The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-05
THE SOLID SOUTH.
EX-MdRSlldL pI1KTN'S VIEVS or
TIE PRESENT CRISIS.

Inc "bE lSSueS fAOtIloOlloNt-~ '" AittU tho
Political Future Will Bo.
(E',om the Nr'c Yo'A hrald.]
WAsInNGroN, Oct. &c. -. Ex-Nlarshal
p itkin, II native Of Louisiana, who,
during the past fortnight has been
regaining here the physical strength
lost during recent severe yellow
fever attack at New Orleans, was
visited by your correspondent
to-day with the following result:
"NIarshal, L soc you are not in the
Northern canvass do you make
any speeches bofore your return ?"
"No; 1 had stipulated to speak
at the West early last month, but
my illness prevented.
"Will you elect any Republican
Congressman in Louisiana 2"
"Not one. I suspect that some
Of tho Federal appointees signifcl
up here that they had Congress
sional district here and there in
their pocket, but not ono con be
delivered, L apprehend. The Re
publicans, indeed, are not now at
work as an organization, but may to
some extent reinforce the Nationals,
who have nominees in the first three
Congressional DISTRICTS I am u
member of the Republican State
Central Committee aud never before
know such lukcwarmness in the
ranks rs is now manifest"
"Do you ascribe this result to
Mr.. Hayes 'policy?'"
"The Republican party of tho
North is responsible. BY it's re-
construction plan it propped the
Southern States with q military
crutch, and when the President
knocked it from under Louisiana
this same party had for three years
been denouncing the prop through
its leading prints and the lips of q
very considerable element. Grants
Attorney General, Picrrepont, wrote
Amcs, Of Mississippi, in rs, 'The
public are tired out with these
annual autumnal outbreaks Amos
went down rs tho Republicans of
Arkansas had toppled tho year be-
fore. Grant found himself antag-
onized by strong Republicans in
Congress and by tho more oracular
journals of Ihc party, and So the
Federal soltlie:y were pulled back
northward by the coatt-ail, company
by company, regiment by regiment,
until mcagre forco was left at ro-
mote points only. Grants last
official despatch southwark from the
White House was an admission tc
Augur that public sentiment would
no longer sanction the maintenance
of Southern State governments by
Federal soldicry. He complained
to me, and doubtless to others,
nearly two years before, that this
sentiment afforded him so little
support, outside of village papers,
in what he conceived he ought to do
with reference to tho South"
''Thcn do you think that Presi.
dent Hayes policy fairly consists
with that old Republican senti-
ment
THE NEGRO NEGLECTED.
"The Republican party obviously
thinks so rs q whole, however
restive some Of it's statesmen, like
Senator Conkling, may be as to tho
Southern experiment. Look at it's
platforms in tho October and No
vember States this year. In that
of Iowa alone is there any token of
marked dissent. Conventions turn
their backs on tho South and nm
nounce that the finances are the
paramount and practically the only
issue The fault goes down deeper
than any administration. He has
done bis utmost to hold his Re-
publican ontposts ut the South and
has gone down with them. The
party that enfranchiscd him into Il
target has abandoned him even
while screaming 'outrages,' and with
cvery provocation under Democratic
CljtlciSD0p IL, th;o ,,'c