Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-24
Southern Men SIandered.

| The New York World, being unable TO
say anything more against Mr. Garland
I that is new and interesting, is now en-
gagged in its Washington correspondence
/ in irving to bring all Southern men IN
public life into disrepute. In late
/ Washington dispatch the statement is
made that when Mr.. Cleveland became
President he determined to recognize
the South to the fullest posi-
BILE extent in order to bring
about a more cordial feeling between
the North and the South. He thought
the time had come for sectional talk to
cease, and he wanted whatever sentiment
OF hostile character that might still ex-
ist between the two sections TO disappear
during his administration.
There is nothing Objectionable in this,
and it would doubtless pass unnoticed II
it were not connected in the dispatch
with the following rather remarkable
statement: "The President has been bit
terly disappointed in attempting to carry
out this policy, from the fact that the
principal officials selected by him from
the South have been so famed and dis
credited in public estimation by the Pan
Electric scandal. This has discouraged
the President to a great degree. He said
the other day, when asked to appoint
Southern man to the office OF solicitor
General, that he should 90 now to the
North"
The failure OF the World and some OF
the other New York newspapers to drive
Mr.. Garland out of the Cabinet has 80 an
gered them that they are now disposed to
Islander all the public men of the South.
1t is safe to assume that the President
hasn't ex pressed himself as disappointed
in Southern men, and that he has not said
that be would now seek a candidate for
Solicitor General at the North. 1t is I'M
just to the President to put him
in the position of entertaining
doubts about the integrity Of
Southern men, and 1t is an outrage
upon Southern men toinsinuate that there
is none among them who can be trusted.
II these insinuatiOns had appeared in a
Repu blican journal of the bloody shirt
type they would not attract attention at
the South, but that they should be pub
lished in journal which processes to be
Democratic and friendly to the South, is
something which Southern people cannot
understand.
Mr.. Goode had nothing to do with Pan
Electric stock, and the rejection of his
nomination for Solicitor General had no
connection with that stock. Mr. Garland
holds some of the stock, but 1t has never
yet been shown that he came by it cor
ruptly, or that he has done any wrongful
act because of his possession of it. But,
assuming that he has done something
wrong, is that any reason why the honesty
of all Southern men of prominence should
be questionedi How many public men of
the North are there whose public records
would not stand an investigation, and yet
it is not doubted that there are plenty of
honest public men there.
AS matter OF tact the President is not
looking for Northern man to succeed Mr..
Goode. The belief is that he will offer the
Solicitor Generalship to Hon. Randolph
Tucker, of Virginia, and if Mr.. Garland
were to resign a Southern man, doubtle 3,
would be appointed to succeed him.
There is every reason to think that the
President thinks as highly of Southern men
now as he did when he was inaugurated.
Untounded and unjustltiable statements
like this in the World are calculated to
neutralize any efforts the President may
make TO bring about feeling OF complete
harmony between the North and South,