The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-17
PARKER Wants
SOUTH TO LEAD
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due power in tch government has OPP
poscd It's logical outcome in the grant
| ing of special privileges in the levy oil
| taxes. and has insisted upon economy
| in expenditures. Under these as guluins
principles. it built UP It's own orsanlza-
ton. and has only been able to maintain
i, nv constant devotion to them. In time
| they have become inalienable policies.
| and ingrained conditions. In or out OF
| power in nation or State, IN the hands
demands of its leaders. in the devotion
| OF its crank and file, in war or peace, IN
its early or later days. it has stood for
these things.
while this conscien, ious devotion to an
idea has commended itseif TO the Demo l9.
Gratis of the whole country and has , IliuS
recent Years the people of the South, with
out variableness or. shadow Of II, inrnin ",
rhe ays ssdn rs sesR as' no national
wards promoting no special interests va, 20, OF
IN wie ensy nyG IN
Going their way regula ting tne'r ON. Own
affairs without hope OF m M nan n S S,,p
ces ii ~ which they could have, no part,
they have SO impressed themselves aso upon POI,
| coming to them from the past has been
| solved in such Il way that the Wn .In
/
only way 20 deal with IL.
South to the Front.
but the time has come when new
duties and RESPONSIBILITIES must pc ", I'M
| 1t is more than two score years since the
war closed and your p people ,l ilma n 1nem
ises to be the most remarkable bust
ness development the world has ever
known WITHIN the same Inn .ime r ama s }orth
to command the highest successes in
the most honorable way, in the greatest
financial and commercial movements OF
| the times, others have become the man
ayers OF great railway interests. you
have developed great manufacturing en-
terpriscs and most difficult OF all, your
people, as a whole, have so maintained
and increased their own position and
the greatest products of the soil as to.
make them the wonder and admiration
| OF the world. t
Tn spite Of your devotion ITO 70 TOP principle
numerical Importance that was prepon-,
derant, in politics only have you stepped
aside. From the earliest days you have
sent Your best men into public life.
devoted. patriotic and honest No jail
or penitentlary has opened its hos
pitabe doors to admit Scui. senator's,
representatives or Governor, nor have
| the Officers OF inc laW, from detectives
to Acknowledgement been compelled q to
hale them into the criminal courts.
in the face of this record you have
not only permitted us of the North to
present to you candidates for President
and Vlcc-Prcsident. but you have IN.
sisted upon our doing SO and have then
| voted for them and that. too. when
sometimes no other States did so.
Looking Away.
8"In 1896 You tried Nebraska, and since
that day no old Democratic Northern:
State has accredited one of oui, party
| has there been a friendly Governor. al /
the Democratic training schools Of the
North. elementary, intermcdiate and
So The party paralysis was complete
and almost fatal In 1901. hoping to cure,
or palliate 1t, You advised returning
again to New York for your candidate,
only to meetsthe worst defcat N our.
party history. 1t is now nearly twelve
/. years since any man protesting devotion
! to your party has been chosen In ma
| tional, or In any sNorthedn Democratic
State. to Ill an important executive of
| flee. At the last election. perhaps eight
Tout Of ten of the voters then under
thirty We're ranged with our opponents.
and to-day the party organizations are
lineless. their one-time leaders arc dead
come Repuhllcans, while in more than.
one State, the threat hangs over them
that they may BECOME the victims OF
the spoiler. the destructive or tho COR
ruptionist. u
, when s,lch conditions confront YOU.
why, should you hesitate any ,longer??5
Until the Democrats OF Nebraska and
New Y ork and other Northern States have
brought fortht fruits meetaforsrepentance---
or at least so long rs theysnre threatening
to give themselves and the party over to
yourselves You have borne the heat and
demonstrated their ability not only to-
take care of the interests of their States
and their section, but they have been tho
only dam against aggression at home ana
the threat OF discredit abroad. Among
them are men with the lknowledge, eXpeEi,
their fellow partisans without surrender
3of prlnclple,g and their fellow-countrNmen$
With safety and honor. 35s n "a
Parker Grateful.
II myself, placed at the front FOR ~
Il the Democrats everywhere, especially to
nc 4. resrats for the pns,;; but 10 one. u
our efforts haze been IN the mas ana how
Eunpromlsl1g, tho .outlpnl IL for hG future
unless we throw aside isnls nntl grasp
the great moral ISSUE now SO clearly per-,
Gel verl l,l- the pepplss: rhe ING Inns come,