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Show FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. , Judge Parker, who, we are glad to see, repudiates repudi-ates the statement purported to him as to his belief that President Roosevelt wants another term, now thinks that the Democrats should nominate a Southern South-ern man in 1908. ' , This was the advice we gave Southern Democrats Demo-crats before the last Presidential election. . Southern South-ern Democrats have occupied an anomalous position ever since the war. For sixty ijears they led and controlled the party, for forty years since they have followed in the wake, and have gained but two victories, vic-tories, and they were by default more than on merit The Nation quotes Senator Bailey as saying that not yet for years can a Southern man as a Presidential Presi-dential nominee be thinkable. In that respect we think Senator Bailey makes a mistake. He is a man of bitter prejudices; he believes the North is made up of bitter prejudices. We tell him that we know very well , that Northern Democrats would l ather support an out and .out Southerner, if necessary neces-sary one who was a fighting rebel in the war, than . one like Grover . Cleveland, who was untrue to both North and South in the war and did not dare champion openly what he felt. : |