Show SOUTHERNERS IN OFFICE COMMENTING on the appointment app ment of or CO O Tate a aD Democrat to be United States attorney for this Ninth Georgia district a highly es esteemed esteemed e teemed Pennsylvania contemporary says The average southerner has a high regard for public In he is not no peculiar among the denizens denizen of r the tile union but he may mn be said id to toie toe W pre preeminent preeminent eminent He Is vastly capable of ap appreciating its value both as as a w 31 political asset and a 1 means of getting etting a liveli livelihood hood The real truth is iB that the southerner for public office offic than the av average average average northerner and he ha thinks less lessof lessof of it with special reference e to federal positions po than his northern brother It is easy casy to understand why this should be true With the exception of or the eight Cleveland years ears every eer fed federal federal eral office ollice in the south since the war lisa hats been held by b Republicans Now without meaning the least dis discourtesy discourtesy courtesy to our Republican friends in inthe inthe inthe the country at large larg but merely mereb by byway b byway way of stating a fact the best people of the south are Democrats Here and there a Republican who is a n very de decent decent decent cent sort art of a chap may be found but the average average of intelligence of education education education tion or ot refinement is very much higher among amons southern Democrats than titan among southern Republicans If IC the nero negro were entirely eliminated from politics this would still be true but it will m always 81 ways be true as long Ions longas as the ne no g to tov vote the Republican ticket I Therefore the tite Democrats of the south looking over the federal office officeholders officeholders 1 holders who dwell among them have lo Jo t whatever high regard regald tey may ma have had ad for federal offices They he have come to the conclusion that almost any ally anybody an body who cannot earn a II living lhing in any other othel way is fully qualified to hold a federal position This is a natural re result suit sult of f the Crums Clums and other negroes who ho have been appointed to office o ce In Inthe Inthe Inthe the south And Aud the negro officers are not entirely entire to blame either The average of ability and of intelli intelligence intelligence em gence g nce among the federal officeholders In the tho south will be very vey materially mater raised If President Roosevelt appoints a few more Democrats He is quoted as saying he is 18 going to appoint aJ only the best beet b t men in the various districts regardless of oC politics We Ye submit that If he lIe adheres to this resolution there will be a great greot many Democratic fed federal federal federal eral officeholders in the th south before the nation is much older |