The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-07
CTIBERSON AND THE FUTURE

faT-reaCnlHg ana Idlclul. Inc pass
ing of John Johnson, child of the
common people and great exemplar
of democracy, brings the party which
he had served so ably, which looked
to him with hope as resource of
the future, face to face with ques-
ton of greatest import. Had he liy-
ed until 1912, he might, with the
tariff as an issue, have led the dem
ocracy to national victory. No
democrat would have doomed up as
/ the Minnesota commoner. Upon
whose shoulders shall the mantle
of John Johnson as party leader
! fall? Is the man in the east, the
north or the west? There are great
and worthy democrats in those sec
tons, most truly, but are they avail
! able or eligible in the sense that a
democrat must be eligible to be of
value to his party as national
| standard bearer? We doubt it, All
| nave had their fling in politics, their
! day in court, and the statement does
mot discredt them. The prominent
/ democrats not in that category lack
the elements of strength and leader
ship that democrat must have to
give hope of results.
A fatuous policy may prevail
man from one Of the sections named
be forced on the party. 1t will not be
the first time. if that is the outcome.
| But it may be believed that the
death of Johnson will impel the de-
mocracy to turn after years, to the
south once more for the statesman
ship and leadership competent to
meet the party's needs. The party
will ask for man whose record
stamps him as able, conservative, pa
ltriotic, with personality that com
mands respect and confidence, and
whose Interpretation and apprecia-
ton of democratic principles and
policies is tested and known TO his
lcountrymen.
/
is a Texan, a senator-and his name
| is Charles A. Culberson. We submit
in all candor and with deliberate
Judgment, that the death of Cover
nor Johnson places the senior sena-
tor from Texas in the fore rank OF
men to whom the party will look
with hope for successful leadership
and influence He possesses all the
qualities and requirements that are
named above. Look over the field
, from Maine to California, from the
great lakes to the gulf. Is there
. democrat in public life, in the lis
of men who are really eligible, who
= outranks, who ranks up to Culber
r son? The more the country consld
ers him in the light of ability, worth
and eligibility, the more the con
= viction will grow that he Will be the
man for the emergency. When the
time comes it will be found tina
| the fact of his southern birth ant
residence will not stand to his detri
iment, and it may prove an element
. OF strength. If such man as Senator
tCulberson, with his splendid RECORD
of ability. worth and service, can MOI
! head his party wisely and we'll, NJ
other man can do so.
The logic of events, shaped ane
influenced by the loss of Governor
Johnson, must inevitably give the
Texas senator an Importance, as
democrat and public man he has no
possessed until now, that he could
not possess until Mr.. Bryan hat
= made his last essay, until Governor
Johnson had had his chance. Deatf
has removed the Minnesota man. IA,
died without his chance, and his
death puts Culberson in the from
, rank of eligible men.
Mr.. Bryan's latest utterance, in {
p way for free trade, and Mr.. Bailey
p attitude on the tariff question vii
have a profound bearing on and re
lation to the consideration of Sena
tor Culberson as a national demo
cratic leader Mr. Culberson is no
in accord with Mr.. Bryan's views a:
to free raw material. The senior
senator does not go as far as Sen
ator Bailey in the direction of pro
lection as a tariff feature Mr.. Cul
berson is a tarift-for-reyenue demo
/, crat, and as such and with his po
tential record he can come nearer
taking the place of John johnson
!, in the middle west and west thar
any democrat now in public life
isoutherner though he be.--WacC
, Tribune.
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