The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-02
Senator Martin and Sentiment.

Rocky Mount,aVa.
Senator Martin and Sentiment.
Within the past weeks two United
States senators from the South nave
made public declarations that must shocK
every high minded man who puts prn-
ciple above preparations. In u. recent
speech at Newport News Senator Martin,
OF Virginia. gave his poltical creed as to
what senator should do in this brief
II believe that Southern statesmen
have spent too much time IN talking
about sentiment and the Constitution.
Sentiment will not provide food for Your
family or raiment for your wife and chll-t
dren.rI have tried 10 get Tor !ifailHl b
a part Of what Is going
And that commerciallsm OF the lowest
order comes from IA senator from the
Commonwealth Of Virginia. q state tliat
has won impershable glory because rs
statesmen have been teachers OF SOUND
governmental principles, rathcr&than de-
voting themselves Ito get Virginia par
of what Is going Can the Widest
stretch or imagination contemplate WASH
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Ma
SON; or Lee sneering at the craftsmanship
that is talking bout sentiment ana INC
Constitutions and declaring that these
things Twill not provide food for your;
family or raimeptt for your wife or chtl- I
dren." Vt is fo.bAS, hoped thatsthe cons
text will relieve the cold-blooded deiti-s;
cation of the Craftsmanship that has no !
higher conviction than log-rollns to get
money for ones state
In the past the Southern senator who
has been instrumental IN getting $1,000
out OF the national treasury for, his Stata4
has succeeded because he has voted
100000 to soma Northern State It res
omlrcs brains and tai t to log roll so that
the senator gets y larger share for his
State than goes to those States that have
elected senators who are talking about
sentiment and the Constitution"--an oc-
cupation that Mr.. Martin evidently
thinks has no place In the United States
Senate In the year 1905, however appro-
pirate 1t might have been In 1865
What is meant by sentiment?
II Is noble. tender, or artistic. or sus-
ceptlhllty to much feeling also Its verbal
expression. f@
1t is the manifestation OF n tendency
to Judge by feeling rather than by roa-
| son or by rule,
Against these apt definitions comes Into
| the ring Tilman, Of South Carolina, and
! says:
"My policy has been to get everything
| for the South when T. SAW a chance. and
| / tried to get 1t right or wrong, honestly
| or dishonesty, because those people up
! there have been stealing from us Ions
| enough"
Which must the South follow? Must
| It fawn to a man who Is protessed
trader, with eyes set alone upon tho bar
| gain and willing. according TO MS own
! confession to sell out, honestly or dis
honestly, rs he gets his pay? or are we
| Ia be-Sentimcntal? Eae
Sentiment Is something more than u Is
| nut down in the dictionaries ms being
dictionaries concern themselves with a
| personal description OF he word, Sentt-
mcnt, In the South at least, Is raclal
| characteristic, We fought for sentiment,
/ We have prospcred init. we Will die by
| It. Sentiment means with us, sectionaly,
the grasp on the things that hnvo made
the men among us. Ina CINE Calhoun. or
I Haynes. or Lowndes or Hammond, or
| Vance, or Aycock utterlng such n heresy
ne that attributed to Tlllmnn! We would
have spurned It. MS indicating man who
was in every sense unworthy of the suf-
frage of tho people from whom he was
| sent.
has won, 1t has been that of keeping pure
tho ideals OF the fathers. Thank God
that In higher sense the South has not
been progressive. It hHs halted on the
way that leads from the basic morality
Of n good people to the untrled pains
nj the higher finance which holds Itself
Independent of tho sterner morals In this
the hot headed" South has been slo-
riously conservative, II has prospered IN
q way that IL consistent with Its tradl-
lions. II has been conservative IN right
eousness IT has remained calm amid the
orgies, II has seen fortunes grow with
the calm recompense OF Its self-respfct,
The glamour has not affected tho poonle.
however much the CLINT of gold and the
society Of riches may have turned the
heads ne their occasional representatives,
There have been scandals In WASHINGTON
that smcled to heaven, They have orig
mated In both rnrtles, But they have
come from the North and Wtsl, The
fact means something more than chance
II means breeding, It means tho failure
to bc led away bv false idols. u means
n hero Worship. II you Will, where the
standard Of iadulatIon was based on char
actcr That there has crept into me Ut
terarces of these two .atlVe men
Of the South expressions which dcpart
from the ideal which hns mania NED flrs'
n conquered, then nm 0ppressed ma mai
" misunderstood peone IN INC d,rnl'F
OF the right, is regrettable, hut not sign,
ncant II is the mel, have peen loucnea
and not the section, a., ". J,
These men slight sentiment y y
the stan OF life to nlcounlTy sHu' .'af
held To II and yet succeeded, y Is INC
thing that makes men, IT rims throusl
commercial pursuits Ike RED nleoc
through weak veins r. Ilor'llfs Y9Lk
II makes the hbra OF nh.inM