The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-03-31
MR.. CAMERON'S REPLY.

one or the pest KNOWN ClG1ZenS or east
Mississippi, in response to an invita-
ton to address the W. r. Hearst DEM
ocratio Club, at Brandon, April 8,
1904, writes assfollows
Meridian, Miss, March "a, 1904.
9. W. Girdlestone, Secretary Treas
urer, Brandon, Mississippi. Dear
Sir:-I am just in receipt of your
kind favor, requesting me to address
your club Saturday, April 8, 1904,
and 1 regret exceedingly to advise you
it will be impossible for me to com.
ply with your request on account of
my court, which will be in session at
that time. l congratulate you upon
the interest you are manifesting in
the cause Of the democracy. / think
the time has come when Mississip-
plans should counsel together and put
forth their best endeavors to main
tain, and perpetuate, the true princi-
pies of democracy as handed down by
Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun and
Davis; believe the true principles of
democracy are the same today las they
were when cherished and enunciated
by those patriots, whose imperishable
names and fame, will stand as monu-
ments to honesty throughout all time.
II believe that the true principles
of democracy are more perfectly in
volved in the political doctrines of
William Randolph Hearst than in the
doctrines of any other possible candi-
date for the democratic nomination
for president. I believe he is honest,
energetic, and capable, which fitness
taken with his public declaration
Let the South Alone" should make
him available, and should cause the
true democrats of the south to rally to
him as a man. I believe that the
democrats of the south should turn
away from the pickering ACTIONS of
David B. Hill and Tammany Hall of
New York with contemptuous disgust
when recall the disgraceful con-
duct of David B. Hill and Richard
Croker, leading their opposing fac
tions in the democratic national con.
vention at Kansas City four years ago
[ cannot conceive how intelligent
democrats can look to that source for
leader to bring us out of the politi-
cal wilderness through which we have
been wandering for the past forty
years. David B. Hill and Richard
Croker were fighting for over balanc-
ing power in favor of their respective
factions, to carry back home with
them the power and influence to con-
troll the politics of New York. And
their conduct was disgrace TIC the
convention and they should have been
kicked out of it, for their want of
common decency. After the nomina-
tion of Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Hill and Mr.
Croker pledged their best influence to
the support of the ticket, and return
ed to New York and were not heard
of any more until the state brought
up majority for Mckinley of over
100000 vote. Hence I say it is worse
than folly to look to New York to Sc
lect candidate for president, because
do not believe that those contending
factions could come together on any
candidate preferred by either faction.
Besides, the margin between the prin-
ciples of the New York democrat and
the principles of the republican party
is SO narrow that they have no con-
scientious Iscruples in voting the zre-
publican ticket in national election,
when their local politics are in any
way involved in the campaign.
Therefore | do not think we, of the
south, who stand solidly by the nomi
nee of our party, should allow the
New York politicians to put forth our
candidate. I believe further that the
democratic party can maintain it's
principles and integrity more bene-
fcially under an honest minority than
it could in the majority under the
leadership of a New York goldbug.
believe that the south ought to icon
troll and dictate who the candidate
shall be and I believe that the demo-
Gratis who have stood Loyalty by the
nominee of the party for the past
many years of it's minority should be
the dictators, and not the todying,
vascilalting politician who only votes
the ticket when it suits him, and who
is croaking and crying for reorgani.
cation OF the party. don't think
such men should be allowed in the
councils of the party and should be
treated as common enemies of tile
party. believe that our experience
in the election of candidate twice
who was not in sympathy with the
principles of the party, ought to warn
us from a repetition of calamity
which has perpetrated and strengthen
ed the republican party. I believe
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