Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-12
Why Not the South, Too?
(Boston Advertiser.)

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The news that Republican campaign
ers will make a serious effort To pre-
sent the arguments in favor of the cleo
ton of Taft, Throughout the southern
states. this year, is merely a rccogni-
ton of the tendencies of the times i'll a
section where Industrial progress IS
significant and sustained. There is no
good reason why the progressive south
crner of today should cast in his lot
with the party of socialism and bour
bOnism. There are many reasons why
the south should support the Republic
can party There are many reasons
why it should desert Democratic plat
forms and theories. as formulated at
Denver. this year. For the south,
which is repre- scented in the constantly
increasing factories, the opening mines
and the other now industrial enterpris-
es of this decade. has nothing to hope
and much to fear from Democratic
success.
If the Denver platform means any
thing, il means such constant and irri-
tating government interference with
honest, honorable and legitimate bust
ness as would soon precipitate Il panic
and suspend trade and industry of all
kinds. until the disturbers had been
ousted, from office. The threats OF
government ownership, the demand
that national banks enter into agree
ments by which sound banks shall pay
the losses of tie dishonesty conducted
concerns. are typical of Mr.. Bryan's
theories generally. Mr.. Bryan is essen
TALLY the theoriSt in American politics
Possessing no business training HIM
self, and disposed to regard successful
business men as the chief foes of pop,i-
lar progress, he has made it tn" bust
ness of his career to denounce the great
industrial and commercial enterprises
of the country as n robbery of the
many by the few. In his published adj
dresses he has made no plain distnc-
ton between honestly conducted bust
ness and public spolation. And
study Of those speeches justities the
wonder as to what field of finance and
commerce the Democratic candidate
considers worth preservation.
The people of the new south have re-
Gently had an unpleasant awakening
to the real meaning of Democratic doc
trine. In Georgia the industries ana
commerce had had one year of expert
cnce under Governor Smith, who was
an ardent follower of Bryancsque doc
trnc. and the result was that there Is
one state which will not repeat the eX-
pertinent as long as this generation
remembers the consequences. But the
Democratic managers expect the state
to cast it's electoral votes for Bryan,
nevertheless. Why? Mainly Cor the
reason that there has never been
formidable Republican leadership IN
Georgia for so many years. that it has
never been anticipated that conditions
| would change. The men who voted for
Governor Brown, however, were re-
publicans at heart and in all that
| makes for distinction between the two
national parties. today. Why should
they not have the courage of their be-
lief. and act accordingly. by sending
Taft delegation to the electoral college
| next winter?
| And what is true of Georgia is true
of most Of the other states of the soi'u
SOUTH" today. All over that section Oh
! the United States new industries are
coming to life. new mills. factories .,
works are being projected. The reai
question for the voters in that section
| to consider is not whether tney sha"s
| vote in memory of what the Dcmocra-
| tic party once more was, but WhetHei
they shall vote for what the Democra-
tic party and platform represent. TO-DAY
And, if the people of the south are
with themselves they must ADMIT 'na'
they have outgrown the unwise ana u"-
sound socialism of Bryan