The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-10-07
C1ilier's Weekly.
Why THE SOUTH is SOLID.
The 'sWhlte Womsn's Problem" Over
shadows All other issues.

anti-republican feeling is stronger
than when Mckinley died, are condi-
tions easily understood and sympa-
thized with by northerners who have
sufficient imaginstions to project
themselves out of their own environ
ment. No wonder there is but one
issue, and no wonder the south can
not vote for the party of reconstruc-
ton outrages, force bills, bloody
shirts, and negro exploitation. Who
is going to consider tariff problems
when his wife and daughter are in
danger? Who is going to put cur
rency and imperialism ahead of the
survival of his own race? The repub-
ican party earned glory by freeing
the slaves and giving the final an
swer to a disrupting question. 1t
deserves obloquy for the narrowness,
tactlessness and political chicanery
with which it has handled the negro
and the southerner ever since. Our
latest editorial on the southern spirit
has been met with straightforward
ness and sincerity. Il am what you
might call a 'stalwart' democrat"
writes one southerner, land intensely
partisan, but l am also an American
in its broad sense, and though l
fought under the stars and bars
love the flag ofmy country and every
thing for which it now stands. l am
a democrat because the party stands
for the entire nation and does not
believe in sectional legislation that
shows passion and hate, and tends to
arouse one section against another.
1t is time for the immortal words,
Let US have Peace, to influence and
control all sections, even though the
president seems to be a man of war
both at home and abroad 1t is,
indeed, time for those words to con-
troll all sections. A vast work is to
be done before terrible conditions are
cured. The negros must wipe out of
their worst class the crime which is
so large a part of the trouble. The
most intelligent negros might well
set a good example by voting the
democratic ticket. The wisest south
erners must continue to stamp out
any remaining idea that coarse, cruel
and reckless vengeance is a proven
tive. The crowd of northeners who
talk so much more about the Filipi-
nos than they Understandable are
always Enthusiastically laying down
moral principles IN a mental vacuum
do unreasonable harm whenever
they mention the negro or the south.
Worst of all-since they are wicked
/ where the others are foOlish-are the
politicians who would stab one part
of their country to increase a partisan
| advantage in another. So strongly
do we feel about the setback which
has been received by the south, both
black and white, since McKinley's
death, that were the administration
record less admirable in other direc
tons, or were the opposition party
headed by a candidate whose wisdom
and ability were assured, and whose
| associations were ofthe best, it might
seem to US, as it does to our southern
correspondents, the overshadowing
issue.
The Boston Journal claims that the
following persons have each contrib
uted S1,OO0,OOO to the democratic
campaign fund, viz: Senator Clark,
August Belmont, John D. Rookie
Teller, James J. Hill, Thomas d. Ry-
an, Herman Rider, H. P. Belmont,
Joseph Pulitzer, James K. Guffey,
! George Foster Peabody, James K.
Jones and Henry G.. Davis.
Mrs. Sallie Carter, aged eighty-nine
years, died Saturday at the residence
of her granddaughter, Mrs. S. H.
Bitch at Bhtchton. The deceased
was a woman of many virtues and
lived a Christian life. She leaves
many relatives who will mourn her
death. The funeral took place Sun
day at Mcintosh, where the remains
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