The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-12-07

, MONTANA, FIR
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.
What a Prominent Northern Democrat says
was the Real Issue Of the Campaign.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-The World will
print to.morrow . dispatch from Washington
giving the following interview with one Of
the most prominent aud influential Demo.
Gratis in the United States, who has been for
q quarter of = century, one of the recognized
lesders Of the party. If his name could be
used it would give the very greatest political
weight to his u%tterance. His reasons for not
permitting bis name to be attached to the
interview will be sufficiently obvious after
reading what he has to say. In reply 10 an
inquiry, what he considered the real issue In
the campaign just closed, he said:
"The real issue, in my judgment, wa
tariff reform and it has won. But underly.
ing that issue was another which came closer
to the hearts and thoughts Of many voters
and that was the feeling that sectionalism
and begun to be dominant in our party Is
We must frankly admit it did In ante bellum
Gays. You must remember that in this
campaign the great array Of the Republican
party was to meet sectionalism with section
alism. They found = Solid South arrayed
against them led on by gentlemen who had
been prominent in secession. 1t was chirg-
ed that these gentlemen were doing, or At
tempting to do, covertly that which they
utterly failed to accomplish in the field. 1t
was argued, and it seems, I regret to say,
successful lily in many instances, that they
were trying to ruin Northern industries, in
| retaliation for the defeat Of se"eee'"" II
was proclaimed In every hamlet of the North
| during the campaign that the Southern States
were Is arrogant now IS they were in 1861,
and in proof of that the organization Of
thu House of Representatives was adduced
aud the appointments to our foreign mis-
sions, in both of which branches it must be
confessed, the Southern element largely pre-.
dominated much more so than the numerical
vote of the party in the South as compared
with the Democratic vote in the Northern
States would eBtitle them to. Referring to
the House of Representatives, look at the
composition of the committees. Every i'm
portant committee is either headed or con-
trolled by = preponderance Of Southern
Democrats. You will find Northern Demo-
Gratis relocated to some u%nimportant posi-
lions. There is the House with = Southern
Democrat, although = Unionist during the
war, as its Speaker. There are ffty-nine
committees with thirty -four Chairmen given
to the South. In these thirty-four, every
important committee in the House is includ.
ed, except one, aud that is the Appropriation
Committee, and although Mr.. Randall is
Chairman, the five leading members after
him are Southern Democrats. Each one is
in effect either q sub committee or Chairman
of q subcommittee. The South predomi,
mates in the officers aud employees of the
House in the same proportion, if not greater.
The same proportion is to be observed
throughout the bureaus and the principal
clerks Of the executive departments, except
in the War and Navy, where the naval and
military officers are at the head. The same
discrimination is observable in the princi-
pal foreign missions and the higher consul
ates. In the two appointments to the
Supreme bench made by the present admin.
istration, one selection from the South was
far from being = happy one, and, in point of
of ability, extremely mediocre. If 80 much
has been achieved by the South during the
past four years, after the retirement of the
party from power what, said the Republicans
on the stump, would he the result of q new
tenure of a party dominated by such ele.
ments? Such charges and insinuations were
impossible to be refuted; and no doubt they
had great effect, especially in the rural dis
tricts where the memories of the war are
not yet extinct and where the Democratic
party is largely composed of Union veterans
Of that war. Instead of being addressed on
the tariff questions by such Democrats IS
Randall, S. S. Cox, Holman, General Col.
Inns, NJ. Russell and other prominent lead
ers who had maintained the party and fought
its battles while these secessionists were try.
ing to destroy the Union, by men who res
cued the seeded States from Anarchy and
the robbery of reconstruction, and who made
it possible for the return to power of the
present element, the North was filled during
the campaign With such speakers as Mills,
the Breckenridge, Mcmillan and Allen, in
fact, a coterie which it is unhappily self. evil
dent ruled, not only in the consels Of the
White House, but in the popular branches of
the Legislature. To the intelligent, indus
trial mind of the North, there was something
grotesque in q tariff reform measure from
the interior of Texas, advocated by "Blue
Grass statesmen and cotton-growers.
Of Sunset Cox, he says: "He is q gentle
man who has seen more Congressional ser
vice than any man in the House now except.
ing, perhaps, Mr.. Kelley" 1t is his judy
ment that Cox should have been rendered
the Craftsmanship of the Ways and Means
Committee as successor to Hewitt.
Of Holman, he says: "He is entitled to q
much more important position than Chair.
man of the Committee on Public Lands.
Instead of q Mills bill, if it had been a Cox
bill, q Scott bill, or 3 Springer bill, it would
have been more acceptable to the voters
the country, Is there would have
been nothing in the name to offend the loyal
prejudices of the Democratic soldiers.
Even the Republicans who favor the extern
sion of tariff reform, do not like q reform
bill that comes from an arrogant Southerner."
Speaking of the alleged interview With
Mills, in which he lays Cleveland's defeat to
New York City,he says, speaking fror: on
had with . gentleman from that