The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-11-24
THE sTALwART PROGRAMME.
Burial of "tbc Ohio idea" The Electoral
Votes Of the Souili to he Captured b.,
Giving Ohices To White Republicans.

Buriai of "tbe Ohio idea" The Electoral
Votes OF the SOUL, to he Captured II,
Giving Onice. To White Republicans.
The Washington R,f.ii,oln. The sal
wart orgon. publi,l.c, the following in
tcrvicw with - well kn"wi! southern
Repnblicau:'
Colonel, villa, 10 you think ofthc sit
nation? -
''lhc ohio idea in Republican politics
!, dead. II vas buried in poor Garficli's
grave, and am glad THAT 80 much good
came ii grca, crime.
'W hat do YOU mean by Tie 'OhiD idea
III Republican politics?
II mean that bastard. bcsottcn by Iior-
ace Greeley sentiinentalism out Of Mas
sichusctts Purilanisn. fostcr"d into life
by George William Curtis, Whi,ciaw
Reid. William Waltah Phelps and others.
which taught that the results OF Rcpub-
lican victories must be given TO their en-
cinicS and that all the virtues of the dec
aloGi!c could be found in Northern Re.
pnblicais and Southern Democrats, and
all the vices in Southern Republicans and
Northern democrats. This child Of Sin
became Il resident Of ohio. and, with the
exception of cX-AttC -uey General Taft,
Gen. Bailey and a few others, it had be-
come the political !aiti Of all the leading
Republicans OF Ohio. II Is dead
'fhcn YOU think wlat?n
II think we are 10 have q Republican
Administration under Which there bwill
be no scctionalism in The party, where
mon will be regarded for their merits and
not because OF their residence. where
Democrats will be made TO understand
that they were Dc-.ten in 1856 and do not
run the Government, where the hunibug
called civi! service reform will be cX-
posed, aud which can lind honest, COM
petcnt Republicans enough To ill all the
Offices in the CnitcI States
"Wliat effect Will the success Of Ma
homo in Virginia have
If President Arthur will give tho
proper and Legitimate aid of the Admin
istration to the Republicans Of the South,
ii will result i'll giving us in lssi the
electoral votes Of Virginia, Maryland,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama
Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and South Carolina, with ten Re
publican Senators aud nn: Representa-
lives in Congress"
"Wliat do YOU mean by 'p.opcr and
legitimate aid?"
~ mean just tho aid that has been
given other States. If Massachusetts ana
Ohio had been treated for the last eight
years as the South has been, they would
have been reliably Democratic. Why
'oDk, with onc-tiih OF the population,
polling fourth of the Republican vote
and half our vote suppressed, we have
only had one member OF the Cabinet in
eight years, and his chief business is 10
regulate the brass buttons and gold lace
upon the coats of tho leaders Of tho Ger
man in Washington society. OF chiefs
Of bureau in the treasury we had one
under Hayes and two now of ten in the
interior we had none: of six in the post
Office we had none, our only representa-
tive being i'll the department ofjustice
OF assistant chiefs we had even fewer
hDt l,nf Il
where else and So it is through all the
official grades. In the Southern States
Democrats hold nearly ali the offices.
or ] 100 postmasters in Georgia, / am
told not over iifiy are Republicans. How
can n party succeed under such circum-
stancc,?''
"Wlat should be donc?'
"Thcrc should be two live, active,
brainy Southern Republicans In the Cab.
met. Men who know the South and
have the courage to do what is right
Young and vigorous men. They should
be put where they will do the most
good and that is us postmaster general
lican party wants recruits from the m
tives of the South-not because we have
not votes enought, but because we cannot
get them fairly counted-oro Of these
Cabinet Ministers should be native
Southerncr so that it will be known that
ton in the Republican party. We want
the Encouragement, because in tho last
six years at least one hundred Southern
Democrats have violated the election
laws to the extent of having laid them
selves liable to the penilcntiary, and
none or them have been punished. We
want AN attorney general who will Sc
lect men rs district attorneys ana mar
shals who are not afraid or ashamed to
do their duty, and who will not as the
reformer MacNeagh did, send for Wado
Hampton and Butler, and did ask them
whom they wanted appointed to these
places i'll South Carolina"
"As the negroes largely predominant in
the Republican party, would You eivo
the other places 10 tIlem?"
NO; it took six hundred years OF
Magma Charta, ard ono hundred years of
our own free institutions to make the
Anglo-Saxon the leading race of tho
world, and the negro will require at least
three or four generations of liberty and
education to entitlc him to seat among
the rulers. There is another class in the
South from whom the other Cabinet
officer should come. After the war n
large number of the Federal soldiers set
tied in the Southern States, either mar
ricd there or carried their families there
ana arc citizens, rs much so rs if they
had been born there. These mon, when
they are Republicans, are called carpet
baggers by the Democrats To them
we owe the fact that there is Republican
party in the South. There are numbers
of them who are honest, brave, compe-
tent men, and it is shame that tho Re-
publican party has officially indorsed the
lies that have been told on these men by
Southern Democrats. The other Cabinet
officer should come from that class"
"What then %
Let tho Southern Republicans have a
fair show of the Offices here, let none but
Republicans be put in office in the South
and the result will be what said above"
"Arc you not lowering the standard of
politics when you say that success can be
only attained by oflice?'
mo, sir; not unless Jesus Christ low
cred it. He said. The laborer Is worthy
of his hire" Governor Marcy para
phrarcd that into 80 the victorS belong
IL. polls l accept the first saying rs
t:us, and, being true, success must come
through it. 1t costs man something to
DO Republican in the South, and he
should receive corresponding benefits.
Whenever the party is made respectable,
there, by the action of the Administers
tion, then it can maintain itself without
Office