The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-23
THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.

! The Literary Digest has gathered
large amount Of Southern newspaper
comment which goes to show thai
Sen; tor Mel aurin's proposal to estab-
lish a Southern white mans party is
meeting with great favor. Indeed
says the Digest, there is little of vigor-
Gus Democratic opposition to it,, and
much favorable comment from rather
unexpected quarters.
| Senator McLaurin holds that expan-
sion, a protective tariff, the gold stand
ard and shipping subsidies mean pros
perity for the South, and he appeals to
all Southerners to support these doc
trines. The Louisville Courier-Journal
| says it fully indorses this view, and
claims that it has done so for a long
! time. The Greenville Is. c. News says
the time has come to abandon "old
hates and moth-eaten doctrines" and
1t thinks that the Senator's position
will make the young men of this State
honor him, and their fathers with the
interests of their sons at heart, sup
port him." The Richmond Times de-
clares that there is a large element in
the Democratic party in the South who
are sick and tired of the party yoke"
and it believes that ''if left free to vote
their sentiments, they would undoubt-
eddy act with the Republican party in
national elections The McLaurin
movement, it adds, may be the begin
ming of the breaking up of the solid
South" The Norfolk virginian- Pilot
thinks that If "the organization of a
Republican party, on the lines indicat-
ed, is contaminated. the outlook is for
the most violent political upheaval that
South Carolina has experienced since
the overthrow of the carpet-bag re-
gime." Says the Louisville Evening
Post:
Senator McLaurin says Just what
thousands of people are thinking and
saying all over the South. We want to
Identify ourselves with every forward
movement of the nation, whether 1t
be industrial, commercial or military.
The Democratic party, as now organ
lied, Is reactionary party: has no
part In the present and no faith in the
future. 1t Is not the party of Jeffer-
son, for 1t has repudiated or abandoned
nearly everything for which jefferson
stood. 1t advocates every heresy JEFF
ferson combated. and Is now looking for
leader more extreme than Bryan and
more intractable than Tillman."
The Macon Gay Telegram declares
that the South is too intelligent to go
on training forever after revolutionary
enthusiasts of the far West" The Mo-
bile Register protests against the South
being condemned to Punishment for
ever from the fruits of political vic
tory by the obstinacy of political lead
ers who live in fog, indulge in foolish
fancies regarding national finances. and
are continually butting their heads
against the substantial interests of the
country" The Nashville Banner Ia NOT |
sure that 1t wants to join a Southern
Republican party, but 1t Is In no man
ner of doubt about the necessity for |
such rehabilitation of the Democratic
party "as will sever It entirely from
Populism and the ,fads and vagaries |
that have been catered to by the Bryan |
domination in its councils" The Jack |
sonville (Fla.) Times-Union says that
the South will not "rashly endanger
home rule under any temptation that I
may be placed before her eyes," but
that she has got beyond the point /,
where she will take her medicine SO I
ong as 1t is anything that is not Re- !,