The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-09

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mirAtion OF the world. Heart broken.
homesick. homeward the Southern sol
der piods his weary way. On every
side he couid see the evidences OF cruel
war. The vale Of Chasmere had been
swept ~ II BY IRE. Then II ives he
realised the truth Of General Sherman's
saying. war 10 heiif' As he assembled
which was nestled his little home, he
saw along with the thousands OF others
desolated homes. charred ruins, ''Ra-
chei weeping for her children and re-
were not Ever and anon, the
old mother would walk to the
door. and with longing eyes
look away 70 the east 70,
Antietam for the coming OF her baby
boyi But alas his bones lay bleaching
on the hills of old Virginia! And then
she would 60 to the window facing
north and look away to the prisons in
that cold and bleak country for her
other boy. But no boy was In sight
for his bones lay In an unmarked grave
In strangers land!
On the border OF this panorama stood
the demagogue viewing the landscape
over. He soliloquised thus with him
self. See what devastation have
wrought. These are my jewels" He
was now out Of . Job. for 1t is his prov
ince to destroy and not to build UP.
Then came the aftermath. War like
everything else has an aftermath. The
southern soldier had lost everything
save honor. With his characteristic
energy he began to build up his lost
fortune. With an old blind govern
ment mule or q bob-tailed bull or a
one eyed OK he brought forth q harvest.
He thought he had seen dark days. but
darker were ahead In the form Of re-
Ar.waU fwawasm ns~. VI. ~.
venom Of the rattlesnake in his mouth
and with fires OF hell In his bosom said
we must be Inundated. The heel OF
the conqueror must be on the neck of
the sons OF the Cavaliers and the sons
of the Hugenots. Cuffee whose grand.
father was few years before a cant
bal 10 the wilds Of Africa occupied seats
In our Legislative halls. once graced by
Patrick Henry, William r. King. James
H Reagan and thousand of less ia
nous celebrities. Debauchery held
high carnival In the high places Of
state. With lavish hand debt was pill
ed on debt. The cry went up from all
over this Southland: How long,o Lord,
how long!" But help came from an
unexpected quarter.
The cry had reached the ears OF some
good people north. The New York
Herald, the paper made famous by
James Gordon Bennett. sent a corre-
spondent down South, White by name,
with instructions to report the facts.
He visited every state capitol. went In
to every Legislative hall Returning
to New York he published a series OF
articles, revealing such a darg state Of
affairs that the pendulum soon began to
swing the other way. At the next
Democratic convention. Seymour and
Blair were nominated for President and
Vice-President Owing to the popu-
larity Of General Grant they were de-
feated. At the next convention Sam
uel ]. Tilden was nominated and elect
ed. The fruits OF his victory, however,
were stolen by the Republicans, "The
mills Of the Gods grind slow. but they
grind exceedingly fine" Four more
years pass and Henry Watterson, the
brilliant editor of The Courier-J ournal.
in a strong editorial brought forward
Grover Cleveland, then Governor OF
New York, for President. Two years
before he was Mayor OF the city Of Buff
falo. He had cleaned out that city OF
thieves and robbers in high places.
Now from the governors mansion at
Albany he was pouring hot shot into
the same classes IN New York City.
When the convention met he was nomi-
mated by the Democratic as their stan
dard bearer. and. elected, defeating
Blaine by q good najoEifYntyHe was
the % GSa91sss ss M H He was rs
tsood almost alone, 'itls 4 P8tk in the
ocean. ike a beacon Sal. .tbs waste"
He was the true exponent or the prin-
ciples promulgated by Mt, Jefferson,
and enunciated by such old time Demo-
Gratis as James Madison, Apdrew Jack
son. and Tom Benton. .HtS pemocratic
hounces. Il was made out OF cloth all
wool and u yard wide. He was hailed
in his first administration asS the great
est living statesman. the IDOL Of the
democratic party. - -, -
At the next convention he Was again
nominated. brit defeated by, BENJAMIN
Harrison. For more years. passed and
| again. The tables were ~tnfned. He
defeated Mr.. Harrison by 4 majority
| that was overwhelming. He was in
| augurated amid great pcn1p and splen-
dor. His administration bade fair to
eclipse his first; but alas for human
hopes. About that time the Democrat
&c party gave birth to a spawn called
| Populism, q hybrid between socialism
| and the Alliance. And because Mr..
Cleveland would not take that spawn to
his bosom he was bounded and logged
as no other public man ever was and
that by his own party. He stood as arm
however. as the rock of Gibraltar. At
him were hurled the shafts of investive
and scorn and contempt, but he was
imnovable as the mountains. Then It
was that demogoguery broke loose in
all her fury, thousandfold worse than
In ante-bellum days. Because Mr.. Cleve-
land sent a regiment of troops TO
Chicago to protect the United States
mail, John P. Altgeld, then the Demo-
cratic governor Of Illinois, wanted to
hang him. Because Judge Shivers, As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court.
decided a case contrary to the views of
Benjamin r. Tillman of South Caro-
lima the leader OF the demagogues
wanted to stick a pitchfork into Mr..
Cleveland and the entire supreme court
and throw them into the Potomac rfv-
er, Then fell Mr.. Cleveland, and:
Freedom shrieked when Kosiuseo fell"
At the next Democratic convention
which was held in Chicago in 1896 the
party was at sea. They did not know
whom to nominate. Mr.. Tillman chair
man Of the committee on platform, had
brought in platform the principles
Of which Thomas Jefferson would not
have touched with pair of tongs. He
had literally stolen the platform of
the Populists- During the progress of
the convention, Mr.. Bryan, who was
forward and swept the convention of
its feet in his now famous Gross of
gold" speech. Papdemonlum broke
loose. In their crazy moments they got
a running mate for Mr.. Bryan from the
cold frigid State of Maine, as il any
good could come out Of that Nazareth :
as II Democracy were an exotic instead
of a tropical plant.
Mr.. Bryan succeeded most admirably