Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30
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HARRIsOA's SOUTHERN POLICY.
Possible Results If Appointing REPRESENTA-.
tvs Men to Office.

Special Correspondent New York Her

tvs Men to Office.
Special Correspondent New York Herald.
WASHINGTON, Nov. % "A Southern
man Of prominence though not sin poll
tics," read in the Hersld's Indianapolis
correspondence to-day the following
about General Hsrrison's probable
Southern policy:
Probably no man in Indiana or in the
nation knows as much about Harrison's
proposed Southern policy as Superin-
tendeDt Of Public Instruction Lsfollette
Mr., Lsfollette told me this afternoon
that one evening before General Harri
sons election ne spsnt several hours con-
vsrsing with MIN on the Southern ques-
| ton, at which time the general expressed
| his views very freely.
! I asked him what General Harriaon's
ideas were, and he said: sin the first
place, ne wi II stand firm for two pur-
poses. First, he will not allow imported
Northern carpetb.g politicians TO hold
office down there and usurp the highs Of
citizene; second, he will not appoint to
cff ignorant negroes or ignorant white
people simply because they vote the Re-
publican ticket. While hIg policy will not
be OF the milk and water sort, such as
Hayes wss, it viii be fair, and, predict,
highly satisfactory to the South"
"You don't mean to be understood that
he will appoint Democrats to Officer"
"Fnst Is what ne Will do wherever
there is no white Republican who is
talented snd respectable enough to COM
mand the respect OF his 1eighbors, and
he realizes the fact that in many parts of
the South there is not for miles and miles
an educated man and one who Is fit to
hold office that votes the Republican
ticket. There are many men in the South
who votesthe Democratic ticket who are
really Republicans. That is, they are
protectionists and in sympathy with the
Republican party on many other OF the
live issues of the d.y. They simply vote
the Democratic ticket fer historical rea-
sons, because they insist that the Repub-
licen banner is stained with the blood of
their fellowm,n. Many of them are hons
est enough TO admit this.
"It is this Glass ths. General Harrison
will recognize. They will hold the ID les
in the SOUTH during the coming admins
trasion. General Harrison thinks tina.
by treating these peors kindly and gen.
erousIy, and by elevsting such men to
offi:e as have the confidence of the peo-
pie, that it will make Republicans Of
thousands who now vote the Democratic
. ticket for sentlm sn al reasons, and in the
end greatly ssreDE then the Republican
party in the SJUth He also thinks thic
will solve the sccisl question there aut
bring about friendly feeling between ths
North and South"
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
! The Southern man has said: "If Gen.
, !, erLI Harrison carries out this idea ne viii
fiad very hearty response all over the
South, and will Tor the first time form Z
! rell Republican party down among Us
II he invites upright and iphuentis
Southern men to take federal Offices II
the South, on the one condition, that al
l to the protective tariff and internal i'm.
, provemants they shall BELLY. with tbs
Republican party, be will be amszsd Il
see how large is the number OF really
!. prominent and respected Southern mel
: who will Din hands with him on thesi
questions. II he will make the condition
that in selecting their subordinstes the!
! shsll follow his example and appoint ONLY
, men who agree to the Republican policy
there will be no dill :ulty IN their doinG
that.
GENERAL BARRIsoN's OPPORTUNITY.
II '1QeI6 las UtGu luz tue lneJ IUur VI
FIVE years great change in opinion goHt
: on in the Southern states. In Virgiris
| Norih Carolina and Tennessee thefe II
already well constituted and respeets.
BILE Republican party, based, not on plum
der, but on Republican policies, proteE,
ton and internsl improvement. In thsss
states the party has growB' without keiI
from the Rspu 1lican bodies OF the E5rsf
-:ather against discouragementySff 6A
them. But in Georgis, South Cffolina
AlAbins, Arkansas and Louisiana there Is
/. large elemens of tne ola rstlve population
respected, honorable, Influential, which
will support the Republic IN policies II itI
, leadership is clearly and honorably recog
!. nized. Nothing but the fesr Of q new era
/. CT carpet bag misrule and the persistent
cold shoulder which they have had from
the Republican leaders in the North has
kept such men in thesDem ocrstic !anks
Now that real questions are up II GfkesR
Harrison does wha. the Herald corge'
spondent reports he will divide the South
oY proving to the Southern men thsFthey
may follow their principles in federal pol
itics without risk Of G new carpet bse
mierule, and with the certainty that theil
J. advice as to politics in the nth will bs
st least listened to >,
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