Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-04
RepubIicanism q National Force.
kansas City Journal.)


The average Southerner will probably
shout as Justify as the next person Tor
.one flag. one country and one destiny
and vote persistently, if not consist
entity. for Democratic yellow dog
tickets. The responsibility for section
alism, therefore, so loEg as it exists,
must be laid at Inc door OF the Demo-
ratio party and, in the South, what is
eft Of the Popul,st party, Democratic
,fr,hoot. This fact was forcibly Illus
trated by Thomas E. Watson, Popul1st
presidential candidate, in his opening
speech, VIXEN he pleaded for the cleo
.oral vote of Georgia, but declared that,
if necessary, he would give it to Bryan
# in his power. Notwithstanding the
act that The South is practically hostile
to the NebraSkan.
Yet it is the Republican party that
the South owes the commercial pros
perity which has transformed sleepy
towns into busy marts. 1t is Repub-
'ican policies which have filled the
South with sE.nkcstacks, turned plan
tations into factory sites and poured
golden stream of wealth into the sec
ton devasteu and Impoverished by the
war Unhapnily the South can neither
forget that the Republican party,
through II war precipitated by the
South, struck down its false industrial
system nor remember even as rcStltu-
.ior:. the manifold prosperity directly
due to Republican policies. Year after
year and decade after decade, against
the almost solid opposition of the
Southern representatives in the nation
al congress, untold millions have been
voted into the Golfers of the South Here
been wise enough to vote for the full
dinner pail, but it has been Republican
policies that have dotted the South
with busy factories and developed the
sugar industry to q point never
dreamed of in the days when slaves
titled the cane fields.
This is only the material sidc of the
question, but it is of sufficient impor-
tance to be entitled to consideration at
the hands of the South. Yet processing
a devotion to natiOnalism that does not
conflict at all With sO-called state SOW
ereignty," the South continues to cast
its vote Cor the only party which keeps
alive the spirit of sectionalisn1.
In their respective attitudes both the
great parties are true to the fundamen-
tai doctrines which have constituted
their creed since the beginning of the
republic. The Republican party is the
legatee if not the originator OF the
Hamltonian political philosophy. which
has been the great unifier. instead of
the great nullifer, of our natural histo-
ry Republicanism knows no geOgraph-
zeal lines within the limits Of Amer
lean territory. 1t is the great nation
alizing force of the republic. Mr..
Hearst never showed himself more the
dcmagogue and incompetent than when
he said. in his Independence party
speech-a little too brilliant and cpl
grammatic, by the way, to have been
written by hin--that as between the
two old parties. ard the new, the Re
publican was obstructive, the Demo-
cratic destructive and the Independence
constructive. He was partially right of
course but if there has been one com
| prehensive, Matchmaking, ccnstruc-
tive force dominating American indus
trial and political history, it has been
the Republican party, which has con-
structed q nation out of a federation,
| obstructed only the opposition of the
Democratic party and its political fungi
and destroyed only the enemies of the
Notwithstanding. it might he add
ed, pursuing Mr.. Hearst'S epigram, the
| whole world in the art OF government