Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-28
NOT AN OUTGROWTH OFTHE SOUTH
ERN POLICY.

Chicago, Dec. PA journal Washington
special SAYS: i letter received here from Sa-
vannah, Georgia, rdicule5 the statement pub
lshed throughout the North that the recent
election Of eighty Independent members of
the State Legislature was an OutgroWth of the
Presidents Southern policy. The writer, a
Democrat, says that party lines were not
drawn, and it was merely test of personal
strength between Democrats, in which Re
publican voters took no part. The letter says
1t Is perfectly absurd to class the indepen-
dents elected as Hayes men, as every one of
them is a staunch Democrat and will vote as
such at all times.
We copy the foregoing from the press dis
patches of few days ago. The MORNING
APPEAL, commenting upon the efforts of the
Hayesite press to make it appear that the
Presidents Southern policy had caused a di
vision in the ranks of the Democracy of that
very ''solid section, ventured the opinion
that the Democracy of those parts, while it
would and could, if so it chose 20 do, masque-
rade under many aliases and fight many sham
fights within its own ranks, would not yet so
divide It's power or abandon its discipline as
to offer any antagonistic force chance to gain
avictory over itself within its own strongholds
indeed, politics is not made Of such materials
as the Hayesite theorems presuppose. The
forces which underlie so vital and self asser-
tive sectionism as one finds at the South are
not to be cudded with letters of acceptance
Inaugural messages, and metaphysical maun-
behring's into the realms of tni.t dreamland
: L,
The politics Of the South is singularly free
from all mere isms and whimseys. 1t is hard.
practical, sheptical, moved and maintained by
the subtilest iesuitry, ezac1ing, tireless and
uncompromisirg. The feudaI barons of the
old slaveocracy, are still dominant. EamD-
ten will send Patterson to the depths of infa-
my but he viii have his place and drive him
from power. 4 people who passed through
the war of the rebellion, the agony OF recon
struction, the turmoil Of the White Loaruc |
and the Nu klux klans, VIII not brea]. ranks
al the bidding of wordy dcmago3ue and !
transparent hypocrite Ike Hayes. Sharp
eyed fellows like the politicians Of Dixie are
not to be fooled by any such transparent de-
wees as are set on foot behind the tcll-tale
doors Of the White House You cannot fool
icsui,ry with tie arts Of the i45pocrite, ''Sset
q thief to catch thief" is a sadly wise old
saying. No. The solid South is sill fact
i viii re:1ain I'D less solid uutil after The
Presidential election in 1886 Its relations
10 the North are AKIN to those existing be-
tween the provinces of Alsacc and Lorraine
and Germany. The association is one of con-
quest and geography and noe Of loyalty and
allegiance. The Republican party, reyiyiied
and made strong of aim and purpose is the
only force that can be employed to check the
aretensiona and purposes Of the Solid South.
Hayes Is factor iii American politics only so
s2' as he can weaken the Republican party.
The blind moles who follow him as the con-
urer Of New Party are weak enough to be-
leve that the President is to be the means Of
both the old parties and construct c
NC ont of the remains something whose purity l.
would be above all things terrestrial and I
yhose sway would realize to mankind the
ream of those self deluded mortals who are h
charmed with the Arcadian pipe =" Some a
cry humane motives have been lost sight of
y these good people, and humane motives IL
re the substratum even of parties whose 81
lotto is 'Reform"
EOR GOVEPNOR The Silver State of tho