The National tribune., 1909-08-26
No-sE.fi,iYn} WANTED.

If Coy. Johnson's trumpet call at the
Seattle egExposation to the Western States
to rise in their might and throw on
the shackles of the East" was bid for
the Presidential nomination. 1t has sim
gularlgfailed- The West is not feeling
any Easternigyves. On the contrary
there Is the bumptious idea on the FAR
ther side of the Allegheny Mountains
that that is the country and the East
merely'a derandency. The bigger part
of the wealth Of the country Is being
produced west of the Alleghanies. and
most of the actual money is there. The
farmers of the West are making more
money than the manufacturers OF the
East, while the manufacturers or the
West are rapidly overtopping their cis-
Allegheny competitors. Already we
hear of Akron. o., being the center OF
the rubber industry of the world; OF
Mishawaka and South Bend. Ind,
making the worlds wagons, whiie al
most all the gigantic Steel Trust is on
the farther side of the Alieghanies, with
it building immense plants at Gary
Ind, and Duluth. MINI.
Many of the papers. North and South
are attacking the Governors speech as
"a direct and passionate plea for the
development of sectienalism in its rank
est and most offensive FORM" One pa
per says:
"rrhe West could not be disloyal to
the East or the South without being
disIoyal to itself. AS the West is seek
ing its own good, it is, with equal fer
vor. seeking the good of every other
| section of the Nation. 1t viii follow
| no unwise leader who would bring upon
| it the blighting hurt of sectional preju-
dices and engender feelings of bitter
ness and resentment that would retard
| its development.
| THE West is not to be marred in its
beginning 1t will reject the advice
and the leadership of men of the John
| son type. Ii has no assault to make
iupon Americans or American interests
Ianywhere. It will accept and live by
/ the good sentiment expressed by a
Georgian: THIS hour little needs the
| loyalty that is loyal to one section,
while holding the other in enduring
suspicion and estrangement; give us a
broad and perfect LOYALTY that loves
and trusts Georgia alike with Massa-
chusetts, that knows no North. no
South, no East and no West, but en-
| dears with equal and patriotic love
every foot of our soil, every State OF
lour Union.'"
The Kansas City Journal says that
Gov. Johnson is making the same mis-
take that Mr.. Bryan made in 1896 when
he spoke of the East as "the enemy g
country
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| The Southern papers received the
trumpet note as coldly as elsewhere.
They remind their readers that the Sec
tionalism which has ruled the South
has brought untold troubles upon that
| region, and their alliance with the
Western Democrats has been singularly
unfortunate The Charleston News and
Courier says that the interests of the
East and the South are really closer
than the interests of the South and
West, and that the Southerners have
been following this Western ignus
fatuus entirely too long for their own
good. One paper cruelty pierces John
sons inflated balloon by showing that
there can be no political dominance OF
the East, since the States to which he
particularly addresses himself have 20
Senators in Congress where New York
has but two.