The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-03-08
Unsupported by Fact.

The charge that Mr.. Carlisle'S cleo
ton to the Speakership was due entire
ly to the effort of a ''Solid South" and
the proper handling of the sectional
issue" is as unsupported by fact, as it
lacks even decent ingenuity of malice.
No man in the history of Congress
ever received a more honest or more
National election to the Speakership.
So far as .'Solid South is concerned,
the expressions of public opinion as ev-
idenced in the brilliant Kentuckian's
election has done more to lay the ''sec-
tional ISSUE" which contemplate poll
ticians have keptalive on the stump for
selfish purposes, on the shelf than any
thing that has happened since the close
of the civil war; 1t has absolutely de-
prived the cry of all possible consistency
even for the basest political motives.
Let us look at the figures, however,
in order that all may understand the
truth of our statements and the con-
temptible characters of those which the
originators of this charge make. Mr..
Carlisle received as many votes from
the Northern States as Mr.. Randall did,
and twice as many as MIR. Cox, the
former two receiving thirty-two each.
Mr.. Carlisle received votes from twenty
standpoint. while all OF Mr.. Randalrs
votes came from sixteen States, and
then but two from the great States of
the West. In fact, had Mr.. Carlisle
not been supported by the votes OF
Eastern, Middle, Western and Pacific
States he would have fallen many votes
short of an election. The truth
of the matter is that Mr.. Carlisle
was National candidate, elected
because he was the embodiment of
tariff reform which the necessities of
erery section demand. AS the Boston
Herald, an independent paper, says:
''The South is no more interested in
getting cheaper tools and farming uten-
sis, blankets and clothing, IRON and
steel, glass and crockery, than the
manufacturers of the North are in OBJ
tanning cheaper raw materials, or than
our ship builders and merchants are in
restoration of their lost commerce.
Mr.. Carlisle, Kentuckian, holds SUBJ
stantially the same views on the tariff
question as those advanced by Mr.. Cox,
a New Yorker, Mr.. Holman, an Indi-
anian, and Mr.. Morse, of our own State.
Revenue reform is not sectional ques-
ton and cannot be made SO. 1t is
question affecting the welfare of the
people everywhere, who are taxed I'M
necessarily to the extent of more than
800. 900, 900, under the tariff that was
increased thirty per cent to meet the
cost of the wa"
IN, tho nfbor hand NJ PonHo1l <1,o
most pronounced protectionist in the
Democratic party, himself received
twenty votes from the so-called "Solid
South" 1t was not section of the
country that conspired against him, but
his own false position on question
that threatened the welfare of 10000
900 of people lost him the Speakership.
This is shown by the fact that, despite
his splendid record as a former Speaker
of Congress, despite his firmness in re-
ducing the expenditures at time when
it was found necessary, and despite his
honorable services to his party at all
times, every section of the entire coun-
try, as represented by the congressman
elect. saw the necessity of leaving these
things out of their calculations and do
ing what was plainly their duty. There
was nothing sectional about Mr.. Car
isles selection nor will there be any
thing sectional about the Democratic
reforms which he will institute. He
twas chosen in spite of his Southern
residence, rather than by reason of it,
as the Boston Herald says. His cleo
ton was a triumph for Democratic prin-
ciples wherever the Democratic party
exists. The ssSolid South charge is a
lie, and those bringing it forward know
it to be so.--Nesc HaUen Register.