The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-08-20

III oNNQtALOl ia WI IA hOAN
NOUS White Sulphur Springs Hotter
today. Hon. John Sharp Williams, OF
Mississippi, acting for the Democratic
party, notified Hon. Henry GassaWay
Davis of his nomination as the candf
date of the Democratic party for vice
president. Nearly the entire commit
tee and more than five thousand vlsl-
tors were present Upon the occasion.
MIR. Williams speech was as follows
afr. DauiS:
Strive have been appointed by a most
notable convention as a committee TO notl-
ny you of your nomination by the Democ..
Tacy as their choice for vice president of
&he United States. We desire to express
she pleasure we feel In having been select
I'D TO perform this duty, and our confidence
IN you. your faithfuiness. honesty and wis
dom. The people see in You one or the
best products of the best period OF Amerl-
can institutions, q period whose salient char-
Acterlstics were local self government, In
eilviduality. equal opportunity and freedom;
freedom to work, freedom to buy ard sell,
Freedom to compete In Industrial Ire sen,
dependence. free development under equai
opportunity as ones own mastef-and not
merely as the well-trained and well man
aged Industrial servant of another. They
see in you what Oliver Wendell Holmes
says is a rare thing "A SELF maze man
who Is yet not too proud of his maker.
Just before leaving home l said I was
going to West Virginia with some others,
Of my brothers little boys, standing ny,
SAIL Uncle John, he must be a mighty
tAlg goose If he hasn't heard or 1t already,
En- u certain way the notincatton VIII
which We are charged Is perfunctory aud
unnecessary, and yet IL is well 10 main
sair by some degree of formality that re
spectful observance which Is que 10 great
events. The Drmlnatlon by a great party
a. IhA Urraf OIiCp fO which we call YOU,
the vice-presldency. carrying with It the
fdtJy OF presiding over the senate or the
Omitted States, and the possibility or sue
1ession to the presidency Is a great event.
As soon as l learned that | was. by reso-
sut1on of the convention, to be the NOUN
.oieCe of the committee for the perform
;Rnce Of this pleasant task. l began TO look
about me in order TO see how the duty had
sopcn fulfilled by others. We found from
recent examples of a similar character III
che Republican camp that Tor a notihca-
siun speech, a historical essay Is altogether
Che proper thing. absolutely necessary Tor
the emergency. We shall therefore entitle
our notification address. "A Brief Historical
Elisquisition Upon Some OF the blundets 9t
our Ancestors as Viewed from the stand
point Of the Wisdom of Republican States
men Who Have Embraced the Strenuous
LiFe."
4q,a first of these consisted in discrim-
a%nating against the red mantle image OF
God in cherry-cn account OF his race ana
color and previous condition. Our an
cC&tOTS said It was on account OI Tue ia
hcrept. or Inherited, race traits. tendencies
aznd supposed incapacities, OF when MS
= color was but the outward sign. be NAT
claim pretense or insincerity. we tound 10
. our astonishment that the door OF nope
. and opportunity in the way of Office hold
Itpc and voting had been closed to 10! the
vl1or Indian. He was not invited In o.
the select men in Connecticut. nor by the
S~Iectors of the self governing towns In Mas
-achusetts, to help govern our ancestors
and the country, which they had committeo
to their charge. nor did our ancestors prom.
;se TO assimilate him. This first violation IN
kmatica of the divine right of MANHOOD sun
), age and Of the cherished fundamental dogma
. that all men of all races are equaiIy ca
tracitafed to govern themselves, ana eSPe
sIally to govern others, had douDtiess oeeh
thc .'IIfad Of all our woes Plainly II
evos what the Boston Transcript so elo-
nupntly calls 'colorphobia." We could not
eaccount for it, except perhaps upon a me
of thought suggested by a sentence IN the
notification address of the permanent chalr-
man of the Chicago convention. lnIorm1ns
the president of his nomination by the he
~Jnubliran marty to succeed himself. MIR. can
non said, by blood. by inheritance o!
education, and by practice. we are a SER
governing people" Are we to believe that
Mr.. Cannon meant to Intimate C coneeFso,
that nobody was of self governing capacity
-,nIess by blood. inheritance, education OF
successful practice? If SO. 1t is feared tbat
sle Is getting back to our ancestors Oiunuer'
and may incur the danger OF receiVlhg tne
&DlDENDdiAOh VI oNMC
creatures. known as Southern Democrats.
We wondered IL our ancestors In New Eng
send. New York and Virginia bad been stu
s,id enough to have some notion-the con
rwersa of Mr.. Cannon's-in their heads.
and il they had based their action on the
fact that the noble red man had none
OF the blood of self-governing races IN
their vlens. none of that subtle force or
@-heredtty," which accounts for so much ana
which is so hard to be accounted for itself.
3f they thought that he had not for any
49, AA@n sAI~cn tod
saafacient length OF time peen -eoucateu
Tor the task OF governing white men. or had
8iad no practice In 1t. except s,ich as
seemed to lead to the conclusion thar ne
Asx rot capable or it
The next great blunder in the early his
CORY CT our people consisted in their TAX
arg up arms against King George and his
forces. when the latter was actuated. as
Hhey themselves confessed, only by the KIND
est designs of "benevolently assimilating"
to themselves our resources and our oppoT-
funitips. You. sir, who have a Republican
son-in law, and. therefore. possess culture
GOV affinity at least. will hardly believe that
our ancestors were stupid enough TO fight
against the principle. which we so frankly
CecognlZe in the Philippines. viz hat it Is
perfectly right. self evidently proper. for a
rag to cover and emblemiEe two entirely
different sorts Of government-one for our
selves "at home" protecting individual,
civil and political liberty and pretending
to furnish full and equal opportunities for
Industrial development. and another for
Others "in the colonies'-absolute and dis
cretionary in its character and avoWedl
gimitlng Industrial development there by
the necessities Of commercial exploitation
for the benefit of the home merchant and
the home manufacturer. We know now.
of course, that all cur ancestors talk about
$tinalienable rights" of self government. mo
taxation without representation" HGbedS
corpus and right OF trial by jury. freedom
of the press, freedom of speech and free
dom Of assembly, were only a pretext re-
sorted to by .raatiag Insurgents" In or
der to throw off the "civlliziag influences"
of the best government Which the world
had that far Witnessed. We have not been
stupid enough to confine to mere words our
apology for this MISTAKE In our history (;
we have apologized by deeds of confession.
1T seems strange that we could, as d peo-
ole, have prospered industrially and other
wise, as we have. pruspered. so ma~rvelously.
sir, in All our history. both as colonies and
States. in spite of this monstrous error
This eunholy rebellion.
We found another period of popular hys-
feria, that Is incomprehensible to us of q
wiser generation, In view of some enlight-
.ening facts in our recent history. Some
men In the troublesome little town of Bos-
ton, incorporating as Indians, seized and
threw into the sea certain cases of tea be