The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1883-11-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON, October 81, 1888.
Talking 18th prominent Southern
man the ether night your Corresp ndent
earned some facts about the general sit
llation of political affairs from demo
sratic standpoint which are not general
Ily lsnown The southern members, said
Ms Informant, are not OF the same class
that predominated in the House seven
Or eight years ago. 1t was then said
THAT the Southern Brigadier Generals
controlled Congress and sentiment was
worked mp to fire the Northern heart
|ragainst the rebles, BY the Republicans.
But the members of this Congress from
the south are largely composed ofa new
and younger class of men; men who were
IchiIdren when the war begun, and who
took no active part ji Il. There Efe y
few OF the old members for it il 4 notice.
able tact about Southern Districts that
they return the same men to Congress
lsBstoner than is the case in the North, !,
but, for the most part they have yielded
the contrel of political affairs to the
younger uen. What win be the effect
Of this cnabge oil leaders, do you think {?
n very material difference. In the
first place the war prejudices cannot be
made to serve the purposes Of the repub>
licans, q political fact which robs them
of all the capital they have had for
many years, They cannot win a presi>
dental campaign or any issue thai does
| not have the war as its basis, at least
they have not been able to do it. Now
tHese young men coming up as Members
Of Congress from the South have the
issues Of the South, as they see it is busi,.
Iness advancement, and they come to
Congress not as the representatives of a
past was sentiment but as the advocates
lor The material advancements Of thei.
section in all its present interests; In
Other words the South has learned that
by fostering Industries through the agen-
cy Of capital, if to give power, interest,
aud occupation to its people, and imp1se
TO all its social, and domestic machinery.
Now there is peculiar fact in this cons
nection which may have attracted youl
attention. Iu the coming organization
,f the House of Representatives the. best
Informed do not pretend to ray how
the Southern members are going to vote
The Courier Journal which assumes to be
The organ of Southern Democracy gives
81 southern members as nOn-cOmmittal
on the vote for Speaker of the House,
| and this is in face of the fact that their
own candidate Carlisle Is not only popu.
lar but is acknowledged to be without a
peer among recent statesmen Of the
South. You knew how warmly they
have always supported q man from their
own section. But now they are non. coins
INITIAL. This IS simply and solely be-
cause business matters at last take the
precedence of political feeling among
leading Southern men. Carlisle repre-
sents one side OF the tree trade question,
Randall the other: to make choice be>
tween these two Is tn commit themselv
IS TO some line of policy. They do not
propose to do this. The South will max,
its vores and power felt for the candidate
who will aid its material prospects
Who, in your opinion will I've the
democratic. Presidential candidates and
what are their chances the writer ven,
tured TO ask. 1t is rather early ver but
still there are Combinations being lnsd,
without doubt. Tilden is working ia his
polite way to contro, The nonliImtio
md I think he will pct Cleveland tol-i
ward as his man. In the west the McDpii-
aid men are quietly confident. He j.. d
strong laan but not SO well known in the