Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-07-23
THURSDAY, JULY % 1908.
sERvlLE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY


yoked by some remarks of Congressman
MAYNARD, which our contemporary thinks
smack too much of servihty. In recent
interview in Northern city Mr.. May
nard said:
Name any man you choose, with whom
YOU believe the party has a good chance
to win, and we of the South will accept
him and deliver him our electoral votes. "
In a recent editorial, "The Southern
Democracy not servilye," the Virginian'
Pilot said:
"As the Virpinlan- Pilot has already
pointed out, Congressman Maynard, If he
was correctly quoted, did not pretend to
express anything more than his personal
opinion. We can, however, but regard it
as unfortunate that he should have used
language that could be construed as i'm
rIyinga subserviency on the part OF the
South that we do not believe exists"
Congressman Maynard may have been
expressing a mere private opinion; but
the record of the Southern Democracy
since the Civil War, made in connection
with Presidential elections, will more than
justify his language, even if 1t was intend
ed to express the disposition and pur-
nose of his party at the South as to the
Presidential election of 1904. Mr.. May
nard was warranted in believing that the
Southern Democracy is unchanged and
uncbangable in its supreme desire to win
aud secure patronage; and that In the
future, as in the past, it would accept any
man as a candidate and any platform that
will give the party chance to win: Let's
zee if the record of the Southern Demo
cracy will not sustain us in these assertions.
In 1868 the Northern Democrats noml-
mated Horatio Seymour for President, and
the Democracy at the South gave him
hearty support. Seymour had encouraged
the South in its uuwise course that led to
secession; and when the Civil War came,
as result of the movement he had helped
to instigate, he became one of the most
ardent supporters of President Lincoln in
his policy of coercion.
Horace Greedy, the despised abolitionist,
who had poured out relentless fusillade
mon Southern institutions, and who had
preached an untiring crusade against our
section during the continuance of the war
of secession, was nominated by the Demo
Gratis in 1872 for President. TheSouthern
Democracy did not then revolt, but voted
for the man they had been taught to hate
and StfffStaest heartily despised. Was
THAT servility, or not?
In 1880 the Northern Democracy nomi'
mated General Winfield s. Hancock for
the Presidency. He was put forward as
the man who had killed more rebels dur.
ny the Civil War than any man who held
command in the Federal army. While
the Presidential campaign was at Its height
he funked on the tariff plank in the plat
form of his party; but the Southern Democ-
racy gave him an enthusiastic and solid
vote. Was this servility?
Grover Cleveland, the so-called "man
of destiny" was made the candidate of
the party by the Northern Democracy in
1888. If he had previously done anything
to commend himself 10 the Southern peo-
pie we are unable to recall it, He had,
while Governor of the State of New York
and short time before his nomination
for the Presidency, signed officially bill
establishing mixed schools in New York.
The Southern Democracy had formerly
been expressing the bitterest hate for all
men who gave their sanction to mixed
schools, but, in the face of this, they gave
the solid electoral vote of the South to
Grover Cleveland, and joined in the cruel
assaults that were made upon the name
and fame of that eminent statesman James
G. Blaine who had defeated the odious
"Force Bill" from sympathy for our peo-
. pie.
Cleveland was renominated in 1888 and
in 1892, and got the solid electoral vote of
the South. In 1892 the cry ofthe Southern
Democracy was flour more years of Gro
yer and clover" 1t is true that Mr.
Cleveland had entertained Fred Douglas
and his white wife at the "White House.
thus, according to present Democratic
reasoning, giving hisIapproval to both negro
social equality and miscegenation; but the
Southern Democracy turned its eyes away
from these things and hopefully gazed
upon the clover fields or pie counters.
Was this servility?
Then came the memorable battle Of
1896. The Democrats realized that they
we're in danger of being driven from The
rich clover pasturage 10 which Grover had
conducted them and they turned upon
their former idolized leader, denounc-
iro him AZ corrnnt traitor. The Southern