Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 1904.
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for President.
Our Democratic contemporaries argue
that man from the South can poll as
many votes as one from any other section
of the United States; and that the pre-
sentation of such a candidate by the party
will be a strong assurance of the passing Of
sectional hate. The first proposition may
be true, but We doubt it, The Northern
Democracy has for many years been i'm
posing upon the credulity of their political
brethren at the South. This deception
began when such men as Seymour,
Bayard and VOORHEES, encouraged the
Southern Democracy to break up the
Union and left our section to be crushed
10 the unequal struggle they had helped to
precipitate.
Since the conclusion of the Civil War
the Northern Democrats have been ham
ding the Southern Democrats as per-
sonal, willing asset, and receiving the solid
support of the party of this section for any
man or ism the party at the North or
West chose to select. Seymour, Greedy
and Hancock we're made the candidates OF
the party, and the Southern Democrats
were compelled to put aside their intense
prejudice against these men and pretend
that the bitter morsel was sweet to their
lips. Later on the Democrats of the South
we're forced to bend the knee to the Cleve'
landism of Wall Street, and then to wor'
ship at the shrine of the wild.eyed social.
ism of the West, led by Mr.. Bryan. The
Southern Democracy is now nearly united
in its cordial hate tor both Clevelandism
and Organism, it being an undetermined
question as to which is the more despised.
After nearly forty years of subserviency
and suppression we find the Democrats
down South talking about asserting them
selves. Such talk is very interesting and
amusing to Republicans. We recall the
fact that such men as j. Taylor Ellyson
and Congressman Maynard, Of Virginia,
and Clarke Howell, of Georgia, have re-
Gently asked the New York Democrats to
name man with whom they could hope
to win and that the South would give him
it's solid electoral vote. After such express
sions from these prominent leaders, we
cannot regard the present assertive atti-
tude of the Southern Democracy as any
thing but bluff or an unintentional ad'
mission of the hopeless condition in which
the party now stands.
The leaders and newspapers down here
have inst found out that w. R. Hearst is
making systematic and determined effort
to capture the Democratic nomination;
and they have discovered that he has been
quietly tampering with "the boys" 10 the
Southern States. Possibly it Is to prevent
Hearst from capturing delegations from
this section that has started the talk about
nominating a Southern man. The very
spontaneity of the movement among Vir'
ginia Democratic journals is enough to
warrant a suspicion of its sincerity.
In recent editorial advocating the
nomination of Southern man our es-
teemed contemporary, the Norfolk Vir-
ginian. Pilot, expresses the conviction that:
"Victory would bring the final and con-
elusive assurance of the passing of sectional
hate, and defeat would carry with it no
sting of shame. And, therefore, why not
a Southern man ?" Such victory would,
upon the contrary, demonstrate that Sec
tional hate is still keenly alive, because 10
would be won by the solid electoral vote of
the South. The continued solidity of the
vote of our section has done more 10 keep
sectional fires burning than any other one
thing. A solid vote in support of a South
ern candidate would make the feeling OF
this section more conspicuous and produce
the very opposite of that which our Nor
folk contemporary assumes would follow
a victory for such candidate. We agree,
however, with our contemporary that de-
feat with Southern candidate would not
carry with it the sting OF shame that must
have been felt by the sensitive, proud men
of the South after the defeats that followed
their lubservient endorsement OF candi-
dates and doctrines they despised. But
all this talk about a Southern candidate
will amount to nothing, except to make
the subserviency of the party at the South I
more apparent. The politicians who con-
troll matters are more eager for the emolu.
ments of office than they are for uphold
ing principle or maintaining self respect. .
The candidate will not come from the '
South, but will be selected either by Wall 9
Street or the Western advocates "of the :
visionary and impossible" And no mat.
ter which it may be the South will give