The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1904-11-21
MONDAY, NOVEMBER q, 1904.
LOOKING TOO FAR AHEAD.

~ I6COFCIGO IIOll 4 recent QlSdS
trous defeat before entering upol
a discussion Of the campaign 70,
1908 and the discussion has nov
taken a peculiar turn in view o.
the sectional character of the re
cent election.
The late Democratic nominee fol
President secured no electoral votes
Outside the Solid South and it is
argued that, therefore, that the
nomination of a Southern states
man for the Presidency could not
have had any worse result and
might have turned out better.
The Atlanta Constitution, for ex.
ample, says:
We can see no possible grounds
for the assumption that in any
State of this Union a Democratic
nominee would be voted against
solely because he is a Southern
man. On the contrary, we firmly
believe the country at large will
have greater respect for Southern
Democracy when it asserts It's
rights and does this by presenting
to the Nation a Southern candidate
for the Presidency. And right now
IS the time to set OH foot a move
ment to that end.
The Houston Post takes the
Atlanta paper seriously and while
earnestly impressed with the South
ern candidate idea, advises that
the movement in that behalf be
deferred for a while. It Is true,
says the Post, that the South is
the only part of the country where
Democratic electoral votes are Ger
tain, but we mustn't lose sight of
the fact that there are many more
Democrats in the North than in the
South, and under Our basis of rep
rescntation which the South IS
powerless to change, it is within
the power of the Northern dele
gates to veto a proposition to nom
mate a Southern man merely be
cause of his geographical resi-
dence.
But is the Post or anybody else
competent to say that the South 5
electoral votes are certain" for
any party in the future? There is
a suggestion from the National
Capital, said to have been advanc-
ed by a Southern Senator, that the
South shall cease to cooperate with
Northern Democrats and that it
shall occupy a neutral or, at least
independent, attitude toward the
political parties of the North, still
maintaining the solidarity which
has been of so many years stand
ing and holding the balance of
power between the two leading
parties. Or, in case neither ticket
nominated in the North Is accept
able, the South shall put out a ticket
of its own and vote it as an eX-
preston of its independent senti-
ment, regardless of the showing
made at the polls.
Here are two suggestions of eX-
IRENE sectionalism between which
there is not much choice, for
neither offers any promise of prac-
teal results. 1t Is too early to dis
cuss Presidential candidates or IS
sues for 1908, especially in view of
the fact that the Administration
for the next four years Is yet I'M
developed and the issues which :
may arise between now and then
yet unknown. The South was
strongly opposed to President Nc
Kinley in 1896 and again in 1900,
but before his second term was far
advanced President Mckinley had
made such a favorable impression
upon the South that a very large
number of Southern Democrats f
were nearly as well pleased with
his Administration as they might
have been with one Of their own
selection.
President Roosevelt can make
himself and, perhaps, his party