The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-10-30
WHY The SOUTH IS SOLID.

Tho south * solid, not rom any see
tional prejudice, but because Of the pol
icy pursued by tho Republican party
altor the war IN the government of these
states an the disgraceful methods re-
sorted to by that party to control the
Offices In the south. Tho Republican
party mover appealed 10 the intelligence
nor tho bone and sinew of the south.
They have automatically sought
strength yainly among that ignorant
class upon whose prejudices they could
work, and who had no political convic-
tons and felt no interest in tho pro-
gress and prosperity Of the states in
which they lived. This glass suited
tho purposes OF the Republican
party because they could keep
them solid by an appeal TO prejudices
growing out OF their former slavery, and
because the carpet bag representatives
of tho Republican party in the south
could monopoliEs the Offices more Of
fectual by depending alone upon this
character ofsupport.
The solid south WAS political Greg
ton of tho Republican party, and as
long as 1t was a Republican solidity, il
was q sweet morsel to BLAINE and
his crow. II has now become . political
necessity for the Democratic party.
The former party made tho negro sol
idly Republican, and the whites Demo.
cratic, for the purpose Of controlling by
less trouble and expense the votes OF
the southern states, and for the
purpose of having less intelli-
gence applying for public office,
In every southern state that party when
in power put heavy tax burdens on the
whites (the only tax payers, in order to
have more funds TO sduander on the ig-
norRnt horde whose votes were all they
at that time needed to sustain them in
power.
Mr.. BLAINE evidently thinks that the
southern people ought to love the Re
publican party. which placed such men
as Moses in South Carolina, BULLOCK
in Georgia, and f. j. DAVIS in Texas, in
power.
The south is not solid on account oil
any prcjudices growing out of old politi-
cal questions, but because Republican.
ism in the south means the
rule of ignorance and pauperism;
because the Republican leaders in the
south have been band of political
thieves and robbers who, a. q general
thing, would not have been allowed 10
live in decent northern communities
much less to hold Office. DORSEY and
all the Star route thieves were shining
lights in the ranks Of the southern Re
publcans.
Moses, who has already served one
term in The New York penlteubary tUr
theft, and who is now booked for another
term in some other northern peri'cr-
tiary, was the Jewel Of South Caroiiu.
Republicauism, and the governor Of
that state, by sppeals to the
non-tax-paying @epublican clements
Here in Texas, and all over tho south,
even now, twenty years after tho sboli-
ton Of slavery and the surrender OF the
southern armies, what sort OF II canvass
do The Republican leaders make? They
tell the negroes here, just as Mr.. BLA1N Il
does the white people in Indiana, that
the southern whites are set of unrs-
pentant rebels plotting against the gov
eminent and for return Of slavery.
Very nearly every respectable tax
paying white Republican in this state is
strong for the Democratic state ticket,
while at the same time solid for the no
tional Republican ticket. Whyr They
know that it will never do to let the IT,
norance and superstition of tho south
control the state governments.