The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-10
Parker and Davis With
out Dissent.
Continued from Page Five.)

in their political life, 1.-The floating
vote could not be tabulated or fore
told. And so, until the very day,
aye, the very evening of the election,
it was not known how many of the
Northern or Western States would
vote.
In the so-called Solid South. there
is no floating vote, and hence no such
dread uncertainty. Her electors fol-
low the party banner. whether to vic
tory or defeat, With the same stead
fast course that made the followers
of Lee and Jackson the models OF SOL
dierly devotion for ~ the ages TO
come. wrote IT'S platform and named
its candidates, and the great army OF
voters in the solid South asked no
questions, nor hesitated for even one
brief moment. With steady tread and
ranks unbroken, they marched with
and under the flag, TO defeat with
out murmur and With no deserters.
Wen may she be called the Solid
SOUTH" The appellation is full OF
complimentary significance. She is
solid in that splendid virtue of human
loyalty, and in the Sisterhood of
States described in that glorious le-
gend "the Solid South the good old
North State IN proportion TO her pop
ulation, like Abou ben Adhem's name,
leads all the rest.
AS she gave to the Southern Con-
federacy in the battle Of bullets more
men in proportion, to her population
than any Of her sisters, so to the re-
cent Democratic nominee. in the bat
lie Of ballots. she gave more votes IN
proportion to her registered and
qualified electorate than did any of the
other States of the glorious Solid
South.
So with no floating vote to put In
doubt the result having registered her
will by a majority Of fifty thousand,
sha now asks us Us her accredited
electors TO voice her sentiment in this
contest in favor of the chosen leader
of the National Democracy.
Coming, then. to 90 her will and
register her sovereign wish. which is
our bounden duty, in illustration of a
great States great virtue of unfalt-
ering loyalty. | cast my vote and all
that vote of this good State that /
represent in favor of the nominee of
the Democratic Convention at St.
Louis the choice of the Solid South.
New York's honored son, Alton r.
Parker.
The Ballot for President.
As the ballot proceeded and the
tellers were making the count, Chair
man Self listened with strained atten-
ton: Parker one, Parker two
three. four. Parker tally" Mr.. Self
Strengthened up With relief:
"Parker's going to get it, he an
nounced in a stage whisper which
greatly relieved the suspense
Mr.. Crawford dominates Davis.
In nominating for Vice-President
Virginia, Hon. w. T. Crawford said in
part:
I'm presenting the name of Henry
G. Davis formally TO this body, j do
not feel like delivering a funeral ora
ton. / feel indeed happy The peo-
pie have not had the time to think, to
deliberate. to take in the situation.
The people during the last few years
have been very much muddled. The
public conscience will yet be convict
ed There has been nothing much set
tied by the last election except as TO
who will be president for the next
four years. When the sun went down
on election day in November, 1t left
the issues still unsettled. The Republic
can party admits that they are still
unsettled They are trying in Con-
gress to settle the issues of the day,
but they cannot. The tariff and the
Philippine question are still open
sores. / can assert without fear of
successful contradiction from any Re-
publican in or out of Congress that he
does not know the attitude of
his party on either the Philippine or
the money question. The money ques
ton is in a worse condition than it
was in 1890 The people have been
simply drunk with success in these
days of prosperity, these halcyion days.
They believed that the Republican
party brought prosperity; there We're
people who believed that the Demo-
cratic party was opposed to prosperity.
The Democrats have to eat and they
have TO toll They need prosperity
more than anybody else, because the
offices are few and far between them.
But does anybody believe that the
Democratic party is dead? The Re-
publicans don't believe it. They are
preparing now for the next fight. The
situation is much like that of the
man who thought that his wife was
dead. On the way to the grave the
coffin struck stump and the sup
posedly dead woman reused. was re-
stored to her husband and lived with
him for q year, when she died again.
On the occasion of the second funeral,
with the same pail bearers when theI
coffin reached the stump, the Widowerl
called out for the bearers of the coffin
to be very careful, reminding them of
what an awful accident had befallenI
at that place.
.'At the mast head of the ship of
the Democracy there is no white flag.
The old Guard may die, but it does
not surrender. If Democrats werel
ever in the right, they are right now.
The election had no significance ex
cept that there were many people who
staid at home for fear of interrupting |
q prosperity which they blindly at /
tributed to the Republican party. The
vote in 1904 was smaller than in 1900. !
The common sense of the people had
been distorted. The same men Who'll
would not vote and sat down TOT wait
for fifteen cent cotton are now
burning their product in the streets of
Georgia towns they are either grown
virtuous or they are giving a sin Of
fering No administration has thel
power TO make supplies higher or low
err except az the laws of supply and
demand operate immutably on the
prices Of the things which come from
the labor and the ingenuity of man.
"When the sun goes down in the
gathering fnists. we see the stars more
brightly, and we see more clearly our
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