Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-05-13
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THE NEW Era
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Speech of SAINT 81 ?
Canal Zone, plac
dency Woocrow
Democratic Com
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wide eXpanse of our gre as Gov
who remember pleasant s.. -
Werner, a son Of Hon. JOHN Sa. ....
ner, OF OConee, who will -e int. ..l
in reading the follow uE .,
which is a reproduction Of NJ
ner's speech in placing hofou .
Canal Zone Democratic Cow "a
the name Of Woodrow wilson
nominee of the Democrat pos.
the Presidency in 1912. JJis -
heretofore "unwritten his.o )
characteristic OF the ma, who
cred the address-frank earn. .
oQuent. We reproduce r. nc
only because the author ana .r
is an Oconeean, but beca use ~. ...
slider it we'll worthy of uragol .,..
as a masterpiece. We give .
Mr. Verner's nominating aDe,
full:
Mr.. Verner's Spe Oh.
Mr.. Chairman and G, mtlen
the Democratic Convent .,.
Canal Zone:
One of the happiest fac g. aDC.
! American people is that Ne ha
ways been able to prod acc g. "
when we needed one. When q.
rights and liberties Of cur f. o..
were imperiled b. the ty'"uuo1 .o.
ions Of the Parliament ~
Britain, out of the soil of Yes, ..
land there grew to vigoro, ms .j
a heroic figure whose arm and ..
were prepared to lead to a 81 .u-
triumph the indignant co. Iu's, 70
sought freedom at the CA -
mouth; while under the OK ell.
Monticello there brooded q ua
which sent hurting dow ths -es
the challenge Of the rights Of G.E aJn
men against the presumptioG o. ..C
who would ruthlessly rg'o rr'
which, e yet, is thunder ng * .av1
the thrones Of earth and achUil. in
the palaces Of hoary .dyusg ties.
When the infant republic vas aaaaii-
ed again by those foes wi ..a : cnt-
less hatred was fain once sN .s.Ha
tempt it's destruction, the ! m.i's.r,
Carolina had nourished 'oor ...
phan youth whose might q.
ther poverty nor social di .utaa
could restrain, and the e uu..
plains OF Louisiana bore lanl
once more to how Am, .uulH.
breed men for her hour ug.J
When the dark and terrib IDS u.
civil dissension lowered 81 On ..
the land. and the SneeriI e.
American unity thought ...
pending the fulflment of .ru.G
ecy, there arose from the .
Illinois a gaunt and gian ..
which liberty and union s.
sOlubly linked, and who ."
died that the heritage o 81
fathers should not perish.
And now, once more, Mr.. Chair
man as we stand face to face with
tie greatest OF all Il problems;
when we have arrived at the forks
Of the roads where the Roman peo-
pie once stoo(; when we are brought
up against the great issue of whe-
IhNl liz iiSlIo VIC SdllSu at Tie DilCS
of so much blood and suffering shall
be surrendered to feudal lords OF
our w making and uncrOwned
kings of our W creation; at this
momentous time when thoughts of
Caesar and Charles of Alexander
and Of Louis XVI, are il mems minds
eVeryWherc-when we wonder if we
have a better than Brutus, a might
Ter than Cromwell among us, it seems
to me that there has emerged into
American public life for the fourth
time n Of those pradestined men,
whom the times demand and upcn
whom the nation calls.
Moreover. it is not only true that
America has been prolific Of men for
any occasion. but she also has put no
limitations o the place or condi-
ton of their origin. The Father Of
His Country" was a nobleman by de-
scent, an aristOcrat by breeding, a
man Of great wealth and social pres
tige, both by birth and marriage;
yet it was he who despised the trap
pings Of royalty and who declined a
proffered crown. The author Of the
Declaration Of Independence was a
country gentleman of liberal fortune,
highly cultured intellectually and
the social peer Of his countrymen:
yet he it was who laid the rhn"~o~"
ical basis of the equal rigt Az
men. The hero Of New Or WIS
born in a log hut and reare, f...r