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FME VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1908
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■e. Ci •NANTLEY, Editor.
C. L. TURNER, ButliwM Miniger.
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Entered at the Poetofflce et Valdoete,
Ga., ae Second Claee Mall Matter.
/ALDOS'I A, GA., OCT. 31. 1908
TWELVE PAGES.
The New York Herald In preserving
Its reputation as a prophet by bank
ing up a large doubtful column.
"Atm high" to a noble aspiration,
but the trouble la that most of us
are m slid red near-sighted.
, Tbe aide class that put John Bun-
yan fa prison Is sew jMwln* to
btrild a monument to him.
Betwehe - the rains, the railroad
wrector and hie lost-rolce, Candidate
Taft giving an Illustration of a man
who to being chased by the Pates.
A Roe ton paper says that It will
publish as new* only what good peo
ple da. We presume this means It
will only touch the sky-Hne.
President Roosevelt Is fifty years
old and not many half centuries, have
received as many Jolts ns he has In
flicted upon the one Just closed
An exchange says that a State of
Washington man has raised a water
melon eight feet long. It must have
beAn raised out of a Ixrwndeg county
patch.
The democrat who votes -l^ the pri-
nutvita and then votes agalnat the
notolnhm of the party Is not the kind
of .democrat —In fact, he Is no domo-
c # 0 -j n
William McAdoo, former Police
r^yqi^aloner In New York City, la
Democratic nominee for Con
gross in the Seventeenth District of
New York.
Thomas L. Hligen, the Independent
presidential candidate, says 1
sure to carry Nevada. This It the
most modest claim any of the candl*
dates hwre made so far.
SHOULD BE A LARGE VOTE.
Though there Is not the slightest
danger that the republican party, or
any other party will carry the state
of Georgia over the Democracy next
Tuesday, it Is of the highest Impor
tance that a large vote should be
polled. Taft and his allies, Watson
and Hlseen, have no more chance of
go*ting Georgia’s electorlal vote than
Yancey farter had of defeating
“Little Joe” Brown, but a small vote
next Tuesday will rob the Democracy
of much of the sweetness of victory.
Thor are numerous reasons why
1. WATSON’S AD
DRESS AT ATLANTA
(Continued From Second Page.)
that of old Ireland? Who Is it that
tries to rouse you to throw off your
bondage and become once more free
as did O'Connell, the uncrowned king
of Ireland, when he marshaled the
efforts within her borders because of
my resolution to hew to the line of
my own purpose regardless of Taft,
regardless of Bryan, regardless of
anything except the fixed ambition to
do something that will tend to restore
the Southern states to the splendid
his money every year to supj>ort it. ; Nothing Is wasted. I believe that
In the city of New York there Is j the work of every true man, every
a club known as the Cosmopolitan true woman, has In It a germ of
Club, composed of negro men, white immortality. It is that kind of faith
men and white women. The^ohject which has meved me to do the work
of this chib is to promote social which I have done in this campaign,
equality and Inter-marriage of the as In other years, since, 1889. Politic-
two races. They boast that they ally I stand now where I stood when
have arranged several such mar*, the Farmer^’ Alliance sent me to
risge 0 . In thp early par^of this year. ! Congress. To the popularity of the
here should be a large vole. One of j OI( ,. reMed of his native land to bring th, » Cosmopolitan Club gave an elab- Principles which that organization
oppressea oi ms nauvy lana 10 onng ora te dinner, at which negro men, adopted, T owed my success In
the main reasons Is that we owe It | the irresistable force of public opin-l white men and white women sat race for Congress. The Tenth DIs-
to do It. tor be was able to send them | reaches the great blue sea, from
Otoewhere had be the slightest objec-j wWch it j 8 i lfte d by the white-hand
u °? ‘fTf hl ‘ * au * hter re ? rel5 - of the mlat back to Its home In the
and educated in a school on a plane j
of social equality with young negro clouds, to start once more from the
men and women. So highly does skies with its message to every seed
Mr. Bryan approve of thJs social of grass, and grain, and flower, “I
University that he donates $250 of am the Resurrection and the Life.' 1 j ^gjtion which they once held^in the
*_ * 14 * J T l ~" , ‘ *’”' f government of the nation.
