The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-10
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To suggestion from the Washing ton Herald that Johnson of Minnesota be selected as the running mate for Mir. Bryan. if the latter is nominated. The Advertiser asked if 1t is necessary to sive the whole thing to the West? To this The Herald replies:
 Really, we think that makes very
 little difference. If /Johnson is the
 man s, Tor the place. and Is full grown our way of thinking, where he haiis from. The fact that he lives in Min hesota Is merely Incidental and should cut no figure at all He would do just South Dakota or Alabama. A mans 8 man for a. that.
 This is a big country. and 1t is learning to know itself great deal California is closer to Washington City now than Montgomery was half century ago. The railroads, the telegraph. tel the long distance phone and closely united family than We were then. The brotherhood of the States G IS more nearly a truth now than # afford to give it all to the West, SC far as that goes. if giving 1t ali to the West assures the right sort of men at the head of tbis government. The tional lines are not logically part and parcel of the Presidential problem to- day, What difference should it make that Senator Culberson halls from Tex as. instead of Massachusetts, or Ohio, or New York, when we come to view him 1asn.d as a PressIdSentisi Possibility
 for the Vice Presidential nomination. The location of his home has nothing, really, to do with 1t. Washington will
 be his home. if he is elected. if he should ever be, and Washington is the nations Capital.
 We fully appreciate the arguments of our contemporary as to the un- wisdolh or inadvisability of injecting sectionaIism into the presidential ques- ton. As to to that matter. the country, could be fully as well served if Presi- dent and Vice President lived in the same State or the same town, for that matter, as~it would by taking them from different sections. "A mans a man for a that" as The Herald says. and the place of his residence has nothing to do with his capacity, ht- ness or deserts. And we fully admit all the claims that can be made for Governor Johnson. He has developed into a strong and able man. who wears his Democracy straight and has provA on his popularity by twice carrying one of the most intensely Republican States in the Union. ~
 All this is freely admitted. and if the Denver convention shall see fit to place Bryan and Johnson as it's can didates this paper will have no Kick coming on the score of section. For all that. it would seem more fair and just to go to the East or the South for one of the candidates. and thus in some distribute the horrors and the responsibility. The South. for instance, if it is not to be allowed first place. can put forwa-5 as good man fur where, and In our judgment such a ses lection would strengthen the ticket, not merely in those Southern States which have come to be regarded as doubtful, but in the North and East. While we are discouraging sectionalism let us not practice it by taking both candidates from one section. Yet, if .he NazioT al Democr4cY, in convention assem- led thinks tEat is the prope. thing to do. let it be done, and let Us elect the ticket.