Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-10-29

,tion that by DO doing the spectre oil
sectionalism might be raised. rms
suggestion has always been meekiy
acQuiesced In and the South has been
Flown as the tall to the Democratic
kite without the least regard either
to It's convictions or to Its material
interests.
The net result OF this policy has
Ebeen that In the last Presidential
election nearly forty years after the
Civil war. there was found arrayed
practically the solid South against
| the rest OF the nation. | submit to
your intelligent judgment whether
such a policy pursued for so many
years, which brings about such re-
sult has not a fundamental error In
il somewhere 1t Is to be noted that
whilst the effect OF this policy has
been 10 discredit Southern statesmen
ship, IL has not been bad policy for
the Republican party. as 1t hasenabied
, that party to point to the solidarity
OF the South as reason Tor con
| tinued soliderity In the North. IN
| stead of burying out OF sight past
passions and prejudices and uniting
, for the common good secfionalism mas
been kept alive to the detriment OF
the whole country and the progress
: OF the nation has been greatly re-
tarded. | say retarded not only In
its material aspects but in that II
has narrowed the horizons OF the men
OF the North and the men OF the
South and caused them to deal with
great national questions In which the
people of both sections have a COM
mon interest from a purely sectional
standpoint.
Every state In the South has had
absolute control OF its local AFFAIRS
for more than thirty-five years. There
ia not the slightest disposition In any
quarter, at least in any responsible
: quarter, to interfere with them. A
better understanding between the
people OF all the sections has gradual
~ come about so that those VINO
! formerly stood in hostile ranks nave
! long since fraterniZed and becme IN
| deed citizens OF one country. ms
has been brought about by closer bus'-
ness and social relations with the re-
suit that there Is a better incite ana
more sympathetic understanding BE-
tween the people OF the North and OF
| the south and the fires Of sectional
prejudice have gone out and let us
hope can never be rek.ndled.'
/ Mr.. Wright referred to the great
natural resources OF the South and OF
/ the tide OF emigration and capital
tuning in that direction while former.
" it sought the East and the west:
J Can any good reason be assigned
he asked. why in dealing with these
questions we should not deal win
them from the standpoint u our Cwh
interests? Why we should bitnd'y sup
port doctrines which we believe inlmi-
cal to these interests merely because
some enterprising adventurer has
seized the Democratic name and stan
'dard? Are We forever to be blind 10
our welfare and must we FOR all ''".
to come bark back to dead issues an"
continue I ODE governed by the pre]u-
dice Of forty years ago?
But | may be asked: Do you re-
commend to your your countrymen Oh
the South that they shall all desert
the Democratic party and become Ne
publicans! l answer. no. am al
.Vising you to cease following men ana
measures which your sound and con-
scientious Judgment repudiates. For
the man who honestly believes after
investigation and the exercise OF intel
! ligent Judgment that Mr.. Bryan and
, MIR. Bryan's policies are conducive OF
good for himself and his neighbors.
there is but one course to pursue ana
that IL to vote for Mr.. Bryan. II
| Is equally clear that for the man VINO
| thinks that Mr.. Bryan would make
an unsafe and dangerous president
and that his policies II carried into
effect would disorganize Legitimate
, business. paralyze enterprise. throw
labor out Of employment and general
Nv be disastrous to the country, !
! submit, there Is but one thing for MN
Ito do and that is to vote against MT
! Bryan and for Judge TAFT.
Mr.. Wright declared that there are
, tens OF thousands OF men IN the
South who regard Mr.. Bryan as unsafe
and dangerous and who shudder al
the thought Of his election. yet VINO
as a matter of habit or prejudice fee'
themselves constrained to vote lot
! him. He declared that such a course
IA neither good citizenship nor sound
sense. He did not ask me to abandon
their party simply because hey could
no, have everything their own way
bat to vote according to their con-
science when they believe II would De
disastrous to the real interests Of the
whole country to elevate Mr.. Bryan 70
! the presidency. He insisted that pa:
ties are but q means to an end ana
not the end itself. :.
The real purpose n all parties.
, he said lis to enable the voter TO as
sist in bringing about the most emo
/ lent government for himself and ne
fellow citizens In short ! am protest
ing against the spirit OF party-tha'
spirit which makes one vote for r's
party right or wrong and which tie-
Yates party above country.
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