The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-04
THE DIXIE ADMINISTRATION

this mighty Republic have been wei
styled the "Dixie" administration, an
yet, few people, unless they hav
carefully looked the matter up, an
aware how apt this appellation is, o
how completely the United State
government in all its branches ha
passed under Southern dominion.
The President of the United States
while ostensibly hailing from New
Jersey, was born, bred and married il
the South and is Southern in appear
ance, inclination, sympathy, method
acts along Southern lines, is guidet
by Southern tradition, and the 6outl
justly claims him as her own.
=, A majority of his cabinet member:
are Southerners, to the manor born
The chairmen of all the great com
n,ittees in the Senate and House, that
formulate all the important legisla.
ton, and majority of all the major.
ity party members Of these commit.
tees are Southern men,.
The most important and far reach
ing business measure that has been
enacted in many years, the tariff bill,
was drawn by Oscar w. Underwood,
an Alabama lawyer, assisted and ad-
vised by F. w. Simmons, a country
lawyer from North Carolina.
Carter Glass, editor of a country
newspaper in Virginia, who possesses
about as much knowledge Of the in
tricacies of our monetary arrange
nents as pig does of piano. music,
has written a currency bill that is
now pending before Congress and
which will probably pass substantially
as it came from his desk.
Fourteen Southern states, the only
ones that gave the Democratic candi-
date majority vote, containing less
than one-third Of the population, with
less than one-seventh of the assess
able property, and doing less than one
twentieth of the business of the coun-
try, virtually control every branch, Of
the national government and the
thirty-four Northern states, with
their tremendous preponderence of
population, wealth and business, have
no more to, say about the legislation
of the. country or about the admins
traitor of National affairs than a
bridegroom at his own wedding. Like
the bridegroom they are present but
not consulted.
Senator Tillman once declared,
"The Yankees(by which term he char
acterizes all the residents of the Nor
thern states) when it comes to a mat
ter of bargain and sale are the keen
est, shrewdest people on the globe, in
all other matters they are the great
est suckers in the Universe"
Oh, the blame of it. Oh, the black
shame of it. The combined Roosevelt
and Taft vote of these thirty-four
states, if cast for one man, would
have given him 378 electoral votes
or 112 more than enough to have cleo
ted him.
The Progressive and Republican
vote in these states, had it been COM
bined, would have saved the Senate
and controlled the House by major
ity of IA votes. Twelve Republican
governors would be occupying execu-
tive seats now held by Democrats
If the Republicans of these states had
not, like silly children quarreling over
a package of sugar plums, foolishly
spent their energies battling against
each other instead of unitedly fight
ing their political opponents. This
senseless schism, that robbed two
thirds of the people, six-sevenths of
Inc property and nineteen-twentieths
of the business of all voice in national
affairs was the most foolish, criminal
ly corrupt proceeding that ever de-
prived multitudinous majority of
their sovereign right to rule.
The last general election was not
a Democratic victory. The Democrats
were farther from a majority than
they had been for years. 1t was a
clear. case of the greatest, and sup
posedly the most intelligent political
organization on earth, losing its head,
and while suffering from a fit of tenn
porary insanity, presenting its OPP
ponents with every branch Of national
control on silver SLAYER and begging
them to accept it.
The absolute correctness of this,
statement is demonstrated by the fact,
that not withstanding there were
146,178 more votes cast in the cleo
tion of 1912 than in 1908, President
Wilson received 113,609 less than
Bryan did in 1908, and there was not
. single state in which the Democra-
tic vote Of 1912 equalled that Of four
years ago. The President, IL gov
errors and IS congressman were cleo
ted by minority vote.
Mr.. Taft's vote in 1908 was 7,678,-
9e8, and the combined Taft and
Roosevelt vote in 1912 was 1904, 664.