The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-22


 to Mr. John Motley down in Barren county. Ky. Iris sixty years since" The two were neixhbers and had been friends They were partners in pus- mess. Lambrith furnishing the money. and Motley the experience, with the usual result. The assets of the firm were iackass. some mule colts. . droyes of hogs. several barrels of whis- key. some hundreds Of pounds of to- baccon in the plug. and some thousands of pounds of tobacco in the ieafS They traded all the way their operations covered q period of several years. When they came to set- tde Motley had all the money. and Lam brith instituted a sut in equity to set tie the partnership. There was an issua out of chnncery submitted to a tSry. and the common-iaw rule then main tained in Kentucky that party tn llawsuit was not a competent witness in his own behalf. but he could be put on the stand and interrogated by the op- posing counsel. Lambrith had an ex- ceIient case that appealed strongly to a sense of justice, but no proof to sus- I tain 1t, so he put Motley on the stand I and Motley, the witness. deposed swiftly and effectively. with the result that the verdict of the fury and the judg- ment of the bench were very disastrous to Captain John Lambrith. who imme-
 
 and extended tho invitation. Come out l here, Motley; come out here. l want 10 tell you how mean you are -an invitation which MT. Motley did not accept for MT. Mot | ley was man of prudence as well as a man of cunning. and had the shfewdness to know that however *ase H was to contend with Captain Lambrith in lawsuit, 1t was very differentmatter to Ego a-pro1ecin" with Captain Lambrith in fight. and It vas thsn and there manifest that the I captain was in fighting mood and he l was always in fighting trim.
 Secretary Taft has been down South. and if I understand his mission 1t was to tell the Southern Republicans how mean they are. At any rate. that Is what he did. He said they were q 1 bread and butter brigade. and that I they wonld never be worth the devils bringing until they ceased to billet | themselves on the United States blue book Mir Taft sesnas to have forgot ten that place fin that same blue hbook Is the highest ambition of the average Southern RepubiIcan. and if there were no pirs book he-e in Wash irgton, there would be no Republican party down South.
 I There has never been a real Repuo- iIcan party at the South though there are some capable and excellent gen- tlemen In that section who sincerely hold to the Republican creed A par ty must savor of the soil it must have sympathy; 1t must have sentiment; 1t must have principle; it must have faith. Whatever the Republican party may be at the North, 1t has none of these clements in the South. Except the eight years Mir. Cleveland was President, the South has been nothing politically but so man satrapies. For ten years they were military satrapies. They are satrapies now of the mean
 est kind--in all that region between the Potomac and the Rio Grande. If there Is any patriotic sentiment down there associated with this great big government at washington, 1t Is in spite of the Republican party: for if all the cunning of all the devils had been invoked to devise a scheme tc crush out all love at the South for the national establishment no improve
 ment could have been made on the plan of the ,Repubiicsn Southern poli- cy," and Mir. Roosevelt's is the worst
 of ali them. It is intolerable. Hs
 would patroniEe the South.
 If Mir Lincoln had lived the Soutf
 would have been rehabilitated. Upor
 his death the South was reconstructed
 It was as impossible as 1t was infam- ous--that reconstruction--as vain as 1t was atrocious. Thaddeus Stevens
 Charles Sumner. Ben wade. Zach Chandler. Ben Butler, John A. Logan, Henry Wilson, and the other Republi- can leaders are great names in our political history, and yet as statesmen they were the most hopeless biunder- CTS of all history. Their system was very simple--the negro should be set to govern the Southern States, and turn their votes in the electoral col lege and their senators and Fepresen. tatives in Congress over to the Re- publican party. Of course. 1t took the . army to sustain that viieness. and in ] many of the Southern States the white people seized control in spite of the army As long as there are men and women at the South who remember carpetbaggery and negro domination upheld by bayonets. there win be nc real Republican party at the South and the organization down there will pursue its old trade of harvest ing a crop of delegates quad ] rennial1y and marketing them in } the national convention. That ls the show it has been for forty years and that is the show 1t will be the next succeeding forty years--a bread and-butter brigade that lays awake | OA AiHut1 pSStctbt% AtD VILE bASAuB " pick winner in the Republican Ma tional Convention.
 Secretary Taft advises the gonth to ] join this concern, eat of this mess oi garbage, and participate in the guess ing match. In the nain the South has been a poor gueseer in Republican na- tionaI conventions. It was divided be-
 tween Morton and conklIne in 1876 It contracted to Sherman In 1880, but } though 1t got the price, the goods were ] short. Ii was for Arthur in 1SS4--'the OK knoweth his owner and the ass his masters crib" It was unfortunate fin 1888, and in 1898 1t was for Mark Han na up to the handle and delivered the goods.
 The South has no more intention of turaing Republican than 1t has of turn Ing pagan. And why should it2 There is nothing Southern in the Republican , party. nothing national in 1t. It was born a Northern and sectional party As such 1t has lived. as such 1t will die. It ls as ignorant of :rue condi- tions at the South as 1t Is bigoted in its estimate of things down there II appoints satraps to select pcstmasters all over the South, and. fin fact, so far as the Federal establishment is con- cerned. there is no such thing as home rule at the South. I hold that the worst sort of administration by the sort of administration by satraps. just as government by consent is always better than government by force That
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