The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-22

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 asters. and has passed q model child labor biil. It has not amended the interstate commerce law so as to pre- vent over issua of stocks and bonds on interstate railroads, and 1t has not gested by Mir. Roosevelt"
 Great care, he said. would be rer quired in the enactment of additional legislation and the fact that the Demo- cratic party has had but little recent power and but little training In actual legfslation, makes the party and it's distinguished leader utterly obliviQus of the necessity for care and caution In the enactment of statutes which are 10 accomplish changes in our social and business relations.
 He declared that the Republican party was net responsible for the abuses he had described and that the man nature and the willingness of aEn- bilious and unScruplous men to turn an instrunentality necessary to human progress to vicious purpose. Of all the Democratic party under its present leadership is the one least entitled to
 He spoke of the Republican and Democratic parties in t5,n.S the sonsh ut s,n ano ocrats are opposed to the Democratic party under its present leadership and none of them will be disappointed If the Democratic ticks1 sa",I is soasss dsfested.
 Every one having the interest of the country at heart, as an abstract prop osition. he said. would rejoice to have the solid South" as a Democratic asset in every national campaign
 The Republican party in It's national legislation. he said, had favored the building of the Panama Canal, the re- clar1ation of swamp ,ands, the eoI,Scss eonSeas and. in taking many other steps that are for the greatest development or the South. The growth and success of the mining and iron industry or tne South he declared, are directly due to laws enacted by the Republican
 in making appointments in the Phil ippineg. Porto Rico and Cuba, no at prociivities of the appointees, and there are in the Philippines as many Demo crats among the Americans as hepuD- . licans serving the government there.
 As to the complaint that the leading men of the South have but little influ- ence in the executive branch of the government at Washington, he said, the only way by which the south could cure thls matter is by independence Of action and the support of the Repuo.
 He declared that many independent Democrats in the Souh agree with Re- publican party in all it's Tnaip economic doctrines and, reviewing the industrial progress of the South, he said It's busi- ness prosperity in many respects de- pended on a reasonable protective tariff more than that of any other community in the country. He de- ciared that if Jefferson were to return to life he would not recognise his re- puted political descendants.
 While there ie a good deal of oe- claration in the Denver platform against centralization Of power, he said the propositions contained In the Dem ocratic platform are even more fed eralistic in their tendency than those in the Republican platform:
 He said 1t was a duty of Republicans of the South to take advsntage or tnis mental attitude on the part Of many independent Democrats, which they can do by a thorough organization oI th cir party. They should put good men to the front. The fight should be one of principle. He knew the cour . age 1t has taken for Southern Repuo- licans to remain Republicans when their cause seemed hopeless, but he believed the change was coming.
 He congratulated the Repue jeans ol virpinia because within shat State 60 many Democrats were hoping they ,,,n,,Id zurcaed