Show WHY wily NOT Nor A HERO AND PA PATRIOT I IThe The suggestion of The Telegram that the tIme Demo Demo- chits take a Southern man like Gen Gem Joe Wheeler heeler for for their theiL next Presidential nominee is much macit di dis- dis cussed Each days seems to to widen the gulf ulf between the Cleveland land forces and the It Itis is undeniable uncle unde- that the two factions are c am-c hopelessly ri apart aLt Jb Reconciliation is beyond the time possibilities In a Southern South South- ern man nian the time dead issues of the party pam could have 13 e no no life an and no ito meaning lie lle would stand for what he i is himself and what he l' l represents of goods thin things R in inthe the national patriot lie He would be he the last link of reunion of North and South the time symbol of obliteration tion lion of the memories of a dead lead past The rite Memphis f Morning g News a rabidly Democratic am anti and negro anti sheet ridicules the idea of running a Southerner for for- ii- ii its party's candid candidate t Nobody disputes the right of tle Democratic party says sars the time News fo to run a Southern man for Ol the Pres Presidency but everybody except ex CX celt a few superheated dog day enthusiasts would consider it Qui Quixotic otic for them to exercise that right The great parties pl nominate for candidates the Presidency Presidency dency with withaL at least leas the hope of winning but hut a Southern South South- cia ern Democrat would stand stani no more chance of success sue suc cef cess S than a resident of Guam The reasons for this fact lie partly in the thear ar war prejudices which still throughout time the northern half of the time Union and which would be fanned into a re red hot flame the moment a candidate on this side of the Ohio were named for fen Chief Magistrate of or the Nation lint But even eyen if this were not true the geographical location pure and simple would preclude the hope of a man manfrom manfrom from this section reaching the White House It is equally true of other extreme sections New Kew Eng Eng- la has hns not hot fl furnished a l President since the time time of Fr Franklin Pierce the thea vast a t region west of the Mississippi lif f i sippi river has never neer been heen able to secure the time Presidency dency lency for one of its sons For the tIme last lust two forty J- J years all nIl the Presidents have been leen chosen from New Kew NewYork NewYork York YorI or 01 the time of the Middle l West Yest And therefore therefore there there- fore argues the News it must continue so Some Som of the time Rt statements t of the News are not true and most mORt of it its arguments are arc sophisms The he panicky rush hither and thither in search of a candidate candidate any any old candidate gives gies gives evidence e enough that Whitney's Whitneys j words have hare a large measure of truth in them viz that the trouble is the time party is iR without an In issue and amI I without a man Time The South has the man maim in ill Gen I Joe Wheeler He is as popular in the time North as in his own Alabama lie ITe is a man of the Nation 1 and amid not of a State With him as a candidate issues would take care rare of themselves hes Let us drop Bryan and ani Cleveland l and amI tI l' their l' l inharmonious s followers and andt t turn urn to and patriots |