New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-26
so,rruERNERs AND THE SOLID SOUTH.

TO ne Edttor Of The Trfoune.
Sir: During the Blaine Cleveland campagn Mug
wumps and Democrats alike asked votes for Cleveland
on the ground that the election of Democratic Pres
ident would break up the Solid South. The writer
felt at the time that these poor creatures were mis-
guided and that the stronger the position of the Ma
tonal Democratic party the solid would be the
South That the South will remain solid politically
NJ all hazards can easily be during even flying trip
through that country. The newspapers are full OF 1t
and aspirants for Congressional honors. according to
their Published speeches. vie with each other in appeal
ing to sectional feeling The following are quotations
from speech by Congressman Hammond delivered
in Atlanta the other day
Solid South do you know what 1t meansf 1t means
the prcssryation Of civilization divided South
means the lowest corruItest tthiest politics on this
continent Continued Applause A Solid South
stands rs rock wall TO the Democrats OF inc North
onnoste party 1t is to-day ano believe must be
for many wears to come the bow of promise, and the
man who would break it upon any fancful notion is
mistaken man il no worse. l wish South that
will teach the children to despise the memory OF their
fathers. l would not have my boy believe that his
like TO cultivate that sentiment in the young OF
this country that old South should be ignored as
thing unworthy OF imitation.
To nv mind a Solid South a standing menace to
the prosperity and unity of Eth country. Republican
ism, and that of the most stawart kind, is the only
thing with which a Solid South can be successfully
opposed and kept In check. ABRAHAM GRUBER
heo- YORK. July %. 1885.
PROF. WILDER On NEUROLOGY AND MUGWUMPS'
TO the Eduor OF The Tribune.
SIR: At the early breakfast tn BILE this morn
ing there met members Of the American Neurology
cal Assocation each provided with THE TRIBUNE. Is
whether this fact speaks most for the paper
or for its readers 1t may at least Indicate that thor
criticism OF the paragraph The Neurological Associa
ton was more In than In anger" According
10 THE TRIBUNE, paper read, which was indeed
on the pro but the author OF which was not even
by ono OF omission the longest paper OF the day. and one
which involved the bringing OF patient irons distant
city, was not mentioned all. II intense interest
can be predcated by soendc gathering 10 midsummer
Il was aroused rather by the paper Just mentioned than
by the exhibition OF tho decerebrized frog, which
der Onsrated little, perhaps, nothing not already
familiar to neurolOgists Without undertaking TO In
struct the management OF metropolitan newspape or
the generash of an army always in face OF the euemy
may least offer the present case In Qualification OF
| the reluctance with which most medical men view the
OF the lay reporter to gather Information upon
| professional subjects
medical department." and 70 protest against the ap
pllcation OF the term Duswump To the frog In cues
ton as 10 receut paragraph In THE TRlBuNEBN Tue
Talk of the Day." Aside from tho eIatutous intef)eo-
ton OF politics into science, 40 far from resembling
appeared TO be affected with subjective, encephalio
bypertrophy. Respectfully yours ~ A.
Long Branch, Jay 49, 1886.