before me a mother, who over
and again has with bowed head and in
finite yearning asked herself. How may
I so rear my son that he may go out
into the world and achieve success?"
This has been a sterner problem in the
South than in the North. The diversity
of manufacturing Industries has left the
avenues of success wide open for the
young men of the North, while TO the
young men Of the South there have been
but few avenues open for those rightful
ambitions which fire the heart of every
youth would, IL in my power, before
/ am called home from my labors, pro-
mote a condition where | might see these
boys-one. perhaps. the president of
great factory, the other perhaps the treas
urer or secretary. another the manager,
and another perhaps as the sales agent
establishing markets for South Carolina
products throughout the world. All men
cannot be lawyers. clergymen or bankers.
mother, and the education afforded by
our public schools, has a reasonable right
10 aspire to the proudest position of emil
hence in the world. financial. industrial
and commercial. ! would, II in my pow
en- promote that condition where your
sons might go out into the broad avenues
OF life with every impending barrier torn
down, where the boy upon the poorest
farm in South Carolina, or the son OF the
least paid operative at the mill, could
march out with hope and courage, and,
having been taught those lessons at the
mothers knee which must ever be his
guiding star. find that opportunity for
success and eminence which his qualities
command.
The Race Issue settled.
With the great race problem. which has
for so many Years confronted us, hap
PLY settled, as / said a Charlotte why
should we be miserable slaves OF one
party, and football for the other?" Let
It be understood that the industrial and
commercial interest of the South come be-