The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-11-08
Mr.. Bailey, of the South.
Wilmington Messenger.


The Texas senator has one stauncl
admirer in North Carolina, if no more.
dis the editorial from the Duplin Jour-
naI which we publish below, will
show. Mr.. Bailey is IL big man" and
we believe him to be q true and hon.
est man. If the South will stand by
him and make him her leader he will
do more than has any man since the
South lost her supremacy in national
affairs to again put her iii the exalt-
ed position she occupied before she
lost that position by secession and
the crime of reconstruction. Mr..
Bailey's great ability no one can
deny. His fitness for the position OF
| leader of the Southern democracy has
been assailed by certain class OF
! Democrats who know that they would
not have finger in the pie were he
to be raised to that position, and
| they have tried to pull him down by
base insinuations. They fear him;
| they are afraid that he will supersede
their idol from Nebraska. They can
not deny his ability and they do not
dare openly to attack his integrity,
but they try to pull him down by
saying that it would not do to put
up Southern man to lead the Dem
ocratic party and that his connec-
ton as attorney with certain cor
poration makes his leadership an i'm
possibility, all of which means that
they-Southern Democrats-person-
ally and for selfish reasons prefer the
man from Nebraska to Mr.. Bailey.
1t is time for the Democrats from that
section which does the voting for the
Iparty to have the choosing of the lead
er of the party. especially when they
have a man SO well qualified in all re-
spects as is Mr.. Bailey, of the South.
The Journal says:
The Mount Olive Tribune is so
Organized OF late that it speaks OF
other great men as'sticks and stones
in calling Senator Joe Bailey the Jour
naI's Idol and hobby Not so. Sen
ator Joe Bailey is man. The great
leader of the Democratic host in the
nation who has never met defeat and
in these recent railroad rate bill de-
bates measured up to the highest
standard possible as a man, a South
ern man, and the greatest, biggest
Democrat of his day and who has in
deed, and in fact put Teddy out o
business, which Bryan has failed te
do.
THAT he is in anyway connected
with a trust Bailey denies and say'
that his connection with any corpor
alton is only such as any honorable
lawyer could have, and we shall TAX
his word for it. Any Texas 'goot
government club that opposes hin
has not the first rudiment OF 'goot
government about it, as his publ
life and conduct has been powerful.
~ antitrust and anti-cOrpOratiOn
Newspapers OF the Hearst brand iron
jealously, and the New England lie
publican kind, from hatred and feaI
have done their best tc defeat him
but he is again the big Democra
senator from Texas, and willfully es
plain his own position when he cam
paigns in Texas That he is toda
the greatest living Democrat goe
without saying and now that th
Southis rapidly coming back to it
e former primacy in government a
Il fairs as the Washington Post gladl
SAYS, it behooves all Democrats i
e good standing South to stand by til
+ big Texan and build a Southern d.
! mocracy, greater than its party tha
o once controlled this nation.