The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
POLITICS ono MEN
savoyard in Washington Post

Sayoyard in Washington Post.
 Something has been said about a | Southern man for the Democratic nom minded that Zachary Taylor was the last Southern man elected to that great station. and that was nearly three score | years ago. Andy Johnson was the last Southern man chosen to the office of | Vice-President, and that was over forty years ago So far as those two offices are concerned, the South has no more hope of filling either of them with one of Der sons than she would have if 1t | were expressly provided in the Consti- tuition that the President and Vice. be from that section of our country north of Mason and Dixon's line. With the exception of the eight years Grover Tso6a there n hs has ernment of the United States since James Buchanan retired from the pub lie service. The Republican Party was sectional when 1t was born. and 1t has been a sectional party every moment | of its existence.
 Many Republicans applaud the sug- dfdate for the Democrats. and solely on the ground that he Is a Southern man. That would make the Democratic Party sectional and it's cause hopeless, for the South Is the weaker section. The next Democratic candidate should be selected because he Is man fit to be | 9TeSluSHI-eIllHGHI TUT HIS IT, distinguished for his statesmanship, and trusted for his Democracy. If he be from the South, all right; if from the North, all right. Let us nominate in one section or the other.
 Last year the South exported pro Is 41 per cent. of the total exports of state s ~f made up ss7s of this 1 grsst chandise the American people send abroad. It is sold in competition with cotton from Egypt and India. though the man in Pitfsburs who makes the market Is protected by an exorbitant tariff. on his product. How different the Northern wheat grower. who sends comparatively little of his crop, but has free binding twine. The cotton plant CTS ties are taxed because he is a Southerner and the South votes Demo- cratic, and the wheat growers twine is free because he is a Northerner and the North votes Republican. Is there any other imaginable reason for this discrimination?
 . Then, if the South is thus at the mer- | cy of the North in a matter of dollars, how is she going to prevail in a mat | ter of policies? The steel trust. com bmation in restraint of trade, which | was formed in defiance of law and ex- Il | tion on every bale of cotton grown in the United States, though it is cotton that pays our balances abroad and. more than any other commodity. is en- titled to the credit for the gold we i'm port. --+. ==-. ! protected by a tariff. The cotton of the Southern planter Is on the free list. T We imported during the fiscal year 1904 but 6,536 bushels of wheat. that paid poTted ru 75.5Ssss7 S'S pounds ie of o cotton, tom worth $1O, ,665. and that was free. The Northern wheat grower was not I per wheat in the blessed home market. against ten million dollars worth of pauper grown cotton in his home mar ket
 The South is the stepdaushter in Un- cle Sam's household. and 1t is ridiculous man for President solely because he Is a Southern man. That a time will come when Presidents will come out of not until the Republican Party shall | have been discharged from the polit- l teal business. The South had the game in her hands in 1893 and threw it away. hopeless Il situation as the Democratic l Party Is now, and the Democratic Par lican Party Is now, if the South had stood by the only President that has given her square deal in more than forty years-Groyer Cieyeland e,-..,. | to get on her political legs--lay hold | on the true principles of the Demo- cratic Party and cling to them. what lieved in blue laws" for the individual citizen. but we need have school of Southern statesmen who want to make l blue laws for the corporations. You cant run the corporations by blue laws any more than you could control the people in their individual conduct by sumptuary legislation. The South must come to her senses and send men to | Congress who do not get red-headed every time the word corporation is pro- | nounced. A corporation is not necessar- fly a nuisance. A director of a corpor- | alton Is not necessarily a malefactnr. If the South is wise, she will let the l Republican Party make the blue laws. That party believes in that sort of thing. It is born paternalist.
 After the South shall have relearned the rudiments of Democratic principles and knocked this blue-law nonsense out | of her statesmen, her position as a po- litical factor will be restored; She all the years from 1876 to 1892, Til dens and Clevelands will rise up at the North and to them she can give her confidence and her vote. That is her
 At present it is supposed that MT. Bryan has the Democratic Party in a | basket and Mir. Bryan wants to make code of blue laws for all the cor orations in the land. That Is not Dem ocratic Mir. Bryan is in favor of Gov ernment ownership of public utilities That is not Democracy; that Is Social ism. It may be that the Democratic Party will go to the slaughter with this man third time. He is not wise man. He talks too much for wisdom
 The Democratic Party will not gain an. other victory until IL puts at its head a wise man. one, who can tell the time of day when he locks at the clock that cannot do this, and. what Is worse, he cannot learn how to do it.
 If the South had such men as R, M
 John J Crittenden. Felix Grundy, Jamei Guthrie, and men of that order they | of them might be President Bv 1908 this country is likely to have had it's nl of frenzied statesmanship, That l would be a grand opportunity Tor Q real