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Show THE SOUTH SHOULD MOVE, v The presidential election is but a little more than a year away. By this time next year the candidates will have been chosen and the campaign cam-paign will be in full blast. The nominations now point to Roosevelt and Cleveland with Mr. Bryan or Mr. Towne heading a party which will be made up of Populists and disgruntled Democrats while some men not now publicly known will carry the banner of the Socialists. So-cialists. Still we would think that the bright men of the Southern States would get together, fqr-mulate fqr-mulate a platform, select a candidate and give the Democratic party in the north notice that they will not again be crucified by blindly following fol-lowing the Democracy of the-North to their regular reg-ular four years' execution. By such a movement they could dictate who the candidate could- be and the nature" of th platform on which the candidate can-didate should stand. The old spell is upon them. They still think it would ho infamy to vote a Re. publican ticket; why then do they fall to assert themselves? . They misjudge the north. They fancy that the old bitterness remains, they cannot understand under-stand that hundreds of thousands of men in the north would sooner vote for a man who was a Confederate soldier than for one who like Mr. Cleveland hired a substitute from a jail to represent repre-sent himself in that upheaval. It is time that they put all that aside. For many and many a year their fathers dictated who should be the candidate on the Democratic ticket. They could do. the same think again if they would but try. Why do they not try? |