Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-11-08
SOLID REASONS FOR A SOLID
DEMOCRATIC SOUTH.

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SOLID REASONS FOR A SOLID
DEMOCRATIC SOUTH.
A standing argument with the Repub-
lican orators in the Northern States has
been the danger to the country Of what
they call ''solid South" By this they
mean, for the present, solid Democratic
South. Were the South to become solid
Republican tomorrow they would bid our
countrymen to beware of deceptive and
treacherous South. They express great
surprise at this solidity. And yet it ought
not to excite that emotion. In advance of
every congressional and presidential cleo
tion the Republican orators go to work
and cooper up the South yet more COM
pactly by their speeches speeches that,
if delivered at the South about the North,
would have made that section as solid ass
wedge. Senator Roscoe Conkling, OF New
York, is candidate for the next Republl-
can nomination for the Presidency. He
has favored us with prem onition of what
he would do if he should become Presi-
dent. After styling the late civil war
scowardly rebellion - he proceeds in this
wise: 'Look at South Carolina under a
"Governor installed under circumstances
sswhich will not stop to mention. Yet
ssthere is much that is encouraging at the
ssSouth. When they go cunning for ne
ssgroes or revenue officers. they observe the
ssgame laws. They do not shoot them out
ssseason. They only kill them when it is
necessary to prevent the collection OF the
ssreyenue or carry an election Of course,
this walk and conversation will not COM
mand many votes in the South for Mr..
Conkling, should he be nominated. Mr..
James G.. Blaine, the U. S. Senator from
Maine, is also candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for the same position.
How he is affected towards the Southern
States.m may be gathered from his remarks
in Philadelphia, only last Saturday night.
He said that by perversity OF con-
9struction and refinement of cruelty the
sscolored men are used only to give ad-
ssditional political power to the very class
''and the very party whose principles and
3swhose practices they have most cause to
ssdread. By destroying the political power
ssOf the negro the white men IN these
estates vastly increase their own inf1u-
"ence. and in the two States have
~named the Confederate soldier is to-day
sscasting two votes in the control of our
national policy, when the Union soldier
Gin Pennsylvania and New England casts
t.but one. With this state of things the
ssAmerican people will not rest content. .
We hardly think that such statements as
these will obtain many votes for Mr..
Blaine in the Southern States Mr.. John
Sherman, the present Secretary OF the
Treasury, is also candidate for the Re-
publican nomination. At Harrisburg
Pa. last Saturday night, he Instructed an
audience of Republicans. From a tele-
graphic report of his speech we learn
that: ssHe referred to the kuklux outrages,
eebut exonerated the Democratic party OF
ssthe North from them. That they existed
stand did exist was not denied. Marauders
A.had royed over communities, driven ne
.sgroes before them, and committed many
"murders for opinions sake. Now, an as
defective but mi|l1hr sort of intimidation.
prevailed. For; til weeks in several
estates the Democrats had been terroIiz-
ling negroes to prevent them voting their
"opinions. There would be no safety to
.sthe Republic until every man was guar
ssanteed the right to vote at least once y
Mr.. Sherman's support in the Southern
States will, we take 1s, be exceedingly
small. IL.
Here are the three SInost prominent
men named by the Republicans for the
next Presidency talking a5out-what!
Finance? A tariff, in which the South is
deeply interested? Civil service reform,
in which the whole country is interested!
No! The negro and the rebellion, things
of the past, only revived to cause Sec
tional hatred at the North which will tell
at the ballot-box. Can men who talk this
.tuff expect any votes from. intelligent
neonle at6he South? Thesesmen are no
h,oher than the fire.eaters OF the South
long since consigned to private life, and
theft Republican constituents should put
thesa out of sight. 1t is the fate OF the
Republican party to pass aWay from the
nol;ticaI arena, but it is not necessary that
its last moments should be spent in TO-
menting sectional hatred. AS for the
Southern States, the more OF this hammer
ing they get the more solidly are they well
,ded together. There has been time when
they were banded together by apprenear
sion of what these people would attempt.
bat cow, marching in the ranks OF the
democracy, they only look upon
the bawsing Radical leaders, who so mis-
represent the people OF the South, with
contempt.