The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-12
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Compepsations-The south-The House.
The wi.e Poiicy-wha. the South Had
,o DO with It-Not Gone Net-Kicling
the Sick Lion.
CONVERSATIONS 1t Is well. on some
accounts TO have an undivided RESPONSE
bilitv in the conduct OF the Government.
Whatever shall be done or left undone
after the 4th OF March next the people
will know Just who is responsible for 1t.
II the Republicans do not hang them
selves in the rope given them before
"four years more" their practices must
be very much better than their professed
principles. II they reduce the tariff the
monopolists whose money has restored
them TO power will leave them withou,
fat for the next campaign. II they do
not reduce 1t the people will turn them
out.
The loss Of the House, though serious
setback, is not without its compensa
lions. New York World.
THE soUrH.-The only serious diff
Guilty in the South that can arise under a
Republican administration will be found
in connection with the appointments TO
the Federal civil service. Ia this direc
ton great harm might be done, but We
do not think that it will be. it would be
hying in the face Of public opinion in
both sections for Mr. Harrison TO try to
SADDLE upon the South the kind of poli,i-
cal machine that existed there under for
mer Republican administrations The
effort 10 organize band OF unscrupu
lous political managers with control of
the negro vote would be immensely more
difficult now than II once was, and for
the very simple req son that the negro
vote is already divided and can be much
more completely divided il the Demo
Gratis choose 20 pursue that policy. 1t is
in that direction, and not In that Of re-
yiying the solid South. that the return Of
the Democrats TO power in the Nation,
so far as the South can affect that result,
is to be accomplished.-New York
Times.
The HOUSE. 1t is apparent from the
table elsewhere printed this morning.
giving the names of the memberselect Of
the next House of Representatives. that
Democratic majority in that body is /
not beyond range OF a reasonable posi- |
bility; while upon the other hand, even
should the Republicans carry all Of the
half dozen districts named as doubtful, |
they would have but one vote in excess
Of bare NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Post. |
The WISE Po.IcY.-If the new Ad. |
ministralion shall come down from war
taxes on the necesssries of life and from
excessive taxes on the raw materials |
needed By our mills and labor, the people |
will not care how high protective duties |
msy be maintained They want pr0tec |
ton they will have it, but they want
protection to labor-not protection to
monopoly Things will come out all
right. If the popular will shall be re
spected by the Harrison administration, |
the people will gladly sustain their new
President; if excessive revenues shall be !
continued to crafty the greed OF profit |
gates. another revolution will be close at
hand. II things are not right they will |
be made right The election is all over |
now move on in the good old-fashiOned
wsy-Phila. Times
WHAT THE SOUTH HAD TO DO WITH
IT Happily the Southern question was
not an element OF apprecable impor-
lance i'm the recent election. Foraker |
and few other fools Of like caibre
tried TO make il prominent, but If they |
changed any votes il was from the r.
pubicans 10 the Democrats and not the
other way. That was one OF the best
things in the contest. and il was source
of as sincere satisfaction to intelligent
Southern men as it was to those of the
North 1t will be quite impossible to re-
| introduce the question, but if anything |
could 30 il il would be the existence in |
the south Of any considerable public !
opinion represented by such silly vapOr
inc rs that Of the Clr0nicLe-New York |
Times.
Nor GoSe YET-No. the country has
not gone to the devil, but, on the con
trary, the Hrad prints sexluple sheet,
crammed with news, dense with adver-
Il, ements To read this wonderful epit
ONE this marvellous expression Of nation
al life and gO-tO study this potent news
] PAPER Out nOnlA NV Nhlhh tAat hhN
country only last Sunday was held By the
ears over Yosemite cliff, Watlerson
holding one ear and Foraker the other
and in imminent danger of dropping,
sixty millions of people in terror Of the
drop. What tumult Of elJquence, in
veciive, psthos, falsehood, innuendo,
pilots" bribery, swept over the country
last Sunday How funny the remem-
brance And all so silent n0w-utterly
silent-and nobody clamoriDg for money
except Anna Dickinson, whom Quay
should pay, and have no back talk, as the
outcome OF his brilliant campaign
change.
LORD SALISBURY As A MUD CART
There is saying in London that after
the Lord Mayors show comes mud
cart" Lord Salisbury seems TO have re-
solved himself into that useful but NAL
odorous receptacle AT the Guildhall
banquet on Friday night, under the in
fuence of green turtle soup and old port,
| he vented his spleen on this country in