The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-24
JUDGE PAREER'S
WORDS OF WISDOM
Consratulates the South Upon the
Purity Of Her Officials Says
That This Section Is Entitled to
Name Next Standard Bearer
Of Democracy

Charlotte, n. C.-Judge Alton B.
Parker spent few hours in Charlotte
tonight enroute home from MiSSiSSip-
pi. Upon invitation from prominent
Democrats of this city, he attended a
reception at the Manufacturers Club
and delivered an address in which he
urged that Southern Democrats take
the leadership of the party. He said:
''In the address before the legiSla
ture of the state of Mississippi
few days ago | had occasion to insist
that never before was it less possible
to ignore the growing tendency to
look to the government OF the state
for support, 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-Or is hi1 away in
those most costly and demoralizing
systems under which some favored in
dividual or class may levy too relent-
less toll upon the earnings or the in
come of all our people, the effect upon
institutions and characters are the
same.
but the time has come when new
duties and responsibilities must be un-
dertaken by the Democrats of the
South. 1t 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
ment the world has ever known with
in the same time and space.
Some of your men have gone forth to
command the highest success, in the
most honorable way, in the greatest
financial and commercial movements
of the time.
From the earliest days, since self
government was restored, you have
sent your best men into public life.
They have been at once modest, able,
devoted, patriotic and honest. No
jail or penitentiary has opened its hos
pitable doors to admit your senator's,
representatives or governors. nor have
the officers of the law. from detectives
to attorney-general, been compelled TO
haul them into the criminal COURTS.
In the face CT this record, you have
not only permitted US of the North to
present to you candidates for preSi
dent and vice-president, but you have
insisted upon our doing 80, and have
then voted for them, and that, too,
when sometimes no other states did
so.
''In 1896 you tried Nebraska. an d
since that day, no old Democratic
Northern state has accredited one OF
our party to the United States senate,
and i'm none has there been a friendly
governor. All the Democratic train
ing schools of the Notwithstanding.
intermediate and higher closed,
and have remained so. The party |
paralysis was complete, and almost ia
tai. In 1904, hoping to cure, to palli- i
ate it, you advised returning again to |
New York for your candidate only to
meet the worst defeat in our party |
history. 1t is now nearly twelve !
years since any man protesting devo-
tion to your party has been chosen in |
the nation or in any Northern Demo-
cratic state to fill an important execu- |
tive office.
when such conditions confront |
you, why should you hesitate any lon
ger? Until the Democrats of NebraS-
ka and New York and other northern
states have brought forth fruits meet
fOr repentence-or at least so long as
they are threatening to give them
selves and the party over to further
aestructicn-should you not assert
yourselves? You have borne the heat |
and burden of the day. Your states
man have demonstrated their ability
not only to take care of the interests
OF Their states and their section, but
they have been the only dam against
aggression at home and the threat OF
discredit abroad. Among them are
men with knowledge, experience, hon.
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