New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-18
TIE SOUTHERN PARTH

HE OUCIHIlii4f mn
We hail word of candor and god sense
from the far South. The Neic Orleans States IN
recent number reasons that the South should
| abandon its retiring position, and go into the
next Democratic Convention to name the can
dldate who seems most satisfactory to Its own
interests. The Southern delegations should ut
| tend, not as mere spectators, but to take the
lead in shaping the policy of the Government"
| That section has manifested too much meekness
and submission, in the opinion OF this journal !:
| sTbe South must no longer be political non
"entity in the house of ICs own party. Its l3O
| electoral votes entitle it to the first position
| and make it sufficiently powerful to enforce
what it Demands That this is particularly
| true and pertinent, the capable candidates in
| the Democratic party have known for many
wears. and they have constantly shown by their
| course that they knew it. Pennsylvania can
| cast q few votes. and New York few, and OHIO
a few but Solid South ever prepared to con-
centrate its vote upon the candidate most pleas-
ing to those who rule that solid vote, has an IT.
resistible power within the Democratic party,
and can at any time dictate its policy and It's
candidates. This indeed, is exactly the reason
| The Ne,p- Orleans States gives for its declara-
>,
IN, Democratic party Is in ne South, not IN ne North
or Vest anu the principles OF the Democratic party are
more in the agricultural Of the South than In
the manufacturing interests OF the North IL but just
and proper then head Of the Government should
be In sympathy with the Southern people ana friendly 10
| their interests
This is so true. and it is such vital truth,
that we should never have expected to hear it
/ |. nat sIa n
vet WHY Ia it not wise as well as honest and
manly to cast off the DISCUSSES and pretences
under which the Democratic party has fought
so long in vain The fact that the Demo-
@cIatic party is in the South, and not IN the
9North or West" has long been known to. North-
ern voters, and remembered every time they
have cast their votes at national elections.
| The partial DISCUSSES have been utterly vain.
| The attempt to keep no pretence that the
Democracy of the North could control the
| policy OF the party has always been such pal
| pable fraud that it has caused profound dstrust.
| What good can it possibly do to continue a
deception which does not deceive. but only adj
yertises the desire TO play falsef
The Northern people are not hostile to the
South as such, nor have they vindictive preju-
dices tow ard the men Of the South. We op-
pose them when we understand them to have
different aims and policies, just as we oppose
Northern men who have different aims and
policies from our own that is all. We believe
Ii true that tho great body Of Republican
| voters would much rather vote for repre-
sentative Southern man, candid, earnest
outspoken Southerner of Southerners, than for
| any of the Northern candidates who come to
| US as the nominees of the Northern Democracy,
when we know that they have been selected
| nv the will of the South, and selected for the
| purpose of getting our votes more or less under
| false pretences. If the South will openly name
! It's choice and announce its policy, he Demo
cratic party will at once be the stronger with
I many men because Of getting rid of the
| wretched and eowardly tricks by which it has
tried to deceive, and has only betrayed its own
fraudulent purpose.
SO of the policy Of the party the fact is
known already that it will inevitably consider
| and seek to serve rather "the agricultural
interests of the South than the manufacturing
Interests of the North" The knowledge of that
vital fact IL present with every intelligent voter
when he casts his vote. If he prefers to have
| agriculture. interests, as the South understands
them, considered in the conduct of the Govern
| ment, rather than that harmony of interests
| which is sought by the protection of manufac-
| lures and the diverslfcation Of industry, he
| knows enough to vote for the candidate whom
| the South supports. If, on the contrary, he
prefers diversihcation of industry through q
steady and consistent policy of protection, be
knows perfectly well that the South has ruled.
and in the nature of things will rule,
the policy Of the Democratic party. All the
DISCUSSES are of mo avail. Even when a Union
general from Pennsylvania is put up.
we all know that his military cloak is
wanted for designs that are essentially
Southern. And the people vote accord
ipgly. They see-who can help seeingi-that the
Democratic party is not sure Of single cleo
toral vote except from Southern States, and
that those who bring the party the whole of
Its Trustworthy strength must in the end dictate
its conduct. What Is the use of disguised
Why shall not the South, with all it, candnr