The daily gazette., 1878-08-16
EDITION
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE
soUTH-THE HOPE OF THE REPUBLI-
PARTY DIVISIONS.
WASHINGTON, August 15.-Letters re-
ceived at the rooms OF the republican con-
gressional campaign committee convey
some interesting information in regard
TO politics in the Southern States. For
many years, if ever, there has not been
such rivalry in the South generally to OBJ
tain the nomination in the different dis
tricts. The local papers have been for
weeks filled with the cards and heperso-
nal platforms of the numerous ambitious
gentlemen who are anxious to come to
Washington and receive $1,000 per an
NUN for the pleasure of hearing them
selves talk nonsense.
The animated contest is in numerous
instances not likely to stop when the
nominations are made as the envy and
chagrin of the defeated ones will, it is
anticipated, produce a plentiful crop of
Independent candidates. 1t is this infor
nation which causes the strong hope In
the minds of the republican managers
here of making break in the solid
South. Therefore both brains and money
will be actively employed from this CEN
tire to induce the running of independent
candidates in all districts in the Southern
States where there is any reasonable
ground to expect success. The republi-
| cans here appreciate the fact that in a
majority of instances, at least, the gen.
tleman who may run as independents
will in the event of their election, act
with the democrats, but the calculation is
that here and there a republican in dis
guise may slip in.
If the next House should be close, as
some seem to think very probable, fe W
republicans more or less from the South
may make a vast difference. The States
of which the republicans have the great
est hopes are North Carolina, South Car
olina, Tennessee and Mississippi. In all OF
| these States there is very formidable
republican vote, and in two or three or
four districts in each of them it is claim
ed that slight democratic di affection
and detection will be sufficient to secure
the success of an opposition candidate.
1t seems to be generally understood here
that whatever influence may be possess
cd by Postmaster GeBeral Key will be
pendent candidates for Congress in Ten
nessee. In Tennessee the national and
greenback party has developed such
strength that the republican politicians
who write here claim it will be the bal
ance of power, and through its vote they
expect to get two or three republicans
elected to Congress.
In South Carolina, where threats have
been made that persons heretofore con-
Il - .1.~wr
men will run as independent candidates
for the Legislature and for Congress, a
most excited condition of public feeling
exists, which may lead to grave conse-
quences. Even so conservative land
cautious a man as Gov. Hampton, as is
learned here, has been moved publicly
on the stump to denounce in unmeasur-
ed terms those members of the democra-
tic party of South Carolina who contem-
plate arraying themselves against their
own party.
Itseems rather extraordinary that the
Southern people should think if such a
big thing 10 come to Congress, yet we
nave the news that in every district in
Georgia there are from five to twenty
gentlemen who want to be members of
the next House OF Representatives, and
what is true of Georgia in this respect
will apply to every other States in the
South. NO better advice was ever given
to the people of the South than by Sena-
tor Carpenter in his great speech in New
Orleans in 1873, when he appealed to
them to let politics alone and bestir them
selves in building up the material pros
perity of their section.
Senator Carpenter did not mean by
this that the people of the South should
not exercise the right Of freeman, and
labor to put gosd honest and capable
men intS positiob4 ofpubic trnst, but ho
did mean to arouse ti,elu 20 a realization
of the fact That 1t was impossible to sup
ply every man il the South with a office.
If the control OF the next House of Rep
resentativos ia se- froin tue d-lnOG-atic
party, IL can only hr due 80 the Ioly of
Jhe people cftne Snnfh, ,Ani If upou them
rest, The anguish, up0I tuem only can
TEST the Blame.