The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-02
HON. ID. S. HENDERSON
Delivers an Eloquent Speech at Co.
lumbia.
RIGHT PRINCIPLES DISCUSSED

ic Platform and i'm Full Sympathy
With the People I'm Their Fight
Against Corporate Greed.
The following speech was delivered
by Hon. ID. 5. Henderson at the cam
paiEn meeting in Columbia.
Fellow Citizens: The highest privi-
lege 1 know of to be enjoyed by the
American citizen is the exercise OF the
right OF sutrerage. To ask the bestow-
ment OF the fruit Of that right on you
is TO ask OF your fellow citizens great
deaE and it should not be lightly done
a man who seeks public Office with
in the gift of the people should endeav-
or 10 leave behind-predujiceS and
passions; and hope TO be of some good to
| the country and the people us well as
10 elevate himself, BECAUSE we should
labor not simply for ourselves but for
the meloration OF the day and time i'm
| which we live.
| am sensible of tho fact that to
ask the sovereign people 0f the great
state OF South Carolina ilIe privilege to
\ represent them in the councils of the
! United States Senate is To ask q great
L
| 1orthe place peculiar to myself as cont ra
distinguished from the gentlemen who
have entered the lists with me. If a
! life begun within the State and spent
continually within the public gaze for
the public good is to count for any
thing offer ii 10 the scrutiny OF the
people i would not desire to obtain
the Office by any contest of PERSONAL
antagoniSm, mud Singing or brow
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( the canvass with the hope that the is
sues involved will be calmly and dis
| paSSiOnateiy discussed. One thing |
| know that in the consideration of the
questions involved and pertinent to
the matters before the people you will
at least know where | stand, SO that
you can Judge of my right to your Suf-
ferage, for it is due to the people in
public discussion to frankly set forth
your opinions
There is 70 need TO harrow up the
past unnecessarily and to bring to
memory things that are settled. The
| white people of South Carolina always
nave been Democratic, true TO the
faith of the fathers: and she always
will be.
Last summer I'm an Off political year
long before the time for the senatorial
elections: with great Establishments the
seeds OF diScord were being sown
against the principles OF the Demo
cratic party within this State: yea in
the entire South. Along with others,
answering the invitations OF the peo-
pie, helped TO pull out Of the dust
and cob webs of time the catechiSmS
OF the Democratic faith and to read
them anew to the people in the light
they were understood by Jefferson,
Jackson and Calhoun. 1t did not take
long to ascertain the fact that the
hearts OF the masses were all right:
that the old time religion was good
lenough for them: that they were not
TO be led away by new tangled ideas
and hereSieS: that they believed i'm pro-
greSS and advancement, i'm the influx
OF capital and enterprise i'm our midst
ann It's fullest and freeSt protection: in
the opening of the markets of the world
10 lis fullest extent by peaceable means
10 all classes and trades, but they said
IL then and they say ii now ompathti-
cally that in order to enjoy and perpe-
tuate those advantages OF the 10Th
Century progress ii is not necessary to
become Republican. 1t is not neceS-
Sary TO forget the traditions and his
tory of this glorious country. won by
the blood of our fathers, in order To
adapt ourselves to the new methods of
new times. 1t is our duty rs people
not TO sleep and Stagnate, but 10 ad
vance and PROCESS taking advantage
OF all the opening avenues of science
and civilization, but at the same
time TO take along with us the
household Gods of our fathers and
the bed rock principles of American
Democracy, which were well defined
in the early days of the Republic as
the reserved rights of the people, us
contra distinguished from the en-
cTOachmentS of centralized govern
ment.
There is no need To discuss settled
matters. Some things are settled bit
some are not and never will be
When Lee surrendered to Grant at
AppromatoX: andJoe Johnston TO Shcr-
man at Greensboro: two things were
settled aS far as the terrible arbitra-
ment Of arms could do it. Beyond cavil
1T was understood that never again in
America would Il human being be per
mlttcd TO DE Il slave: and this union
became an 'indcStructiblc union" but
union OF "indeStructible States.
The legal status of the negro was
liked, but The race problem was not
settled. Suddenly 10y the selfish
was embclliShed with the principles OF
citizenship before he was prepared to
exercise its functions. 1t was then
forgotten that AnglO-SaXon blood re-
deemed this country and it was to be
|. theirs forever. The white man and
his axe cleared the primeval forests fer
himself and his progeny. And they
will solve the race question as easily as
they did the Indian question, and with
more humanity knowing that the black
man, left alone will help to build up
the country; but Booker Washington
must not expect TO sit at the same So
cial board with us.
THE INDEsTRUCTIBLE UNION"
That was settled beyond peradven-
ture. The parole of every Confederate
soldier who came home, foot sore and
} heavy hearted, wore the impress of it.
, The South has been faithful to the
decree and ever will be. She is part
iof that union and powerful part of it.
She has a share in its glory and power.
She should and will perform her duty
manfully and ought to demand her
rights; and not be ashamed that she is
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