The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-18
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THE SOUTH AND THE PRESIDENCY.


That many Southern Democrats are
tired of the Bryan shackles and tired
OF Sitting below the salt" at the fam
lily table. is attested by protests from
all sections. Chairman Jim Griggs, OF
Georgia, recently said that Mr.. William
]. Bryan will recciya the nomination
1t he wants it, and in case he does
rot the party may fall back on Culber-
son, of Texas; Daniel. of Virginia, or
Williams. of Mississippi. That means.
replies the Charleston News and Cour-
Ter, that II Mr.. Bryan does not care
for the nomination "he will permit
the party to select some one else--Cul-
berson, or Daniel, or Williams, or some
other Democrat he may see fit to name
as his successor in the leadership of
the party
mfr. Griggs.' adds our South Car
oi!na contemporary, has made himself
ridiculous, but not more ridiculous than
usual. in his blind idolatry of the Pop
ulist pretender who has seized CONTROL
of the Democratic party
The Charlotte Observer, in COM
nenting on the remarks of the News
{ and Courier, bemoans the fact that so
many Democrats in the South have
been hypnotized by Mr.. Bryan. TT is
a strange hypnotic influence" says our
Charlotte contemporary, under which
the South has fallen, and which seems
able to withstand an indefinite num-
Der of disastrous defeats. under the
fatal leadership to which it has COM
mitted ITSELF
Then. reproducing an article from
The Times-Dtspatch on the same sub
ject, it adds; Southern men ought to
ponder these things In their hearts,
Senator Bacon. OF Georgia, recently
said that he regarded the south's self
e1acement as. a rsgreetable habit.
The Norfolk, Landmark says: 1--WE be-
lieye that the majority of our South
ern Democratic contemporaries strongly
favor the idea that the South assert
herself hereafter and demand rea-
sonable share of the party honors.
along with the heat and burden of the
party work. The South has statesmen
who are everywhere, without reference
to party Affiliations. acknowledged to
ba credit to the nation. If the South
continues to hold back, II will be- be-
cause she has not herself recovered
from sectionalism. and is too tmid tc
give the people Of the whole country
the chance which, according to the
signs of the times. they sincerely de
sire"
The Danville Register declares tha'
the South has two men fitted for the
presidential office to one of the, North
speaking alone of the Democratic
party.
The Roanoke World declares tina
the time has come for tie South tt
shake off the subservient spirit ane
nominate one of her own sons upon
platform of tariff for revenue and
due regard for States rights.
The Nashville American reprints al
article from The Times Dispatch o,
the Souths attitude, and says that tn
''rresent time. situation and circum
stances are unusually and peculiarl:
favorable" to the nomination Of South
ern man. The only thing necessary,
It adds. sis for Southern Democrats t
concentrate on some Southern Demo
crat and insist on his nomination, no
30 much because he Is Southerne
as by reason of the fact that it woul
show that the selection of candidat
1s no longer a matter of sectlonalisn
M and that Southern Democrats shoul
have some voice in the selection of can
didates, regardless of sectional voic
which they have not heretofore had
That is strong argument and
complete answer to the contention
those who say that 1t would be ''set
tionaiism' for the South to ask II
privilege of naming, the candidate
is sectioralism OF the rankest SO
which insists that the candidate mu
not come our OF the South. The Soul
has submitted patiently TO that sort
discrimination. submitted longer lhe
she should have done. and her tn.
has now come. The Northern Demo
rncy has long protes.ea, that there I,
No sectional spirit within Its rank