The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-13
The suggestion, at any rate, is well wortl
public consideration.
What IL Means.
Waco Examiner.

Enough Republican conventions have been
he'd to show concusvely that Grant or
Blaine Is the almost unanimous choice of the
Republican party for President. A Grant
is the representative of n strong government,
and Blaine of the most virulent and uncom-
promising bloody-shirt idea, we may reason
ably conclude that such change has taken
place among the masses of the Republican
party in the last two years that the conserva-
tive element in that party has been totally
overwhelmed, and that party is now, masses
and leaders, as radical MS in 1860. The Sec
tional feeling which ebbed year after year,
till the election of conservative like Hayes
became possible in 1876, are again ut food,
till nothing but the election of man whose
insignia is sword or man whose banner
dears the unblushing death head and cross
bones will satisfy Republican sentiment
Take II rs we may, the unanimous sentiment
in favor of Grant or Blaine is sign Of most
evil portent 1t is now vain to speculate on
the agencies by which this ill,starred revolu.
ton has been brought about. We see plainly
the mschievous results of the special session.
the effects Of the spectacle of solid South,
both adroitly managed by interruptions
Northern leaders TO fire tie Northern heart
But this is passed. The Republican party
stands now in open and radical antagonism to
the Democratic party, and to the South in
particular.
II Is also in vain to argue that the appre-
tensions OF the South, on the Part Of the
North, are spectral and unfounded. The
great masses OF the Republicans believe that
the Southern idea is dangerous and menac-
ing to the integrity of the Union; that it
contemplatcs the subjugation of National
rights to State rights; they see in the at
tempts of II Democratic Legislature and
Senate, during the special session, to abro-
gate the election laws only part of pur-
pose to gain possession of the elections, and
the South stands to them in the attitude of
contemplating that subversion of tho Gov
eminent now by politics which il failed to
accomplish in the civil war by arms. Mis-
taken notions are just AS dangerous
MS truthful notions, and therefore the
South is none tho less menaced by
the triumph of radical sentiment
though that sentiment is wholly base
less in point of fact This unlucky change
means mischief. It's full of evil to the
South, in case of the election of Blaine or
Grant. The South will be in the hands of
her implacable enemies. And this at time
most inopportune. The census of 1880 is to
sweep from our section all power tor the
next half century. She win no longer be u
great factor in politics. Her Democratic al
lies in the North will desert her MS they did
in 1860. She will stand isolated and es-
nged,shorn of her power and under the feet
of her enemies. The fortunes of the South are
therefore involved in this present election.
Her whole destiny turns on the throw of IL
dice Should the Democratic party ful in
this election the Democratic triumphs of the
last few years will have been the dearest tri-
umpbs ever won, for there remains no doubt
that the too great assurance founded on
those triumphs led our Democratic Congress.
men into measures which have turned the
tide Of Northern sentiment, revivlded radical
ism, and ieopardized the South.