The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-28
SOUTHERN MAN
FOR PRESIDENT.
Laps. ID. McCOrd of Tennessee Gives
Reasons for EIectinG One.

Laps ID. McCOrd of Tennessee Gives
Reasons for EIecting one.
(Copyrighted)
Washington, D. c.. June 26.--I had de-
termined to let the facts themselves. and
what has been already said as they were
being presented, suffice on the question Of
expediency," but since I begun this
agitation have letters from Southern men
agreeing with me precisely in desire. but
protesting that I'VE cannot elect a South
ern man" And then l found the follow
ing reference to this agitation in the
New York Sun of May 21:
Yet Southern man will not be nomi-
mated and the efforts of the Hon. Laps.
d. McCord viii be in vain. BY meekly
failing after the Democratic party. nv
having no reliance upon itself. by con-
unuing to SILVER at negro rule after de-
prlVlng the negroes of the right to vote,
by accepting alliance against its Democ-
racy OF the West, by being patiently and
persistently Democratic, the South has
lost for the present its chance of making
a southern man candidate for Presi-
cent Whoever is nominated. and on
Whatever platform, the South will be
~ liz DNiiiOSIdllc party. 1nere
is nothing doubtful about the Democratic
South. No concession need TO be made
to it. No Southerner is necessary for the
purpose of carrying it. The South will
do as 1t is told and vote obedientIy. Its
oreed OF public men has not improved
under the demoralizing influences of a
party without effective opposition.
1t Is the South's own fault that 1t
does not furnish the Democratic candi-
date for President"
Let's look first at the "expediency'' OBJ
lection again: Can we elect a Southern
man? Can we. indeed? Can we elect any
man? We never can elect a Southern
man until we try. and if we keep on de-
Ginning TO try until we starve the party
to death, we never will That man is
blind or fool who refuses to see that
the new generations of voters coming on
South will refuse longer to align them
selves with party that gives up all it's
rights. meekly surrenders everything to
others. and has nothing to give them, or
even to promise them, in the way of of
fee and honors. They are becoming dis
gusted with such cowardly policy. in
the city of Nashville. where l know most
about 1t, the young men are breaking
away by the score, and by the hundreds
l know of one nest of them mostly young
blue-bloods, whose fathers were of the
old rock-ribbed stripe of unterritied Dem
ocrats, who never wabbled on the politi-
cal gudgeon, and these young fellows, al
most to a man voted for Mr. Mckinley
because they are tired and Disguised, and
worn out. and they turn to something in
which they think they see promise and
opportunity for them. Men naturally love
success and deSpise failure, and every
body despises coward, and these young
fellows see the Democratic party a con-
tinued failure and a conspicuous coward
We may not be able to elect the first
time, but the attempt will awaken self
respect and party respect, and draw the
people together. and cement them in the
bonds of a common interest again. 1t
will arrest the threatened disintegration,
reclaim those who are starting astray,
awaken new hopes, and infuse that siren
uous vigor that courage imparts, and,
if not at first, in the end we will sue
coed. The present give-up policy is lit
orally starving the. party to death. Life
in anything must be fed for its susie
nance. You cannot hold young Demo-
scrats forever to the rack without putting
some fodder in it. 1t is not sordid, sell
fish, office-hungry voracity. 1t is now a
question of whether Southern people are
guilty of crime or unworthiness. These
young fellows want to know why they
are not equal American citizens.
A Southern man who now objects to
nominating one of his own people be
cause he cannot be elected" is uncon-
sciously accusing the South of crime or
unworthiness. Why can't he? Is there
some stain? Is there crime? Have we
no one able? 1t is the towards view OF
it, The man who now says that wants 10
run before a danger that he creates him.
self.
What good is it going to do the South
even if we do elect a Democrat from some
other section? We've tried it, and it did
not correct the Inequalities / nave been
pointing out. If we might elect one,
few Southern men would get Office, but
the bulk of good things would still flow
the other way, and the policy of admin
istering the government for the benefit
of the East would suffer no change.
Until we get man of our own, with iden-
teal interests and sympathies, and get
men in prominent places who can and
will see that the South gets equal fair
play, well continue to go down hill. If
we are ever to try. why delay? The con-
viction is fastening itself more firmly
every day in the minds of thoughtful men
that we will never elect another Demo-
crat until we put up a Southern man.
Southern voters are getting tired! tiredl
tiredi, voting for outsiders forever.
Democrats North and West will respect
us more when they realize that we really
have some rights and dare demand them.
If they are fair they viii concede it. If
they are not fair we want no more 10
do with them There is no real, valid rea-
sen why the South should not name the
man, and it has come to the time when
further cowardly surrender inspires dis
gust and leads to party disintregation.
Observe now, please, what the Sun says.
1t twits us with cowardice and meekness.
1t tells outsiders that they needn't heed.
these papers-that no concessions need be