The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-15
The Southern and National Demo-
 cracy.
Chicago Chronicle.

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 Is it not time for the Democrats of the South to take political stock and see how they stand with their brethren in other sections of the country?
 They have the power to determine to some extent the future. of the party and of the country. After the cloae of the re. bellion, when to befriend them, to insist that they had constitutional rights, to oppose the nefarious reconstruction laws, to invite anathema. their Northern breth. ren abdicated all opportunities for local advancement in their loyalty to fuhda- mental principles.
 It was not until Northern Democrat entered the White House as President that loyal men were compelled to re- alize that Southern Democrats had any rights they were bound to respect. Then Southern Democrat became a Justice of the Supreme Court, a Cabinet officer a Minister abroad. Federal Judge or the occupant of any other office in the gift of his Government. The Southern Democrats banishment from political life ended. His restoration was com pleted.
 But before that the Northern Demo crats braved the storm, welcomed him tc the public platform and began to famil. iarize the public with his presence and | with the truth that he had a right to be present because he was part of the peo- pie Of the United States.
 Without unkindness The Chronicle 1n- vites the attention of Southern Demo crats to their recent performances. They gave welcome to Populism and nour. | ished it into life of threatening ! strength. They cast aside true Demo | cratic principles and imposed strange and | dangerous doctrines and strange, unna- tural. brainless leaders upon the party. Without the aid of the Southern delega- tion there could have been no Altgeld so- clalistic ideas in Democratic conventions no debased currency platform and nc Bryan a candidate.
 What has the South gained by making a sacrifice of Democratic principles. by making Democracy a by-word of con cratic triumph impossible? What has the South gained by striking down it's friends those friends who stood by it when Il | was impoverished and persecuted? Has any respectable political element been drawn to its support? Has 1t gain ed the confidence of any element or in. tiuence that is worth having? Are not the times ripe for change in her course a return to the sound tariff and sound currency principles so ably advocated by her own brilliant and distinguished sons since the establishment of the Demo- cratic party?
 New York City has been restored to the Democratic party. New York State will cast its electoral vote for a sane Demo. crat on a sound Democratic platform With the possible exception of West Vir. ginia, the Southern States are soIidly Democratic again the recent elections having removed Maryland and Kentucky from the doubtful column The country Is feverfsh in it's fear of Mir Roosevelt's eccentricities. The Postoffice, Land De. partment and other scandals of recent administrations have done their loTlcai work. It only needs the wisdom of the south to enable the Democratic party tr give to the country a guarantee of its Worthlness to administer the Government "Ith economy, honesty and patriotism.
 What do the Democrats of the Southern states intend to do about 1t?