The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-23

every sentence has been weighed care
fully. It is not long and ! shall read
It,
Here Judge Parker took ont his
manuscript and read the following IN
terestinc deliverance:
i am pleased to accept your in
vitation to halt. even for moment,
in one Of the most interesting and his
toric counties in our common coun-
Try. | am especially pleased to see
about me some of the sturdy men who,
through many years, in good report
or Ill, in success or defeat. have ral-
lied around the standard Of democrat
ic principles.
In an address before the lesisla-
tnre Of the state Of Mississippi, a few
lays ago, ! had occasion to insist that
never before was it less possible to
ignore the growing tendency to look
to the government OF state for sup
port. assistance, or special favor,
which will relieve the recipient from
that effort and those obligations hith-
erto deemed incumbent upon all our
people. Whether it takes the form
of direct subsidies-the cost of which
may be estilnated-or is hid away IN
those more costly and demoralizlng
systems under which some favored in
dividual or class may levy relentless
toll upon the earnings or the income
of all our people, the effect upon lnstl-
tu,ions and character is the same. II
we support dozen paupers in poor
house, we can calculate the cost, but
the beneficiary Of a vicious system Of
corruption or bossism. in country,
state, county or city, not only takes
for his own purposes the earning OF
his neighbors, but he so breaks all
the moral laws that he becomes at
once a menace to society and an evil
example to all our people.
'EDuring all its history, the demo-
cratic party has denounced the lodge
ment Of undue power in the govern
ment, has opposed its logical outcome,
the granting Of special privileges in
the levy Of taxes, and has insisted up
on economy in expenditure. Under
these as guiding principles, it built
upon it's own organization and has
only been able to maintain it by con-
stant devotion to them. In time they
have become inalienable policies and
inerained traditions. In or out OF
power. in nation or state, in the de-
mands Of it's leaders, in the devotion
Of it's rank and file, in war or peace,
in it's early or its later days, it has
stood for these things.
''While this conscientious devotion
to an idea has commended itself to
the democrats Of the whole country
and has thus made and kept the party
rational, during recent years the peo-
ple of the south, without varlableness
or shadow Of turning, have been its
mainstay. Sinking no responsibility,
seeking no national rewards, promot-
ing no special interests or movements,
they have neither been truculent in
victory nor discouraged III defeat.
Going on in their way, regulating
their own affairs, without hope of
commanding subsidy, paying cheerful
ly to carry out policies in which they
could have no part, they have so i'm
pressed their time that the one special
problem coming to them from the past
has been solved in such a way that
the whole country has not only been
forced to approve and applaud but to
initiate as the only way to deal with
it.
but the time has come when new
duties and responsibilities must be
undertaken by the democrats Of the
south. It IS more than two score
years since the war closed and your
people find themselves upon the
threshold Of what promises to be the
most remarkable business develop