I shall never be President mvself,
bur I am blazing the trail along
which some other Southern man will
take his way to the White House. I
am marking out the road along which
Southern statesmanship will lead the
South bark to her former power. To
tho extent that I have made the
march this year. T have shortened It
for those who will come after me; to
splendid leaders to show them j on to fo ear U pon English tyranny?
^be. donun^ of small girls for the
Tediljr betf' lristead of the old fash
ioned doll may be only another manl
.testation 6T '‘the society woman’o
preference for a dbg to a baby.
The prayer of the Houston Post
Is: "6h Lord, heed the prayers of
Thy democratic children and have
Rooeevelt shoot off his mouth two or
three time* more before the election.”
When the puMlc is Informed who
Is to bo next President and If tho
Duke of the Abruszt Is really going
to marry the daughter of Sonator
Rising It will settle down onco more
to' Its normal condition.
John R. Elgin, the Republican can
didate for Congress In the Seven
teenth Texag district, has withdrawn
from tlr£ toee," leaving Congressman
James L*. Slayden. Democrat, nnop-
pa#od.
It !g reported that Senator Chester
I. Long of Kansas, who has been de
feated for re-election, may become
Secretary of the Interior In the event
that Mr. Taft Is elected to the Pres
idency.
boyornor Patterson, of Tennessee
1s go^iig after those night-riders like
hb meant business, and the entire
country will applaud him if he suc
ceeds In bringing the whole lay-out
to the end of a hemp rope.
Two Democrats are on the stump
for Taft. This Is a very Important
straw. Both of them are members
of the Roosevelt Cabinet, and tho fact
warrants the expectation that most
of the Democrats who are holdtng
federal offices, will support Taft.
Cofaellus N. Bliss, who collected
th« Insurance money of widows and
orphans for the Roosevelt campaign
of 1904. is still unscrupulous enough
to 'make a public pretense that the
election of Bryan would cause a busl
muta crisis—os If the crisis had not
been on for more than a year.
When a rice president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Samuel Rea, con
tributes to the Bryan campaign fund
It la hardly worth while to pretend
that buslueas men as a class are
afraid of Bryan. M. R. Ingalls Is anoth
er railroad man who does not believe
that national salvation hangs upon
William Howard Taft.
I to i
| that Their constituents are not only
loyal to them, but they are deeply
Interested In the conflict' and Its re
sult. We owe It to Mr. Bryan, the
presidential candidate, who has prov
en .himself more than ever a pillar
of strength In the campaign this year.
We owe it to Congressman Brantley,
whose alertness In the discharge of
his duties at Washington has been of
such vast benefit to his district.
Besides these reasons, the Demo
crats of Georgia should show Presi
dent Roosevelt and his man that they
can expect nothing from this section
for a party that was born of section
al hatred of the South and prospers
by legislation against the Interests
of this section. It waves the bloody
shirt to stir the passions of those
whom It cannot win by other means.
Its laws are made to benefit gigan
tic monopolies In the* North at the
expense of consumers In the South,
and other agricultural sections. It
dlstrbutes tariffs and bounties among
producers In the North and packs the
burden upon the South. It invents
every conceivable sort of robbery
on pension claims for soldiers at the
North, the pension burden being
greater forty years after the war
#n at any other time.
With power unbridled, that party
has been scheming for years to still
further cripple the South by reducing
her representation In congress and
in the electoral college. A small vote
In the South enables them to say that
this section Is getting more repre
sentation than it Is entitled to. The
recent disfranchisement of the negro
will strengthen their argument. What
Georgia need* to do, to counteract
this effect, Is to vote her full strength
next Tuesday. A majority of one
hundred thousand for Bryan and
Kern would be worth much to the
state. It Would show that we are Stilt
loyal to pemocratlc principles and
that we are not cringing before the
sordid hunger for pelf and patron
age.
