The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-12-07
CONSOLATORY.
REV. THOMAS DIXON POIRS OUT
BALM 10 THE SOUTH.
He Relieves that CleveIand's Defeat is
Not SO Much OF Il Calamity Atter 4 II.
he Also Advocates Prohibition.

lie Relieves that CleveIand's Defeat is
Not SO Much of a Calamity After All
lie Also Advocates Prohibition.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.I
Boston. MASS. Nov 30 O-Allow me to
offer few words of consolation to my
afflicted brethren of North Carolina and
the South-especially to those who felt
that the very salvation of the earth de
pended on the continuance of Mr.. Cleve-
land in power. From the bottom of my
heart, brethren, | am sorry for you when
| think of the probability Of clean sweep
IN the Federal offices of the South and an
other four years of insolent domination by
men who hate you and all you represent,
w'lch means he sum total of the wealth.
virtue and Intelligence of the community.
OF course there We're some clean, honest
capable men who held office under Repub-
lican Administration men who were gen
tlemen-men who were polite and atten-
tive to the public and faithful to their
trusts but it need not be said they were
the exception rather than the rule But
after all Mr.. Harrison is a man Of rather
solid make-up-and | am inclined to thiuk
will do as much, or more for Civil Service
Reform than did Mr. Cleveland there
MAY may not be a clean sweep after all
1t is certain that Harrison is a man who will
enter Office singuarly free from promises
and bargains, and he may take the bit in
his mouth and be a President after his
own notion. Any how we can await the
result. You may lose the offices, YOU may
not. If you do it will be the greatest loss
you will suffer by the change of Admins
tration, and after all, that will not be an
overwhelming one. What other loss will
You suffer? Mr. Cleveland has made a
fairly good President-but he did not rep
resent the better element of the National
Democratic party-he couldn't and come
from State north of Mason and DiXon's
line. No enc IN his party could DO any
thing much about his defeat personally
he is a man of no magnetic qualities but
rather repulsive than otherwise. He ap-
pointed negroes TO office about as freely as
did his predecessors so on that score he
did not differ materially from them
But how about the tariff? The Repub-
icans succeeded il fooling enough peo-
Pile on this question in New York state n
the interior to carry it. They raised the
cry Of free trade and frightened a feu
fools and now they VIII turn around aud
do themselves what the Democrats tried
to DO and died in the effort, that Is, re-
wise the present tariff, reducing it about
sixty i've or seventy millions The duty
on rice and sugar may be cut pretty Sc
yerely, but | don't see any reason why
they should not be cut, do you? They are
among the simplest necessities Of life
The Republican Administration will not
dare to inaugurate bull doing policy to-
ward the South, and all the talk in that
direction is the rapid declaimation Of al
died partisans- On the other hand it viii
be the policy Of Mr.. Harri>On to count to
the influence OF the South for Republican,
ism Then will just as many credulous
people up here, who believed that the elec-
ton of Cleveland meant the rum Of the
country, as there Were IN the South who
believed the contrary.
The news Of H8rrison'S election set this
part OF our great Republic wild with Re
joicing the demonstrations were long,
continued and extensive. 1t was not a
feeling OF sectional triumph either, | do
not think Men are apt TO judge a party
by the examples they see about them
Men here judge Democracy BY the Jim
mys, the Mikes. the Johunies, the McCro0-
gans, the NcFaddins and the Gilhooles
who rise from the slums of our cities and
are monarchs Of ell they survey. The
triumph Of K pubicau!-m means the down
fall of this element Of loud smell, and
hence the great mass OF the decent would
rejoice. With YOU, the contrary is true
The triumph of Republicanism there means
!
hence you are sad Let me call to Your
minds, my dear brethren, the fact that
| sooner or later this good element Of the
! North will unite with the good element OF
| the South, and may spend that day, In
| the North the Roman Catholic church Is
the power behind the throne of the d s
mocracy (Mr Cleveland knew this when
| he sent his present to the P0pe). The
| Romsh church is the deadliest enemy ot
| the free school to day IN America b,
! priests have sworn TO destroy It they
! have thousands on thousands of parachia
schools already built and are fighting fol
a division Of the school funds. The elec
ton of Harrison meant a set back to Ro
manism-hence another cause of rejoicing
of good people up here 1t is no use tC
try to disguise the fact-the mass Of til,
Northern Democracy means the unassimi
| lated unamericaniZed foreign elements
/ vet a construct threat to the very life o.
Government itself. With this frightfu
rabble, my brethren, you have nothing il
common except that you have voted th'
same National ticket They are general,
led by set of low bar-keepers and bribe
takers who do not hesitate to sell out t
the highest bidder when it suits their pur
| pOse see for instance, to elect Grant
Mayor, they sold out Cleveland in the las
election.
There is to my mind bat one great issu
in National politics worthy of the name
and that is-the death of the saloon, Ma.
God haste the day when the North ant
South will join hand, and rid the countr.
of this dire curse! Fisk has polled abou
300, OCO votes and this issue will be a ho
one for the next four years. More at an
other time.
THos DIXON, JR
Capt. Swift Galloway for Reading C1er
OF the House.