Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-12
The Administration Plot Against the
SOuih.

South.
The following Washington special to
the Cleveland CO., Leader is being copied
by certain of our exchanges, and it
serves to throw more light on subject |
very interesting to Southern voters:
1.-THE earnest support of the admins |
tratiOn is promised to the anti BourbOns |
in the South in the coming campaign. |
The matter is understood to have been
the subject of a consultation by the
Cabinet prior to the departure of the
President from the city, and it is reliably
stated that the understanding was
reached that every Congressional district
in the South which could possibly he
saved from the Democrats was needed,
and that no stone should be left I'M
turned to secure the election of a Re
publican or anti Bourbon in every doubt
full district. The plan of assistance
determined upon hss not been decided
in all its details, but enough is known to
authorize the statement that they will be
in charge of the heads of departments of
Justice and the Navy Department. Sec
rotary Chandler was selected because of
his familiarity with the various Southern
political methods, and the Attorney Gen
eral was intrusted with a share of the
work because the Department of Justice
is especially interested"
Thus we receive corroborating evil
dence of the fact that the administra-
ton at Washington has Matched UP plot
to capture, by fair means or foul
chiefly the latter-as many seats as pos
sible from the South in the Forty-eighth
Congress, so as to neutralize pretty gen
orally conceded losses in the North.
The programme is the same which we
have already outlined. Bill Chandler,
because of his familiarity with the
various Southern political methods"
"a familiarity gained while a visiting
statesmen" in Florida in 1S7G-is TO
manage the fraud department, while B.
H. Brewster, the United States Attorney
General, is to put the Department of
Justice in operation, and Jay HNbbells
corruption fund is to play a cOnspicu-
Gus part in efforts to bride and debase
the Southern voter.
As has been already remarked in these
columns, we believe that this desperate
scheme to corrupt and bulldoze the
South is destined to signal failure. The
Southern people are not yet so degraded
as to be willing to sell themselves to
Hubbeu for money. extracted on pain
of dismissal from office from the scanty
salaries of government clerks, nor have
they anything to fear, in this day and
generation, from swindling Radical Re-
turning Boards, without the aid of
which neither Chandler nor Brewster
will be able to accomplish much in the
way of dirty work. The proposed ad
ministration plot against the South,
therefore, will be likely to fall stillborn,
and all parties concerned therein will
probably find, when the election re-
turns are all in, that they have had only
their labor for their pains.
But it is well that the Southern people
should bear IN mind the plots and
schemes against them, so as to be pre-
pared to Illustrate Them. AS Mr.. Ste
phens, in his recent Atlanta speech, truly
said, the surest, and indeed the only, way
to do this beyond peradventure is by
organization. 1t is not by any means
uncommon for a large faction Of any
party to feel dissatisfied at nominations
made By party conventions, especially
when there has been developed much
rivalry for the hOnoTs of the party. 1t is
the duty of all true Democrats, however,
when nomination has been made, to
sink everything like personal feeling and
prejudice, and heartily support the nomi-
nee. The man should be lost sight of
aud only the party and its success
thought Of.
Without a strict adherence to this
principle defeat is certain, and Demo.
cratic defeat in the South is a seri-
Gus matter, for it simply means the
success of Radicalism. Let the oppO-
| nents Of the Democracy call themselves
Independents, independent Demo.
Gratis" or plain straight forward ''Radi-
Gals, they are all Republicans, neither
more nor less, and their success is a Re.
publican triumph. This has been proven
so often that it needs no further demon
stration. Even Malone declared himself
9 Democrat and was elected as SUCH
Yet when his election was assured, he
threw off the mask and has ever
since trained with the worst enemies of
his State and section. So it is with all of
his class Ia the contest before US all
who are not with the Demo cracy must
be against if, and should 50 be regarded.
Remembrance of this should inhexibly
determine Southern Democrats to forget
all past differences and all individual
feeling, and meet heart and hand to-
gether for a sweeping Democratic vic
tory. In no other way can Hadicalism
be defeated, and the plans and schemes
of the administration against the South
and Southern honor and manhood be de-
cisiyely rebuked.
Col. George Il. Black
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