Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-05
STEPHEN AS A PROPHET.
The Solid South a Thing Of the
Past.
Mr.. slnNs ON the SITUATION.
He Anticipates the Overthrow Of he Demo-
cratic MajOrites Below Mason and d
Dixon's Line This Fall.

DEER PARK, August L., Exclusive. i
The sun was peeping over the Eastern
hill erests this morning as i came down
from my room at the hotel
Spes-s of golden light, alternated with
crimson. Aushes on the horizon, and the dew
drops flashed on the bending grass, bright
as the stars of night Slowly ] strolled down
to the spring, wishing were king with q
mint Of my own, and not newspaper
slave. A score Of pretty girls in negiege
costumes we're scattered about their eyes
flashing in the clear air and their lips and
cheeks aglcw with the joy Of living. Hap
py girls, and yet how many hearts they
have made to ache! But the girls don't
seem to care, and the closest saenning fails
to find the slightest trace in their faces, of
sorrow for the multitudinous aches and
gains / was beginning to speculate on
the futare ofthese happy, light hearted girls,
when the great Radical boss, Steve Elkins,
came into the field Of my visSion. His
round good nstured face was
wreathed In Smiles
as he caught sight of the groups OF girls
and Of me. Elkins fairly dotes on news
paper man.
| don't see that he looks much thinner
than he did just before resigning the Presi-
dency of his bank in New Mexico. Still
some men can hide the cravings of con-
science in q wonderful manner.
Come over here and sit down. said El-
kins, beckoning me.
He made room on the rustic seat whers
we ctuld see the simmer Of the clear wa
ter in the spring. A bird in a clump of
underbrush, beyond the railroad, was singing
Justify bis smorous prthses to the sun. A
family perfumed breeze stirred the leaves
on the vines about the trellis work; away
of in the still grsyish west, q single cloud
ike the last Autter of Nights dark gar
ment, fringed the sky.
1t was an hour for dreaming, for building
castles in the air. Elkins built most mag
ni6cent one, with gOlden-hinged doors, that
swung open to noble corridors and rooms
rich as any ever seen in dreams. The
beautiful vision was too much for
The New Mexican.
He fell into trance, and cut of his mutter-
ings | caught the following sentences, clear
" the msunderings of a distempered brain
The correspondence received by the Re
publican National Committee is, without
exception, indicative of great change in
public sHnimeut South. From Mississippi
louisisns, Tennessee. Georgia, Florida, the
CaroEnaS and the Eirginias comes news
that the leaders of every party have become
so strongly impressed with the necessity of
protective tariff tor their young and grow
ing manufactures that they are unwilling to
take the steps that have hitherto given the
solid Sonth to the Democratic party
The Solid south.
There was an interval of incoherency and
then a tremulous motion of the eyehds as if
the sleeper were about to awaken. held
a clover bloom to his nostrils and the dan
ger passed. Securing little water in the
hollow Of my hand gently held the
dreamer's index finger in it. and a mo-
met later he continued in slow un-
certain tone The solid south is a thing of
the past:" an the first place much stress
is laid upon the fact that Mr.. Blaine is the
first Republican candidate since the war
who has ignored that uahsppy struggle and
the sectional issues that it has left. Then
the tariff issue has opened new channels Of
thought aud is making an entire revolution
in Southern public feeling. In louisiana
the cotton planters and sugar manufactur-
ers have declared war on the free trade idea,
and many of them have announced their
of voting for the Republican
ticket.