Bryan and Brantley should get the
full Democratic vote of Lowndes
county next Tuesday.
One of the most remarkable fea-
turns of the pretent campaign in New
York has been the re-entry of the Hon
John Bigelow Into active politics in
behalf of the Bryan and Kern ticket
Mr, Bigelow, who was a noted law
yer end author In hie day and for
pope years was United Statee min
ister to Prance. Is now In his nlnety-
fli^'year.
DEMOCRATIC PRO8PECT8.
Going back Into history a little bit,
It will be seen that whenever & panic
occurs, the next presidential election
after goes against the party In power.
The first great panic we had was in
1837 which resulted 1n the complete
route of thef Democrats In 1838 and
1840.
The next one occurred In ’57 which
also resulted In a republican house
of 1858 and the Democratic rout of
1860. the third great panic occured
In 1873 under Grant which resulted
In the sweeping Democratic Congres
sional victory in 1874 and again in
the election of Mr. Tllden in 1876.
In 1893. this country had another
•vere panic and tho Republicans
then claimed that the Democrats were
responsible and so now they have to
take their own medicine and stand
the blame for the million and a quart-
of workmen that are now out of
work in our large cities and so there
little doubt but that the Demo
crats will sweep this country on the
third of November.
Mr. Roosevelt has always bragged
about being a -Civil Service Reformer
hut here of late, he Is acting the part
politician pure and simple. It is
said that he has offered a certain la
bor lender a $5,000 Job if he will help
to take the labor vote away from
Mr. Bryan, who the labor loaders are
supporting.
Furthermore. Mr. Roosevelt is per
mitting the Republican Committee to
hold up the Southern postmasters and
revenue officers for campaign funds.
A little thing like the Civil Service
does not bother Mr. Roosevelt when
he Is trying to "appoint” a president
of the United States as his own suc
cessor.
THREE GOOD RULES.
The following three rules are said
to have been given by an old Quaker
to Senator Scott, of West Virginia,
when he was a young man. In fol
lowing them the Senator claims to
have made Ms success in life:
"Not what thee eats, but what thee
digest*, will make thee healthy.
"Not what thee earns, but what
thee eaves, will make thee wealthy.
"Not what thee reads, but what
thee remember, will make thee wise."
—Exchange.
Show me one of your leaders who has
a plan, a purpose, a definite aim,
scheme of constructive legislation
which will remedy abuses, reatofo
prosperity, safeguard individual lib
erty, making the body politic healthy
and strong.
I stand squarely for white . su
premacy as the best policy for the
blacks and the whites alike. The
law which was adopted by popular
vote today is the best guarantee of
the earnestness with which I speak.
In order to help you secure that la»
I made very considerable personal
sacrifice and did arduous work during
the campaign which brought success'
to that Issue.
On the other hand, consider the
attitude of Mr. Bryan with reference
to the negro vote. The leaders of
that race aTe organized, and they are
making relentless warfare upon the
Republican party, because the /Re
publican party has at last recognized
the Justice of the South’s contention
that she should be allowed to regu
late her own domestic affairs. Think
what this means! The Civil War was
waged to establish the right of the
South to local home rule. We lost
the case In the trial by battle, and wo
lost our slaves, but the principle wgs
not lost, and now, after forty years
of bitterness and strife, the enlight
ened Republicans of the North and
East have v said by actions which
speak louder than words that the
Southern people who made sncl^e*.
role sacrifices to assert the princi
ples of local self-government were
right. It vindicates every Confeder
ate soldier who marched and fought
under the stars and bars. It is
monument erected by his enemy to.
the honor of every dead hero of the
Southern Confederacy; It Is a halo
of glory for every survivor of ^ie
followers of Lee and Jackson, Jotin-
son and Forrest.
But the negro leaders of the North,
Fast and West are Incense^, against
the Republican party for ‘ hsvit
adopted this* - ilosltton.
five noints upon which they rest thsir » and
hostility to Roosevelt and Taft.
Because they haven’t enforced
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments.
