The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-02

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have already alluded TO, the Administration will
SUPPORTED ny the SOUTH.

SUPPORTED by THE souTH.
"Now let me make another matter little
clearer to you than IL has hitherto seemed TO be,
II may Judge Of its clearness In your mind from
The manner In which have seen u treated 10
your letters 20 the New Orleans DKmooRAT. You
have been in the habit Of writing oil possible
secession or withdrawal Of the Southern Demo-
Gratis from the caucus OF their party In the
next House. Nothing OF the kind Will DO DONE
You might a. we'll talk about cutting OF the dog
and leaving the tail. The Southern Democracy
WILL BE THE CAUCUS
In the mex. House, and they will not seoede from
their own body. They have . clear majority In
the esucus amounting 10 three-fifths, and the
oa,,eus will control The organisation aad policy Of
the House by clear majority of from eight TO
ten. II wouId therefore, be The height OF folly
for the party which controls the caucus that con-
trolls the House TO abandon their advantage for
the sake OF eurrendering 10 the minority, which
would be the effect OF the movement you have
been writing about.
depend upon IL, then. the Democratic caucus
will organize The next House, and
as THE CAUCUS ITSELF
will be organized by tho Southern Democrats.
hit lie broken up at all, 10 will be done by tho
cause the Northern men are more closely bound
down by party names and traditions than we Of
the South are, and tho Democracy Of q Northern
congressional district Ia not 40 elastic force. nor
will IL tolerate no much elasticity Of political
action In its representative an 4 Bouthern con-
n.ituency will.
"parties may indeed break up eventually and
be reformed on new lines. II not under new
names. But this will be the gradual work Of
time aud Of changed circumstances In general;
II cannot be brought about 10 single day. 90 IL
were, by mere change OF Executive policy In
one single particular on tho part Of Tho Federal
Administration"
AT .his point asked my friend TO drop his gen.
.eralities, which glittered exceedingly and come
down TO specifications; Suggesting that he was
giving me too much pure states manship and not
enough Of
PRACTICAL POLITICS.
What wanted TO learn aud, moreover, what |
the DHmooaAr's constituency weuld like 10 read |
was the name and nature Of the material enter |
prisse In support Or which the sonth would be
''solid.' ALSO The individuals who would get the
official benefit OF The determination OF the South
ern Democrats TO control The caucus, and through
80 the organization Of tho House.
''Oh we'll, + he replied, "as for the epecac en- |
terpriaes included ID The general term material |
interests everybody knows what they are they |
don't need explaining. They area
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY,
not necessarily Tom SCOTS or any other individ |
uaps scheme, but Southern Pacific railway |
built under reasonable system Of governmental |
aid; and . comprehensive, national scheme for
improving the
NAVIGATION or rHE MrssIssIrpr
and protecting the lands along lie banks from
overflow. Take for example Che cotton tax.
There is not Judge on the Supreme Bench but
pronounceu that tax extra-consttuhonAl, and |
believe a majority oil them say II was positively
Unconstitutional. Thus we were robbed Of many
millions. But no sensible Southern man pro-
poses 10 ask that this tax DO refunded directly.
II the government will aid ia to build our Pacific
railway, and help us 10 reconstruct our levees,
we will call tho account square and
ourT.oLArM EvsnYTasNo
that has been stolen or extorted from as since
tho Radical policy Of force fraud and larceny was
put in operation.
"As to tho question OF individual aspirAnts for
the Offices In the organization Of tho House. 10
does not enter into the general. policy Of the
South, except incidentally. But II may be set
down that no man will receive
ANY SOUTHERN SUPPORT
Tor the speakership unless he IL positively
known u favor the material enterprise which
our people consider identical with their interests
But this is q question that cannot DO discussed
nov. should say. however, that pretty direct
and tangible assurances 40 to tho makeup OF
the committees which will have those matters In
charge would DO imreratively required to secure
any support whatever from che seventy. 1--WE or
eighty Representatives in the Democraticsos ucus
frcm the south eide Of Mason and Dixon's line"
slow about sayler, for oxamplsfs I asked.
"Sayler is understood by many Of our people
TO DO right on those questions, particularly with
respect to the reconstruction Of the leyees."
"And Randalp"
''Rsndall ic--well, alphabetically speaking,
the South 10 inclined to let x equal Randall He
seems to DO the particular candidate OF the New
York Junta. Our people are not 80 profoundly
impressed with the advantages Of the New York
leadership as they were."
"what Of Blackburn"
''For my own part l don't see how could vote
against Blackburn IL he is q candidate, But
great many seem to think he lie young enough to
wait"
"There lie Sam Cox
YES, as the French say, towoms &c Nonsieu,
Sam Cor' Sam is always there. Our people 4
have warm side for the little man. Thore is no 4
telling. He got o big vote in the last caucus and
. good many Of those who voted for him will be {
in the next one. Moreover. he is busy and ha |
taking way I should say that Cox would be J
stronger in tho South than any other man s
EAST OF THE ALLEaHAsrEs
have heard 1t urged that he has too little dig
nifty for the Speakers chair. But never heard
his parliamentary skiil or his presence of mind
questioned. However, we lose time in these g
specu!ations. They do not amount TO anything. :
The South is not looking after the fortunes of in
dividuals, but proposes to keep keen eye open !
to its own collective welfare. So that the man y