Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-05


Cease. vipers.
There are several Of our Republican
contemporaries that still keep up cls-
NOR ON sectional questions, and aatter
themselves that they are making capital
for their party gu. Of such small mat
ters as the closing Of the Interior De-
partment at Washington for one day in
honor Of the memory Of the late JACOB
THOMPSON. For our part, we have
never feared the effects Of sectional pre-
JUDGES since the election ofMr. OLEvE-
LAND. We know too well that such
preiudices cannot survive Democratic
Administration. They might have lasted
long time had the people entrusted the
administration of the Government to
Mr.. BLAINE. Many such persons as
wHyTKLAw REID and MURAT Hall
STEAD would in that case have been
found to engage in the disgracefully un-
patriotic work ofarrsying section against
section. They would have done so
because oil such narrow-minded, un-
observsnt, and unreAectiug Republicans
would have attributed Mr.. BLAINE's
success to the sectional appeals in his
behalf which were made last fall by
himself and so many other hypocritical
Republican slangwhangcrs. But even
the honors paid by a Democratic south
ern Secretary of the Interior to him who
Is to bigoted Republicans the most OBJ
jectionsble Of all rebels except Mr.. DA-
WIS cannot arouse in the minds Of the
sensible. practical businessmen Of the
Nsrth any such unbecoming sectional
feeling IS Mr.. HALsTEAD and Mr..
REID still continue to try to excite
therein.
What better proof do you want on
this point than the fact that General
JOSEPH K. JOHNSTON was the other
day appointed Railroad Commissioner
by and with the advice and consent Of
Republican Senate? Is it not evident
that SHERMAN and DAWES and HoAR
and ill the rest Of the leaders Of the
Republican party know that sectional
issues will never again be allowed to
enter into presidential campaign?
Mr.. CLEVELAND fairly pelted the
Senate with nominations which few
years ago would never have been con-
flrmsd BY that body. Is not Mr..
CLEVELAND . sagacious man? twill
not do to say that he yielded to the i'm
portunities Of southern congressman.
Sec how he refused to appoint PHIL.
THOMPSON Internal-Revenue Commits
sioner, although recommended by more
than half the Democratic. members
Of the last Congress. He is far-seeing
enough himself to know that sectional
issues arc dead. But IL we conccde
that his most trusted advisers induced
him TO make those nominations, the fact
we are speaking of is still more plainly
shown; for TILDEN, RANDALL, MAN
MING, LAMONT, and all the rest Of his
northern counsellors must have come
to the conclusion that sectionalism is
dead and buried and will never be re-
surrscted.
This is the reason why the southern
Democrats should consider the Offices
small matter when compared with
the fact that they have been redeemed
from condition Of thraldom and made
70 feel once moro that they are freemen.
/" Whenever / think Of CLEVELAND"
says . distinguished southern gentle
man, 81 feel good. I feel IS If had
row country to love-" Mr.. LAMAR
YES nominated 70 be Secretary Of
he Interior only few weeks after
hs had declared in his place in the
United States Senate that he would
allsw no man to 70 unanswered who
should apply opprobrioas epithets to
M. JRyPKRsON DAVIS. Wasn't that