The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-09-26
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Letter from the Sunny South Shows
COndit ions Favorable for the
Bull Moose

HALES MILL, VA. Sept. 20-To
the publisher of the Sank Centre
Herald: Please accept my congratu-
lations upon the patriotic stand you
have taken in the presidential cam
paign of this period of the Nations
history.
Fifty-two years ago / alone in this
county (ScotD cast my first vote under
protest and at the risk of my life for
ga Third Party, the Republican.
From Nov. l, 1861 to Jan. 2, 1855, l
served in the Union army and received
an honorable discharge. April
l22, 1865, l reached Sank Centre
| and up near the beautiful Fairy Lake
l resided over five years.
Never since that memorable No
vember, 1860, have l failed to vote
for Republican candidate for the
presidency; twice for the great Lin
coin. Returning here in 1871 l have
resided here ever since, and have reg
ularly registered my vote for the
same party that preserved these
United States as Nation.
AS a boy 1 was Wing, but even
then, soon saw, the party of Henry
Clay had come to the parting of the
ways. Its leaders attempted to strad-
die the two sides of the ominous is
sue slavery and Anti-slavery." Its
vacillating attitude dug that party's
own grave.
The Democratic party at Charleston
and Baltimore split on the same rock
and the party of Lincoln came into
power. You and all the readers of
your paper we'll know the history of
VIC plSl MY yOoio'
1t has been unfortunate for our
country, especially this southland,
that the Democratic party did not
die and forever have been buried in
the same grave with ''The Lost Cause.
Its tenacity to life, and second, blood
stained by four years of slaughter,
seems to me sufficient to damn it's
history for all time. It's sSolid South"
has necessitated ''Solid North" and
in all these intervening years the same
old sectional feeling has been kept
aflame to the detriment of national
progress. Each party has finally be-
come boss-ridden and the interests of
the toiling millions of farms, shops
and all honest vacations have had al
most as heavy yoke put upon them
as once rested on the dark sons of
Africa.
AS republican of half century, l
ask: What must the party dc to be
saved? In the language of Gods son,
''She must be born again" If she
does not do her first works over her
candlestick will be removed.
This ninth congressional district
has been sending Republican 70 con-
gress for several years past. This is
the only Republican district in the
state: it is the whitest district in the
state, whose sons in the sixties fur
nished the bravest men under Ston-
wall Jackson and in Pickett's charge
at Gettysburg. Nearly all my old
schoolmates in this vicinity loss their
lives in behalf of the "Lost Cause.
and at last, today, many of the few
survivors, who saw shot and shell and
are manned for life. are Republicans.
Yes, this, my native county, gives
regularly over 300 Republican major
ity, and nineteen twentieths Of them
are now for Roosevelt and the third
party. l have recently been through
portions of Tennessee and Kentucky,
and the percentage is the same. Many
of them Democrats, more than
enough to Offset the main federal pie
eaters.
So it is no wonder I feel good to !