The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-07
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q mt by Judge Alfred Hall Whitfield, Court He pertfnentiy Ss tss'sslR caIRs stsentio1 to the pitiful prescription that Sout1- ern men of abiliy and learning sufser in the United States Supreme court. the diplomatic service. the Cabinet. He shows from the records hat since the civil war but one Supreme Court Jus tics has been appointed from the soutn and but one Southern Democrat mas perch.
 What the Nation has lost by this dis- crimination against the South 1t would be impossible to estimate. Many men in commercial life. either ;s attorneys or operators, have been elevated 10 high position from our NorInern ine dustrial centers. whose -oom might have been advantageously and crcdita- ply filled by Southerners; for It is in the South that the inest traditions of American statesmanship "urvive. There prevails at the South ace of digni- fled and scholarly aristocraey, not of wealth, but of brains, character and hreedings loving It's poetry, Its history and its laws, living in its libraries. chivalrous, high minded, brave. This splendid legacy of the cavalier strain In gentry of Great Britain, not only Eng fish, but Scotch and North of Ireland stock, would ornament and distinguish the official life of the national capital and bring us honor and respect at the councils of the old world.
 That Republican Presidents have strangely and unfortpnateiy neglected ted the national edifice must be universal ly admitted; and perhaps It must also be conceded that the South is itself re- subordinations. One mistake it has made is in the elevation of it's Tiu- mans and Vardamans to ciaces once houorably filled by figures like Lamar. Hampton and Gordon. Another mis- take has been in making the negro bugbear the. sole issue in rolitlcs, fn- stead of dividing, as thinking men da at the North. on national questions of universal concern. The South humil~ lated itself when it's educated public men, knowing from their looks and from the lives of their great ancestors the evils of Ndebased money, voted for free coinage in 1896. It has also hu- initiated itself by allowing 0emagogues selves there by sedulous apreals. to race hatred. Perhaps the nation would more worthiIy honor the SJnth if the South would more worthily honor It. self
 We copy this editorial entire because it has more fairness than is usual with it's Republican brethren up there. and because there are portions of 1t which are deserving of comment, but first we copy some editorial utterances from The Buffalo News. one of he most rab- i'd Republican papers on our list of ex- changes. It says:
 MT. John D. Crimmins adopts the suggestion of The News, made year ago, that the South take the nomina- tion for the Presidency in 1908 for one of its own citizens It has stood by since 1S44 and has hardly so much as thought of a candidate from its own section since the Civil War.
 There is need of campaign under Southern candidate for the sake of the education of the whole coantry. It is generally supposed that Tillman, rag tion. Vardaman, demanding the repeal Of the last two amendments to the na- tional constitution, Jeff Davis, repeat sery senytafiye h Southern aS s men. That is mistake which & campaign mi0ht cure through the presentation of a high class man like Senator Bacon or Judge Emery Speer or Clark Howell, or Sena- tor Carmaek or Senator McCreary.
 As will be seen, The Star admits and condemns the narrowness exhibited by Republican Presidents in their treat liberal towards our section. but he was Democratic President and a fair man. With that exception Ike South has been treated as if it were a mere dependency of the government instead of being a most important md infiu- ential part of it. That the country and the government itself have heen mate riaily injured by this sectional parti- sanship is beyond dispute. For the most part the brainiest, most patriotic, in- telligent and representative men in the Union have been entirely ignored be- cause they were Southern. The best and most important offices Of all de- scrIptions have been given to North erners and in many instances it would have been more creditable to the gov ernment if the offices had remained va cant. What The Star says If Southern citizenship and Southern statesmanship is strictly true. but Republican Presi. dents have been too narrow-ihinded to admit and ,-ct on the knowledge.
 The remarks of The Star about the mistakes made by the South on the race issue and the money question are hardly fair as to the former. The race issue was forced on us by the North. Our people may at times have laid too much stress on it, but of that no outsider can be competent judge. The question is with us cHd we will settle it if not interfered with. As to .t south's vote for free coinage each of us might put hand on mouth and cry "Mea culpa" but it would do no good The vote was a serious error, but that issue is done with, we hope forever. Let 1t rest in peace.
 It will be noted that botn The Star and The News intimate that the South ern people make of the Tillmans, the Vardamans and the Governor Davls's representative leaders of thought among us. That intimation is unjust and untrue. They are not leaders or representatives of Southern thought, and do not represent the best Southern entiment. The News admits that they are not representative Southern men, 1t is true. but both papers intimate that such is the general .im~ ~assion up North And on the subject of a South ern candidate The News Ids
 The perplexities of the South in political way are but lately coming to the general knowledge of the North. campaign under Southern leadership would do much to make the sections better acquainted and bi2d them more closely In sympathy and helpfulness, even If II were not successful at the polls. It is a serious injury to the whole people that so large anG wealthy and progressive a part of the Union should be longer barred rom the most effective recognition that can be given it, namely, a candidate Cor the Presi- n,t,e. but 40 oh ont ffc