Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-13
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It is not strange that the Democratic party should in the present campaign deprecate ar guments of a sectional character since the success of that party necessarily involves the rule of a section whose entire population is not third of that of the whole country, and whose white and dominant population is about one-seventh of that of the whole country; a section which carries on only about seven per cent. of the commercial en- terprises of the country and much smaller proportion of the industrial enterprises.
 At the Cincinnati convention Wade Hamp- ton promised the Democratic party the votes of the solid southern section, and there is little reason to doubt that that promise will be made good. In the event of the success of the Democratic party at the approaching election the solid South would cast a large majority of the Democratic votes in the Electoral College. Assume, for the sake of the argument, that that party at the ap- preaching election will secure the votes of the solid South, and also of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, New York, New Jersey and Indiana. This is quite as much as any sensible Democrat could claim. In that event the total Democratic vote in the Electoral College would be 197. of which 112 of the votes, 57 per cent, would be from the States of the solid South, [. c., the States which formally seeded, including the State of Kentucky. Evidently therefore, if this should be the result of the approaching election and if the present political status of the Senate and House of Representatives ~hn &ho ho able to direct the policy of the national gov ernment through it's control of the legisla- tive and executive branches of the govern ment.
 Anybody who doubts that the solid South would assume and exercise all the power it could places himself in opposition to all ex- perience, to the history of the South with respect to the assumption and exercise of political power and to the history of the north ern Democracy with respect to subserviency to southern dictation. The placing of the less than the restoration of southern domi- nation in our national affairs.
 This being true, the question arises wheth- CT that great and important section of the country not included in the solid South can afford to let small and in many respects much less important section rule. We want a sound financial system Such system is vital to the prosperity of our commerce and industries. The record of the solid South is clearly at variance with the policy of sound currency and the maintenance of high de- gree of public confidence in the credit of the national government. We want proper pro- tection to American enterprise in those in- dustries in which Americ n labor competes with foreign labor. In view of the fact that the great industrial enterprises of the coun- try are chiefly at the North, the States of the solid South can be expected to have but little active sympathy in governmental policy of this nature. In the past the whole force of it's influence has been thrown against this policy. The Democratic party has, in it's platform in the present struggle, placed it. self in an attitude of hostility to this policy We want appropriations for internal improve ments, especially those in aid of commerce,