The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-29
AN UGLY OUTLOOK.


The republican state convention Of
Now York has met acted and aiourned
aud rom their standpoint things have
% decidedly ugly appearance sure
enough The 'solid south Is the
trouble now We felt convinced all
along that while they we're unfeelinply
riding lLe south to death with their
broken down and dsorodited home
politicians, they were sowing dragon y
teeth which would rend them, destroy.
ing the republican party soul aud body.
The solid south Is but the logical So
quence Of q solid north II ia the sure
growth Of the seed planted by the re-,
publican party itself and that it now
troubles them they have only them
selves to thank, The bloody,shirt
could not do duty always, As soon Ms
intelligent and honest men came south,
and whom their reports had gone home
the charm of kusklux, white leagues,
etc, was broken, The simple truth do.
stroyod the potency Of the bloody.
shirt IL Is now n lost factor in national
politics and Is subordinate TO solid
south backed by the honest and fair of
thepeopie Of tho north
Mr. Hayes understood well, that
when he took the reins ofpower from
the hands of Grant, the virtues Of sec,
tionalism had all been exhausted, and
whether he felt it or not, he would be
compelled to maintain at least u sem.
blancc of fairness in his policy with re.
gard TO the south, His success not.
the fraudulency of his
title, is o new revelation to the repubIi>
cans of New York, and there is no
pleasure in it so far as the future of
that party is concerned. II things are
to 90 on this way, say they, very soon
we will have the democratic party in
power again, and it will take twenty.
five years to defeat it. - Now the infer.
ence is that the republicans of New
York would regard that result as Il
calamity But they forget that they
are not the nation. Indeed largely
over one.half Of the whole people could
regard it in vastly different light,
do, indeed, and the inauguration of this
power was delayed for four years, only
by and through the corrupt decision of
two negroes and three white rogues
equally corrupt. 1t was close shave,
and only this retmning board complais
anco saved them. 1t won't work next
time, and no amount of bloody shirt or
bloody threats either will be able to
cheat the democracy out Of the next
election,
The bitter part of the whole situation
is, the republican party is responsible
for it in every sense. sTheir thieving
crew disguised and alienated
the negro, and when his vote was added
to that Of the whites in the south, repub.
lican supremacy was lost, Had deconcy
obtained among their representatives
here, the negro would have remained
true to his emancipators, end thus
would the power of republicanism have
been maintained in the south. IL is
lost, however, and no amount of bloody
shirt nonsense will suffice to restore it.
1t might be possible to maintain for
the future somblance of republican
strength, but it can only be done by
adopting some such policy as the presi>
dent has seen proper to pursue, and
We're this done the solid south would
not be disposed to regard it as the worst
evil that could overtake the country.
The mission of the republican party has
been fulfilled. 1t cant feed any longer
on slavery, or the bloody>shirt, 1t
must present some other claim to the
people, and it has them not, at least in
contradistinction to the democrats. 1t
is reduced to the necessity of standing
on the merits of the measures it advos
Gates which are better than those urged
by the democrats. 1t must rely on
presenting better men, and in looking
over the roster of those at
the surface in It's councils, we do
not find them The truth is, republi.
canism as il was at the close of the war
md for the first decade succeeding it, is
dead.