The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

eure that the intelligent and patriotic ele- ment of the republican party itself has long. ago condemned as unworthy preji- cates for criticisms the things that re- strain us most in emerging from the si- lence that is becoming no more to south ern pride than it is real proof or our respect and regard for the union. Every . where throughout the country save risnt here in the south the conviction is ra- tional and rife that 1t is a time when sections and divisions of the republic should be overlooked in the draft on American statesmanship that will best serve American interests and American citizenshp With the moral of the span ish war. and the southern policies or Presidents Mckinley, Roosevelt and lait rebuking the spirit of trembling and rear that topples the south from her sublime boise of feeling and respect, 1t is about time !that we regain our balance and awaken to the consciousness of re- o,irement that proclaims us as a political power, something higher than the yellow dog of northern, democracy, and some thing nobler than ludicrous Niobe ot Modern politics
 The nur. ,nmixed blood of the sorth has preserved the racial unity Of OUT American people and Is free from the de- gentrating admixture that IS iast con ta,ninatins the citizenship of other secs tons to the union. It is to this unadui- terated and typical branch of Anglo American blood that the nation must largely look for the highest measure nnent of things that pertain to its future erretuation and glory. From this stock' as I have shown, the country drat'er for it's political leadership from the times of Washington to Lincoln. In awaken
 arH eilnnPa generations, for an honest and courage ous trial at the revival Of that leadership 10 the end of just and equal share of representation in the conduct of the nation, the south will be guilty of nothing to offend an intelligent American sentiment that respects and prefers a policy of independent actiNlty' to the passive reliance on ympathizlhg section of the north with which we have regularly and Loyalty trained since lsoJ in a fruitiess search for the presidency. do not urge in this break with our ancient and very dear friends of the northern democracy, but rather enjoin as salvation from the servile dependence upon them that has on unfair and un- c,IuaI terms made us the appealing vtc- tins of a policy which has bound snd chained ns in the ring bonds of, seeming hopeless exile
 I am tircI of tho democratic dog Way ing the ponderous corpus of that canine himself: i am weary of writing epitaphs fo. northern democratic capditatorial statesman: | want to see the souti electoral vote, powerful enough almost in it's own n,uuercal might to win for her the nresid stand for something more "than a mere negative register and count in the electoral college. In short, I would have the south cease to dtstrust herself m q task Of restoring conditions that would restabllsh her in the citadels of political strength and power, from
 which she could demand. with the cer- tajnty of receiving. juster proportion or the things nom which voluntary resigna- lion of ancient and honorable claim, in , fretful ncur of vexation and madness patheticallY divorced her.
 Even now the hour has struck that tolls inc note of recurred opportunity. And what will we do with 1t? We are entering the twilight of another national campaign and are going about 1t pretty much in the same old fashion that we hsve heen doing with consistent uni formitv since the war. In droves we are llea vinp lautern-in-liand fashion to north ern regions batting the bushes ana earnest ly seeking to flush some available make- <, fit of a statesman whose fundamental icoujrements must be that he lives across lthe Mason and Dixon border. We are Jlstifying this pilgrimage Tn the maxim adopted as a rule of conduct in the Sey- u,our and Blair campaign, to-wit: The time is nos yet ripe to bring forward a southern candidate for the presidency. In the m epntime the southern forests gre luxuriant with brave and shady oaks or IT esidential size and dimensions. Possi- bly the noblest specimen of them all IS