The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-12

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INTEL SoutAern i~nstinct and asaihs
ne HaEo-S are alike solidlx arrai
B~osronfn - TIE White Honea
| eouolit,. = Soston itself whers 49,,
the concrete ever was aliv. in
Al that the situation
rara .i.locfdttc party In rqnt @t
rnt%iH true 10 Itself. 10 r.-ae %aS t.
nomino. : ! that it had to do Ds'n.-
vativa " man known to 10 !"
All. AS ~ man not know :,
might r." b"iiey ana pIatfnrm' -.
"a iIve acted. cir / ma I'm II
~ tHe thre3dbar- nJns,r s't"F-
-. po4- lfne1 like the frnn, Just
s,'r 'oout ms prayers. Pm, man
somaS,-b St3ndlng with tho IGra - :
an furthar ~ "ithall. he coucIp3a4
1nnor.s Toni an the PRAYING M.
unnecessary So he wrataS itn" "aS
~ fFaEor, nailed II r. ~ III
po| 1hd every night NJ
Iord (" me scrawl, assur.3 ~
| ana bonanC them was his s~eptimerte
science. ~ 'tear conscience.
me Democratic party baa n,,,
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cit Foraker, Archibols 80.
moula nave done the rest : %
.bpleSSiples would surely how r.
I.eIiSelVes a pit and have faien ,9s,U
top. f'"S"h party in on
DID our party remain tr,. - ,...,,,
NJ II remain Democratic .tS
~; the mission, the varg -
- ICING Of Democracy v,s ana -
!" 'li"ck' 70 scotch ana. if nossfLL.' -
Iarr',.tt CthtraIlsm. Imperialism. Cnrn,-
iarE I" this is, OF course. stat. = 80
if"ine Rule, the largest possiblo 80 80
W. OF local self-governmont consistent
with the welfare Of the ,yb,lo
try. "N''e cpuh-
Inc Union had hardly started on ae
career before many of its WIS.,
touhotrS saw that centraliSm. which
aovar 1890 me ruin OF every free
government that the sun ever sboDa
upon was altering head in America
seeing that, as the, had feared +ba
OF States Rights which
'heN had in~corporatd in the Conetit,-
,loh would be but ropes Of sand -
piii q ilostlle majority. they aroused
the people in defence of Their i,n'
perliled safeguard. Then ana thara
the party OF anti-centraIlsm was born
ana from that day. now more than =
century ago, Town To our own tho,Iph
II had changed its name it had never
changed its principles. States Rights
titu ever been the polar star of its
isith. Through thick AID thin
through war and peace, through vie
cory ana defeat, it mad known no other
beacon. '''i
Put what do we now behold? We
pehold TINS ever grand party. consist
elcI' SANITY gone lineage. tradition.
principles forgotten. its past a blank.
facing about and at the double ouicL,
retfaclng its t0ilsome upward progress.
obvious of the fact that anti-centraI-
ISM IS the very staple of its existence.
we see 1t sanctioning the most gigan-
tie stroke of centralism that the
American mind ever cOncciVed-tha
government ownership of railroads.
rms measure that Would have added
neary two millions to the present
vast horde Of national officials and
nave made the little finger of the
Washington government heavier than
ITS ON had formerly been. We find
it sanctioning scarcely less directly
another piece Of centralism possibly
moro dangerous than The other, be-
cause more subtle, more insiduous-
the Initiative and Referendum, legacy
of PODulism.
In a word, we find the Democratic
party. whose Very name had hitherto
been a synonym for conservatism. be
coming, for the once the most radi-
cal of parties. We find it trying to
squeeze II diStOrt itself into the
garb of dead Populism-the lion don
ming the asses skin instead OF the
ass the ions. We find it dominated
by one man, and that man not a Dem
ocrat, as before was a political
party dominated in America. Hardly
since Peter the Hermit has a man by
the force of pure ~eloquence and
earnestness ove a hypnotic spell 50
vast and led a host as great in a direo-
ton as Numerically opposite TO
where sense and reason pointed, as
BRYAN has.
Tor the eloqucnce Of the brilliant
Nobraskan no one can haVe more ad-
miration than /. Rarely since poison
scaled the golden lips whence issued
the Phillippics has the GOd-likc gilt
ever been more lavishly bestowed on
any of the children of men. AS a
great moral refOrmer outside Of
ahOve-the realm of practical things,
which are sordid things up in realms
where the idea is the fact. he must
have reached the pinnacle Of human
greatness, and have exercised immense
influence on the world. Such is the
mission that Fate. Providence assigns
TO genius, leaving the practical, the
sordid. to mere talent.
Emerson's advice to hitch your
wagon to a star-the u~nregenerate
hin tina we hitched ours to a Jack-o-
lanterns fine rhetoric but poor
logic. Terrestrial ways are too rough
for that. or if YOu viii, toe crooked.
Pegasus never yet made a good pillow
horse.
But ever were Bryan rs practical as
he is brilliant the people OF the
United States do not want him for
President. They said that in 1886.
They said it louder in 1900. They sail
louder sull in 1908. They are q
stfT-necked peoDrr. frey 'Tc1>E. t>.s'
needs. There are but two paths open
to the Democratic party or rather two
directions to take in the path it now
treads. One is to follow Bryan in the
present course with inevitable ruin
and at the end and the not distant
end. The other is to leave Bryan III
his tracks and to right about and as
rapidly as possible regain the i'm
pregnable heights of true Democracy.
the heights of conservatism and OF
states Rights. As a lifelong Demo
crat and a patriotic Southern man.
implore my fel!oWmen to do this be
fore if is too late.
The novelty, the simple mindedness
with which we cOu for Il defea.
this year would be amusing if the
situation was not so graVe-if tn" life
and death Of the Democratic party,
the only friend that the south
ever rad, did not tremble in
the balance. Never in the Nolrd
since the first man cast the first tai