The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-28

The n. Y. Times takes this mournfnl
view Of the political situation IN the
SOuih:
q Weeks, months have gone By. and still
there Il Do sign Of the breaking up q the
Southern Democracy Ilse expeete1 eon-
/ promise on the speakership did not occur,
and the much-talkesi-of administration
i Democrats have not yet been heard OF 10 the
! House the lraders Of the dominant party
In the cotton States have simply accepted As
/ n right every concession made By the Re-
publican President the have given moth
| ing fh return. The old Wings have not
made their appearance. the Democrats are
more united than ever before. s-the solid
SOUTH il no longer what Mr.. Matthews WAS
pleased To cali a political bugbear, il is
stern politial reality In Georgia aud
Mississippi the Republican party has been
officially buried IN South Carolina il exists
no loI-geF. even in Nance in Louisiana its
DISCRIMINATION il complete. Ii witnstood
all the terTors o tie white league, the bull
Iefs OF the rife clubs, and the whip of the
bulidozers; in spite Of Ham burg. Coushaefa,
VicksbuFg, Eufaula. and New GascOny, It's
Demb ers went 10 the polls ana voted for
the principles they loved 80 well; but &C
last they were obliged to yield to q power
greater than any they had faced before.
They succumbed to ''the reconciliation
policy" and they are heard Of no more in
American politics. La the face of this veai's
elections il would be useless to attempt to
conceal the fact that the Republican party
of the South has been aDnihiiated. Asapo-
HticaI force il ceased to exist some months
since. Ga the sixth of this month, in the
Mississippi and Virginia State elections, the |
Republican party did not appear. In the |
former State there are at least eighty.five |
thousand men protesting Republican prin- |
cipies, but IN the election referred to they |
did not, as an organic Ition. cast one vote I
Tor State officers. The result cannot fail to |
be gratifying one to those persons who de-
light in Cancellation. The Democrats car
rled che State by a majority of about one
hundred thousand with a number of back
still TO hear from. Mississippi's
next Legislature will be harmonious body.
The Senate, consisting OF thirty Va en-
bers i. unanimously Democratic, and of the
one hundred and twenty mem berS of the
lower house, one hundred and eighteen are
Democrats and two are Republicans. The
seats OF the latter contested, however,
and they will probably have to wait some
lime for their pay and mileage. It will be
that there was an Indepeud-
snt movement in Mississippi.
On the other hand, Mr.. Hayes thinks
hat his tardy and hesitating programme
# adopting the Democratic policy of nom
which Gen. Grant, by force
f public opinion, had already initiated,
Fill convert to Republicanism at least
alf dozen of the Southern States. Both +
hese Republican prophets are wrong.
1r. Hayes will find himself very much
listaken when the next Presidential elec- r,
on is held but the Times is mistaken
assuming that the Republican party is Il
cad in the South. Its leaders are alive n
I'D watchful and ready to hold out in =
lcements for Democratic treachery and
originate schemes to decoy the unwary L
i'd to divide and conquer the Democrat
household. The Independent move "A
ent to which the Times refers, though a =,
lure, shows what it is capable of origi- di
ating and what it will accomplish if the err
and Conservatives do not re- di'
lin united. lol