2. Becsuse they have acquiesced In
the Southern disfranchisement laws.
3/ Because the President dismissed
from the army the negro troops who
shot up Brownsville.
4. Because of the defeat of the
Foraker bill, which was Intended to
restore these troops to the army.
5. Because Roosevelt has appoint
ed, nnd Taft has said that, he will
continue, as Secretary of War. Gen
eral Lnke R. Wright, an Ex-Confed
erate soldier.
Upon these polnte delegations ren-
resenting the negroes went to Taft
seeking satisfaction. They came
away from Taft without getting sat
isfaction. They then went to Mr.
Bryan, and they came away satlfled.
What did he say to them? I don’t
know, but he must have said some
thing that sounded better to them
than what Taft said. If he said any
thing to them that was less favorable
to the South than the position of
Roosevelt and Taft, he has no right
to exnect Southern sunnort. D he
did not ray something more satisfac
tory to them than what Roosevelt and
Taft had said, he would not now be
getting the negro support. He can
not be Ignorant of the fact that thev
are circulating throughout the whole
country a written statement Intend
ed to Influence the negro to vote for
him. in which statement they say
that they have been In communica
tion with Mr. Brvan for weeks, and
that he has made them satisfactory
pledge®.
In coming to a decision In a mat
ter of this sort the people of the
South should remember that Mr.
Bryan was born In Illinois. In 1858.
That he grew up In the heated at
mosphere of sectional hostility to the
South. By heredity, environment and
education he was saturated with the
Idea that the South was wrong on
the negro question, and that the
North was right. It Is Just as natur
al for Mr. Bryan, horn where he was,
reared in the environment of his Il
linois home, to take the side of Thad
Stevens and Chas. Sumner against
the South, as it is for a man like me,
born and reared in Georgia, to be
lieve that the South was right and
Sumner were
down to eat and drink on terms of
social equality. During the banquet
miscegenation was earnestly advocat
ed, and the theory advanced that by
the inter-marriage of black men with
white women the black skin of the
Ethiopian would gradually bleach in
to the whiteness of the Caucasian.
The Secretary of the -Club Is Rev
erend Doctor Owen-Walker, a ne
gro, and he is one of the Bryan speak
ers in this campaign.
What will It mean to the South If
a Democrat folding such views as
My. Bryan does, is elected President?
A Republican President holding views
of that sort we can antagonize.
Against him we present the impas
sable barrier of the 8olid South; but
how can we defend ourselves against
the dangers of such views as those
Held by Mr. Bryan when we ourselves
give them the endorsement which
would be implied by our support of
him for the Presidency?. If the Im-|ycu enter
presslon goes abroad that he owes
his election to the negro vote, who
can calculate the disastrous conse
quences? We already have 4.000
Washington negroes on the payrolls
of the government. We already have
white men and white women working
under negro bosses In Washington
City. We already have white naval
officers and sailors holding inferior
places to the negro. Ralph W. Tyler,
who Is the auditor of the U. S. .Navy.
We have white girls and boys work
ing under the negro. W. T. Vernon,
Register of the United States Treas
ury. We have white lady clerks un
der the negro, John Dancy, Recorder
of Deds for the District of Columbia.
We already have a negro Judge of
one of the Courts of the District of
Columbia.
l£tbe political Importance of the
negro is to be enhanced, as Henry
Watterson, Bryan’s official mouth-
olce, says it should be, how long will
It be before 8.000 negroes will be
fedlng out off the public crib In
Washington City? If the Watterson-
Bryan policy of having the Demo
cratic party compete with the Re
publican party for the negro vote Is
adopted, how long will it be before
we Have a negro in the cab’net?
Instead of one Dr. Crum to ouarrel
About at the Charleston. Custom
kfrouse, we will have hundreds of Just
•saw* Croptflng fcut‘atl .Wei'-the
that Stevens and
wrong.
Mr. Bryan believes In social equal
ity. I would not dare to sav so if I
could not prove It. He lives In a
states where It Is practiced, and he
has never uttered a word against It.
