The Neshoba Democrat., 1909-09-30

There was meeting of the leaders
of the Democrat party of New York
State, to which had been invited
few others of National prominence,
"a few days ago for the purpose of re-
,yiving the Democrat party in that
State and the Nation. This was a
move in the right direction. The.
Democrat very seldom tries to tell
our Statesmen and politicians what we
need to save the Country from the
edemnition bow-wows, as about all
there is to it for this section is few
fat jobs for our congressman, and
sWe have pretty good set of men in
Congress from this State, but we can
not miss this opportunity to give vent
to just few remarks.
1t does seems to US that if ever
anything needed reviving, if ever a
party Of people needed a Moses to
lead them through the wilderness, we
of the South and the Democracy
need it now Time was and only a
few months or years ago, when to
.an'original ideas or opinion in this
section meant treason to the party, or
7we should say, was called treason.
We were told to follow our leaders
and they would win victory for us
next time. We have been talked to
fortune immemorial about what MIR.
Jefferson said and about the tariff
for revenue only, equal rights to all
and special privileges to none until
we really thought that the Democatic
party believed in those things that our
leaders were working for those things
and that we would eventually get
those things next time. We thought
that Senator Money and Congress
men Bowers and Dixon from Missis-
44sippi and such other pillars of Democ-
,racy as Senators McEnery and Foster
OF louisiana and Rsnkhead of Ala
barna We're striving to get through a
tariff bill of that kind and were GER
,tain to do it next time. Some of
them went to Congress as poor as
church MICE a quarter Of cehtry ago
have educated expensive families and
lived in extravegant style forall these
years but still have saved enough out
of all this to own magnificent summer
and winter homes spd still have the
.efrontery to come back to Mississippi
and the south every few years and
talk about what we will do for the
people next time,
The South ansy not be able to
Write the platform of the National
Democratic Party; the South may
not be able to furnish enough votes to
carry the party to success; the South
may not be able to furnish men of in
telllgence enough to dictate the party
principles ~ both branches of Con-
gress; The South may not be- the
proper place, geographically, from
which to seleota Presidential Candi.
date, but the South and Mississippi
.can confer favor on the Nation ane
party BY being consistent and by keep.
ing at home the men who voted pro.
tectiye tariff on the very first article i
was offered on for this section. If il
was right to vote for duty on lum-
per as our men did q mean those
mentioned, for Senator McLaurir
and the other Congressman arc
Dcnocrats) and right for McEner,
20 vote for protective on sugar, and
Bankhead on iron ore, then the whole
system IS all right and we have been
following after false Gods, all these
many years. We can't consistentlv
vote against the protectisn for the
yankee and for il for ourselves. We
cant expect to hold the respect Of
1 anybody when we go to National
Convention and declare for free lum-
per and have a set Of men in Con-
gress who vote for a duty on lumber
because the Interest in South Mis-
sissippi demand. What do we owe
shs Interest," Have'nt they come