The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-08

idity and the intensity of feeling by
which It Is maintained and the os-
tracism and social prescription i'm
POSED on those white Southerners
who did not sympathize with the
necessity for such solidity, could
nct but make lasting impression
and create a permanent bias, that
would naturally outlast the reason
for its original existence
MIR. TAFT then told OF the growt'i
of the South and said
s.ih this intarvslqSS grPWAaIi the
manufacturers of TIE South i" now
exceed the agricultural products ana
thus complete change has come
sSter ethe trlaractsf' of her dndustriei
The South has become rich and only
the s,irCace Of he. wealth has been
scratched. Her growth has exceeded
that of the rest of the country ana
she IA now in every way shafang
in its prosperity
"The Democratic party has no.
preserved inviolate its tradiuonal
Joct,ine as to states rights and
other issues and has for the time
adcpted new doctrines cf possibly
,d,,ttful eccnomlc truth and WIS
,,m Southern men a1hering to the
ro,4v and the name find themselves
,hrouob the influence of tradition
and the fear of restoration OF conui'
tions which are now Impossible sup
ror,i,p.r a platform and candidate
whose political and ecoomic theor-
ies they iistrust Under these condl-
tions there was in the last cam
raFgn and there Is today through
ont the South. among many OF ats
most mfluehtial citizens an imHat
tience. nervousness and restless
ness I'm voting for one ticket ana
in rejoicing in the success OF an
other.
~ believe it would he wiser " all
who sympathize with one party ana
its principles were to- vote its tick
OF b,,t can readily understand the
weight and inertia Of pt the tradition
and social considerations thar make
them hesitate. | believe that the
movement away from political solid
ity has started and ought 20 be en-
cc~raged and ! think one way 10
/ encourage II is to have the South
understand that the attitude of the
Norh and the Republican party tow
ard II IS not one of hostility or
criticism Or opposition, political or
otherwise: that they believe in the
maintenance of the fifteenth amend
ment, but that, as already exp aimed
they do mot deem that amendment
TO be Inconsistent with the South's
obtaining and maintaining what II
ragards as it's political safety rom
tlomfnai io,l of an ignorant electorate;
that the North yearns for closer
association with the South; that
its citizens deprecate that reserve
on It's subject OF polh.tcs which so
long has been main.ained in the
otherwise delightful social relations
between Southerners and Northern
ers as they are more and more fire.
quently thrown together.
"In our anxiety to bring the
Democratic, SCutherner into new po-
litiaal relations, we should have and
can have no desire to pass by or
ignore the comparatively few white
Southerners who from principe
have consistently stood for our views
in the South when 1t co-t social
ostracism and a loss OF all prestige.
Nor can we sympethize with an ef-
fcut TO exclude from the support
of Rerublicanlsm IN the South or
to read out OF the party those coll
ored voters who by their education
and thrift have made themselves
eligible to exercise the electoral fran
Chise.
1--WE believe. that the sontion OF
the race question in the South is
largely a matter OF Industrial and
thorough education. Some Southern
ers who have givdn expression to
their thoughts seem to think thai
the only solution of the negro ques-
ton Is his migrahion to Africa, bu,
to me suCh a proposition rs utterly
fatuous. The n6tyro is essential To
the South in order that it may have
proper labor" Their ancestors were
brought here agaist their will, They
: have no country but this. They
have no flag but ours. They wish
to live under 1t and are willing to
Gle for It, They are Americans. The
proportion to increase the supply
OF labor in the South by emigration
from Europe, 1t seems to me, In
stead of being inimical to the cause
of the negro will aid him. AS the
industries of the South continue to
Iorow at the marvellous ratio already
shown the demand for labor must
increase"