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

sibIy Saved The Very ObliteratiOn
OF The Names of the Southern
States-Tie Plan to Divide the
south Into satrapics-One To BE
Called Grant. one Sherman, North
Carolina tn Re tie District Of Cape
Tcar-Th. Democratic Party, Its
Present ncmcntia to the Contrary
Notuithstanding. the Only Hope of
the Soutb in the Future As 1t Was
Its Only Friend in the Past.
Nv g. ". BLACKNALL.
Whom the gods would destroy,
they first made mad. ran the old
Greek proverb. Then, it might have
continued, they save the gods the
ing themselves.
The gods have evidently of late
been busv very busy with the Demo-
cratic party. on no other theory
can we accouu for its recent suicidal
mania; its cagernCsS, its frantic ef-
forts To Geetroy itself.
In this vieH Of the case it is not to
to be wondered that the party should
have utterly reversed its principles
and it's policy-should have been
Observation-Disclosures as Ounce
said Of Bottom. when in Midsummer
Nights Dream an ASS head was i'm
posed upon him. his t~ransmogrifi-
cation is believe, held by alienists to
be a prime symptom of dementia. In
the demented one all the mental and
moral qualities are reversed. His ma
ture becomes the counterpart of its
former and normal self. He is now
apt to be as immOral as he was once
: m n,rp l.. 4.. fnn1SE1. &c ta &r0S nnnn CON
sibIc: as leckless and reckless as Once
careful and circumspect; as fond of
questionable company as once shy of
it; given to Disgusting himself in out
landish garments, in short, as all
round yagabond and rOost-about as
he was once a solid. substantial and
respectable citizen. Above all he is
given to illusions; prone to see enemies
in his friends and friends in his
enemies and to take a wild and per-
verse JOY in running precisely counter
to the advice and admonitiOn of his
legitimate advisers and cOunSe?lOrS
Thus ! am driven to diagnose the
maladV Of which the Democratic party
is suffering so rapid a decline. And
] would add that though only ar
humble member of the party I am q
lifelong one; So inevitably and irwin
chilly one hat I ave followed it
through al its mad ramblings; fol-
lowed it rot only believing but hoping
that i would meet with defeat. For
only by the shock of defeat. ! was
convinced, could It be cured OF its
dementia and restored to its former
sane and proper self.
The logic Of the political situation
required. yes. demanded Democratic
success in 1908. The Republican party
i carried about every handicap that Fate
and its own sins could heap upon it.
There was a large deficit in the treas
urN. Wages were going down. The
cost of living was going up. Mills were
closed. Railroads We're dropping into
the hands Of receivers like autumn
leaves. The army of the unemployed
was large and growing. In short.
Republican administration of national
affairs was thoroughly discredited. In
every respect the party was in bad
repute. The earmarks Of monopoly
and OF graft stood out plainly through
every Shread of angel robes that it
could doh. In the trusts it carried not
one but many Jonahs. not one of
which c9Hld 1t be driven to heave
overheard, because, | presume. it
would have been left short-handed.
without force to work ship. Its lead
ers We're al war with one another. 1t
was dl[loed against itself, and no less
an authority than holy writ declare
that hgl FNen a house divided against
Itself shali stand. Then how much
less can stand a larger aggregation =
polItca. parry. Its men in high
places 4ad proven each other to be
worse nan even the elastic ethics Of
po1l.. gtu@ eountenance-had. in
! faei. ny" each other so black that
~ nasIalle charges actually made a
w~hfs.tn25k on them. 1t had lis
go 81 - @.nnzSlI1ss+sss-~.1th i most "sa
ufited.Ne Nest suspicious and the
Yte leAt al trammeled by tradi-
tfon andNuo limitations. 1t had a
: panic on Wis idds. something that IN
the Who'll hisVry of the country had
never p sing time failed to be de-
clsive of def OF the party IN power
hen it camJ
Above al had on its hands or
rather on it, lack. a Roosevelt. He
has boasteG lat BRYAN with his isms
was the asset of the R~epubhcat
party. Nhs q capital asset oi
Democracy little tact, a a niue
sens. ar .r part could ave made
of Roosayan Roosevelt With his blum
derings an runderings. Had the is
sue been enately made, what a dead
weight he valid have ben Tor his
party 10 ar,~-swashbuCEler, b1ather-
skita urs.g.r. b~illingsgate handler,
giver ana -9ler (f not maker) of the
lie. bnIIv a~rlv-heater, ir snort almost
evervthina lat the lest. much less
the first. zen tleman Of ne lana cooid
possibly pa man VINO mas N
the pyna.f ngs and yearings of his
SATAN se~5rs9uosities ffrst and last de-
fled 80 rrncedent outraged every
sentinoan+ ana flown squareIy IN the
face Of every prejudice Oh the Amen
can peopln
omnlsc encs its + could h3rg aIg
have search oHt more > ore1 md
Sou 9isi ,.f.-a itself have delighted
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