The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-17
Notable Speech by Judge
 Parker.
Says for Years There has Been in the North DO Training school for
 the Leaders of Democracy.

Charlotte. N. C.. March i6.--Judge Alton B. Parker, spent few hours in Charlotte tonight enroute home from Mississippi. Upon invitation of prom inent Democrats of this city he attend ed reception at the Manufacturers Club and delivered an address in which he urged that Southern Democrats take the leadership of the party. He said: Tn an address before the Legislature of the State of Mississippi few days ago, had occasion to insist that never before was 1t less possible to ignore the growing tendency to look to the government of the state for support, assistance. or special favor which will relieve the recipient from that effort and those obligations hitherto deemed incumbent upon a II our people. Wheth- CT 1t takes the form of direct subsi- dies--thc cost of which may be esti- mated--or is hid away in those more costly and4 4demoralizing systems. un- der which some favored individual or class may levyatoo relentless toll upon the earnings or the income of all our people. the effect upon institutions and characters is the same. =
 "Dnriug all its history, the Demo cratic party has denounced the lodge- ment of undue power in the govern ment, has opposed its logical outcome,
 
 the levy of taxes. and has insisted upon economy in expenditure. Under these as guiding principles, it built up it's own organization and has only been able to maintain it by constant devo- tion to them. While this conscientious devotion to that idea has commended itself to the Democrats of the whole country and has thus made and kept the party national. during recent years the people of the South. without vari- ableness or shadow of turning, have been it's niainstay
 Applause and Imitation.
 'Shirking no responsibility seeking no national rewards, promoting no spe- cial interest or movements, they have neither been truculent in victory nor discouraged in defeat. Going on in their way. regulating their own af- fairs, without hope of commanding sub sidy, paying cheerfully to carry out policies in which they could have no part, they have so impressed themsel- yes upon their time that one special problem coming to them from the past has been solved in such way that the whole country has not only been fore ed to approve and applaud but to im1- tate as the only way to deal with it.
 But the time has come when new duties and responsibilities must be un- dertaken by the Democrats of the South. It is more than two score years since the war closed and your people find themselves upun the threshold of what promises to be the most remark able business development the world has ever known within the same time and space. Some of your men have gohe forth to command the highest success. in the most honorable way, in the greatest finapcial and commercial of the time.
 From the earliest days. since self government was restored, you have sent your best men into the public life. They have been at once modest, able, devoted. patriotic and honest. No jail or pentientiary has opened it's hospit able doors to admit your Senators. Representatives or Gov ernors, nor have the officers of the law, from 6etec- lives to attorneys general. been com pelled to haul them into the criminal courts.
 FaithfuIness of South.
 i"In the face of this record you have not only permitted us of the North to present to you candidates for President and Vice-President, but you have in sisted upon our doing so and have then voted for them and that. too, when sometimes no other States did so.
 Tn 1896 you tried Nebraska and since that day no old Democratic North ern State has accredited one of our party to the United States Senate and in rome has there been a friendly Gov ernor. All the Democratic training schools of the North-elementary, in- termediate, and higher-were closed and have remained so. The party par alysis was complete and almost fatal | In 1904. hoping to cure or palliate it, you advised re turning again to New York for your candidate, only to meet the worst defeat in our party history It is now nearly twelve years since any man protesting devotion to your party has been chosen in nation or in any Northern Democratic State to fill an important executive office.
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