The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-09-27
that Solid Sou n.


During the entire canvass the Radical
press has teemed with illusions, some
times lumberingly Factions, sometimes Of
tensively malignant to the unanimity with
which the Southern states are expected TO
range themselves in support of the Demo-
cratic candidates. The TACT which grows
more and more certain daily that every
Southern stats will give its electoral vote
for Gov. Tilden Is used to give sectional
| tinge to the canvass, to aid in the revival
of the old war issues, ald t.
cause the impression to go forth that the
Old sectional feeling is alive in the South
with all its snte-bellum bitterness, aud
that the election of TiIden will be a tri-
umph Of the spirit that brought on the
civil war. There is little disp Isition in
the North to receive these Campaign bug
bears as fact, but no one so thoroughly 70
allies their tslsity and so fully compre-
bends the real reason why he South is
solid for the Democracy as the Northern
man who has travelled in that section
and seen with his own eyes
the result of the Republican rule.
A correspondent OF the Cincinnati Com
mercisl has recently been placed in this
position. He has been feeling me political
pulse of South Carolina, and records the
result OF his observations in a letter from
Columbia, whose fairness is in rsfrss hing
contrast t. the editorial uttersnces of the
! bloody shirt Radical organ in wDich it
appears. Speaking OF the political situs-
ton in that state, he says:
am almost ready to believe that South Car
olir a will go Democratic. AT present the
chances q about e ven, buL the doubt IS In ia
vor Of The DemocTa s. The state is aroused as
it has not bee Sal ce the wa. IL may IairIy
be said 10 be ablaze from the noun aims to he
sea. The whites are united as they never have
been. there l. abs lutely di vision in rank.
White nepub leans, VINO are MOI officeholders,
are as scarce as whales in the Oh river In
nearly every paper 1 pick up i find "card'
| fr m some heretofore white Republican,
who announces himself for Hampton.
saying effect, directly, that AT
rican government here has been a failure;
that the stale is drifting TO desu uctiOn, and
out white ticket. Mr.. w. L. Rose, Of Coium-
bia, whom know, aud who has heretofore
been unwavering in his hepuDlcanism, is out
in card, with his i've sons, renouDciug the
South Carolina Republican party as a failure,
and joni the Hampton ranks. Not because
IL is H mpton, not because 1t is
publican p rty In South Carolina has become
a negro party, and So lacking In the essential
requirement. -, In capacity 10 give good gov
err ment, to unite the whites in a solid
body.
This paragraph reveals the true inward.
ness of the " solid South" business. The
SoutL is solid for the Democracy, tor the
reason that it's white citizens of every
previous shade of politics see nothing but
anarchy, bankruptcy and ruin in the
continued rule of the Republican party !;
because that party has been party of
plumber and misgovernment; because it
has raised the state debt OF South .roIina
in ten years from s. 100000 10 over $780,
600, 600; that of Alabama from IS 900 900
to over SSS 600 900; that OF Arkansas rom
So 500 OOO to $40 100000, and that OF Lpuisi-
from a reasonable amount to S206 90 900.
The upsbot of the whole matter Is that Rs
publican rule means ruin to the South,
and this the reason why the whole intelli-
gent white population in that section is
found working in unison for its downfall.
Tsunts regarding the "solid South" come
with an ill-grsce from the organs of the
party that has brought about this state of
things in South Carolina and in other
Southern states.