Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-10-03
TO THE SOUTH.
The Republican Effort to Corral
the southern Vote.


NEW YORK, Oct. 2,-The address of
the Republican National Committee to
the South. dated Nashville October lst,
declares: The Republican National Com
mittee to-day opens its headquarters at
Nashville, the central city of the South,
and appeals at once with earnest good
faith, and in spirit of American frater-
nifty, to the intelligence, enterprise,
honorable ambitions, and American in
stincts and aspirations of the Southern
people. This step has not been taken
without deliteration, nor until the Re-
publican campaign in the North and
West has so clearly predestined success
without courting single electoral vote
from any portion of the South. The broad
and generou national viewsof MrBlaine's
have inspired the members of the Re-
publican National Committee to make
frank appeal to Southern men Of what
ever past politics, that may result in
giving to his administration the SYM
pathy and cooperation Of all the citizens
Of all sections, who recognize the
supremacy Of the great and living aeon,
omic questions that rise above all old
issues and demand settlement in the
spirit of Blaine's letter Of acceptance.
His language is pregnant with meaning,
filed with the spirit that made Lincoln
and Garfield dear to Southern men and
prophetic of the mighty resurrection of
Southern interests that Is coming.
The address then continues: "These
expressions are interpreted and empha-
sized by Mr.. Blaine's public acts and
declarations. They convey the spirit,
wishes and purposes of a party whose
leader he has been as much as Henry
Clay was the leader of the whig party.
The hopes, euthusiasms and controlling
spirit of Blaine's followers are pledges
that these words Of his will be fulfilled
generously in administration, that he
will make q new South, inviting field
for the measureless unemployed energies
enterprise and capital of the North and
West and an arena Of material develoi-
ment, unprecedented even in American
annals; where, more fittingly than in
Nashville, the home of Andrew Jackson
and John Bell. or with grander inspira-
tions from noblest and happiest tradi-
tions and memories of the old South,
could the Republicans appeal to those
who have felt the tragedies and disasters
that came from the defeat
of the ideas and policies
of Jackson and Clay by the ideas and
policies of Calhoun. The Indication of
these policies Of the south in q manner
aud to an extent that will command the
interest and admiration Of the whole
civilized world, is already assured by
the Worlds Exposition at New Orleans.
The best brains and bravest heads Of the
south are already prophetically rejoic.
Jog in the success and in the result of
this splendid demonstration OF revital-
lied energies. From the Eastern and
Middle States the flow Of capital, enter
prise and labor to the est has been the
worlds wonder. In the west have been
invested four-fifths of the spare capital
of the Middle and Eastern States, and
only one-fifth Of this capital has reached
and blessed the south and the Pacific
slope. The Pacific States are now as
much competitors with the northwest
in supplying the world with wheat as
India, and the northwest will have to
look to the manufacturing south for
market or encounter economic dangers
undreamed of before. The northwest's
danger is the south's opportunity.
The address proceeds to show by
statistics how "King Cotton" has
been displaced by new industries
under the present tariff. 1t is this sort
of new growth that has encouraged the
South to hold the Worlds Fair at New
Orleans. 1t will be the coming glory
and triumph of the Republican party if
through its continued dominance all the
wastes of war inaugurated 10 make labor
free, shall be repaired by the free and
intelligent labor of the South protected
against the pauper labor Of Europe and
aided by the surplus and otherwise idle
capital of the North. But it would be
neither honest or respectful to the in
telligence of Southern men to fail to state
in this connection that the establishment
of genuine and lasting accord must be
on the solid foundation of the security
of suffrage from menance, fraud and
violence. 1t is with the earnest desire
that all sectional differences and pre-
judice should disappear forever and that
the Republican National Committee urges
the necessity for all interests of
the disappearance of these obstacles to
a full and fair vote and an honest count
that have deprived large existing Re-
publican majority in three States of its
rightful power and weight. The party.
under the leadership and Presideuty of
Mr.. Blaipe, is certain to make the South
the most attractive region for the capital
of the country, to make the Mexicans,
and other people south of us, under
Blaine's peaceful South American policy
our friends add customers; to improve
theMississippi,as Blaine has often urged;
to make capital and labor secure in the
South by protecting suffrage and elimi-
nate from the South its direct peril, that
of illiteracy,