The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-04
A CAMPAIGN IN AND FOR THE SOUTH.

UAMfAlGN In AND FUN Idh pUUIdt
The movement of the Republican national
committee in the establishment of headquar-
ters at Nashville, and in its address to the in
dustrial South, is in consonance with the we'll
known views Of Mr.. Blaine who has taken
advanced ground on the question of Southern
development and the complete reconciliation
of the two sections of the Union. In his let
ter Of acceptance he says; II recognize, not
without regret, the necessity for speaking of
two sections of our common country. But
the regret diminishes when l see that the ele-
ments which separated them are fast disap-
pearing. Prejudices have yielded and are
yielding, while growing cordiality warns the
Southern and Northern heart alike. Can any
one doubt that between the sections conf
dence and esteem are to-day more marked than
at any period in the sixty years preceding the
election of President Lincoln" The better
elements of Southern citizenship are more
friendly toward the North and toward the Re-
publican party and its principles than probably
ever before in the Nations history. The men
who have begun the manufacture of cotton
fabrics in Georgia. in the Carolinas and in
Tennessee, of iron in Alabama and Tennessee
of sugar in Louisiana, and of plows and agri-
cultural implements in many of the Southern
States, realize that the hope of Southern in
dustries lies in the Republican idea of pro
lection to American men and mills. The
prejudice that has kept these men from be-
coming Republicans is dissolving. There is
kindlier feeling growing up in the South
and under its influence the great worlds fair
at New Orleans was devised, and will be car
ried to successful termination, at which the
people ofNorth and South will mingle in closer
fellowship than ever before. Good, and good
only, will result from it. The kinship of bust
ness interests will be established and better
understanding will be had. The Republican
party, confident in the triumph of the princi-
pies which popularize it among workingmen
and men who give employment to the indus
trial masses, turns from the North to
extend hand' of welcome and fell
lowship to the new South, rising from
the ashes of the old Having delivered the
South from the bondage Of slavery the Re-
publican party now addresses itself to the task
of lifting the South to the same plane oc-
cupied by the North, extending every
guaranty of help and cooperation in
every industrial enterprise for which
the South is so well equipped III the way Of
natural and artificial resources Northern
capital will soon find greater investment
there, and to where there is now one mill OF fac
tory in that portion of the country there will
be five; where hundreds are employed, will be
thousands; where thousands are invested will
preciate; the market for farm products will be
built up; the demand upon the resources of
the fields will be doubled and trebled This
is the experience everywhere. AS the repre-
sentative and champion of this new and better
order of things the Republican party APP
proaches the South with confidence 1t is a leg
itimate and promising field. The harvest of this
years sowing may not be reaped next month,
but it is altogether safe to say that the solid
South will melt away in time and the new
energy of Republican thrift and enterprise
will arouse the South to better appreciation
of what she may be and should be. The ac-
ton of the Republican national committee
will meet the hearty approval of the party,
and the good that will follow will be to all the
people, and to none more than to the South
itself.
TAKING CARE OF INDIANA.