Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-04-27


not be doubted that his intention
Is to appoint none but competent
men to office in the South: To
make his party in the South respect
able, so far as possible, by giving its
leadership ia white men.
Northern politicians seem to be
unable utterly to comprehend the
real condition of the Southern people
and the policy which the condition
enforces. Northern Republicans can
hut see the result-the solid South
which they account for by a sup
posed hatred on the part Of Southern
people to the rights of the negro and
the Northern people. No Northern
man, however, so well informed as
the President, expects to create or
reconstruct a party upon the lines
laid down thus far by the admins
tration. Something more than the
offices and the shedding of the worn
and %bedraggled skin which formerly
wrapped the negroes, carpet baggers
and scallawags in its ample folds, is
necessary. We incline to believe
hat the President Is careless as
to whether he drives a considerable
portion of the negro voters into the
Democratic ranks, il he can secure
white leadership TO his party and
draw to it DISCONTINUED Democrats
and the manufacturing centres upon
the tariff issue.
The avidity with which some of
the Southern newspapers have swal-
lowed the bait is amusing. ''Harri-
sons policy means peace, amity,
good will, no negroes in Office, etc.
He has shown no policy so far other
than a refusal to appoint coloreG
men to office, and a disinclination to
ride rough shod over civil service
reform, which Mr.. Cleveland made
impossible to the first year Of any
succeeding administration.
If one thing is more certain than
another in the future it is the effort
that will be made by this admins
~tration and the next Congress to
saddle upon the South a sectional,
partisan system of election laws, that
the solid South may be broken by
even a minority vote. 1t is not
probable that such a scheme will he
altogether successful, or If success
full that it would long endure, but il
the expressed sentiments of the
President and his party leaders
mean anything they mean exactly
that. 1t is announced upon good
authority that the election laws of all
Southern states are now being codi-
fed and that Congress will he called
IN extra session in October, about
which time we may look for an an
nouncement of Mr.. Harrisons policy
that will be very explicit indeed.
1t may be unfortunate but it is
nevertheless a fact that the present
administration regards the South and
will treat the South from a party
standpoint. What else is possible !
The Republican party is as it has
always been, sectional in warp and
wool, the administration that would
be unseCtiOnal would divorce itself
from its party.
1t is true that just now Che negroes
are getting very cold comfort. They
are told ito watt" be patient until
a white Republican party can be
organized in the South, and certain
Democratic journals seem simple
enough to suppose that this has been
fdone for the benefit of the Southern
people. In view of future POSSIBLE
tiles present discomfort goes for
nothing. The Southern man who is
fooling himself with the idea that
Mr. Harlisons policy will enforce
white rule in the South because it is
the only orderly rule possible is q
very sanguine man.
If the large Democratic minority
in the next House should fail tc
make such a fight against sectional
Legislation as was made against the
Force Bill, we believe that election
laws partisan aud and virulent enough
to satisfy even the Mahone-Chalmers
breed will be enacted.
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