The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-16


honest Democrats of the Empire
Southern State, from which I came,
l believe that we should put the par
ty then below the people, the prin-
ciple above the man. We should re-
buke the spirit of spoils and the hun
ger OF faction. We should affirm our
principles, confess our faith, recite
the necessity of the reform of COR
porate capital as the supreme and
transcendent issue Of the times, pay
tribute to the great and typical
American who has proved himself
the damtless and conqeuring cap
tain of the peoples cause, and then
and there in that great convention Of
our own, William j. Bryan, the one
unmatched and Incompatible evangel
Of our faith, speaking for a pure De-
mocracy, and speaking for the whole
plain people of this republic, should
put in nomination Theodore Roose-
welt for one more undisputed term of
power to finish the work he has so
gloriously begun.
Prepared for Silence.
"I am prepared, Mr.. Chairman and
my fellow Democrats, for silence and
reserve in your hearing Of this pro-
position. There could be no other an
swcr to it now.
"While you accord me the great
courtesy Of your patience for one
moment more, may I tell you what
foresee as the resultant if our great
party and its leaders could rise to
this superb and thrilling act.
CIT would vindicate the spirit and
the reality Of representative govern
mcnt upon the earth.
"It would send pulse Of inspira-
tion through the ranks of freemen
everywhere.
"Tt would unite the country as it
has never been since Hamilton and
Jefferson wrangled over the opposing
theories Of the constitution.
"The nobility of the act would put
the partizan ont of the pulses Of the
president, remove the wrangle of op-
posing political theories for the time,
and free one chief executive for an
administration as unselfish and as
broad as Washington 3.
cit would vindicate and glorify
Democracy in an act of patriotism
and of unselfish principle that has
had no parallel in the history Of
parties in our times.
"Tn its grand unselfishness it
would rnthrone the Democratic party
in the hearts Of the people and in its
temporary and heroic surrender would
provide beyond doubt or question for
its triumphant and glorious rcsurec-
tion in the next campaign.
cit would establish our incompar-
able leader who presented that pro-
position in permanent and enduring
fame as the one great commoncr of
our times and would place him upon
a pedestal in history above that Of
Gladstone in England or of Bismarck
beneath the German throne.
A Millennial Period
cit would give this great country
Of ours one millennial period in which
factions and partizans should be still
and The spirit Of representative gov
ermment should be given new birth
and a new consecration to its great
idcals-to the glory of the people
and the admiration of the world.
"And when this period of splendid
unity was over, when the people had
Won their majestic and enduring vic
tory in the great and tunscendent
economic problem of The times, then,
at IL; conclusion, parties which arc al
ways necessary and always helpful in
Il republics life, might separate once
more into their separate camps be-
hind real shibboleths in which every
line Of sectionalism should be buried,
every bogie of fogeyism and of graft
should be obliterated, and in which
men who have followed for 20 years
in slavish loyalty of faction behind
platforms which they did not indorse
and leaders in whom they did not be-
lieve-might align themselves once
more and honestly behind thories of
government which carried their sim
cere convictions Iand enlisted their
intelligence and their noble zeal.
cit would mean new birth for
parties and a new start for the re-
public, in mission and in history.