Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-23
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editing Golfers that paper was
an instrument for good. 1t was
fair and independent in its poll
eies, and it treated every section
of our country with justice. Since
Mr. Hapgood retired, Golfers, we
regret to say, has changed, and
its outlook has become partisan.
In view of this change it is
small wonder to find in its col,
umns this charge; Democratic
solidarity is greatest where ilit.
eracy is most common, where pub
lie education is least regarded,
and where all the attributes of
modern ciyilizstion, material and
spiritual, exist in the smallest de-
gree
If these words mean anything
they mean that the South is Dem
cratic because it is illiterate, and
the Democratic party is so i'm
poyerished in ideas and ideals
that it appeals only to illiterates,
and is therefore a party of litter,
ateS.
The president of the United
States comes from this illiterate
stock, and in equipment, in
scholarship, in intellectual en-
dowments, he is regarded as the
highest type of statesman that
has risen to that high office since
the republic was founded. The
leaders of both houses Of congress
are from this illiterate section,
md they have succeeded in put
ling on the statute books in three
years more reform measures of
lasting good to the whole people,
han can be said of the Republi
an party in fifty years. The
,hief justice Of the supreme court
S from Louisiana, and Justice
| Louis d. Brandies, whom Chief
| Justice Fuller said was the ablest
nan who ever practiced before
hat court, came from illiteratc
Kentucky.
Out vi ,hc darkness of NTissiS.
ppi came John Sharp Williams,
ne abIest member Of the federal
mate, the statesman who is most
cared by the party to which Col
lefs owes allegiance. Not even
'abot Lodge of Massachusetts,
possesses the scholarship and cul
ure of Senator Williams, and
Lodge is said to be the most cul
ured man in New England.
Two of the greatest ideas in
municipal government reform or
( .ginated in the South-commis
sion government and city man
! ager government-the former at
Galveston in Texas, and the latter
at Staunton, Virginia.
1t was the South that gave to
the United States the Father Of
the Declarallon of Independence,
the father OF the Constitution OF
his country, the author of the
Monroe doctrine, Americas great,
est Christian soldier, Americas
greatest poet and writer, Ameri.
cas- greatest geOgrapher, and a
long line of notable men who
make the pages of our country's
common history glorious with
their lives and splendid deeds;
and from Kentucky came that
man Golfers recognizes as the
Savior of the UniOn-Abraham
Lincoln.
Is it not time for such stuff as
this of Golfers to cease? The il.
literates of the South are negroes,
who are all Republicans, followers
of the party to which Golfers be.
longs, If they were moved bodily
from our section the record would
show that in literacy the South
has no reason to be ashamed.
The South is no better and it is
no worse than any other section
of the country. 1t is Just as good
as the best, we are all Americans,
who love our country, our flag
and our institutions, and we
make good our faith and homage
by fighting for all of them when
it is necessary. We don't have
to prove this, for informed people
everywhere know it is sO.-Mobile
Register.