The Tupelo journal., 1910-04-22
"Mr. Speaker, Members of the
Mississippi Legislature, Fellow
Democrats:

MiSSlSS1ppl Legislature, TeiloW
Democrats:
Il am glad to be with you
again. Much water has flowed
by the mill since I last stood here
and looked in your faces. and 1t
is good to have chance to talk
with you again.
Coming from the national
capital, can bring you glad It'd
ings for national Democracy.
The great party that scarce more
than a year ago was swept into
power by an overwhelming ma
iority, with chief executive en-
tering upon the duties of his
high Office under brighter aus
pices than ever attended the in
auguration of any previous pres
ident, today is like rudderless
ship wallowing in an angry
tempest.
Already from Massachusetts,
has come the triumphant note of
Democracy. (Applause.) The
Republican speaker has been
battling for his life before a Re-
publican house; the president has
abandoned the quiet and digni-
fled seclusion Of his great Office
and is now going hither and
thither pleading and imploring
with the Republicans not to de-
s.roy their party. The leader of
the Indiana wing of the party
has already defied and taunted
the established leaders of the
Republican party for their broken
pledges.
Under the curse Of its broken
tariff pledge the Republican par
ty realizes it's foredoomed to go
down in ignolninious defeat, and
the reasons that make that de-
feat so certain are the reasons
that give value and worth to it.
Why, the bewildered leaders of
Republicanism ask, has this
storm swept down upon US out
of a cloudless sky, because we
have broken a pledge given to
the people in the last Republican
convention? Why, in all the
years gone by we have never
kept party pledges, and such a
visitation has never before come
upon us. Why now are we as
sailed not only by our enemies
without but by those who have
hitherto rallied to the party cry
from within.
"They now know that with
the blight of sectionalism swept
from the country, with the peo-
pie viewing the acts OF their
rulers with clear eyes, not dim
med by passion nor poisoned by
prejudice, the intelligence and
ranhood of America is asserting
itself politically as never before
in the history of this country,
and that this party, and that
any other party that holds the
reins Of power, is going to be
held toa stricter accountability
for party pledges than ever
heretofore in our history. Ane
that is what spells victory, as
sured victory, to Triumphant
Democracy, the party that live
close to the people and carries
out the pledges made by it il
order to secure an election, b.
vindicating them when tha
election has been secured.
But, fellow Mississippians
while the great papers hav'
flashed this glad intelligence
abroad to buoy up the hopes 0
the Democracy of our entir
country. those same great paper
have carried an intelligenc
which has saddened the hear
and caused the flush of sham
to mantle the brow OF ever.
Mississippian. The shameless
story has been spread broad
cast over the land that a Missis
sippi legislature has been de
bauched and corrupted by sol
of Mississippi. Among strang
ers, seeking az best | could t
uphold the dignity Of the stat
whose commission bore, know
ing that that commission ha