Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-05
Democracy IN 1904.
(The Washington Post }

(The Washington PosS)
The Republicans have never under
stood the Southern situation; have
always muddled and neglected it. But
a press dispatch te"s us that the
Northern Democrats are beginning to
realize the meaning OF the equation:
''Fittsburg, August 25.-State Sena-
tor Thomas w. Grady, Of New Yori-,
who arrived In Pittsbury last night,
said:
3 Settlement OF the race question in
the South by constitutional amend
ments has made that per- OF the
country debatable gIocrd poll icelly,
and 1t will be such = the next Pes
dental campaign. For that reason
Tammany Ha" wants a SoItae Ter
nominated by he Democra''c M io1-
Convention for President aud W.. sap
poll good Southeil man
"MT. Grody did not exp. ess h'msel;
in favor Of Bryan, but jnimaied that
New York Democrats had enough Of
him."
We don't know so much about the
necessity OF n Southern Democratic
candidate for 1904, but i. seems clear
10 Us that, conceding Mr.. Grady's point,
there Is only one man In it-Hon.
Arthut p. German. Mr.. German Is by
all odds the best equipped Democratic
statesman in public life to-day.
The Post has for years past advised
the South 20 assume the control and
domination in the Democratic party TO
which It is justify entitled. That sec
ton is easily the master of the situa-
ton. 1t represents In the national con.
ventions more than two-thirds OF the
assured electoral votes. There was a
time when the South sat below the salt
at Democratic banquets. That time is
past. The South is no longer the
"pOor relation"-the kinsman Of which
the rest OF the family need be asham-
ed. The war-the civil war, we mean
ended nearly forty years ago. Outside
OF few professionals on either side,
that war cuts no more fgurein national
plans and tendencies than does the
nebular hypothesis or the revictuaing
Of Nipsics. A few cheap demagogues
may still expound and rave. Nobody of
real consequence pays to them the
slightest attention in the world. The
American people have outgrown the
prejudices and animosities OF 1861 60.
The South is crowded with Northern
men. The railway, the telegraph, the
fusion OF social and commercial in
terests have achieved a homogeneous
nation. The stump orator who ges-
ticulates and bellows about the civil
war has become an object of derision
and contempt. There IA no longer =
Southern State In which the substan-
tial and responsible classes are not as
loyal 10 the Union as are their equi yal-
ents in Ohio or New York.
As for Mr.. Bryan, the suggestion-of
course from Republican sources-that
his followers must be taken into ac-
count is rubbish Of purest ray serene.
Mr.. Bryan has no followers worth men
tioning who would bolt the verdict of n
Democratic nominating convention.
There are Populists, but the party will
be well rid of them. They constitute
"A support which weakens. Their OBJ
position means strength. They are an
army in buckram, and their base of
operations is Gad's Hill. Whoever the
Democratic nominee in 1904. NAV he il
Will serve him with the country to have
1t known that the Populists are his in
ve'erate foes. They have never won
a fight OF consequence. They have
always injured any cause for which
they elected TO proclaim. 1t seems To
us that the Democrats need on'v wise
councils end leaders OF plain common
sense.