, 1875-08-21
The Radicals Lose the South.


| votes from the Southern States From pres
e.t apuearances it is not probable that the
radical candidate in 1915 will receive single
vote in that section. The st. Louis Re,psIRi-
can makes all the points suggested By the out
look from that quarter in the following,
which viii be pursued with interest:
The South has been at peace for six months,
becaus. it has been lei elo;t. Louisiana is
| quiet, Alabama is quiet, Mississippi is quiet,
and even South Carolina is quiet. We no
longer hear of Ku-KlGx in Tennessee of
plantation battles between whites and blacks,
in Mississippi; of negro mobs marching TO
sack towns in Arkansas and South Carolina;
| of wholesale butchesies of harmless negroes
by masked ruffians in Louisiana. These
things arc over for the present, at least, and
We may hope that they are ended forever.
That active agent of disturbance, the carpet
bagger, is retiring from the South and the
native whites and blacks, left to themselves,
exhibit surprising capacity for getting
along peaceably together without outside
help. All the accounts We receive from the
States on the lower Mississippi represent that
the largest cotton crop, and the largest corn
| crop also, eI er raised there will be produced
this year-the result not so much of u favor
able season as OF the more cordial understand
ing between the two races and improved
habits of industry. The fact is the whites
and blacks are beginning to address them
selves to the solution of the difficult problem
of the;f future relation with patient and
forbearing spirit; the blacks are turning to
the native whites for counsel and assistance,
and the whites are recognizing their obliga-
ton to the weaker aud coufiding race. Both
find the new friendship fountain of prosper
ity; an immense cotton crop blesses their re-
Cancellation, and their land is becoming once
more the bright home OF a prosperous and
happy people.
All this means that the entire South is lost
to the republican party. Tha. party never
controlled vote of a Southern State except
through violence and intimidation; as the
Southern States were allowed to become peace
full, they slipped one by one through i,s fin
gers. 1t seems strange TO be told that Texas,
now democratic by AZ 900 minority Georgia,
now democratic by 81. 900 majority; Virginia,
now democratic by $4,000 majority and
Tennessee, now democratic 6y 900 major
ity, were few years ago all controlled by
republican Governors and legislatures, and
represented N Congress by republican Sona-
tors and members. Yet, it is true, and IN
the loss of these States the republican leaders
may forsee the loss of the last three Southern
States that they still controI-Louisiana,
Mississippi and Scnth Carolina
In estimating the probatle result of the
next election therefore, the republicans are
forced TO consider that they will lose the
sixty-nine of the electoral votes Of the nine
and that the hundred votes of the twelve re-
constructed States will, probably, be cast
| against them, together with the thirfy-eight
votes of the other four ex-siave States of
Delaware, Kentucky, maryland and Mis-
souri,, making one hundred and thirty-eight
Southern votes against the republican ticket
to begin with, leaving only foriy-six votes
to be lost at the North to insure a radical de-
feat. This is certainly dismal outlook fot
republican who has taught himself to believe
that the continued ascendency of the party
is necessary to the safety of the Union; and
it accounts for the tactics decided on by the
republican leaders, of trusting not to their
own strength, bat TO the possible folly of
their opponents. Their only hope is that the
| democracy will commit some monstrJus blum
der, which only the democracy can commit,
and thus forfeit the victory within their reach.