Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-18
SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.

FavOring Tariff ReGorm-Ab,arsi Talk of
ComlrOInise to WiPo Out Party Dis
tinctiOns.
The noise made by few organs of mo-
nopOly in the Southern States, and the
eagerness with which their expressions are
repeated in the Republican newspapers in
the North, give the impression among the
thoughtless that the ascendancy Of the Dem
ocratic party is threatened in q number of
Southern States, and that the principles Of
the Democratic party are generally repudi-
ated by the Southern newspapers
Looking only at these indications, one
expects to find the Southern members of
Congress solid for protection, but as a mat
ter Of fact, leaving out the three or four
members from the sugar districts of Louis
lana, the Southern delegations are, as they
have ever been, solid for reform. In other
words, the newspapers in the South which
have been constituted organs of protection
and allies of the Republican party are sup
ported not by the people, but from the
treasures of the protected corporations, by
the benehciaries of the system of taxation
which is depriving the great majority of
our people of any fair return for their
labor.
The Louisville Courier Journal some weeks
ago called attention to the canvass OF the
Georgia State press made by the Atlanta
Jo"r'0't, which showed conclusively what
was the sentiment of the people in the State
misrepresented in the Senate by Joseph E.
Brown. The Augusta Ae'cs, published in
one OF the most beautiful and fiourishing
cities of the South, says:
Look at Joe Brown! What made him a
bonanza king, If it was not the protective
tariff on iron and coal mines! 1t is true that
he enjoys the added ignominy Of dealing in
criminal labor, but protection is the main
thing which fattened his pocket at the ex-
pense of the people of Georgia And yet he
represents US, a sovereign people, in the
United States Senate Sovereign, did we
sayi 1t is not true; and in shame we con-
Tess that Georgians are slaves who will sub
init to the sovereignty of such manr
The Ae'os adds this warning concerning
the delegation to the National convention at
st. Louis:
"And there arc others, not so high. but
who stand on the same platform. Our peo-
pie should beware of them, especially at
this time, when President is to be elected
and Democratic policy is to be outlined.
Georgians and Democrats can not be too
careful about sending none but simon-pure
Democratic reformers to st. Louis; and
after that the people-the farmers and
working-men OF Georgia-should see that
their candidates, high and low, make the
right kind of pledges and stick to them"
This is well timed. The great contest at
st. LOUIS will be for reform. Mr.. Cleveland
will be nominated, but the protectionists, in
alliance with the Republicans, will try to
make platform G., which he could not
stand with any consistency or self-respect.
In other words, they propose to repeat the
folly OF 1854, when war candidate, General
Mcclellan, was nominated on a peace plat
form. Nominating q Union soldier, the party
declared the war q failure. Now the PAM
pered organs of protection desire to NOM
mate q candidate favoring reform on a plat
form repudiating reform.
Few papers in the South are more pro-
gressive or more thoroughly Democratic
than the State, of Richmond, Va. Concern
ing proposed compromises it says:
Our protectionIst friends in the Demo
cratic party are continually insisting that
the revenue leformers must not drive them
out Of the party. The revenue reformers
do not wish to drive them out; but they are
determined that their protectionist friends
shall not drive them out While the protec-
tionists in the Democratic party, however,
are clamoring for liberation, they are con.
tinually seeking to commit the Democracy
W eA<O 0hPPSb1 OA oN CCOuOl1lC POnCy W
which large majority of Democrats are
now opposed, and to which q large majority
Of Democrats have been opposed from the
birth of the Democratic party down to the
present day"
This is the exact truth and 1t can not be
repeated too often. The talk Of a compro-
mise which will wipe out all distinction be-
tween the Republican party and the Demo-
cratic party is absurd at any time; at this
time it is proposition to betray the organi-
zation.
These extracts accurately represent the
opinions of the Democratic voters in the
South The Democrats of Tennessee, dis
satisfied with the course of the Nashville
American, have established the Nashville
democrat, for the purpose Of maintaining
and defending the principles of the party
from whatever quarter assailed. At st.
Louis as at Washington, the representa-
tives from the South will be almost unani-
mously for reform. Let the men who stand
by the President and the Ways and Means
Committee see to it that the enemy be not
given, under the plea of harmony, the posi-
tions of responsibility, Four years ago,
when the convention assembled, there were
indications of under-hand work every
where, and desperate efforts had been made
to obtain control Of the Committee on Reso=
lutions. Warnings such as those coming
from the AugastG Neics and the Richmond
State do not come any too soon.