Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-19
NJ EMPHTS APPEAL
NOVEMBER 10, 1885
UNITED FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT.

UNITED FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT.
The answers of the Governors Of Ken
lucky, Virginia, Florida and Arkansas TO
the in~terrogstories of the Boston Herald
have revived the old discussion about the
menacing evils OF a solid South. There
are many national men in the North,
friends of the South, patriots who plead
for peace between the sections, constantly
deploring the political uDanimity of the
South and advising its dissolution. This
position is paradoxical; it is illogical. The
white tax-psYing people combined to Sc
cure reform, honest. economical govern
ment, and to drive from power ignorance
controlled by adventures who were rob-
bling and plundering the people; and now
that good government has been secured by
the change, and the Southern States are
more peaceful and prosperous than ever be-
fore, they are advised TO turn their State
governments over to the control of those
who once ruled and ruined in order to APP
pease the prejudice of the North against
the solidity of the South. The South cannot
purchase friends at such a price. Ii the
South is united solely for peace, honesty,
economy and good government, is it not
unreasonable to ask or to expect her to
endanger her present prosperity by divid-
ing her vote and restoring TO power those
who entailed upon the people over $780,
0OO,O 0 OF debt? The rule OF the ~plunderers
was go disastrous and scandalous that it
forced the whites who paid the taxes into
a solid, compact union for self.pIotectioD.
The Republican State governments, as
long as they existed in the South,
were ex~travagant, corrupt and OPP
pressive beyond anything ever known,
and the fear Of q return OF these
dark days, will prevent any break in the
solid South. The negro vote is still nearly
solid against the whites, and if the whitet
should relax their efforts in the Gauge oil
peace and economy the s~dventureTs
would again take charge Of the negroes
and, reinforced by the whites who had re-
solved to break the solid South there would
be q return of that era of extravaganza and
corruption which the whites had com
bined to destroy. There will be no breaE
in the solid South 20 long as the Negro
vote is kept united against the white vote
a solid negro vote, while the whites wer,
disfranchised, entailed upon the Southern
people the rule Of corruption and extravs
gance. A solid white vote after thu
whites were enfranchised brought peace
economy, general reform and prosper
ity; the latter viii never dissolve thei
solidity to give place to the former
whose rule bankrupted the South
AS long as it is a question which race shall
rule the whites will triumph, not tina
they object to the negro and his right t.
vote, but because they object to the rul,
of ignorance led by corrupt men. Expe
rience has taught the white q x-paying PEG
pie Of the South what negro rule mesuE
and they are not going to invest the car
petbsggers with a power which they ono
used to their injury. If any frauds ar
committed at the ballot.box in the South
as alleged, they are committed to proven
the restoration of corruption and govern
ments of fraud. The South is solid TO
wise, honest and economical government
and it does not propose to divide an,
transfer its power to those who hav
neither the intelligence nor the integrit
to rule honestly and wisely.