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The Golden Age
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He Will he is also a favorite with the mu’-
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to The Brougton, has sailed with his family
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The Baptist Forum, the new monthly magazine
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periodical of thought and force.
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this organization as stockholders and contributors
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It has 100 pages and* the price is $2.00, which is
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The August number had as its frontispiece a
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some Dr. John E. White, of Atlanta, and articles in
it from Baltimore to Texas. One of Mississippi’s
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tist church, Amory, Miss., says: “I regard The
Forum as the greatest conception in Baptist journal
ism. Without doubt it is destined to accomplish far
reacthing results, and if he that perfected it were to
drop out now, the plan would never be lost. It car
ries with it, its own commendation and the conse
crated wisdom of a great people will make it go.
It would appear that providence has launched The
Forum and the Baptist ‘World Movement’ together
as complementary. Each will be worthy of the
other.”
The plan of Dr. Morris and The Forum builders is
to make, not a cheap, but a great magazine and they
are “making good.”
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The Golden Age for September 8, 1910.
A GREAT NOMINA TING SPEECH
As a piece of stalwart, commanding eloquence, the
speech of Hon. Hooper Alexander, in nominating
Hoke Smith for Governor and present-
Hooper ing him for President to the Democ-
Alexander racy of the nation, must take its place
Wins New beside the speech of Martin W. Little-
Laurels ton in presenting Alton B. Parker,
At Georgia and that of Judge Black, of New York,
Democratic in nominating Theodore Roosevelt for
Convention a second term. And Alexander was
not a whit behind.
The truth is, it surprised even his warmest friends
who knew him to be capable of great speeches.
It was the oratorical feature of the convention, and
five thousand enthusiastic patriots cheered to the
echo.
But, however wholesome its tenets, it was not so
much the political side of Mr. Alexander’s speech
that we enjoyed in its delivery or now commend in
its reproduction.
It was rather the masterful way in which the
speaker handled his subject, in the bold patriotism
which called for the rising again of the Southern
star in the firmament of national leadership.
Plis declaration that the South, with all her glorious
traditions, and her present loyalty and greatness,
has as much right to name a presidential candidate
as the foreign banditti which supports the dicta
torship of Tammany Hall was the signal for a scene
of stirring enthusiasm; and when, in his peroration,
he turned from one wing to the other of the great
Auditorium, and shouted to the “shirt-sleeved aris
tocracy” before him —“Sons of the choicest strains
of American blood, scions of Revolutionary stock,
citizens of the cleanest and purest section of this
Union, I move you here today that we demand the
right to name the next presidential candidate of the
Democracy of this country”—the enthusiasm that
reigned can better be imagined than described.
After referring to local issues, to Governor Smith’s
laudable ambition to represent his State in the Senate
of the nation, and to the personal sacrifice which
public service often demands, Mr. Alexander said:
“And yet, my countrymen, I question if it
should be so. Sacrifice and service are the con
ditions of true greatness. The assured
Sacrifice gratification of an honorable ambition
and might bring the keenest satisfaction
Service, to the aspirant, and simulate for him
the rewards that history will reserve
for them of great renown. But if there be other
and more arduous tasks to which Georgia may
rightfully call a chosen son, he can not refuse
the call without forever foregoing the palm of
greatness. And no matter what the nature of
the call, its perils or its cost, the son that is
worthy of the State must serve her where she
sends him.
Is there such a duty in the future to which
Georgia may summons her favorite son? I think
there is.
For 50 years, Georgia and her sister Southern
States have patiently submitted to an ignoble
and degrading station in this Union. Her sons
have been born, have grown to manhood and
have served their country and many of them
have been gathered to their fathers, all of them
conscious always of a power and prejudice that
barred them from one high and honorable am
bition to which it would be wholesome for the
republic if every citizen might aspire.
South Always Faithful.
• “The old men of Georgia and her young men
have steadfastly clung to the traditions of the
Democratic party through good and ill repute.
Before their eyes have been hung the glittering
gauds of power and of station and the promise
of rich emolument, if they wou’d only make
uncandid profession of a creed they do not hold.
Since the beginnings of faith there has been no
such record of fortitude as theirs. The tempta
tions of promised office, easy to acquire, have
not seduced them, nor the glamour of profit or
of power tempted. Alike undeterred by political
ostracism and unseduced by politicial promise,
they have held for half a century to the faiths
of their fathers and the gospel of equality, and
shut their eyes to the garish promises that tell
of the rewards awaiting for their treason.
During all these years it has perhaps been
needful that we subordinate our hopes to the
conditions by which we were confronted. For
one I confess that I have chafed no less when we
followed a leader dictated by feudal power, than
when we permitted one to be chosen for us by
a lawless conspiracy masquerading as Demo
crats. But the imminent perils of our local sit
uation seemed to others to require patience,
and I, as you, have submitted.
“The Time Has Come.”
I never shall willingly submit again nor patient
ly endure to see the leader of a great Democracy
chosen for the Democratic hosts by any free
lances or banditti.
Men of Georgia, you who have been always
faithful, you who have been always true, if
we must go every four years to fight a desperate
and losing battle for Democracy and equality,
if we are to be forever the forlorn hope of
American liberty, in the name of every honorable
tradition that illuminates the pages of our his
tory, let’s choose our own leader, frame our
own faiths, and fight the battle for ourselves.
I have done penance long enough. So have
you, my countrymen. If we are ever to resume
our equal status in this nation the time has
come. To your tents, O Israel, and now let Tam
many Hall look to its own house.
“And where shall the leader be found? Look
abroad over the length and breadth of the Demo
cratic hosts of America for whom shall we
select? Whose head shall tower like Saul’s
above his fellows? All will agree that he is
a citizen of this State.
And rest assurred, men of Georgia, that it
is not an unwise policy to which I call you now.
Success comes only to those who strive for it
and the righteousness of this demand will build
up friends for us. Whatever we have gathered
from the wreckage of the past has come to us
when we have stood for our rights. I call you
to no sectional strife. It is, indeed, an un
wholesome thing to seek a ruler for this nation
solely because he dwells in any given section,
but it is most ignoble and degrading that any
section should longer give consent for its own
debasement. If we longer submit to such a
policy we are unworthy of the sons who have so
long joyfully borne upon their shoulders the
penance of the past. If we consent longer to
oui own political ostracism we cannot as a party
hope to hold the faith that has so long ennobled
our patient struggle. If this nation is ever to
be reunited in spirit and in fact, the time has
come.
Sons of the choicest strain of American blood,
scions of Revolutionary stock, citizens of the
cleanest and purest section of this Union, I
move you here today that we demand the right
to name the next candidate of the Democracy of
of this country for its president. And, because
it is right that the State which demands this
thing of the country show its faith by its works,
as the testimonial of our faith and purpose, as
earnest or our high intent, I call upon you to
designate the man by nominating now for
Governor of Georgia, Hoke Smith, of Fulton.”
Reader, whether of the South or North, you ought
to have heard that speech. It rang with all the
resonance of loyalty and flashed with the fire of
consuming zeal. And at its conclusion, we could
but remark to some friends near by that if Hoke
Smith should get to be President, we nominated
then and there Hooper Alexander as Attorney
General!
Verily, the “Gentleman from DeKalb” has won
new laurels by this epoch-making speech. The na
tion will hear from it and the time will not be long.
And henceforth we will think of the man who
made it as a lineal decendant of “Alexander The
Great.”
