Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-06
THE SITUATION.

South, New Jersey, California, Neva-
da and probably Oregon. Hancock,
therefore, loses the Presidency by the
loss Of New York State.
The National Senate will be Demo-
cratic by two majority. The House
Of Representatives is in doubt.
The disaster to constitutional gov
eminent is a deplorable one indeed;
yet the consolation is left us that the
hands of the Republican President
will be stayed SO for as any interfer-
ence with the local governments Of
the ostracized Southern States may
have been contemplated by the lead
ers of the Radical party.
The South must look alone to her.
self to fasten and protect her mate
rial interests. 1t becomes q matter
of vital Importance for our people
to encourage, by all the means at
their command, the establishment of
all species OF manufactures. Every
thing that can be done or raised with
in our borders should be given the
preference over the same articles
produced elsewhere.
Our friends at the North cannot
stem the tide against the masses whose
dream is to throw the South into
confusion and into Q condition of
vassalage to the powerful and unre-
lenting sectionalists.
The surplus Of the earnings of the
Southern people should be used at
home, so that immigrants may be at
tracted who will make our waste
lands productive and furnish opera
tives to the factories and work
shops which itbecomes self-preserva-
ton to establish throughout the South.
The New York Evening CONNER
cial has the following: "The great
victory that has been won shows that
the people of the Northern States are
true to the principles for which Grant,
Sherman, Garfield, and Hancock
fought. There we're other issues, but
this was the great overpowering one.
The tariff played its part, but was it
not fear of the South that brought the
tariff question outq The South, as
managed to-day, is antagonistic to
the North in all it's parts. The de-
mand for free trade comes from the
South. The changes asked for were
first heard there. 1t was the deter
mination that the South should not
rule this country through Hancock,
Bayard, or any other Northern man,
that brought about the result yester-
day. Men may deny this, may sneer
at the bloody shirt and prate about
the war being over, but these are the
facts and cannot be disputed"
The New York Evening Post, in
the course Of its leading editorial on
the result, says: "There was still
more potent reason for the in
efficiency Of the Democrats, and that
was their want Of definite policy and
their faithlessness to such fragments
Of policy as they had positively avow-
ed. The party in opposition, which
incites people to abandon q party in
power, has two things to do. 1t must
prove the party in power, either theo-
retically or practically, unworthy Of
trust, and it must provide q consist
ent and attractive scheme of meas
ures wherewith to supplant the in
cumbents. New, the Democratic
party was an opposition and no more.
1t had great deal to say against the
Republicans, and it proved a great
deal mistakes, miscarriages and po-
sitive offenses. But it had nothing
to substitute that was better on all
questions Of legislation likely to arise.
1t was quite at sea as to finances. 1t
coalesced freely with the addle-lead-
ed teachers of the paper money Cos
pei, and it did 50 in the face of its
own most honorable traditions"
On the the result of the election
the Atlanta Constitution says: ut is
the elimination of series of blunders,
beginning with the Potter committee
and ending with the surrender of the
party to the selfish will of an element