The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-04-26
SOUTH IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

IN au address at the University oi
I Virginia a few days agp Goverupr
Claude 4. svaU.on. SAL:
The time has arrived 'or 'he
South to abandon her policy u acqui.
cscence and selfabnegation The time
/ b. opp0rtune f1r the South 20 asseI
herself and 10 present her eandida'rs
and principles equally with those Of
other sections TO the fair and sober
f. Judgment Of our common country A.
tor forty years in the wilderness We
should pass out and claim cur share
aud part in the land of our fathers.
We should neither surrender our ,quu
inheritance nor shirh our equal fe
sp0nsibllity Prudence and patriou-I
alike demand that We should no long.
cr c0nfno our political actiyi'ies tu
local matters. but We should moisstly
and humly insist upon equal pr'ici-
patton iu control aud direction OF ma.
tIonal affairs"
.. does seem that forty year. is
long enough for sectional "peuauce."
I says the Fort Worth Record Men
now in the meridian OF life. holding
high place in political and commercial
affairs. were mere infants when fho
late unpl,asantness arose. President
Roosevelt was only three years old
when che trouble began
This generation INDUCES no civil
war animosities, and there r. NO more
reason for classifying men upon what
their father did In that afair than
there s. for classifying them accord.
Ing To any other ancestral relation
We do not believe that one per cent
Of the people Of the nation today arc
Influenced in any serious degree BY
the passions o. the war peroid. 1t Is
mere habit OF mind and speech to
put the South beyond the zone Of ma.
iional influence.
In like manner We believe that GO.
, ographlcal considerations in pr.fidon
tial availability are passing, II they
have not passed President Roosevelt
70 ! would have been as triumphaatly
elected ID he had hailed from Main,
or Texas. judge Parker from New
. York made a poorer showing than Nj
Bryan from Nebraska Voters nova
DAYS more than at any other period
~ American history are judging can
dldates and issues for what they real
/. ly import rather than by party labo
or state location.
y we do not believe the South shoulD
y, put forth candidate for presiden
D. simply as q Southern man. for tha
(, itself would Doe soctionalism. But tn
J., time has come for rcsenting the impr
N tation that Southren bt;h or res
;, dence Is bar sinister to presidentia
;. preferment II the South has a ma
, who Is otherwise equipped IN qualit
;. and availability. let him aspire an
-. let his friends and his state emplo
i, every legitimate means for his NJ
al yancement.
"A The greatest statesmen Of our ca
ller history come from the South. ]
the nations formative period and
Il lis era Of development Souther
ideals for the most part preyaile'
and only few days ago the Wasl
IN ington Post made the timely Obsory
ri. tion that II would be well for the see
In. ter 10 return. More than twen;y.hN
years ago Senator Hin Of Ge1fgid
en- his great reply to Blaine, declared Il
ar. the south: We are In the house
ne our fathers, and We thank God for II
he Being In the house OF our fathers, "
oy are equal heirs alike 10 ITS honors an
as its responsibilities, and We should l
lst longer hesitate 10 claim our inner
od tanco
~. Il Is plain truth ~ say that prhT
ey administration in the south has bee
Al. less tainted by commercialism, gree
in. and grating than public adm"'sir
ton in the North II We are MT 8
In thrifty. we are more circumsue"t;
no We are not So progressive, we al
or. more punctilious, II We are not
rs. aggressive, We are more eXactuE
re- public concerns. II would do the n
~. tion good 20 have its horizon of poll
lie cal activities extended, 70 see aga
as some OF the old landmarks Of siI
nd plicity. economy and Righteousness
DIS and To find that there is wisdom al
ite patriotism I'm the land OF chival
Ia and white supremacy
iat .-Ol.O--=-
ne. CONTEMPORARY TRIPLES.
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