The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
By SAVOYARD


 ell. with veto on the House of Represen. .atVes and on the President. rhe Ina~. loree oiIi to restore military or negro rule
 'he south was beaten in . Senate that nau republican majority. and beaten be. cause me Senate Is the theater of deliber- a.oh, where men reason together Suppose the rorce bill of 1890. initiated in the Hou.. ana put to sleep in the Senate had he.n reierred to the people in mass? whera would the South be today if the people had 'o.eo on 1t as they did in the first race between Grover Cleveland and Ben Harri- son IS IL possible that the South, the weak CT section. will refer its sacred rights to \ pouiar vote in Pennsylvania or in Chicago? Are those masses. thousands of them igno. rant corropt, vicious, to legislate directly TOT the rural communities of Georgia and Mississippi? Could frenzied politics 70 fur 'ner than to appeal the iegislation of the American Congress the work of the chosen representatives of the people and of the states to an electorate of which the siums Of our great cities contribute so large an element7
 In one particular the nomination of sena. tor Daniel for President would be admira- ble His personality would be the platform
 His record Is where all men can read it. It Is Democratic--the Democracy of Jefferson. whatever the result. however, overwhelming the defeat. the party would yet live. On the ether hand. If one be nominated who favors the initiative and referendum. or the gov enrment ownership of railroads. or both. he. too. will be the platform. and they will be the issue whatever the platform may say or not say. Will the convention run away from these two questionable silent on themf That would be suicide Unless the platform expressly and emphatically condemns 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. It must be drunk poured out on the ground The Democratic party has ten months to crack that nut
 Leaving Breckinridge Douglass. and the campaign of 1860 out of the account, 1t 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 cit- izenship have rendered Democrats inelisi- ble to the Presidency. as much as alien birth. Thus for more than threescore years the South has had her place below tho salt at the national board How long is this thing to keep up? John c. Carlisle would have been President had he lived one mile north of where he did live. Bland would have been nominated in 1896 had he hailed from Iowa. William L. Wilson would have been President had he been born at Niles. Ohio. and kept that town for residence Zeb Vance would likely have been President had he been a Northern man. Had Joseph 0. Cannon remained South, where he was born. and had a political career identical with the one he has made. he would be less of Presidential possibility today than William o. Bradley or Walter P. Brownlow.
 The South will have to furnish the votes 1 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 a prov ince of Pennsylvania Possibly he would lose Delaware. But he would sweep everything else south of the Mason-Dixon 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 Califor- mia.
 Why go to certain defeat? Why lose De- fore the election. when there would oe glorious chance under a Southerner! With | the tariff paramount-as paramount as was in 1se2-a Southern candidate can win. l Washington, July 8. 1907.
 | Copyright by E. W. Newman)