Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-10
BREAKING THE SOLID SOUTH.
Result u Five Months Of Conservative
OemOerAaie Ralo.

VIEWS or PROMINENT SOUTHERN MEN WHO
GEE sroNs OF A RxADJusTMENr or PARrY
LINES IN THAT SECTION.
The effect OF the past i've months of demo.
cratic administration upon the south Is attract
Ing attention. Alter the election Of Mr. Cleve.
land 1t was predicted by Independent politicians
that the democratic success would do what Mr.
Blaines greatest efforts failed to accomplish
break up the solid south. This opinion is now
expressed BY southern democrats with whom .
STAR reporter has talked. They speak of It,
however, with the greatest complacency, and
look Tor decided party advantage q the result
Mr.. Cleveland's attitude towards the south has
not been such a. to please very large element
OF the southern democracy, but It has been
such Is, it 10 declared, Will best advance
strengthen the party throughout the country ana
down upon the onioes and get Is much as s they
out Of hum0r. In some cases, remarkably that
OF louisiana, the minority faction of the party
has has been hrscogSi;sd to the utter exclusion o.
have been peddling ballots and doing the work
at the polls. But the Offices, 1t IL said have gone
ton could be urged and tie hand oSthe Sd%fn.
istration has been extended to strengthen the
conservative democratic, who are seek.
south In most cases the facs ,e sns
raj omces have been turned over to the
democrats, but not to the Craftsmen" to be
give the people in teat section confidence In the
administration. This ID said to be particularly
the case with the colored people. who ind In.
the men they respect most are being put into
Ro an Bpt It divides the party and the re-
One prominent southern official with whom
the reporter was discussing the subject, said he
had been watching very closely, and expressed
would come nom the Presidents course The
disanection, he thought, would not revolt at once
the a
they were with the democratic administration
they preferred 1t to the republican. They
permanency in power seemed assured, begin a
light for supremacy in the party: The
south would then divide upon economic ques-
The south would no longer be found presenting
q solid front for the democracy. The funda-
mental party principles would remain the
divide them. Tbs coiored people, he thought,
color would fade out Of politics. The causes
northern states o.. greater strength, and thus
the tn Democratic party would gain
for the first break, and said he expected 10 see
that state go republican next election. He
in the Union, and the best element in the party
there was always kept in the minority. It was
the lottery men, he believed, who had beaten
Jonas for the Senate and had control Of the
state. The majority faction, who were
now denouncing Cleveland for ignoring
them and recognizing only the Glib
that It was the policy OF the administration to
oppose, and Jonas and the other men appointed
to office were engaged in trying to purge the
cumstances he aid not think it would be sur.
prising if the state went against the few con-
sentative men the President had selected as
his representatives. AS to the appointments
throughout the south, many more had been
made than IL was generally supposed would
be, and the Offices were in the hands OF the best
democrats who could be found to fill them.