Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-13
NORTH VS.. SOUTH.
The Course OF the Northern PeO-
pie Closely is Watched.
The South will be Made More Solid
Than Ever, or its Solidity will Soon
be Thing Of the Past.
The Northern People Have no Idea What the
Force Eli Means The situation in
the Old Southern states.
An Unsettled Question.

An Unsetueu 0uestiOhs
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l2.-The frank declaration
OF Senator CuIlom to the Illinois Republican
association in this city that he should support 3
Federal election BILL and the introduction BY
Hoar and Edmonds in open senate of amend
ments to the rules permitting closure OF oepate
show that the opposition to the election Dill
which has been developed in various unex-
pected quarters has by no means settled the
question against 1t yet.
SITUATION IN THE OLD STATES.
yery intelligent Alabama Democrat, who IS
in the North on business, said to your cor
respondent to day: II am surprised that SO
few people in the North seem to reall lie what an
this agitation means. If they did the malis
could not carry che multitude of letters which
would pour in from them upon congressman
and the president, protesting against any olher
action by Federal power. The trouble Is proos-
bly, that they can't group apparently
unrelated facts and from them judge
what existing conditions are in Southern pom =
tics. l tell you that when the present admin
istration came in our section was ripe for great
change. We don't care half SO much for party
names as you Northerners do-All we wanted
was a little encouragement to Spit among our
selves. Government in the South, at least IN
all the older states. had drifted into tne
HANDS OF AN oLIGARCHY-
The Offices, even the elective offices, were
rassed down from father to son. or from uncle
to nephew parcelled cut among the brothers
or cousins. The old war leaders hang to their
places public service with deadly Gluten,
but now 1t has became cause OF pride for men IN
the ordinary walks CT life to represent their EEL
low citizens in ? Iblic places: and our younger
q chance to make career, but at every turn
they are met with the obstacle that this great
mans son must succeed him, and that great
mans nephew must be taken care OF, and that
any one who does not belong to one OF
THE DYNAsTIC FAMILIES
simply has to step aside. 1t was hoped by the
class Of Won men thus shut out that the Har-
rison administration would open new era III
the South. In any community where appoint
ments had to be made, and the very best men for
the places could not be found among the Repub-
licans the hope was that tirst-rate Democrats,
outside OF the local oligarchy, would be offered
q chance to serve the government In TINS way.
by having the appointive officers pitted against
the elective, their edge of the wedge could have
been driven little way in, and
THE FIRST MOVEMENT
made towards breaking up 1.-THE solid'' politics
of every state. 1t would have been most popu-
lar move. H..
not the unpopuIarity of the existing system
show itself by the defeat OF the ollgarchy candl-
dates at the POLISH l inquired.
Because there is peculiar kind OF loyalty in
the South which manifests itself by carrying
out at the polls The instructions of the nomlna-
ting convention. The nominating machinery IS
all in the hands of the oIigarchy. II my hare
statement does not appeal to you, look at the
Farmers Alliance which is playing havoc with
conservative politics in our part of the country
lust now 1t goes into every fight as faction
of the party locally dominant and dictates Its
will TO the nominating convention. What the
ished will be
CONFIRMED AT THE POLLS.
"A great many of us who have no sympathy
whatever with the programme of legislation or
administration proposed by the Alliance are
heartily interested in the work it is doing, be-
cause we see in it a chance for better things IN
the future, which might not have come up but
for its appearance in the field at this luncture.
''You dc not, then, consider the career OF the
Alliance likely TO be q long one?''
by MEANS
ssWhat relation does the Alliance movement
bear to the force bill agitation?
Simply this fact-that such movement
could get fairly under way in so short time IN
dlcates the condition of
POLITICAL UNREST
which prevailed in the South from the begin
ming of the Cleveland administration. Up to
that time we had not fairly felt that we were
back into the Union, but the election OF Dem
ocratic president convinced us that we were
actually at hon4e in the Union and takin part
in its government. After all, then we began to
grow uneasy in mind at having stayed inert so
long The ogarchy Ignored the the popular feel
portunity ever offered to president was his.
He scented it and gave some indication that he
appreciated the situation, when he set out to
build up ''vhite m ans protection party in
the South, but his courage gave out when II
came to taking step outside OF the line OF old
fashioned,
REPUBLICAN PARrIsANsHIP.
Now he and his friends in congress propose to
undo everything that has been gained in our
section and solidify us again as we were sondi-
fed by the reconstruction era with this force
bill. 1t will throw US back twenty years 10 pass
that measure. 1t will end the hope OF building
up a Republican organization south of the
Mason and Dixon line.'
I'm case the force bill fails OF passage will the
fact of the pending citation effect public senti-
ment in the South?''
''More or less. it can't fail to have had its In
fuence by showing how q large number OF
Northern Republicans feel toward US. The
course OF the Northern people during the next
three months will have have good deal to dc
with future history in tho South.'