The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-04
.E.L. BROWN IS ALSO OPPOSED ID BRYAN Letter To the Editor Defines
 His Position SOUTH IS TOO BACKWARD Is Too Prone To Take Up the Cause of Any Candidate Who Is Satis-
 factory to the East
 Or West.
SOUTH IS TOO BACKWARD
To the Editor of The Age-Herald.

To the Editor of The Age-Herad.
 The letters of MT. Walker Percy re- gently published in The Age Herald, meet with my hearty approval. His reasons for opposing MT. Bryan as the democratic nominee for President are sound and ably presented. Mir Percys views on any sub ject are always worthy of careful and thoughtful consideration. Against MT. Bryan personally, 1 have no complaint. l presume that he is honest and sin cere, as most men are honest and sin cere. I do not question the fact that his private life, with his family and his neighbors, is all that it should be- Some of his public utterances and his govern mental theories, however, seem to be subject to criticism and to my mind no man entertaining his views, and with his record of two disastrous defeats, is the proper man to put at the head of a great political party which seeks the votes of the American people. MT. Percy has ably considered his public career, starting with his advocacy of free silver, and ending with his last spacious proposition of the government guaranteeing national bank deposits.
 For long, weary years, the south, the backbone and support of the Democratic party, has been taking without a murmur or protest any candidate acceptable to the west or the east. When Presidential possibilities have been discussed when available candidates are being considered the question Is never asked or answered
 
 them?' When party platforms are being made, no plank is rejected because of d doubt of the south's support. Right Cor wrong the south stands by the nominee and the platform. Why should we do this? Why cannot We start now and make ourselves felt in national politics? Why cannot we now nominate a southern man. and thus make a start at least toward being something, and doing something in the national politics of our country. For my part l feel that we are untrue to ourselves and to our trad- tions. The south has stood for conser- vatism, for sound thinking, for good gov ernment in its broadest sense. The time has been, when men with MT. Bryan's views, his vagaries, his utopian dreams, even though of southern blood, and hon est and sincere, could not command southern consideration and support. Why cannot that time come again?
 l do not in any sense mean that we should insist on a southern man as the party's head, but l do mean that we should place ourselves in a position to see that the south shall not be blacklsted any longer that when it comes to nominating the standard bearer for the party and writing the platform on which he shall stand or fall the views and wishes of the south and the sons of the south shall meet with the same thought and consideration bestowed upon any other section of this great republic.
 In the near futuresI can see little hope of democratic victory. If we shall ever win, it must come after we have discarded men like MT. Bryan and plat forms of their liking It must come when We by our candidates and our platform, by our faith and our acts, have shown the American people that the democratic party has shattered it's new ands gilded idols, has taken up again it's old faith, and demands of it's leaders the soundest brain, the best ability, that any section of this great country can produce.
 Let us here in Alabama at least call a halt on the march of demagogues. Let us show to the world that our oyer crowded political band wagons whose heavy wheels have tracked discord and distress among us, will soon be crushed and spintered by an awakened and in- dignant people. E. l.. BROWN
 Birmingham, December 3, 1907.