The Portland daily press., 1879-10-31
FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81.


makes a solid North, and the North being
mnch the stronger. numerically, will win on
that issue alone. / hold that then the oouth VIM
see titJ It's being 'iid keeps IL IN noPeIeesso
minority" and it will cease its sectional stril5
and turn to issues of more Importance ana
worth This was what predicted last week.
Little did think that the Traveller Itself IN
week would confirm my predictions ana assign
NV very reason for it. Read the following from
its Washington despatch OF today:
ssFrom intimation dropped here by Southern Dem
ocrats Who went into the Solid South movement
with alacrity and now what blunder was com
mite l. an effort will be made during the coming
winter to induce the majority to abandon this pol
lev The threat is openly made that unless this is
done some of the Southern Democrats will break
away from their party, and support the nomination
of Gen. Grant. These men feel now that the future
of the South, political power, is gone unless
something can be done to check the counter move
ment of a sodiied North The solid South must
therefore be broken up and If this cannot be done
by their own party, the help OF the hupuDheahs
must be solicited. 49,
The census Is taken meet gear, tcW be shorR Of
Large shire Of her representation an congress, Whlle
tbat Of the North will be correspondingly increased.
This will be fatal to the attempt of the South TO
control the government at large Unless change
occurs these Democrats that after next year the
South will be less potent than now, and the Repub-
lcans with control of two-trds of the Northern
States will be able to rule
The Traveller correspondent here says that
in view of the effect which the new appyr-
tlonm6nt must nave the nouuneri ieituero afe
already "hedging. They are already seeking
to break up the solid South, because, while in
a '.hopcless minority" without the North,
thew will soon be in "hopeless minority"
with all the North they can possibly get.
Mr.. William r. Balch of the Boston Herald
editorial staff assumes editorial management
of that staunch old ,urnal the Philadelphia
Press. / think it was not three months ago
that predicted a brilliant journalistic future
for Mr.. Balch. Only 2G years of age lithink he
must be the youngest journalist who has ever
assumed so high and responsible position
II is not necessary to refer to his great jour
nalistic detective featS in catching tie forger
Winslow and the murderer Cox. These things
did not give him his new position. 1t was his
broad and liberal education, his wide expert
ence with people and institutions in Europe,
and a natural genius for journalistic work.
Probably no better field opens for q live jour
nalist than in Philadelphia. All its news
papers, save the Times, are very staid con-
Sentative old concerns.
The second corps of Cadets, who visited you
short time ago, came home overlooking with
expressions of good will towards the people OF
Portland. They thought they had never met
"a more social and genial set of people. why, "
said an officer to me, "they did everything for
us that could be done and then seemed to feel
bad because they couldn't do something more. y
SCOTT.