The Days of a Man 1900 



Partisan tained their dominance by "waving the bloody 

 shirt' 1 that is, by denouncing the South for 

 atrocities, real or alleged. They also charged that 

 the old Confederacy was still in the saddle, as most 

 of the political leaders of the New South had been 

 officers in the Confederate army. Naturally so; 

 every Southerner fought in the war, and practically 

 all who were fit to command had received com- 

 missions. 



But the great need of the nation was still, as 

 before, conciliation and cooperation, a revival of 

 Lincoln's policies overborne in the savage years of 

 reconstruction when the murder of our greatest 

 President put extremists into power. However, I 

 voted once for Garfield whom I trusted, once for 

 Harrison whom I knew to be trustworthy, and with 

 much internal protest, mental and moral, twice for 

 McKinley. 



