Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-08

A Poor Market for Outrage Stories
The Indications are that those portions
Of Gov, Hoadly's speech a. Hamilton o.
/ last Saturday, winch dealt wish national
matters, is much more nearly il harmony
with tue sentiments OF the majority OF the
+ Northern people than were the utterances,
a few days before, Of senator sherman
ard Judge Foraker on the same subjects.
1 The Northern people are abou as tired as
the Southern people are Of the attempts to
keep alive sectional feeling. They want
confidence and good will between the sec
tions, and it will not be at all surprising
il. at the approaching fall elections, they
rebuke more emphatically than they did
last fall the Republican leaders who still
think they can win political success by
slandering the SOUTH. ....
The Northern people are not so ready to
believe the stories Of political outrages in
the South as they were few years ago.
Experience has taught them that these
stories generally ind their way into the
Republican Journals about the time they
are needed for campaign purposes. and
that when they are investigated they are
found to have very little, if any, founda-
ton.
The assertions Of Judge Foraker with
respect to political affairs in this county
was we'll calculated to lead those who did
not know the truth TO believe that sue
cessful means were employed to prevent
the negroes from voting. He stated that
hsrN nj no
county, but was very careful to keep back
the fact that there were four ballot boxes
so located mat voting went on at all Of
then at the same time. Bat II he had
stated tho whole truth be would have de-
feated his purpose.
An the other assertions OF Judge Fora
ker contained no truth whatever, fact
which we pointed out the day after the
delivery of his speech. We only refer to
his Islander Of the people of this county,
now, in order TO show to what extreml-
ties the Republicans are pushed to find
material to sustain "bloody shirt" cam
paign.
1t is gratifying to note the increasing
signs that the Northern people are at last
convinced that the Southern people are
much more concerned about developing
their resources and improving their mate
rial condition than they are about bull
doing negroes at election times. The
splendid progress that the South ia max
ing in everything that tends to make her
rich and great, as shown by
the reports that are ann ually
published at her commercial centres, has
done as much as anything else to con-
vince them that the Southern people are
Occupied with business and not politics
Why, then, should they listen to Sherman
and Foraker, and men Of that stamp who
have personal end TO serve, and VINO
would willingly keep the people of the
two great sections of the country apart to
attain that end?
1t is fact that cannot fail to attract
notice that the Northern people who have
investments in the South, and who spend
good part Of each year in some one or
other Of the Southern States, never appear
in newspaper interviews, or otherwise.
as the authors of statements derogatOry
to the South. Those who never visit the
South, but who have something to gain by
slandering her are the ones who publish
statements calculated to arouse sectiona
feeling.
Messrs. Sherman and Foraker have
been so generally rebuked by the con
sentative press OF the country for their
BLOODY shirt" utterances, and have
received so little sympathy from the press
Of their own party tlnt they will, doubt
less, deal less freely in Southern outrage
stories in future speeches in the cam
psign in which they are now engaged.