The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-11-28
HARRISON AND THE SOUTH.
GUEssEs AT THE NEXT PRESIDENTS
POLICY.

GUEssEs AT THE NEXT PRESIDENTS
POLICY.
A Belief that he VIII Recognize the Lib
eral and Progress I've Men In his Appoint.
ments.
(From the New York Times)
INDIANAPOLIS, November 22.-The
eager discussion by the Southern news
papers of what they call Gen. Harrison's
Southern policy ia giving an undue rela-
tive importance to that subject all over
the country. This importance is mag
nifed here by the Importantly With
which Gen. Harrison is assailed, by
letter and personal interview, to frame,
define and declare a line Of conduct
Which shall relieve the spprehensions
with which the Southern people look
forward to his administration OF the
G. ,vsrnment. His mail is burdened with
Letters Of advice, appeal, depreciation
and protest, snd his daily callers include
large Stlshern contingent, which
comes on tie same errand-to implore
him not to disturb too violently the
social status iila!ly established ID the
South and COL Timed under the last Ad-
ministration; to reorganize the domin-
ant classes il his appointments to Office;
not to subject the Southern people
again to what they csu negro and car
pet-bag rule, nor to encourage any form
of Federal interference in the local affairs
of Southern States. Under these cir
cumstances it is impossible that the
Southern question should not ill
large space in local discussion OF the
policy of the new Administration, how
ever reticent the President-elect and his
intimates may desire to remain upon 1t.
Those who undertake to speak for Gen.
Harrison deprecate the assumption that
he will hsve a Southern policy as distinct
from his national policy OF admlnlstra-
tion, declare that he viii treat all sec
tions alike and apply the same general
principles of government to the South
as to the North. 1t is pretty well under
stood, however, that the President-eiect
has been coerced by the importantly OF
visitors and correspondents to give more
consideration to this subject THAI to any
other connected with his administration,
and that he has arrived at quite definite
conclusions as to his general course.
APPOINTMENTS IN THE SOUTH
In the matter of appointments to Office
in the South, Gen. Harrison will prob
ably look for guidance to the experience
of his Republican predecessors IN Office,
all of whom had to deal with the same
problem of finding fit representatives OF
the Federal power and dignity and com
petent executors of the Federal law
law outside of the ranks of the most In
telliaent, richest, most influential, and
socially dominant classes. Gen. Harrison
will not initiate Gen. Grant by seduc1ng
prominent Ex-C Confederates from their
Democratic tealty by appointments to
otfice; nor Hayes by attempting 10 raise
the ghost OF the old Wing party. The ele-
ment he will seek to recognize and los
ter in the South is that made up OF the
younger, more progressive, LIBERAL
enterprising men of both parties, who
have risen to prominence since the war
and free from the narrow prejudices and
radical bitterness it engineered; who
are identified with the material growth
of the country and interested Ii Its IN
dustrial development. So far as the party
question is concerned, it is believed to
be Gen. Harrison's Judgment that
President Arthur dealt with the problem
of appointments to Office in the South
more sagaciously and successful J tnan
any other Republican President. Arthur,
in his theory at least, made fitness the
first and Repubhcanismn the second
Qualification to cf6ce in the South. He
appointed good Republicans wherever
he could find them, and good Demo-
Gratis where he couldn't. The conditions
of the problem now existing make 1t
great deal simpler for Gen. Harrison
than it was for Mr.. Arthur. The Demo-
Gratis are now in Office, and the civil
service law, which it is believed he means
faithfully to obey in letter and spirit, Is
in full force. When Arthur had to hy
in the face of party tradition by appoint
ing Democrats to office in places where
suitable Republicans could not be found,
Harrison will only have to obey law
placed upon the statute books by his
own party by leaving Democrats IN
Office.
NO REVIVAL OF NEGRO RULE.
It is thought that the policy OF the
President-elect will be about as lnol'
Gated above; that he will make his Az
ministration in the South as thoroughly
Republican as is consistent with efhclen-
cy and obedience to law, but that ne
will neither be precil tate nor violently
partisan in his appointments; that there
will be few removals, except tor cause,
and that when vacancies occur they VIII
be filed with Republicans, where tit and
competent Republicans can be found,
but otherwise by reappointmerts. Tne
personal character OF the men upon
whom Gen. Harrison will most rely to
represent and sustain his Administration
in the South has been limited at. There
will be no revival of negro or carpet bag
rule. It is believed that few negroes
Will be appointed to local office;
that the test OF fitness and accept
ability will be applied as rigidly to one
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