Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

state in 1904 when the so-called conser-
vative wing was dominant
AS usual, the south's fidelity was
proof against party errors in each Of
these elections. Both the eastern
Democracy and the western Democracy,
with their opposite convictions and
practices and unassimilable personal
elements, have tried and failed to hold
the national organization in line. They
are both weaker in their respective Sec
tons than they were before their
separation. The south is the only one
left where success has given the Demo-
Gratis real authority to speak in the
party councils since Cleveland went
out of Office. Many northern Democrats
good reason to listen to the southern
Democracy, and perhaps to acknowledge
it's supremacy, when it comes to the
planning for another national cam
paign.
1t Is not so much who the south wants
for president as 1t is what the south
advocates in federal policies, that in
terests those northern Democrats who
concede the south's title to jurisdiction.
There are some able southern leaders
who have gone on record in opposition
to the territorial expansion of the
country, an assertive foreign policy, a
powerful navy the Isthmian canal and
other national policies which have been
called Republican because the Repub-
lican party opportunely has been in
power when the exigencies of govern
ment brought these policies to the
front. Such southern leaders have as
sumed and perfunctorily maintained
opposition to these national policies
largely because their northern contem-
poraries advised it. Southern Demo-
Gratis are not anti-expansionists They
believe in a strong foreign policy, a
powerful navy and an Isthmian canal.
Their differences with Republicanism
are on the points of special privilege
under industrial, commercial and fiscal
laws, the regulation of the tariff,
trusts, railways and corporations, and
the Capitalization of political power.
Three tremendous defeats have con-
WINGED Democrats of the south as well
as of the north that abandonment of
principles fundamental to the Democ-
racy, to embrace either ultra-radical-
ism or INSTRUMENTATION, is policy
of destruction. 1t is the hope, If not
the expectation, of the eastern and
western Democrats who are in closest
touch with the south that the right
solution of party difficulties may come
from the leadership of that section. The
idea of nominating a southern Demo-
crat for president is already receiving
the sanction of influential partisans
north of Mason and Dixon's line.
Six Democratic governors of states
which returned Republican electors
last yeap are set down as potent factors
in the national Democratic situation
Wise Democrats argue that the in
fuences which elected Chamberlain IN
Oregon, Adams in Colorado. Folk in
Missouri, Toole in Montana, Douglas in
Massachusetts and Johnson in Mime
sofa in the face of overwhelming ma
jorities for President Roosevelt ought
to be cultivated and extended in ma
tional politics. In each case the per-
sonal equation was important.
Chamberlain attracted Republican
support in oregon as a reform candi-
date. Adams and Douglas offered the
best promise of rectifcation for abuses
in the relations between capital and
labor in Colorado and Massachusetts
Toole held Montana by working along
traditional Democratic lines Folk wor
in Missouri because he stood out
against a corrupt state machine Of his
own party. Johnson carried Minnesota
an agricultural state where the rail-,
road question has long been agitated
by a convincing presentation of the
Democratic attitude.
In New York. New Jersey. Michigan
Wisconsin and other Republican states
the presidential majorities were enor
mously cut by the Democratic candi.
dates for governor. A little reflection
shows that wherever, In the last cam,
paign, the Democratic state organiza,
tions of the north differentiated from
the national organization in the atti
tude toward President Roosevelt anC
his distinetively personal poheles they
either won or minimized Republican
victories, To the south. then. shoult
be added certain elements Of part.
strength localized in the north. whel
the work Of party rehabilitation begins