The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-17
THURSDAY, JUNE IT, 1920
REPUBLlCANlSM AND THE CON-
 sTRUcTIVE SOUTH


 When it is said that the Republi- can party may win several electoral votes in the South in 1920 it ought to be said that Republicanism has never, even in the days of reconstruc- ton or in the civil war period, failed to appeal to the constructive South.
 Too often 'the cid South" is spoken of as if it were the South of the dawn ing republic. But the years from Polk to Buchanan were not the years in which the constitution was born, or the period of it's youth The Repub- Hcan party has on the stump and in the older South the South of the early presidents, of Chief Justice Mar shall, of John c. Calhoun in his best days, of the Pinckneys, and of young Alexander Stephens. All that was best and broadest in the South now finds it's logical home in the Repub lican party. The associations of later days may nominally hold a large part of the South in the Democratic ranks, but one cannot go far without finding the Southerner whose grandfather was a Whig and whose great-grand-fath was a Federalist. Such a man, though he may vote the Democratic ticket simply because he has formed the and cannot think op the lines of pres ent day Democracy Nor can the Democrat whose ancestors followed Jefferson and Jackson sympathize with those who would have undone what those great leaders effected.
 The master spirits of the older South,-the post-colonial South,-the South for nearly half a century after Y Yorktown, were national in thought and feeling. It gives only a peep at the picture to say that George Wash ington was a planter; he was ! sur vNyor, he had gone out in to the will Gerness, like Abraham, not knowing whither he went; he longed to see American tonnage go up and down the Mississippi. Natural was it for such man to esteem and trust Hamilton of far-reaching mind, and Marshal to whom the expanding of ideas of Ham ilton seemed good seed that would yield thirty, sixty or hundredfold. The country has listened to Websters speeches for the Union; it has read LincOln's papers on the consequences of a divided hOusce, but it has never known the case for a Union greater than any section to be better stated tran in the farewell address of our first president. From one Virginian come the declaration of independence, from another came the farewell ad- came the first tariff act for the pro- lection of American industry. Has tho Republican party failed to honor tLese proofs of the American spirit 2 It is true that Virginian college de- clined to receive pamphlets setting forth the protective ideas so dear to Washington, to Jefferson, to Madison and to Monroe, but that college was not under Republican management
 Every year Republican newspapers tell how Jefferson, as Secretary of State in Washingtons cabinet, urged the country to provide merchant marine. We were, he declared, large 1y dependent on British carriers, and Great Britain had for a century had three years of war for every four years of peace. Ships were needed to bring us the supplies we needed, to carry our breadstuffs abroad, to de- yelop our industries, to train the sea- men who might some day defend our coasts. There are large portions of the South in which no Democratic voice or pen ever mentions Jefferson's argument for American shipping In fact, there are Democratic news papers that would not reproduce his paper unless they were paid advertis- ing rates for so doing. But where in the Union is the Republican party