New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-09
THE acoUTEScENT SOUTH.

Our neisalcr '"rhe New York Sun" expresses
some discOuragement over the heslIancy OIL
Southern leaders to assume that lnluauVe III
Democratic politics to which they are PLAINLY
entitled 1.-The Sun" has sought to convince the
Democratic voters Of the South that, lnasmucn
as they give the Democratic party practically
all the influence it exerts in legislation and adj
ministration, they should cease to abdicate their
power when it comes to nominating Democratic
Presidential candidates and framing Democratic
national platforms Commenting on Senator
Bacon's recent admission that though the South
is able to furnish many first class candidates
for the Presidency united effort Is llKeiy lo
be made to force the nomination OF southern
man in the next Democratic National Conven-
ton. 1.-The Sun regretfully exclaims:
Long Injured to subserviency, trained to PARENT
acceptance of the inferior position. accustomed
TO sit below the salt at meals and to tetcn anu
carry in the game Southern Democrats have be-
come incapable of fully understanding mucH less
OF stoltv asserting. their title to the hgher part
sr5 Senator Raoon speaks with sure knowledge
when he predicts that nothing less than no
meric demonstration viii loosen these 1ngiorlouS
bonds.
We have MANY times deplored the South's
selfrepression In Democratic pohucs. II uoeS
not seem 10 us logical or wholesome that the
states which furnish 80 per cent-and some
fines 100 Der cent-of the Democratic party 5
concentration i'm the Electoral College should
not choose that partys Presidential nominee
and shape its national policy. So long as the
nation was divided politically on sectohaI
lines II was perhaps expedient for the South'
being in the minority, to try TO break the
solidity of the North by supporting Northern
candidates But the sectional antagonlsnS kept
alive nv reconstruction and the SOuths warfare
on tbe protective system are now rapidly DIS
apnesrinc. The South's political interests are
no longer st variance with the interests or the
North and the West and a Southern candidate
for the Presidency could now reasonably ex-
nec+ tn he Judged on his own claims and his
own merits
Senator Bacon is frank enough to say that ne
REGARDS the South's self-effacement as "a re-
,yraf+abIa habit" It is the more regrettabIe IN
that If Is based on a misconcepton or feellhg
Or tho North Senator Tillman in q recent IN
torviev in St. Louis curiously Illustrated the
smell which this fallacy exerts on Southern
minds when he said In one sentence Because
cot tho sectional feeling I do not think that
.+ba South will push any candidate for the
.0araocra+ic nomination for President anu
then added: During the lecture tour in which
az ON, apgared 7 have found no such section
..aIism In the North" This last statement
firmly reflects the sentiment Of the North II
would welcome an abandonment or the Eaul-
+ior, that the South must follow. not lead. in
Democratic poltics and must acquieSce in the
1-srvinp minors of the Northern Democracy
s,,nnorting one year violent radical ana az
o+fer wear an ultra-conservative Responsible
ity sbnuId On with power and the South should
uSe ifs mower 10 enforce discipline and consist
ency On the bewildered Democratic parry!