Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-17
A REPUBLICAN, VAIL.

OF NOV. III, commenting on the result
of the late Presidential election,
among other things you say: GA re-
publican administration can never
break the solid South. The crimes
and iniquities of that party will in
the future, as in the past, only tend
to hold the South in a closer bond of
political union" Now why do You
as an intelligent man seek to abuse
the minds of your readers with such
fiddle-faddle? The republican party
is the national party, that is just this:
They fought for national unity, an
evidence that ought to satisfy the
South, as soon as they ceased to fight
they were treated as citizens and are
now on equal terms with other Sec
tions Of our common country. All!
Mr.. STANDARD, "and a better" 1t
is not the "crimes and iniquities" Gas
you would have us believe,) of the
&. o. p, yea, the G. O. P. that tends
to solidify the South as much as the
lingering spirit of Rebellion that
still slumbers in the breasts of a great
portion of the Southern people. This
is an eternal, memorable and everlast-
ing truth which all the powers of Sa-
tan can never wholly extinguish.
You may affect to dismiss this
with a smile and a wave of the hand
as piece of bloody-shirtism. If so
make the most of it. Come again
and bring your "nittin'".
Respectfully, AUSTIN STONE.
Walling, Tenn. Nov. ~, 1888.
If there was one single instance of
governmental policy favorable to the
South in the past history of republic
can rule, the claim of the above
writer to the national character of
that party would not appear so
ridiculous. If there was anything in
the past history of the republican
party to assure the people of the South
that the old spirit of hatred for the
Southern people will be eliminated
from the coming administration, the
South might look with complaisance
upon the change. five had any as
surance whatever that the same meas
ure of prosperity which has marked
the South for the last four years would
continue for the next four, we could
contemplate the result without dread.
But the Southern people know from
long years of bitter experience that
they have nothing to hope for from
the republican party. The funda-
mental principle of the republican
party which gives it cohesive power
is "the classes against the masses"
Trusts, combines, pools, monopolies,
and millionaire manufacturers are the
petted idols of the republican party.
The tendency and policy of that party
is to build up and foster these classes
at the expense of the masses. The
controlling idea of the republican
party is centralized, paternal gov
eminent, and complete humiliation
of state sovereignty. Such govern
ment holds all the common people in
absolute bondage to the Office holders
of the party in power, and gives these
Office holders unlimited sway in plum
dering the public treasury. A return
of the republican party to power
means a revival of the naval, post
leadership and star route robberies
which characterized the latter years
of its reign. 1t means the elevation
to power again of the corrupt Robe
sons, Chambers, Belknaps, and Bra
dys whose records have made the
party infamous in the past. 1t means
a return to the policy of administra'
ton which looks solely after the in
terests of Office holders and the above
enumerated pets of the republican
party, regardless of the oppressive
burdens it may lay upon the people
Whenever the republican party
relegates its John Shermans and
John r. McLeans to the rear, ele
Yates pure and incorruptible men tC
public positions, instead of scalawags
and carpet baggers, when it rises tC
the supremacy of an administrative
policy on the principle of "a govern
ment for the people, of the people
and by the people," then It may hope
to break the Solid South, and not be
fore.
There fingers not in the hearts O
f the Southern people one single iota O
the spirit of rebellion against the
f union or against the Northern people
The cheerfulness with which the
SOnth has onnned its doors and inVit