The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-10
WESTERN INTERESTS AND WESTERN
POLITICS.

The next anti Radical candidate for tn.
J Presidency ought to be Western man. The
) anti-Radicals Of the South have no wish tina
} a candidate for either the first or second
Office should be Southern man. They will
gladly support any candidate whom the Dem
ocrats of the nation may select but they
would, with special zeal and cheerfulness,
give their votes and help to ticket headed
by name representing one Of the States west
Of the Alleghanies.
For three-fourths Of the century which
measures the life of the Republic its Chief
Magistrates have been from tine Atlantic
slope, and that section has at all times had a
disproportionate share in the rule OF the
nation. It is time that the claims of the
great and growing Western States should be
respected and entertained. In this regard
the wishes of Southern Democrats will second
the honorable demands Of the Western States
and most cordially accept and endorse the
Western candidates.
We should be glad to see among the States
Of the Cult, the Valley Of the Mississippi,
and AL the States OF the West drained by his
tributaries, an alliance politically as close and
intimate as their identity in interest is marked
and peculiar. No legislation by Congress OF
a general character can hurt one of these
States without the damage being felt by every
other. The farmers in Kansas, the hemp
growers in Miss ouri, the grain growers of the
whole West and the cotton planters of the
South want substantially the same enact
ments, the same economy in government, the
same minimum of duties on imports, the
same facilities for cheap transportation, the
same uniform currency, the same home rule,
the same retrenchment.
They are alike identical in their opposition
to everything which the Grant or Radical
party have forced upon the country They
are opposed to extravagant outlay, to large
army and navy to railroad and transportation
monopolles, to wanton W te of public lands |
for the benefit Of traders, to the massirg of
capital, to tinkering with the currency, to ne |
potism, to dragooning and marrying peaceful |
States. to all trespassing by one department |
OF the government upon the others, or by any |
or all Of them upon States North or South. |
In word, they want the same things done |
and the same things left undone by their
President and Congress-
The States thus identified and their cleo.
toral votes are: Texas s, Louisiana s, Missis-
sippi :, Alabama 8, Florida 4, Georgia II,
South Carolina Z, Tennessee IL, Arkansas 6,
kentucky y, Ohio %, Indiana Is, Illinois %,
Missouri 10, Kansas ), Iowa IL, Wisconsin TO-
Michigan II, Minnesota s. making, without
counting other States less directly interested.
wo hundred electoral votes in nineteen
States
All these States want Western President
nth patriotic, national, anti-radic Il policy,
y which the tillers of the soil reap a full
eneit Of their hard work.
The East has always been inimical to the
outh-the East would to-day see with joy
ondltlon of things that would place the South
bsolutely as she has been virtually, outside :
le pale of the Union. The West is our I
atural political ally, and a coalition between t
10 Western and Southern States would not
lily result in good for the States acting in
'ncert bat would rebound greatly to the
stlonal good. We cannot afford to have any
ore Greeley failures, and unless the South Y
ms her fortunes with those of the great and a
owing West, q failure in the next Presiden-
II campaign is not among the most i'm proba- t.
g things in the world e,
If we are wise-and we have suffered enough W
have learned wisdom-we will say to the =
emocrats of the West: "The South has no Il,
sire to rule, or to have any share in the ad- 10
nistration Of the executive department of 10
yelnment. She wants peace, and she is 49, 49,
ling to join hads with you to elect any man o.
ose record is clear, and who will! guarantee
our people perfect equality under the law. ST.
the right to choose their own rulers in ac- ~
lance with the time honored customs Of Hj
II fathers, free from any impairment in it
meddlins on the part Of the General Gov iol
ment. oa'