The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-21
For Business Men TO Think OF.
From the Boston Journal. |

II the Democrats should carry a solid
South in the Presidential election, as they
claim they shall, and as may not improbably
be the case, it will take but forty-one more
electoral votes to give them the Presidency.
Suppose they should receive these forty or
fifty votes in the North, the latter would
constitute but a little more than One-fourth
Of the recorded strength OF the victorious
party. Would the hree:fOurthS-as pow
erful over the remainder In all other respects
as they would be numerically-giye the bus
mess community the slightest guaranty Of
attending their interests. or Of doing any
thing, in short, for the financial credit and
prosperity OF the country How could they
do it, seeing that for the last dozen years
their attention has been wholly engrossed
wish to study the subject of finance? Not
a measure Of any Importance relating to
business has been brotight forward by any
Southern member Of Congress since the
war, nor has scarcely a speech been made,
or an idea thrown out from that quarter to
further the Interests of business legislation.
On the contrary, the greatest obstacle to the
adoption Of a sound financial policy has been
the insane persistence Of the South in OBJ
trading old issues and sectional interests
before Congress and the country. In the
present campaign 1t is notorious that the
southern Democrats have been utterly in
different to the currency question, and
would have taken candidates on either or
both sides of it il they had only been likely
to run well.
II, then, this party should come into
power the very last thing 1t would think Of
would be the business interests OF the cOun-
try. In the first place, there would be a
vast political estate TO administer upon.
Some sixty thousand ofiiceholders would be
at the mercy OF a new power, and from the
way the latter reyolutiOnized the offices de-
pendent upon the House Of Representatives
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the result throughout the country. The
"wild hunt for %office'' would for months,
In fact, drown all other considerations.
Then would come the claims and demands
OF the united South for the redress of griev-
ances complained Of ever since the recon-
struction system went into operation.
Another step would be to perfect the soft
money, reputation policy involved in the
Houses repeal Of the Resumption act, by
positive measures In furtherence OF imitation.
1t might be suggested that Tilden aud his
| hard money fellow partisans would make a
stand here. They could accomplish moth
ing II they did, for Tilden has already bound
himself hand and foot by this recreancy to
his own principles In consenting to the re-
peal OF the Resumption act, and then the
masters Of his party would govern him as
the same class governed Buchanan.
1t may be urged that the Republicans In
| electing Hayes and Wheeler over a united
South would also triumph as a section. II
that were SO in appearance, they would
represent the part Of the country which held
the Union together, and which IL the seat OF
the great commercial, industrial and fnan-
cial Interests OF the nation. As 1t is twice
as far from Maine to California and from
New Jersey to Oregon as 1t is from Virginia
TO Texas, so the interests Of the North are
tenfOld more varied and comprehensive thar
those of the South. Moreover, they repre-
sent the whole country, and those who have
had charge Of legislating for them have beer
trained necessarily In the largeness OF ma.
tiOnal ideas and considerations. Thus, the
Republicans keep constantly In mind the
payment OF the national debt, the mainte'
nance OF the credit Of the Government, the
fulillment OF all obligations TO soldiers,
pensioners and other deserving servants Of
the Union, and the support Of that conf
dence which is the very breath OF life TO Tho
whole delicate organism Of the business
world. turn them out OF power and MI
their places with those who have had nc
such training and no such principles, ant
who could answer for the consequences In
business point of viewY This IL a question.
IL will be seen, aside from those upon which
partisans are ordinarily harpiDg, but u Is I
Vital one In the present campaign. aud, w
are persuaded, there are thoughtful, can
did men enough 10 make II decisive.