The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-04
SOUTHERNER FOR PRESIDENT.
SENATOR FRAZIER SUGGESTS 1T
At TENNESSEE DINNER.
First Gathering Of the New Workers From
the Volunteer Stakeholder South.
erners There to start Them on Mar.
tin ". LttIetOn Also q Speaker.

utC NOLuHtCCE -uitCT Uht
erners There to start Them on Mar
tin W. Littleton Also a Speaker
The Tennessee Society in New York
which is only four months old, gave last
night in the Aston gallery Of the Waldorf
Astoria, it's first dinner, and persuaded
James B. Frazier. United States Senator
from the" volunteer state, to come up from
Washington to attend what the toastmasteI
and president of the society, DR.. William
NJ. Polk, called its baptism"
The presidents or vice presidents OF
nearly all the societies of Southern State
In New York contributed to the enthusiasm
Dixie" and Yankee Doodle" which the
orchestra played incidental to a long list
of distinctively Southern melodies, were
cheered almost with equal fervor.
Ralph H. Holland, president Of North
Carolina Society, in remarks about the
value Of State societies, said the organiza-
ton Of the Tennessee Society was due to
the energy of the young men fresh from
the State. North Carolina. he said, was
the parent commonwealth of Tennessee ,
and claimed some of the most celebrated
North Carolinians, who had simply removed
into Tennessee in their boyhood or youth.
When u Southern man or boy came to New
York he ceased to think in units, but thought
in hundreds. A man could get poorer in
this city in one year than he could in five
in Tennessee or North Carolina. Still,
the great magnetic city drew them from
their homes.
Senator Frazier said that in f1atterin g
his former fellow citizens OF Tennessee
he was reminded of some speeches he made
when he was running for Governor Of Ten
nessee. He spoke to a meeting made up
of Irish people and eNtolled the virtues
of the Irish, remarkipg that his grand
mother was Irish. The next night he ad-
dressed a German meeting and, after paying
tribute to the sturdy qualities Of the Teuton,
said that his grandmother was German.
A German who had heard him at both
meetings oame up and asked him how
1t was that he had told the Irish that his
that his grandmother was German. He
answered hat he had had two grand
mothers. Thereupon the German laughed
and remarked, We'll, Mr.. Frazier, vot would
you say if you had spoken at a niger
meetingi'
The Senator hoped that he would not be
considered provincial because he did not
live In New York with other Tennesseeans
who had brought so much genius here to
improve the natives. II he wanted to he
really could live here, but he was satisfied
at present with his native State. The
South was acquiring power greater than it
ever had had and was leaping to the front
industrially in a way that made New Eng
land jealous of her manufacturing suprem-
acy..
If we want to nominate a Southern man
for the Presidency We have the right to do
it," the Senator said, bringing forth a cheer
tina shook the glasses. And if he is nomi-
mated he should not lose a single vote To
which he is otherwise entitled because he
comes from the South. | do not believe,
however, that a candidate for President
should be selected on sectional lines alone.
What he stands for is more important
than the State from which he halls"
The term New South, the Senator said,
was inappropriate. 1t was the same old
South, but with a newer Americanism and
a deep seated love for constitutional liberty.
The South would never apologize for the
course it had taken in the war, and no brave
man ever had demanded that it should.
The South was beginning to live at home
and board at the same place. Tennessee
was no less celebrated for its sunshine
thar its "moonshine,"
Edgar Bright Wilson said he had come
from Tennessee for the benefit of New
York and was acting like other men of his
State who were here as a lea ven in the great
city of graft and greed He would never
do anything AZ a citizen of New York that
would make his friends in Tennessee blush
for him
other speakers We're Champ S. Andrews
and Martin W. Littleton, who set the Tn
nesseans cheering with a description Of
The Mountain Fiddler"