New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-02

prPrD1ATION N TENNESSEE, THE NEGRO EAoDCS
THE POPULARITY OF PRESIDENT HAYES AND
osTHACISM or REPUBLICANS
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. lin general CONVERSE
+;on REPRESENTATIVE Casey Young, of Tennessee, has
EXPRESSED himself freely respecting Southern AFFAIRS
tennessee Will hold an election next month 10
decide whether one-haf of the state debt shall be
repndiated and one-thrd Of the interest on the re-
,nainder be coufiscated Mr. Young says that from
the intelligence he has received he believes that the
propositon will be carried, although there Is
strong opposition to it in Middle and West Iennes-
see. He hopes it will be adopted because he fears
that otherwise the whole debt will be repu-
dated outright. He thinks that those who
are opposed to reputation will be obliged TO
vote for readjustmeut choice of evils. lie says
that lot of pestilent demagogues have for several
years been using the debt question as means ior
their political advancement, aud that at one TIME
they had nearly succeeded in carrying the State in
favor of population. Colonel Collier, who was
leading candidate in the last Democratic conven-
tion for the GuberDaroTial nomination, and some
other prominent Democrats are stumping the State
against readjustment, hoping to defeat It, and to
leave the question open and in the end to carry out
their scheme of reputation. Only one paper oSany
consequence The Memphis Avalanche, opposes re-
adjustment. Mr. Young says the reason why Secre-
tary Key was defeated for the Senate by Governor
Harris in 1877 was that the former advocated an
honest payment of the public debt.
Respecting the negro exodus, Representative
Young says that the Northern people and press mis-
understand the real feeling of the Southern whites,
especially those in the Mississippi Valley All the
stories of their opposition to the coored migration
he characterizes as "stuff and nonsense" He de-
clares that there is not an intelligent white man
4 natl o
see the blacks leave until those remaining did not
outnumber the whites In the first place, the
Southern people believe that so long the cOlored
men outnumber the white voters IN any Congress
sional District, it will be impossible to make the
people of the North believe otherwise than that
every white Democrat returned to Congress is
elected by fraud intimidation. Another reason
is that the negroes are Improbable aOOreTs ana SO
long as they remain IL VIII De Hnpossiole, 10
induce white people TO settle In the south. MI.
Young says that arrangements were made Tor the
settlement OF a large NUMBER OF hOlidhueiIS III d
rich cotton growing section, but after the hrst
party arrived they became discontinued because
there many negroes about, ana shOrtIy altei
ward they all left. "
Mir Young says that Chinese labor has been tried
on some of the cotton and sugar plantations, ana
he enthusiastically declares that the ChlheSe are
the best abOTers that can be found Tor we aIuVai
region of the lower Mississippi. He says they are
quiet and industrious and do not NEEDLE with poll
ties He declares that on the other hand the ne
grOes are born politicians and that some OF tnem
are the best political managers 10 the South To-Day
Mr. Young declares that the Southern policy OF
President Hayes came nearer to breaking up the
Democratic party in the South than most people
imagine and he says that, " II the southern people
had believed that Mr.. Hayes fairly elected
President" a great majority of them would have
become his supporters. Even as 1t Is, the Memphis
Representative declares that President Hayes mas
more friends among the Democrats OF the South to-
day than Mr.. 1iden has and he believes that II
both were In the field again Mr.. Hayes would carry
more Southern States than Mr.. Illden.
In regard to the Ostracism of Republicans In the
South Mr. Young says 1t is as universal as ever ana
he does not think 1t will ever abate. lie declares
that no matter how honest or intelligent man
NAV be, or how desirable his wealth or his social
characteristics he Will not be regarded as desir-
nble citizen if he is a Republican. The Republicans
DISTINGUISHED the people" of the South and
placed the negroes and dIsreputable whites in con-
troll.