The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-11

A few handclaps made the signal OF
his coming. Others followed, and by
the time he was half way up the aisle
| the handclapping was lost in the deep
| er sound of cheering. Lieutenant
Governor Davidson, Speaker Love. Mr.
| Cobbs of San Antonio, who was to in
troduce Senator Culberson, and one or
| two others We're on the stand. Senator
Culberson shook hands with all of
them and with Associate Justice
Brown, who had been invited bv vote
OF the two houses to seat on the ros.
trum.
A moment later Speaker Love pre.
sented Mr.. Cobbs, to whom, as an old
schoolmate of Senator Culberson. was
gwen the distinction of Introducing the
visitor.
Mr.. Cobbs eulogized the senator in
eloquent language, remarking, Incl.
dentally, that Senator Culberson was
that kind of Democrat who does not
raVor government ownership of rail.
roads,
throughout his address, which was
orlef, the senator was repeatedly an.
plauded. He condemned trusts. Speak k.
Ing or government ownership of rail.
roads, the senator said:
l have already reached the conclu.
sion that railroads partake so much
OF monopoly that they must ultimate
ly become public property AMI be man
aged by public officials in the inter
fests OF the whole community, in &C.
cordance with the well defined theory
tnat the public ownership is necessa
ny where competition is impossible.
DO you get, my fellow citizens, the
fuIl import of that language? 1t means
that every business and every commod
ity In general use or generally con.
sumed by the public, where it is sus.
ceptible of destroying competition, or
where the trusts can secure control
must be owned and operated by the
government-the state or the Federal
government. Transportation, oil. lum.
Der. coal, every commodity in general
use, susceptible of having competition
In it destroyed, or where the trusts
may take hold of it or control 1t free
from competition, the government of
the United States or the states of the
Union separately shall own or control
It,"
Referring to talk about his being
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the presidency, Senator Culber-
son said:
I am not candidate for the nomi.
nation for the presidency That is
such delicate honor. and it would in.
volve such responsibility to myself
and to the Democratic party, that I
would not seek It, There is something.
also, in the suggestion that I am a
southerner, as were all my ancestry
to the remotest American generation
some OF whom served as Confederate
soldiers west of the Mississippi. and
some shed their blood .on the great
battlefields in Virginia, when the wind
ing rivers ran red. But | would not
have you understand or intimate that
there is such sectionaiism yet in the
land. that there are no contingencies
in which man of southern birth and
lineage and residence could not aspire
or be called to this great station The
Democrats of the other sections of the
country, though it is improbable,
might do so. There is no contingency
which | do not believe is so far re.
mote. The Democratic party was born
in the south. It Is of its essence and
its being, and the southern Democrats
may yet be called upon to preserve
the principles of the party from per.
version and the party itself from ut.
ter wreck and humiliation.