The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-03-19
Sentiment Being Elm
mated IN South


Al time passes the halo OF sentiment
that once socircled American pc litics %
distinctly. grovs Len and - apparent
The Soushsrn section sill mourna for the
good old days "bsfors the war and
cainss 70 the Democratic party bscanss
that section hss not quite forEotasn that
is was the Republican party that destroy
Cd the creature Of the Southern slave-
holders-the Conf 'derase States of Amer
ica, and made the Union, lone and in
ssparabls." The South has spent most
Of the yean that have elapsed since the
6nal oct st Appomattox trying 70 deviee
means 10 nulify the results of the war.
Great reform movements do not travel
backward. and while the South has sue
sssded in eliminating persons Of African
descent from appreciable participation in
The politics Of that section. such sncces
has driven thousands Of the persons thus
proscribed politically, 70 other sections
where their voees count, and count, too,
almost invariably for the Republican
party. while those who esteemed the
privilege of the ballot lees highly have
stayed in Dixie and gathered unto
Themselves 20 much of this worlds goods,
are enjcylng themselves 90 thoroughly
and are improving Themselves 90 steadily
In those cultural graces which distinguish
ths enlightened from the merely civilized
man, that the South, yea, even the South
10 weary of . struggle against the tide
and 10 now N the eve of o reversal OF
policy. and not more than ten years will
pen before there will be existent in the
South the same business alignment i'm
politics that now prevails in other sections
Of country.
The passing Of the wilson regime will
siznslise the death of the last vestise of
sentimental politics north of the Poso-
mec." Daring he lew more ysarsA that
the Democratic party may count on .
solid South, its erstwhile allies across the
iine will be steadily dsserting. We do
not mean that the Democratic party il
going to be destroyed, bur we mean that
the reason that has heretofore served a.
10 foundation will serve no longer. Two
great parties will continue 20 exist, but
the differences between them will be bus
ines differences and not sentimental
oDes. Sentiment thrives in . new coun-
Try and has had it, dap upon the Amer
ican continents. The struggle that has
been going On in Mexico for several
jean u only one outcroppine Of the up
hssval thst precedes rapidly approach
ing grand resdjustment on those shores
which "srs not subject 70 colonization
By any European power" Neither in
Great Britain nor in any Of the constitu-
tionai monsrchies OF the continent OF
Europe Tin each of which there are ut
least two political parties) do matters Of
sentiment or tradition form the dividing
hne-thst stage of political development
was passed several centuries ago.
The settling OF our country 10 solid
bssis Of business politics 10 one OF the
best ASSURANCES possible that our political
institutions are 70 endure 80 far into that
future which lies before Ms. that we are
persusded 70 believe that they will be
with N and tbose who are to come after
NJ, always The millennium may Jet be
nos near; Utopia may yet be far of; the
s5soiuts death Of sentimental politics
may be impossible: bur there is Of . GER
tsinty . promise Of the demise Of the die
sssed sentiment that thrives in the soil
Of traditional wrongdoing.