The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
Tuesday,, FEBRUARY 2, 1904.
A SANDER ON SOUTHERN DEN
OCRATS.

Mr. =. A Edwards is running a
political news bureau in m
ton. He sends out syndicate letters
to the papers all over the country
every week. His ostensible purpose
Is to keep the country press inform
ed az to what is going OF in politics
at the national capital and other
political centers. His real object
seems to be to whoop UP the Hearst
boom. In his last letter We find the
following allusion to William b.
Gourley, the member of the demo-
cratic national committee from New
jersey, and his position in the meet
ing of that committee in Washing
ton on January 18th.
The state Of New Jersey has been
looked upon and is one Of the pivotal
states in the campaign OF this year.
1t is one Of the states that the dem
Scracy must carry in order to win
the election. The leaders Of the party
here in the national capital have a
their eyes on that state Tor some
time and have been watching devel-
opments over there. They realize,
as does every man who a any po-
litical knowledge of the situation In
tina state, that the democratic party
of the state of New Jersey has been
Singularly unfortunate during the
past six years from the fact that 1t
has had at its head as executive an
assistant republican in the person OF
William B.. Gourley, of Paterson.
Gourley wilfully and deliberately
nisreDresented the sentiment of his
party at the meeting of h demo-
cratic national committee at this
city on January 18th, by declaring
himself and his state for Cleveland
for president, when he knew that
New Jersey would have none or
Cleveland. or any man or plan in the
least tinctured with Clevelandism.
And te make his action the more
abhorrent to the democrats of New
Jersey, Gourley was the only mem
Der Of the national committee who
publicly declared himself for C1eve-
lands candidacy. In an interview
published in the Newark News of
January 18th, Gourley, not content
with ~betraying the party in his own
state. paid his respects in character
istic style to the great democracy
OF the south. which always has been
loyal and true to the principles of
Jefferson and Jackson, in the follow
ing terms:
The southern states will go DEM
ocratic even if the national ticket is
headed by a NANCY yellow dog.
This malicious villification of his
own party in the south was due to
che fact that he was well aware that
that section of the country despises
democrats Of his ilk so thoroughly
that if any are permitted to exist
they are never heard Of beyond the
confines of their own political tombs.
He knew also hat Mr.. Cleveland is
held at his true value by the loyal
and valiant democracy of the south.
Hence his petty SANDER of that Sec
ton" !
Mr.. Gourley is very much mis- /
taken. The south has passed out of
the status of voting for n NANCY
dog just so he is a democrat. The
southern democrats will be heard
frsm In St. Louis on July 9Th. The
northern democrats who have been
used every -four years to meet with
their friends from the south and die
tate to them the candidates for pres
ident and vice president. will expe-
rience a surprise at the coming con-
~vention. The south will send there
her delegates with Instructions to
up for their rights and to in
sist on taking part in the selection of
candidates and the drafting of a
party platform. We of his section
have had this NANCY dog thrown
up to US until we are tired Of it. We
are not going to put up with it any
It is time for US to be as
our rights and we will do so,
Mr.. Gourley. OF New Jersey. to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Mr.. Edwards uses Mr.. Gourley's
remark about the south as a means
TO make a fling at ex-President
He implies that Mr..
is very unpopular in his
and that were ne nominated
the southern democrats would vote
for him only because he was the
nominee of h party. On the con-
trary. we believe hat a large ma
jority of the democrats of the south
ern states had rather vote for Mr..
party. Mr.. Edwards letter is a
shrewdly devised scheme to create
4 prejudice in the south against the
ex-president-to make the people
believe hat were they TO vote for
aim they would be considered as do
ng SO. not from choice, but under
he party lash; that We're they to ex-
.rcise their choice they would not
support him. We do not know for
which we have the greater con-
empt. Committeeman Gourley's fling
It the south or Correspondent Ed
Yards insinuations. (