Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-20

SOUTHERN LEADERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
 Among the president-makers the south is now receiving more attention than it has in the past two decades as the possible furnisher of the next democratic candidate. This is due more to the fact that sectionalism has almost disappeared, to the extent of affecting the candidacy of any per son, than that the south has more able men than it has had before in like period
 And it is notable that the most of the talk of a southern man for the nomination originates in the north. In reply to the broad-m!nded spirit of northern leaders in suggesting man of southern birth for the national leadership the equally broad-mined south answers that it does not insist on a man from within its border be ing named, but rather IS it the desire of the south that the best man be nominated, irrespective of what sec ton he is of. This is a wholesome public spirit that speaks well for the nation.
 The eastern press has especially stood sponsor for the agitation in favor of a southerner and notable among the great journals of the coun- try in giving publicity to the availa- bility of men of the south is Harper's Weekly. In a series of articles that periodical is running under the cap ton presidential Possibilities" have been printed, among others, articles on Senator Daniels of Virginia, for mer Senator Carmack of Tennessee and Senator Culberson of Texas. The same magazine has for long comment ed favorably on Woodrow Wilson, a virginian. president of Princeton uni versity
 Of these possibilities" perhaps more comment is-heard and read about Culberson. the brilliant and honest Texas senator. That he is able his record in the senate will attest and that he is honest and sincere has never been questioned. The decline of his distinguished colleague, Sena- tor Bailey, in public esteem, due to his unfortunate connection with Stand ard Oil interests in Texas, has, if anything, served all the more to bring into clearer relief the abilities and character of Culberson.
 Cuberson's ideas on government are fairly well epitomized in the fol lowing opinion expressed on Presi- Roosevelt:
 He is extrayagant and wastefu! in the expenditure of public money; he has entangled us in alliances with for eign nations; he believes in world
 wide expansion and the colonization i of alien peoples; he has no conception of the fundamental distinction be [ tween the three great divisions of
 government: he favors an absolute and personal government rather thar | one regulated by law; and. finally, my | fellow citizens. he is a federalist of 1 the most dangerous character, bei;ev- | ing practically in the obliteration Of state lines, in the destruction of the
 reserved rights for the state and in the absorption by the United States ] of every governmental power worthy of the name Why, his lates expres- sion of contempt for state authority
 was in compelling the sovereign state I of California to surrender substantial
 ly to him its fight 10 regulate it's pub lie schools, right clearly reserved to ! it by the federal constitution, or else
 be oyerrun and have its labor eondi- tions disturbed and demoralize6 by a
 horde of Japanese laborers and | o11ISoo