The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-30
The SUNNY SOUTH,
coNJEcTuRss OF ITS FUTURE.
Its Political Importanoe-Will 10 be Re
eSf oOgnized-Furnishes 1853 ia ino Cor
isge-Its Own Patronage Mt
Lsast-CRrpet Bagssrs.

The relations of the South with the
Cleveland administration are subject
of interesting speculation and sonjsc-
ture IN the Republican party, and the
matter is not one TO which Democrats
arc indifferent. Tho so-c..lled Southern
states furnish 1853 of the 2l9 electoral
votes for the president elect, and may,
by al rules of party arithmetic, claim
tho honor eff eleoting him. IN addition
10 this, the Southern states will supply
z little IN re than one-half the Demo-
cratic majority in the next house, on
which the new administration will
naturally lean for support against re-
aenttui and ill natured opposition; aud
in the senate thirty OF tho thirty
four Democratic members will he fro IN
those states. 1t is NOT surprising, the re-
fore, that Mr., Blaine should assert that
the election will make the south the
dominant section in the new order OF
things, and that the Republican leaders
should base great expectations of a
Republican restoration four years hence
on the prospect of an offensive southern
policy, which will overthrow the Dom
ooracy in She four northern states OF
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
and Indiana, and reunits the powerful
north in support of Eepublicanism. 1t
is certainly an interesting question (;
indeed, 1t il the critica! question Of
the near future, for 1t Involves
The permanence of the Demo
cratic restoration A southern sectional
policy would assuredly forfeit the slen-
der Democratic majorlties in Now York,
Connection, Now Jersey and Indiana
and bring the precarious Democratic a.
cendancy 10 an end at the first national
election. Nothing is more demonstra.
Bile than that the northern people will
bear much more from Republicanism
than from the Democracy, and any at
tempt to unsettle the settlements of the
WNr; or to disturb the banking and mon
6ttry system IoT working so SatisfdC-
tOrily; or TO bring up a cloud of southern
war claims On the treasury; or to revive
the obsolete ideas OF thirty years ago;
would be received with positive disfaVor
in the north.
Happily, there is little danger of such
= policy, because there is no reason for
il, Tho conservation of slavery is no
longer a concern of southern statesmen,
The south has no desire 10 alter the set
Elements of the war, and il could not il
itwished to. the banking and monetary
system is 9s acceptable ~ that section as
to the north. The liberal policy Of river
ana harbOr improvements, which has
grown up m the last twenty years, il
too advantageous to the south to pro
yoke challenge and hostility from that
quarter, and, as to war claims, southern
statesmen are too wise and far-sighted
To leopard the incalculable advantages
of \ democratic ascendancy for few
million dollars distributed among indi-
viduals on questionable claims.
II has been intimated that southern
Demo rats ought to surrender to their
northe brethren the entire manage
ment the new administrations pol
ley, and content themselves with sim
ply voting IN its support. Thisis absurd.
Southern Democrats, so long excluded
nom the national administration in
their section under the Republican
regime, uugh to have MONOPOLY of
IL in the new order of things
The day OF appointing northern
adventures 10 offices in tho south
should como 10 an end. Southern m m
are quite 10 fit to be United States
Judges, atLGrneys, msIshals, collectors,
surveyors, commissioners, and post
masters as northern men, and the often.
sive discrimination against thom under
tho Republican rule should now cease
forever. The entire administration OF
the national interests in tbs south
ought TO be placed in the hands OF south.
ern men, md the character OF southern
representatives and senators who have
rat in congress in the last few years is q
sufficieni guaranty that the trust will hs
wisely and periodically administered.
/ tlr people of the southern states
shall hu name their sblest and best
men for positions in tho now cabinet
aud for appointment to foreign mis-
Mons and domestic stations OF honor
and pr Nit, add shall, in addition to this
recognize and 'ct on the high, broac
ard safe dlct inc, that q fair nationa
policy, which will benefit both soutl
and north, is he best, we shall have M
fear OF the result. Such q policy viii
make nopular conquests in the north
snd all dispuublo sta ps TO tho Dino
cratic phslanX am e,tsb ish the Demo
cratic ascend Inrv tor this generation
iSt. Louis Republican.