Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-30
THE NORTHWEST.
The Solid South.

Mr.. Blame is hrlng the Northern
heart by talking of the solid South.
Well he himself depends uDon solid
North, and the triumph Of the Republi-
can party is itself the victory of section
alism. The Democratic party depends
for its success upon votes in both sec
tions. 1t is the Republican party which
solidifies both and arrays one against
the other.
Why is the South solid? After it
was conquered the Republicans con-
trolleG several States in the South.
Why did they lose their hold? 1t
could not have been the "shot-gun
policy" because the Republicans also
controlled the national government,
which both had and exercised the pow
or to subdue the shotgun revolution
lsts
The real reason was because Repub-
hcan rule in the Southern States was
reducing those communities and every
interest they had to absolute ruin. Re-
publican administration was desolating
them worse than the war had desoIated
them. The negroes and the carpet
baggers were more terrible than I'm.
ion armies. Even when they were
tempted, as North Carolina was
tempted, to sustain the Republican
party, they were so maltreated and
misused by the carpet-hag and negro
governments that in very despair they
threw off the yoke in order to save
themselves from destruction.
When North Carolina established
. Democratic administration it imme
diately felt the relief. 1t has enjoyed
il ever since. L. would welcome a ne
gro and Republican regime again as
cordially as man welcomes the night
mare. Nothing short of oayonets
could put the corrupt and debauched
carpet baggers and negroes on top of
the inte.ligent,property owning whites.
they might as well submit to whole
sale coniscation and robbery.
In 1869, under Republican rule, the
taxes were eighty cents on $lOO.
When the Democrats were established
in power they reduced them first to
thirty one cents, then to twenty-five,
and this year relieved the people from
taxation altogether.
Under the last Republican admins.
tration the Legislature cost $430, 1858
The Democrats at once reduced this
one-half, and finally in 1884 to $751;
z7s,
In 1869 the Republicans expended
nothing, and in 1870 S42,S62 for com
mon schools. The Democrats imme.
diately increased the appropriation to
$500, 900, in 1883 to $725, 900.
The Democrats substituted economy
honesty and thrift for the thiev
ing and prodigacy of the Re-
publicans; almost abolished tax
alton; stopped the waste and crime
of a Legislature which expended upor
itself nearly half a million annually
and gave the money thus saved to the
education of the people.
What is true of North Carolina is
true of all the Southern States cursed
by the outrage of negro domination
Had the Northern States been afflicted
with such pestilence they would hav'
been far more solid than they are now
and would fight as they fought in the
war of the rebellion against every at
tempt to reconquer them and bint
them over to the tender mercies o
their plunderers.
If the South is solid and continue!
30 it is because Mr. Blaine and the i'm
Placables for whom he speaks, menac
the South with return to the hateful
and impoverishing tyranny from
which they escaped. They decline be
ing robbed and if speeches like MI
Blaine's revive old war passions, the
also revive the memory of the thefts
the prohigacy, and the demoralizatio
of the Southern States when the Soutl
was not solid.
To-day one of the worst and mos
high handed of these robber chiet
that plundered the South is in Jail i
Detroit as q vulgar swindler; Will
Mfr. Blaine, almost within hearing {
the rascal, strives to awaken the enmi
ties and hates on which, as Governo
of South Carolina, the scoundre
throve.-FTee Press.