The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-08
JOHN S. BEARD WANTS
A SOUTHERN CANDIDATE

the east at the expense Of the other
sections Of the union
The eastern democracy prefers an
eastern republican, who can be used
in the interests of the east, to a south
ern democrat, or democrat from any
other section who cannot be used by
the east. This has been demonstrat-
ed whenever the democracy has refus-
ed to adopt a platform and nominate
a candidate of the eastern brand, or
the east, in a fit of generosity, may
give to the other sections the plat
form and the east take. the candidate
as in 1892.
1t is time for the south and the
west to recognize the fact that their
interests are the same, and are an
tagonisJic to the interests of the east.
The south and west are the tax pro-
ducing, tax paying sections of the
union, and the east, exclusively, the
tax consuming section. The east is
living and prOspering, and has lived
and prOspeTed since the Inauguration
of the federal government, on the in
dustTy and products of the south and
west, and the east naturally (if not
generously prefers to keep the south
and west in the condition of "hewers
Of wood and drawers of water" 10 the
east The great mass of honest vot-
ers throughout the entire country
know that from 1901 to 1861 the pres
idents of the United States were SOU
thern men, with but five exceptions,
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and southern counsel controlled exc
cutive action and governmental pol
icy. For sixty years we enjoyed such
purity in Official life, such happiness
and prosperity as no other country has
ever experienced. 1 do not mean the
fictitious and watered prosperity of
trusts and grinding monopoly, but the
true prosperity and happiness Of all,
and in exact degree as we have de-
parted from standards erected and ad-
hered to under southern leadership,
from 1901 to 1861, have we encounter
ed national disaster, and invited and
encouraged dishonesty in official life,
and the maladministratiOn of public
affairs. The great mass of American
voters know Of all these things and
they sincerely desire to recur to fun
damental principles and to reestab-
fish honest government; to secure
which they will vote for and elect a
southern man if they are given the
opportunity.
South Holds Balance of Power.
Let us take another view of the ex-
pediency and ACCESSIBILITY of nominal
ing a southern man for the presidency
by the next democratic national con-
vention. If an eastern man should be
nominated the west will not support
him, because of eastern treachery
and desertion in 1890 and 1900 If a
western man is nominated the east
will not support him, because Of vest
ern detection in 1904. but the south
supported Bryan in 1896 and 1900 and
Parker in 1904. Neither the east nor
the west has any quid pro quo for the
south
The south holds the balance of pow
er in a national democratic conven-
ton. The south does the democratic
voting. No democratic candidate has
the ghost Of chance of election with
out the electoral vote Of me south.
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American portion Of the union, and
the south has the brains, the patriot
ism, the craftsmanship ard the integ-
rity. The south should. in the next
national democratic convention. in
sist upon the nomination for president
of the United States of one of her
own distinguished sons, and she has
many worthy of the honor and of the
trust
The south owes it to herself, to her
honor and to her equality in a union
Of equal states. Present southern
leaders owe it to this and succeeding
generations in the south that under
their leadership no such pernicious
precedent be established as that each
southern state is not the perfect and
entire equal Of every other state in
the union. If the south insists upon
II the south will secure it, and if dem
ocracy should be defeated land / be.
lieve that it will not be- il will only
be repetition Of what has been nap
Ipenfng for the past fifty years (nearly)
under other than southern leadership.
If southern man is not nominated
by the convention il will be because
the south is not true TO herself. It