Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-30

The solid South with its 153 electoral
votes almost as good as already cast III
the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
idency is not pleasant thing for the con-
temptation of the Republicans. They
have serious doubts about being aOle ~
carry several of the most lnnpoi v"n'
Nortbern States. and hence the posslOll-
itv or probability of their being aoIe 70
canture some portion of the solid ooutn Is
beinO again earnestly dlscusseu'
Tbair chances Of success III
this direction are desperate, II
is true but their cause is desperate, ana
tbov win doubtless resort to desperate
means once more to bolster it up.
The better class of Republican jour-
nails are very wisely deprecating the
renewal of the sectional issue. Ihey
know full well that it only eX-
asperates the South, and gives
ground for experimenting a repetition Of
the political outrages which were commit
ted against it in several previous cleo
tions. while it is a recognized fact that
the large majority in the North have
wearied if not become disguised with the
old slogan. and does not wish to see the
South again turned ever to the profession
Al adventures who so VIGOROUSLY mis-
ruled it during the reconstruction era.
The Boston Advertiser urges that tne
Republican party extend its campaign
work to the Southern States this year, not
through the instrumentality Of its old adj
berents and tricksters, but that it send
down TO address Southern audiences its
most approved representatives, WAC snalI
conduct a vigorous and high-minded can
yass. and thus show US, what we have
hitherto had no opportunity OF
discerning. that 1t is not
sectional body, but is only organized IN
the interests of the true and permanent
good of the country. Even the Phlladel-
mia Press substantially proposes the
same line of attack on the solid South,
and hints further that a splendid oppOr-
tunitv is now presented the Republicans
of gaining several States by appealing 10
those Southerners who are strong adVO-
Gates of the Republican protective tariff.
The Advertiser says: ''The presence OF
Mr.. Edmunds, Mr.. Evarts, and other
leaders on the stump in the South, would
If is true. be a somewhat sensational lea
ture of the canvass, but it would con-
vince that section that the North has
abandoned the theory that Northern ke-
publican statesmen would peril their
lives by advocating Republican primer
ples in the South, and that resort TO
nrgltDent (italics ours means profound
confidence i'm the tenets thus defended. Is
there any reason to fear that Mr.. Ed
munds, for example, would fail OF
respectful hearing were he to make poll
teal addresses in Charleston, Atlanta, or
New Orleans?"
The Advertiser can rest assured that
there is not the slightest ground Tor
such fear. The South has hereto
fore only had cause to vaguely sus-
pect that the Republican party really
DOssessed some few heightened statesmen,
and it has pardonable desire to see and
hear them. Nothing would gratIfy the
South more than resort TO argument, and
an abandonment of the old Republican
tactics of force and trickery in the South.
Gen. Hawley's announcement that MS
committee will undertake thorough can
yass of the Southern States, if it is on the
line suggested by the Advertiser, does
credit to his sagacity and patriotism. His
orators, if they really have the courage to
hazard their lives in the undertaking,
will have immense audiences and the
most considerable treatment. The South
knows how to distinguish between honor
able and hlgh-tOned gentlemen and the
slanderers and incendiary partisans that
have brought the Republican party into
such disrepute here. Not only this, but
the worthy Northern statesmen Will meet
on the stump here Southern Democratic
orators who will vie with them in respect
full courtesy, and discuss with them the
issues of the day on broad, enlightened
principles.
We have heard our fathers tell of the
glorious old political contests OF ante
bellum times, but it really seems like
delusion to hope for repetition of such
discussions.