Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-01
THE SALVATION or DEMON MACY

"Sayoyard, the famous Washington
correspondent on political subjects
has unraveled the tangle in which
the Democratic party has got it
self. He has cut the knot, IN
twisted the maze, and presents Sena-
tor Daniel, of Virginia, as the saliva
ton of Democracy in 1908. Here is
what 'Savoyard' says;
About the last opinion expressed
by the late Senator Morgan, of Ala
bama, was that the Democratic Ma
tional convention of 1908 would de-
termine whether there would be a
Democratic party in this country af-
ter the November election OF 1908.
John Warwick Daniel has been sug-
gested as the Democratic standard
bearer in 1908. His nomination might
not, and probably would not, bring
victory, but it would bring salvation.
His defeat would leave us a Demo-
cratic party.
| AttlliNl II VI lllS olull vi NlACi d
great President could be made He
is not only an American, but a gentle
man. He is a statesman, a jurist,
and~>-n orator. He recalls those gen
erations of Virginians from which
came our earlier Presidents, He un-
derstands the principles of the Am
erican system and would not sur
render a single one of them to cant
or to clamor.
In the Senate John w. Daniel has
been a studious thinker. He has
delivered some great speeches in that
body that caused his colleagues to
reflect. His speech on the rate bill
of the last Congress, delieverd all
too late in the session, ranks with
Bailey's and Spooner's and Foraker's.
| 1t is such men as Daniel that ankle
! of the Senate what the Constitution
| intended-an advisory council, with
veto on the House of Representa-
tiyes and on the President
| In one particular the nomination of
| Senator Daniel for President would
be admirable His personality would
| be the platform. His record is where
l all men can read it. 1t is Democratic
the Democracy of Jefferson. What
ever the result, however oyerwhelm-
1 ing the defeat, the party would yet
| live. On the other hand, if one be
| and referendum, or the government
| ownership of railroads, or both, he,
| too, will be the platform, and they
| will be the issue whatever the plat
form may say, or not say, viii the
| convention run away from these two
| questions-be silent on them? That
4 would be suicide. Unless the plat
form expressly andemphatically con-
/ dennis them, the Democratic party
will have them to tote until the day
of election. There may be some
doubt about some things, but there
/ is no doubt about that thing. The
| wine is drawn 1t must be drunk or
4 poured out on the ground. The De-
mocratic party has ten months to
crack that nut"
Leaving Breckenridge, Douglas, and
the campaign of 1860 out of the ac-
count, it will have been sixty-four
years in 1908, since the Democratic
party took a candidate from the South.
For practical purposes Southern
birth, Southern training and Southern
| citizenship have rendered Democrats
ineligible to the Presidency, as much
so as alien birth Thus for more
than three score years the South has
had her place below the salt at the
national board How long is this
thing to keep up? John G. Carlisle
would have been President had he
| lived one mile north of where he
] did live. Bland would bave been nom
| mated in 1896 had be hailed from
I Iowa. William l.. Wilson would have
| been President had he been born at
Niles, Ohio, and kept that town for
a residence. Zeb. Vance would likely
have been President had he been a
!. Northern man. Had Joseph G.. Can
| non remained South, where he was
born, and had political career iden-
teal with the one he has made, he
would be less of a President pOssibi-
/ lily today than William o. Bradley or
Walter p. BroWnlow.
THE South will have to furnish the
votes in the electoral college. There
will likely be two radical tickets in
| the field, one headed by Theodore
| Roosevelt, the other by William r.
Hearst. No radical Democrat would
have the slightest chance in that
| event; but a conservative Democrat
and a Southern man would have a
splendid chance He would lose West
Virginia, now province of Penn
sylyania. Possibly he would lose
Delaware. But he would sweep ev-
erything else south of the Mason Dix
on line. The battle would be in New
York Connecticut, New Jersey, and
Ohio, and all would be doubtful States
| Massachusetts would be shaky; so
would Rhode Island and California.
why go to certain defeat? Why
lose before the election when There
would be a glorious chance under a
Southerner? With the tariff para
mount-as paramount as it was in
1S92-a Southern candidate can
win"