The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-08

every state should feel that the flag
Is IT'S own and every citizen should
be willing and ready. in case of neces-
slty' to offer up his life's blood for its
defense. Whether 1t floats from the
Flagstaff of the home or from the dome
or the Capitol 1t should stand for all
tnat is best in governmental contribu-
lions TO the peace, happiness and COM
fort of the citizens of the republic.
National prosperity is itself crea>
ton of this condition, for out of 1t
grows those elements of confidence,
zeal and hope that food the arteries
or our commerce, strengthens the de-
veloping inclination of capital and
gives the impetus of activity to labor
in its varied branches.
Amy political party is entitled. to
mold and to urge its views upon the
economic questions of the day, but a
party that would build it's hope of sue
cess, as the Republican party has done,
upon a bold and defiant challenge of
the peace prosperity and happiness of
the people of a great section of our
country is neither entitled to its own
selt-respect nor to that of the public
sentiment of the nation!
we Democrats stand for reasonable
tariff reduction because we believe that
it is as good-if not better--for New
England as it is for the South or
West. We demand a more economical
administration of the government at
Washington because we believe that il
is wrong to pillage the taxpayers of
any state or section. We denounce I'M
fettered and unblushing Imperialism
because we know where it leads and
because it contradicts and undermines
the very basis on which our govern
ment rests, and offers an ever attrac-
tive invitation to international COM
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alton of our platform that is not born
of an honest desire to help the whole
people, to serve the whole country, and
to so administer the affairs of govern
ment that neither harm, hardship nor
injustice will be worked to the people
of any state or section.
"Can the Republicans say as much?
And If not, can they not properly be
classed as despoilers of national har-
mony and wreckers of sectional fra
ternity?
Disguise as they may, they cannot
deny the sectional animus of their
party purpose nor evade the record of
their administration in it's unjust and
ungenerous dealings with the South in
the matter of Federal appointments,
and in the brutal and indefensible man
ner in which their president has raised
the lid of the racial Pandora's box
that our people. black and white, may
be tormented with the devils that have
emerged from it,
Il speak the sentiment of the South
of to-day--the new South, If you will
when l tell you that the mistaken atti-
tude of the Republican president has
done more to check the real progress
of the negro than all else that has been
done since the war His stubborn dis
regard of the advice of even his own
party referees in the states affected in
his mad determination that white con-
stituencieS should be served by negro
otficeholders exclusively in the South
for it would be repudiated in the North
has rekindled the slumbering embers
of racial hostility to a degree that has
not been known since the days of re-
construction.
Eliminate the race question, as
political issue. and you have put the
capstone on the pyramid of national
unity. Republicans no less than Demo-
Gratis should welcome the day when it
is done, for then will all the states d.
vide in healthy contention over eco
nomic issues--and the country will be
the better for 1t.
Mr.. Howelfs reference to mob vio-
lence was vigorously cheered. He
said. in part:
John B. Stoll, editor of the South
Bend, Ind, Times, responded to the
toast Triumphant Democracy"
Andrew Mclean. editor of the
| Brooklyn Citizen, closed the speech
making when he responded to THE
Democracy of the Empire State