The laws of hl s state do not forbid
the inter marriage of blacks and
whites, and such marriages, so abhor
rent to us. are of frequent occur
rence In Nebraska.
The schools are mixed schools, In
which the whites and the negroes are
educated on terms of social equality.
The University of Nebraska is a
social equality school where young
negro men and women are admitted
and educated on terms of social
equality with young white men and
women. Mr. Bryan sent his own non
and daughter to be educated In this
institution, and be was not obliged
Where are the Southern Democrats
who are* ready to endorse the Watter-
son-Bpyam-nronositlon that “the time
has coihe for the negro to divide his
vote and thus become a oolitical fac
tor, such as he is not today"? Is that
what we have been trying to do for
the last thirty vears? Are the South
ern neople so blind to logical conse-
ouence® of political mistakes that
they will be silently acquiescent while
Mr. Bryan and his lieutenants adopt
a policy which threatens to undo
that which we have been trying for
thirty year* to do?
» We feel that the integrity of our
Institutions, .the purity of our civ
ilization, of our home life and hleod
requires the strictest maintenance
of white supremacy. If the Watter-
son-Bryan policy should be adopted,
what does It mean except that the
negro becomes the umpire of a dis
pute between the whites? When that
time comes, political eouality Is up
on us, and with political equality es
tablished, social equality cannot be
Wept out: and with the coming so
cial equality, the Inter-marriage of
the races Is inevitable.
In the name o£, God. what are
Southern editors thinking about that
thev make no protest while Wr. Br’-
and and Mr. Watterson are Africaniz
ing tho Democratic partv? Ever
the war. It has claimed to be a
white man’s party. Because It was
the white man’s Jarty the Rnn*h hs
allowed herself to he ruled by It; but
now, at the very time when the Re-
orbllcan party has come over to the
8outh’s nos't'on on the race quest'on,
and wishes to put the neqro out of
politics because he has become an
Intolerable burden, the Democratic
partv ie 'eavina its historic notion
on the neqro question, and is pitching
its camos on the around which the
Renublican partv has Abandoned!
Mr. Bryan should surhordlnato to
patriotism h»s monumental selfish
ness and sav to the negroes boldly—
"T a»rre with the President on the
nuestfon unon which you are fight
ing him: T aeree with the Southern
»'oople. lust as Roosevelt and Taft
do: T repudiate vopr sunnort If you
offer it to me unon those grounds: I
snum vour co-oneratlon If you offer
It to me upon terms which memnee
the Southern neople with a return of
tho horrors of reconstruction.”
instead of doing this, he deliber
ately makes'an asset of the neqro
resentment and takes up a position
which, if maintained, would turn the
Southern states into another Santo
Dominpo.
Mr. Carlyle somewhere In hf s vol
uminous writings has this sentence.
"Cast forth thy act. thv word. Into
the ever-living, ever-working universe.
It is seed-grain that cannot die: un
noticed today it will be found flourish
ing like a banyan grove after a thou
sand years."
The rain-drop sl’ps from the cloud
aboVe. sinks into the soli where the
seed lies burled and *says to It. "I
am the Resurrection and the life;"
trickles onward through field and
forest, seeking the brook, and with
tbe brook Jonmevs onward, loiter
ing In the eddy, leaping in the cas
cade, and faring onward until it
overwhelmingly in favor of
the Ocala platform of the Farmers’
Alliance, and I was publicly and
solemnly pledged to adhere to those
principles, regardless of the caucus
dictation of the Democratic party. It
was my loyalty to this pledge that
carried me out of the Democratic
party and brought upon me such a
storm of misrepresentation and afcuse.
In every- essential particular, my
creed tonight Is the same that It was
twenty years ago. Nobody had to
pay me to embrace it; nobody has
paid me to remain true to It.
