With much perturbation of spirit the rank and file followed the President in the steps leading up to the Great War, though some of the would-be leaders attempted to rebel.

On the other hand, some of the most valuable men in the great crisis were Southerners.
The dominant party in the South is called Democratic, but the name has little of its original significance today.

The representative is likely to follow the sentiment of his district if he can discover it.

Some of the Southern Democrats advocate doctrines which are far removed from traditional democracy, for Populistic ideas have not entirely died out and some of the farmers still demand special privileges, which, however, they would be the first to deny to any one else.

Democracy in the South really means the white man's party, and the Democratic doctrines are those in which it is thought the majority of the white men of the State or section believe for the time.