The age-herald., 1902-03-21
Washington Day byD Day

Washington. March O.-(speciaL)-The | eatest political fight in this country since 1884 is at hand. It is already begun. The country. which has very properly n,lstrusted the Democratic party for some eight years-mistrusted 1t for its mani fested incompetency to govern because of internal bickerings and squabbling over inherent human rights-the country Is u.ce more looking to this party for the balancing of the wrongs of Republican venality, self-seeking, and absolutism.
 Leaving .ioe 1884, and entirely disre- garding 1896 and 1900. which were marked by merely noisy tin-horn politics, the Democrats are now entering upon the most gigantic of their struggles
 That ignorant country lawyer of h. diana, the feeble three-terms Crumpacker, having discarded the biblical injunction that even a wayfaring man, though a 1ool, need not err. has succeeded in drag ging himself and his party oligarchy into a veritable quagmire of disaster, and as the Republican chiefs founder in the mire, their big bellies spreading upon the coft and poisonous surface, the people 1.--- pelt them with all the missiles known to honorable and self-respecting citizenship.
 I Indiana OK with the ring in his nose, aided by the scrub breed of cattle, Gibson of Tennessee, Bartholdt of Mis- souri, to whose cons atuents few we'll meaning Southerners are trying to send all the money possible in the hope or ma-ing a common fair doomed to miser- able failure less miserable, and Moody o1 Massachusetts, whom the President of the United States honors because he has slandered the South-Crumpacker aided by these and many other shining lights of Republican imperialism, including the President himself is leading the whole unrighteous host into the Slough of Des- pond. Wherefor the Lord be praised.
 
 The Republican party is once more in it's corruption and terrorism waving the loody shirt in the face of Southern man. hood. Let the dogs of most desperate political war be unleashed. Let it be the Southern white man against the corrupt minions of Northern radicalism!
 The Republican leaders are about to decree sectionalism in worse form than yet contemplated since the weak man for whom the Presidency was stolen live and tweney years ago removed the troops from the South. Let our people give them all the sectionalism they demand In Sem ate and House let us make legislation i'm possible, and at home draw the dead line of our own defense!
 Foreseeing defeat in the forthcoming Congressional elections and disaster in the election of 1904 the Republicans in Congress are forming their plans to steal the next House and two years later. for the second time steal the Presidency. Their plan clearly is to throw out cer- tificates ol Congressional elections suffi- cient in number to give them majority of the next House, the rolls being made up Jy their present clerk, whose consti- tutional duty will be to call the House to order and whose hired party duty will be to see that the majority" is Repub- lican. The rest will be easy and the recording of the votes in the electoral college in 1904 will be similarly easy.
 The country is in for it-don't let there be any mistake about it, good friend! The noble Mckinley era, of good feeling is past. Mckinley in his grave sleeps well. There never died a braver, gentler, man. Her man. Never any nation met greater calamity than this people suffered when Mckinley was murdered through the treachery of that anarchy which is so tenderly nurtured, housed. fed, encour- aged, in land free in nothing but mur- der and the money-devii!
 In the hundred and nineteen years of our nationhood-we were not a nation till we were at nominal peace with Eng land-we have had three great tragedies, and through each the south bore the bur- den of disaster and unrest. First came the war between the states, and before it's guns had ceased to thunder came the murder of Lincoln. The accidental murder of Garfield, when the staying oi Blaine was intended by the crazy mur- derer, was merely a mournful incident ir the national life. And then, without the fulness of time came the most disas' trous and calamitous murder of Mo Kinley.
 Thus we have the three great national tragedies We know the first two were most vitally disastrous to the south. Ii our southern leaders could have seen theii way clear to yield to the great good heart of Lincoln, who lived his great life witt tears of love in his brave vein. the Soutf would have suffered but little, instead of being ruined; and after the ruin was complete, if Lincoln could have lived, ol even anybody but "poor white trash southerner hating his own people could have succeeded him, the south would have been spared the humiliation and stil greater disaster of negro and carpetbag- ger rule.
 As for Mckinley. nearly all southerners detested his politics, for he in large part begot Dingleyism and was and is chiefly responsible for all its accursed and op- pressive conditions which now, constitute a vampire of terror and industrial tyranny; but he being an honest man was entitled to his own views, and those who differed from him had economic and