To maintain my position through
out the bitterness of these eighteen
years hag not been easy. The tempta
tion to surrender and thus escape
persecution, proscription and politi
cal isolation was very great. The
things I have had to bear, a proud
man find® difficult to endure. To see
old friends turn their backs when
hotel lobby, to avoid
meeting you: to lift your hat to la
dles and girls on the street and to
have your courtesy received with
mockery and jeers: to offer your
hand to old friends on the cars and
have It refused; to have wagon loads
of drunken negroes sent to your
house at night to yell and hoot their
Insolent' taunts, In the hearing of
your wife and children, to attempt
to address your fellow citizens on the
principles of Jeffersonfan Democracy,
as you understand them, and to be
howled down, and owe your life to
the Intervention of brave friends ajid
sympathizing policemen; to be'so nter
naced In your own home that-'a pick?
et of armed men seemed to' he abso
lutely necessary to protect It from
murderous attack—these are the
things which try the souls of men,
and through these things I am not
the only Populist in the Southern
states who has had to make his way.
I thank God who made me for the
strength that sustained me during
those terrible years, and which <
abled me to hold the rudder true. I
believe that the time has at las:
come when the people of my state
are beginning to appreciate the help
lessness, the hopelessness, the hu
miliation, of their political position,
and that a change Is at hand. I be
lieve that the state of Georgia will
give me, on the strength and sound-
ness and patriotism ol iny position,
such support oq the 3rd 'day of New-
ember that the electoral vote of Geor
gia will hereafter be uncertain. The
moment this glorious event is achiev
ed the whole political situation of
this republic will be In process of
revolution. With the vote of Geor
gia made uncertain, the Solid South
Is threatened with a break-up, and
with the breaking up of the Solid
South will come the dawn of a bet
ter, brighter day. not only for Geor
gia and the South, but for the whole
Union.
Inspired by this belief. It has been,
work of love for me to campaign
the extent, to which I have carried
the battle line I lessen the struggle
for those who shall win the final
victory. The prophet dies, but the
world lives—can never die—continues
Its message, encouraging the work
of noble men and noble women to
the end of time. The color bearer,
falls, but other hands catch up the ’
flag and bear it on. It will not be
mine to enter the harvest field and
loin In the song of those who reap
the grain, but I am sufficiently re
warded hv the consciousness that I
have sown good seed upon fruitful
soli, and I care not' who garners the
grain so the people get the bread.
It may not be mine to see the
standard flying in triumph over the
Intrenchments of special privilege
which the masses have stormed and
taken, nor hear the glad shout of the
unprlviledged millions as they enter
Into their own; but I am content to
feel that my duty has been done as
well as I could do It; that I have
fought a eood fight, and have been In
strumental in making the final tri
umph certain.
To see the South throw off the sack
cloth of her political desolation, to
see her rise to the full height of her
trength and Independence, to see
her take her confident way toward a
brighter future, with the light of hone
In her lustrous eyes and the Miriam
song of Victory on her Imperial Ups
—has been one of my fondest dreams.
To see our country get over the
awful effects of the. Civil War. sec
tional hatred burled.' the class legis
lation which came with the war re*,
pealed, the growth' of plutocracy
(checked, the spirit?, of Justice and
Equality restored to our laws and
government—has been another of
my dreams.
To help bring these things about:!*
surely a patriotic purpose. The best
years of my life have been devdted
to It. In spite of all that has befal
len me. I am'nelther defeated nor dis
couraged. Bellewlng that the prin
ciples for which we Jeffersonians
stand mean the salvation of our coun
try, I am their soldier, to march and
fight at every call of the bugle—this
year, and all the years to come.
And if every man who in his heart
of heart8 believes that we are right'
would have the manhood to vote with
us, there would be. throughout the
South on the 3rd of November, such
air a^hkeRjihg, such an. Easter, as war
cursed Dixie nas not known since' ohr
flag went down In the blood, the tears,
the heart-break of Appomattox.
the state. I^jhave concentrated my|10-31-4w.
Taken Up.
<A solid black male hog weighing
about three hundred pounds. Mark
In right ear with under square, has
strayed to my house, broke in my
field, rooting out everything In the
field. I can’t do anything with him.
Owner must come and get himjmd
pay damages. ,
W. D. BENNETT, V
Two miles- south of Valdosta.
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