The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-23

every sentence has been weighed care.
|: full fully, II is not long and IFshall read
Here kels took out his
manu- p 'l scrips and read the following iii.
terlesting deliyerance
sm pleased to accept Yonr In
citation to halt even For a II ino nomeflt,
u none Of the most interesting and his
toric counties in our common coun-
tpys Lam especially pleased to- see
about t me some Of the sturdy men Who,
through many years, in good report
or$aill, in success or defeat, have raj
lied around the standard of democrat.
ics principles. 33!@ 4;
5S In an address before the legisla-
,turel Of the state OF Mississippi, q few
days ago, I had occasion to insist that
never before was: it less possible to
ignore the growing tendency to look
to tho government or state for sup
port, 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 the cost Of which
may be estilnated--or is hid away in
those moro costly and demoralizing
systems under which some favored in
diyidual oriclass may levysa relentless
toll upon the earnings or the income
Of all our people, the effect upon insti-
'tutions and character is the same. If
we support dozen paupers in a poor
house, we can calculate the cost, but
the beneficiary Of q vicious system of
corruption or bossism, in country,
state, county or city, not only takes
for his own purposes the earning of
his neighbors, but he so breaks all
the moral laws that he becomes ut
once a menace to society and an evil
example to all our people.
"During all its history. the demo-
cratic party has denounced the lodge
ment Of undue power in the govern
ment, has opposed it's logical outcome,
the granting Of special privileges in
the levy Of taxes, and has insisted up
on economy in expenditure. Under
these as guiding principles, it built
upon its own organization and has
only been able to maintain it by con-
slant devotion to them. In time they
have become inalienable policies and
ingrained traditions. In or out of
power, in nation or state, in the de-
mands of its leaders, in the devotion
Of it's rank and file, in war or peace,
in it's early or its later days, it has
stood for these things.
"While this conscientious devotion
to an idea has commended itself to
the democrats Of the whole country
and has thus made and kept the party
rational, during recent years the peo-
pie of the south, without variableness
or shadow of turning, have been its
mainstay. Sinking no responsibility,
seeking no national rewards, promot-
ing no special interests or movements,
they have neither been trlculent in
victory nor discouraged in defeat
Going on in their way, regulating
their own affairs, without hope. of
commanding subsidy, paying cheerful
ly to carry out policies in which they
could have no part, they have so i'm
pressed their time that the one special
problem coming to them from the past
has been solved in such way that
the whole country has not only been
forced to approve and applaud but to
initiate as the only way to deal with
it. X IL .. ...-.3.. 49, .. ~
: ''But tho time has come when new
duties and responsibilities must be
undertaken by the democrats Of the
south. It is moro than two scoro
years since, the war closed and your
people find themselves : upon the
threshold of what promises to be the
most remarkable business develop