New-York tribune., 1884-01-12
THE S0TTT IND THE S1DDLE.

The Democratic newspapers, both III the
South and North, show a great deal OF sensl-
tiveness regarding The TRTBUNEs demonstra-
tion that Speaker Carlisle has put the South
again in the saddle. 1t seems to worry them
Some affect to treat il with pleasant scOrn. The
Galreston Ne'rs says:
THE NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE labors daily to convince its
readers that the South governing tho country When
did the South turT sodly Republican and take the lead
in the dominant partyi
This is a highly successful article OF Texas
irony. The Democratic party is III control OF
the popular branch of Congress- and the South
is in control of the Democratic party. HE
TRIBUNE has given the facts and fguresto show
what prepOnderating influence oyerthe impor-
tant committees Southern Speaker has be-
slowed upon the Southern members, and they
can hardly be disposed of by squibs of this sort
The Richmond Dispatch begins a long and
vehement article in this way:
"A solid South indeed. And what makes it solid :
Rank injustice, cruel bes, and Northern public opin-
ion which proscribes every Southern man. Think OF it.
Nearly twenty years after the close OF the war between
the States the leading Republican paper in New-Iork
announces the South l. in the saddle again De-
cause Mr. Carlisle Speaker Nearly twenty years after
that war ended the Northern Democrats are afraid TO
nominate for President, Nce-lrcsiient OF the
United States any who resides in any one of the
the States called Southern Is there any such sodity as
that in the South
How strangely men differ! 1t had always
been supposed that the North remained solid
because the South did, and that the South was
solid because it suppressed the negro vote by
fraud and force holding political pOwerbased, III
large part, upon its negro population, just as 1t
did in time OF slavery, but allowing the blacks
scarcely more voice in affairs than they had
then. 1t had been supposed that the North re-
mained solid because the people were de-
termined that power 50 obtained and so used
should not throw its shadow over the whole
country. But il seems, according to The Rich-
m0ad Dispatch, that the South is solid merely in
elf-defence-because of frank injustice, cruel
"libels, and Northern public opinion which
"proscribes every Southern man." II may be
true that the Northern Democrats are afraid TO
put Southern man on their Presidential ticket,
though the Southern Democrats are beginning
to show that they expect something of the kind
before long; but has it never occurred to The
Dispatch that there may be reason for this in
the distrust by the Northern people of party
whose power is based on bulldOzing and tissue
ballots!
The Detroit Free Press and The BHfdlo Con-
rier show more or less feeling. The lattersays:
We not that It Is not better to put of all anxi
ETY. prove the powerle,sness Of the South and
well what IL the South is in the saddle r. The South
eners Americans with all the rights and privileges
that the name implies, and there u why they
should be excluded from share in the management OF
country. The North has bccn in the saddle
number OF years and has done pretty rough Idug
and If We to have a sectional government, Why turn
about is fair play.
This has, at least, the great merit Of frank
ness. 1t helps to a clearer understanding Of
the situation to find representative Democratic
papers of the North ready to return to the old
time Southern leadership with all that that inn
plies.