The Brinkley argus., 1913-07-18
IN ACCEPTING UNANIMOUS NOMi- NATION FOR GOVERNOR THE DISTINGUISHED EX-CON- FEDERATE RECIPES
 HIS VIEWS.
RENouNCEs NO PRINCIPLE
Says He Fights for Nothing He Ever Fought Against Nor AgaInst
 Nothing He Ever Fought for.

slsas and in accepting the nomination the distinguished ex-Confederate said MT. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con
 vention:
 It has long been known to those VII know me best and must be known t most of you that have no desire lV public office Neither the emolumeht of the governorShip nor any honor o prominence 1t may be supposed to cohfe has any charm for me. | prefer the pr vate station. But believing, as ue from the unanimity with which this n"ihl nation is rendered, that it Is the con census of your opinion that 1t would D for the best interest of our party ah' CT the people for me to accept it. 1 lee it my duty to subordinate my persona inclination to your views.
 In thus yielding to your wishes--1l entering the arena as your candidate.
 renounce no principle 1 ever advocated fight against nothing l ever touSht Tor ard for nothing l ever fought agaiHSl Truth is immutabie-"th same yester day. today and forever" but her meth oGs are progressive--and so must be hei yotaries. She tolls not in the past neither can we. She broodS not oYei the past-neither should we. The pa triotic devotion of our women, the bril- liant achievement of our heroes the great battles our soldiers fought and the grand victories they Won--eVerS thing worthy of commemoratfon--Sfle has committed to flames immortal page The dead issues on which we so widely differed over which we so flercely fought with all their engendered bitter ness she has releEatea to the dark peflOQ Of their soIution-where all the better sentiments of our nature as well BIS dit our best hopes of political prosperity present and future require tt0y snail forever remain, under the dominion O4 unbroken silence. She edlis us away from the dead. whom 5~e cannot help to work for the living whom we can help. Who was t that said, Follow me and let the dead past bury the dead. She bids us turn our faces from the dead past, over Whl4n we have no control, no influence. t0 the living present. whose errors wg can correct---to the ever on- coming future. whose generations we can benefit She says to is work while il is day for night cometh when no man can work" She calls us to battle on fher side---consequentiy on the Lord 2 eide--for the restoration of her VtOlat- ed sanctua ry--for the uplift of down trodden justice. And when and where is this work 10 be done2 Today, tomorrow next week. next year--on and ever on until our victory is complete, in the home in the church in the schoolhouse, In the field, on the hustiugs. in tue po- Htical forum--everywnef We arc bat- ting for equal rights for equal 0prOr tunity for all. for the liberties of the people. the long suffering people. the common people. whose will ought to be law---but is not--wnose political birth right. bought with the best blood of the Revolution. corruption and tfeaehet' have stolen away; and no such thing as retreat or truce will we ever sound or concede. But let us not underestimate the magnitude of the task. The strug gle is an arduous one. We have many personal sacrifices to make, many brist- ling parapets 10 scale. many deeply in- trenched strongholds to storln--as strong as treacherg. corrupt methods, corrupt instrumentalities and stolen money could make them But we arg going to capture them all What was it old Stark said to his little poorly equipped band of militia. when he saw the tr;s'ned enemies of American liberty emhattled at Bennington? Do you see those redcoats. just over there2 We must whip them. bows or Molly Stark E widow tonight Every heart caught the inSpiration. every nerve was steeleo for the onset Men wlfo talk that way and feel that way mean something ane do something. When night came ane the smoke of battle had blown slowlS away, Molly Stark was not widt " neither had the brave old Stark told an1 He. He had just given his country. enemies an fnupaI9table foretaste o what they Were to get q little later on al Saratoga; and when the mornin( came. the white flowers of Anerlcaf liberty were seen blooming there. Thel are still blooming ihrre at Bennington --beautifui white flowers of Iibcrtv''- blooming not there alone but on cverl bloodstained field Of the Revolution from the St Lawrence to the southern coast of New England to Georgia. iron Lexington to York 'rown--from the cold CT fields of the North where our bray, old Stark won to the warmer fields c the South where our intrepid Jasper fell. North man and South man fight ing together ln the same cause agains the same common enemy. made us glorious history---''gl0ry enough for aiI No North. no South no East no West
 them what room should pur cauntrl For 4s.rss tfss..,
 ttes1 What place for the two old partie that have so long abused the confiaenc Of her people and marTeJ the symmetY. of her progressH Do yon not know | II beyond all question tbat all seotiona lines should he obiiterated. an sertfona alfars abolishcd--fiat we should be on common people--one American brother hood and ststcrh0od working fogethe for onr country'g common e0ad2 'rhi fs one of th- many great things ois party stands for~--the first and 1hl party that ever assembled in natlona convention. had the Justice and cnuff ss recognition Of our wallaut old Confsler ate soldiers
 But to return from my short diureg zion. Do you ask whether we will win Rather ask when we vii win; it Is onI question of time and of a short tim at fhnt Just wait little longer bovs there's good time coming Tho erea heart of the people is moving to th N see the wind going in Inc tops Of ynulfer " trees% Gods own signal for settinl fhe battle In array. Then glrd your~eiye for the conflict We are in if to tn finish As for myself ! would prefa to fight in the ranks of iny brave ol cofufades wsfo stood in the thln ezra line when the Last curtain felI on th fratrieidal scene. when the last hope 0 our cherished cause went down. and
 would Ike 10 flfllt ID the same svith ou brave. iflore numerous better e9uippe and therefore more fortunate brothe soldiers of the full blue iiue And wh. shonIa 1t not be so2 Have VIC not fra terpfzed everywhere. fn our reunions o our old battle grounds at the graves o our defd comrades. in our social gather ings and in our family cireles2 Onl deasrters have held aicof-~only denisi gogues have opposed-fhose who di their only fighting before the war an after the war--who never saw. neve wanted to see se white liowets of ipes. ty blooming
 SeetionaIism has given us 9 terris' EcouFging in tho past. and wili not ral to scourge us in the future unless w '1ssfross it from the fitce Of the earth And how may il be thus destroyedF Dnls by retiring forever the old parties tnal have fO&teFed IT. IL iS bDOtieAStIpr tbe3f to say they are not infected with fl. ol that their political motives and conduct are not characterized by it, for, af every ptxsldentiai election of the last fiIt5 years the Democrats have counted witf , confidence on the solid electoral vote oi the south. while tlie RepuEiiGans have counted with equal confidence on ths praeficaIIV x soil kfsyfa of fi3r North, ntl'