The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-14
AN oFFENsrvE INsINuATroN.

AN OFFENSIVE ASSIMILATION.
 It is almost amazing to note how some of the enthusiastic and one-idead themselves by their arguments. To these hypnotized boomers of the Me- braskan any mention of another cam didate must necessarily be the work of Wall Street or the corporate influ- ences of the country. They appear to look on 1t as rank treason to MT. Bry- an and the Democratic party to even suggest preference for any other candidate. Here, for example, is The Memphis News-scimitar plainly de- clarfng that the effort to create fa- vorable sentiment looking to the nom- ination of a Southern man had it's or- igin in Wall Street. The plain mean ing of such a charge is that any man who advocates the nomination of any other candidate than MT. Bryan is bought by the plutocrats of the North.
 All good Democrats, especially Southern Democrats. should resent such an imputation on their honesty and intelligence The Advertiser is making no war on MT. Bryan. wheth- CT he is again to be the nominee is for the party to decide. If the na- tional convention selects him to lead in the next campaign that action win
 
 cerned. There will be but three courses open to them: they must sup port the ticket, repudiate the action of the convention and support the Re- publican ticket or remain neutral. One of the three roads must be followed.
 But we decidedly resent the insin- another man is treason to the party or Nto Mir. Bryan. Still more do we resent the almost direct charge that the man who suggests the nomina- ton of Southern Democrat has been bribed or bought by Wall Street or the corporations. Some of the best, | newspapers in the South have been foremost in the effort to build up @ sentiment for one of our own strong men. To intimate that such newspa- pers have been bought. blinded or ca- joled is an insult to them and is not crsditable to those who make the charge.
 We hope the time has passed when it is considered impudent for South ern Democrats to talk of one of their own number for President. The South has men as well qualified for the ofIice as can be found in the Union. The South Is not only a part of the Union but an important part. What is also not to be lost sight of is the fact that the South Is practically the Democratic party. and if the States which must supply the votes are dis posed to stand for man of their own 1t i'll becomes Southern newspaper to malign them for so doing. There is no longer any reason--if there has ever been any-for Democrats of this section to go to the national conven- ton with hands over their mouths and say in effect. if not in words: Name your man and we are all for him. We discredit ourselves and our section in the eyes of the North when we allow ourselves to be treated like dumb driven cattle" in that way.
 We have neither the intention nor desire to discredit the strong and true Democrats of the North. There are a number of men up there who measure fully up to the presidential standard and whose Democracy is unimpeach- able, but the same can be said of the South. We repudiate the suggestion that there is but one man for the Dem ocrats to select. or that it is un-Dem- ocratic to speak well of another. If the party nominates MT. Bryan, well and good. but Democracy is not yet mortsaged to any man.
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