Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-21

Washington Special to the Boston Post
The Republicans are giving signs of being
in distress for an issue. With the exception
of one or two Of their newspapers that seem
to havevery little capacity for thinking they
have abandoned he Southern question. Mr..
Arthur has not had much faith In sectional
politics for a long time, and he has tried
very diligently since his arriving into the
Presidency to make Republican party in
the South. He is beginning, not to repent
that he hiss mads the attempt, but to dis
cover that he has made mistake in irving
70 build up the disTeputsble elements of
the South at the expense OF its good citi-
zens. The administration is not very happy
over the Malone movement, or the coalition
In North Carolina, or that with Chalmers.
The President himself and Secretary Folser
have come to regard the rag tag and
0obtail OF Southern politics, who have been
dragged intO the Republican party, mainly
by the efforts of such politicians as VII
liam E. Chandler and Frank Hatton as a
serious load. Sir. Folger has never had any
sympathy with this brace of patriots, and It
is the general impression that Secretary
FrelinghuVsen has agreed with him, and
now Mr.. Arthur is coming to the same
mind. His misfortune is that he has been
bred In very loW-toned school Of politics,
and he believes that elections are always
won by bargains and trades. Such q man
may run along in smooth waters for time,
but his end must be disastrous. This Is the
Presidents own history, and he feels it
sorelY. He is generous enough, however,
not to lay the blame on his lieutenants. He
selected Chandler and Hatton to do what
they have done, and he is responsible for
the bitter result. His somewhat simple idea
was to carry the country by the same
methods as he had carried the CITY of New
York.
The President wants to be rid Of the bad
influences of the Southern coalition in the
North, but he recognizes that that will be
difficult to accomplish, even If It be posi-
BILE. So far as Virginia is concerned,
Malone and his Republican allies are ali
right, and the North Carolina coalition ap-
pears to promise good local results. Two
things, however, trouble the President. He
sees that the smart game played by Chsnd
Ter and Hatton, in the South, has produced
q bad effect in the North, and that the
coalitions do not promise much assistance
to the stalwarts In the next national
convention. The old Republicans Of
the South still preserve their organiza-
tions and will send delegations to the Presi-
QFublhl COANOntlOu 1utS6 Uldy D6 COlIGBteu
by coalition delegations, but the President
fears that his disreputable allies will have a
hard time before body that is likely to be
controlled by his old bitter enemy from
Maine. The intimations that Mr.. Arthur
proposes to clear the decks, or unload, as
the phrase is, have very little foundation in
fact. He has gone so far in Ills term that
he cannot turn ont bis machine manipu-
lators without destroying sill his strength
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else to depend upon. He must now be a
machine man or nothing. So far as the
South is concerned, Blaine has captured the
old Republicans, who are naturally indig-
uant that men whom they have ALWAYS been
fighting should be put over their heads In
the Republican organization by the admin
istration.
Unfortunately for the administration in
the South, It has made It's alliances with the
men who gave the Southern Democracy it's
bad nameS Malone, 10 Virginia, was the
has ever known, and is recognized as the
inventor OF the tissue paper ballots. York,
in North Carolina, Is despised by every
decent man in his community. Cash, in
South Carolina, is notorious as a bulldozer,
and more recently as murderer.
Chalmers, in Mississippi, has a record
for skill In election frauds which is as
H6ll huOWu bUTOu0UOu6 Iu6 COUNTY, as
it Is hard to match The Presidents love of
political bargain made him blind to all
these things, but they now stare him in the
face IN all their awful potency. The fact is
that the administration has taken up with a
lot of people whom the Democrats have un-
loaded because their violence and dishonesty
made their prominence in the party stand
ing reproach TO it. The late election has
set the President to wondering If they will
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to the party and the faction who now make
them prominent. II the Democratic party
could not stand these creatures, can the
Republican party stand them? The Presi-
dent thinks probably not.
The President recognizes that the South
will cast its electoral vote for the next
Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
unless some division Is made on some real
issue that shall gain votes for the RepubIi-
cans In that section of the country. The ma
chine methods hencefOrth are to be confined
TO trying to capture the organization for the
stalwarts; an issue is to be made to capture
the popular vote, and the issue is to be
framed on the assumption that some of the
Southern States are beginning to favor pro-
lection and are hostile to the internal reye-
nue. system. This effort OF course makes
sectional politics impossible. The Blaine
programme Is somewhat different and in
wolves still keeping up the bloody shirt,
which the leader Of that faction has ALWAYS
found 1t so easy to harsngue about Some
OF the Blaine ewsDapers-notabIy the
Philadelphia Press and the Chicago Lnier.
Ocedn-hsve begun to maunder about the
old rebel yell, and about men "south of the
line;" but the people who can AJAX the
country to trust in public station, ex-Con
federates like Malone, Chalmers and York,
and Cash, cannot talk about the dangers
from the old Confederacy wi hout making
thinking people smile; to speak, as the sub,
ject seems to demand, such politicians
would be likely to hear themselves called
liars by men who are plain OF speech and
Indifferent to the feelings Of those they de-
spise.
The President, in bis message, will have a
good deal to say about the reduc-
uon OF the revenue tax, and judicious re-
vision OF the tariff. The President himself
is a good deal honester advocate of a
thorough reform OF the tariff than most of
his party, but the party programme is to be
an adroit one, and Is to Involve as little
tariff reduction as possible. The main
feature OF the administration scheme is an
attack on the internal revenue system. This
Is for two purposes, to gain friends in the
South and to prevent general revision of the
tariff. 1t is the hope of the administra-
zion to so greatly reduce the reve.
nues by the abolition and reduc-
lion of internal revenue taxation
at the coming session of Congress, that the
Democrats will find It impossible to mate
rally modify the tariff laws, waen they
come in in the Forty eighth Congress. Il
will require good deal of wisdom and
courage TO meet and defeat this scheme. for
5he President and his supporters in Congress
will push 1t vigorously in the short session
hat is coming on. The total abolition of
'he tax on tobacco, perfumery, matches,
bank ,checks, and tax on deposits is to be
urged, which will take off about $50, 600, 900
II revenue, according to the estimate made
Oy the administration. This is the same
poor sop that was tried last year, and It Is
lot enough.
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