The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-08-29
HAMPTON ON HARRISON.

Senator Hampton's observations
to a reporter of the Washington
Eueming Star on the Presidents
Southern policy indicate confidence
that it will be without substantial
effect upon the solidity of the South.
The essence of the policy, apart from
the use of offices to win converts, is
an effort to substitute the economic
issue for all others in the South.
This effort is being made in Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, North Carolina
and Alabama, but at present most
attention is given to Virginia. 1t
will fail, the Senator thinks, because
there is one interest which, in these
States, transcends all others-the
question of honest and efficient local
government.
"As long," he says, Gas the mat
ter of local self-government demands
our attention our people cannot be
divided on the tariff issue. Wheth-
er q man is protectionist or a'tariff
reformer, the safety and welfare of
his home is paramount to the tariff"
This is the whole matter in nut
shell. Hard expel fence of Repub-
lican rule in the South during the
reconstruction period has shown the
people what it means, and they will
endure any kind Of tariff rather
than endanger their home govern
ments. There may be strong opin-
ions for or against the high tariff,
but they are of no effect to put seal
awags Or carpet-baggers in State
Offices.
The protectionist sentiment is not
growing in the South, according to
Senator Hampton. and he gives
Sesons why it is not. ''The inter
tsts," says Senator Hampton, cot
the States of Virginia, Tennessee
and Alabama are advanced by low
duties. They can produce iron and
coal much cheaper than they can be
produced in the East. Protection
only assists the Eastern manufactu-
rers to keep up their rivalry. With
out protection the rivalry would be
greatly lessened. The less protec-
ton the more capital will go 10 de-
velop the industries of the South.
Seeing this, / do not think our peo-
pie will be led off by this question"
The Senator is of the opinion that
the "poIicy" will fail in all the in
dustrial Southern States.
In Virginia, he says, the Republi
cans in the approaching campaign
twill certainly be showed under"
Nor will anything be effected in
Congress to assist the proposed poll
cy. The Republicans will attempt
to pass a law to provide Federal
supervisors to control congressional
elections in the South, but the at
tempt will fail, the Senator thinks,
for two reasons, one of which is that
such law would be unconstitution-
al, and the other that "there are Re
publican Senators who would oppose
any measures oppressive to the
South; those who have investments
there would oppose such measure"
As for the exodus of negroes
from North Carolina, it may occa-
sion inconvenience for awhile, but it
would not be seriously lamented.
The South would willingly lose any
political strength the "exodusters"
have given it. 81 would gladly"
said the Senator, "vote $5O,OOO,OOO
for the purchase of Cuba or some
other place for them to settle in"
New England, he intimated, would
be 4 place he would be glad to see
them comfortably settled in; but the
Yankees would not allow them to
live therein as great proportion to
the white population as is now the
ease in the majority of the Southern
States.
Talk about Southern Outrages!"
1t would be spectacle to behold
the antics Of the Puritan Yankee
were he placed in the position occu-
pied by the Cavalier Southron to-
day.
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