The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-25
Sentiment and Fact,
New York Sun,

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 en the countersign from Mir. Hlaine. Ever since Mir. Blaine's speech at Augusta after the elec- tion 1t has been evident that re. turn to the old sentimental denun- citation of the South was to be the Republican policy until something new turned up. Nothing new has turned up since then to help the Republicans, and nothing new is likely to turn up till Congress meets. The enthusiasm of the more ardent tariff reformers in Congress is perhaps the chief hope of the Republicans in their search for a real issue. The mistakes of the Administration have not been serious enough from a Republican point of view to be used with any effect against it, and it's appoint ment of "rehels" and the alleged ''crimes against the suffrage in the Southern States must be the main stays in the election next fall.
 It is not necessary 10 Tnderrate the distrust of the South, still un- reasonably felt by large part of the older Republicans of the North, to doubt if it is still an eff tectiye weapon against the Demo- crats, It may serve in Ohio, al- though the result there is much more likely to be determined by local issues; but will 1t be of much use to the Republicans in the up hill work of winning back Kew York or Indiana or New Jersey or Connecticut? Even if this South ern issue had notbeen worn thread bare by continual use. it is a most favorable time to bring it out again. It is now an exploded busaboo, a detected scarecrow. The South was never more orderly and more prosperous than it is to-day under a Democratic Administration. A and the North, recovering slowly but steadily from a period of conner cial and industrial depression, is in no mood to join in a crusade against the South, with which it's relations are growing every day more intimate and important.
 The older Republicans do not seem to understand that their idea of the Republican party as sort of SaGroSanct institution for the conversation of the Southern States is not shared or even con- prehended by the great generation of young voters to whom the fierce passions of the war are not mat ter of living memory. But if all the sons of Republicans inherited a bitter prejudice against the South the Southern issue would still be far from formidable in the absence of Democratic follies and disson- siOns not now to be expected. What will a threadbare, second hand, unreasonable sentiment which has been used time and again as an apology and cloak for Republican viilanies, avail against the unimpeachable evidence which the Demo crats will be able to use in the coming elections? All the clamOr of the Republicans against the wickedness of the Southern Democrats will not keep from mems minds the terrible facts which, hitherto hidden or only hall revealed. are now being clearly disclosed. What answer can the Republicans bring to the long in' dictments which the Democrats can frame against thsm from the Investigation of Secretary Whitney and Secretary Manningf And ir all departments Of the Government the corruption and extravaganza of the Republicans will be shown The Democrats can appeal to tho country on these facts, and the. can show that they have not con tented themselves with the mere investigation of Republican abus es, but are introducing measures of positive reform.
 The Republic ms may be success fnl on other grounds, but in a con test between a half make-believt
 sentiment and tangible, easily ap- lxehended facts, the facts vii win.
 Gov Iorvio nf North Coralina