Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-14
LEXANDRIA, Y A.
MONDAY EVENING. JULY IA.

TgE WASHINGTON Post revives tne oiu
republican objections to cold Soutp, ana
ssvs "northern democrats, as we'll as repuoii-
cans. think the public welfare would be bet
ter served without such solidity." IL also
SAWS "the Force bill is but an advantage
taken By the dominant party OF southern
obdurscy and assumption" and that III the
South have not furnished the lustlhcat'on'
she has at least furnished the pretext LOT
that bill :" that sit is in the South that on'-
RACES upon the ballot stand out with pecu-
liar vividness," and "that southern people
have acted upiustly in their bitter ostraciem
of their fellow ctizeDs who have chosen 10
abandon their old party affiliations" Inc
Post like all other northern republican ou'-
nails. has the faculty OF discovering notes IN
ether peoples eyes, though utterly unaware
of the beam in its own. 1t the SOLID south
be injurious to the country, why, ana Tor
n stronger reason, ehould not solid Nortn
bs more 30 ? and yet at all the PRESIDENTIAL
elections since the war, except that OF 1904
the North has been practically soiid' anu
tbouph at that exception only four northern
States cut ooee from the others, the ehsc
was the btsi and lost honest administrator
for the last thirty years. When or where
tbe South has exhibited "obduracy or as
sumotion" since 1865 it would be hard fof
snv unprejudioed man to tell certainly
non. of Der own people can. On the con
trary, many have blamed her for the humli'
ity with which she has submitted to north
ern snubs and indignities. The assertion
that democratic outrages upon the paiio
box s,aud out with peculiar vividness In ths
South" IS uiicrnusy absurd, in vie" OF Tie
the monumental republican outrage uponth
ballot boxes of by which thePres''
dame was stolen in 1876 The statement thai
the South has furnished the pretext for the
Foros bill is hardly less absurd, when 1t Is
notorious that the votes Of New ork, lndiai
and Maine we're bought at the last election
when fraud aud corruption, and intimidation
of employees By employ ers became 30 paten'
sill through the North that general cry ior
ballot reform arose in all that eection' lne
ground lessne.s of tie charge that the South
has been unjust or bitter in her ostracism Of
tina men who have repudiated their life long
Cd MONS and joined the enemy OF their Sec
ton In attempting to fcrcs negro domination,
with all that that implies, upon their own kid
and kin, merely for the hope of obtaiclog
an Office, is demonstrated by the. character
of the men referred to-Cssh in South Caro-
lima, Chalmers In Mississippi, Holden 10
North Carolina, Wells In Louisiana, M zeli
In Florida, and by Malone and most OF the
Virginians who followed him out OF the
democratic party, and, so far as relates to
the latter, by the we'll Known fact that such
of them as observe the ordinary rules OF
propriety are not ostracised. The trouble
with all northern men who write on south
ern subjects ia the strange, but apparently
Unavailable fac, that they ara not only denRe-
" ignorant OF such subjects, out seem 10 be
utterly incapable of obtaining correct knoWl-
edge thereof.