The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-09

marauding bands of hostile malcon-
tents. and above all will he not be
found working for the partys defeat
and exulting in it's overthrow.
DO you want for your nominee a
man of truly Democratic impulses,
one ever in sympathy with distress,
ever ready to stretch out a succoring
hand to suffering humanity.
Not here the place to recount the
numberless instances in which these
traits of our candidates nature and
disposition have been displayed. Time
would not permit even the enumeration
of countless acts of benefaction-of
asylum founded, hospitals established,
universities endowed, of private dis
tress relieved, of the thousands nightly
assisted, fed and sheltered during the
long and bitter winters of the great
metropolis.
Men of the South, you upon whose
soil American Democracy first saw the
light, you the hereditary custodians of
its purest traditions, you whose eolit-
ical importance, if not political life, is
bound up with it's fate, you in whose
annals the events of this day may
mark an epoch more fateful than any
which has gone by since the war
men of the South, to you next I speak
DO you want as your nominee a
man whose descent, whose past career,
and whose present attitude afford ir-
refragible guarantees of sympathy
and give proof of according upon the
great questions with which the very
existence of your people as a race are
involved? If you want such a nomi-
nee, what lacks the candidate of Cal
ifornia to command your confidence
and enlist your support?
Upon the momentous questions
which affect -
his heart is by the sheer force of he
redity with you.
THE same blood that flows through
your veins courses through his Like
yours, his parents and his forefathers
belong to the South. On the mater
nal side he comes from Virginia. On
the paternal through geneaoIgy
which parallels that of her Jacksons
and of her Calhouns. South Carolina
claims him as hers. The act of his life
which his father loved to cherish was
the vote, which he rose from his dy-
ing bed to give, and in the Senate of
the United States cast against that
measure of Republican tyranny fitting
~ called the force bill
Nor are his views and sentiments
a secret. Speaking through the agency
of public voice heard daily by mil
lions in every nook and corner of the
SDUhtAS luOuSHlS nave Deen given
utterance. You know where he stands.
You know him as one who, whilst in
sisting upon justice for the black man.
has set face of flint against all at
tempts of Republican schemers TO
clothe him with authority or to i'm
pose him as an official over a people
in whose memories the humiliation.
the horrors and the untold agonies of
reconstruction measures are still fresh.
You know him as one who considers
that the problem which amid fields de-
Vastated and homes made desolate bv
the hand of war, has come to you as a
dread legacy of the past, as no problem
with which you alone are competent to
deal and that in dealing with it, the
government should let the South alone.
You know him as one who by unceas-
ing appeals to the judgment and sense
of justice has obtained from the best
men of the North that sympathy for
the South which the ever-to-be lament
ed Grady had pleaded for in vain in the
very heart of enlightened Massachu-
sets.