The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-03
Where the Danger Ia

| Where the Danger "a
There are very few Congressional districts
/ in he south in which the republicans have
! any chance of electing their candidates.
/ This the republicans understand very we'll
/ There are sJma districts in which the blacks
are in the majority. and, if they all voted.
aud voted the republican ticket, the repub-
can candidates would be elected. As a
matter of fact, however. the blacks feel
comparatively little interest in politics. and
do not vote unless they are thoroughly
organizei and influenced 70 do SO by ap-
pesls Of one kind and another.
The white and black leaders do not go TO
the trouble to o ganize the blacks. In fact,
very many of them do not want them or
gained, for the reason that when the blacks
are organized they begin TO appreciate their
imp 1rtance aad demand too much.
The leaders aim to do two things First.
to make such show of carrying on a cam
paign as will enable them to ct money for
campaign purposes, and, sec md, to secure
basis for MAKING contests; If the republi-
cans should succeed in getting IN .jority of
the House. They do MT, Of course, spend
all the money they receive in campaign
work. The create part of it they put into
their pocket& They also control a share of
the federal patronage if their party happens
10 be successful Altogether, therefore,
they make a good thing out of congress
sional ectIons.
The money they receive comes from two
sources. Some of it they get from tie ma
tional republican committee ami the rest Of
it they ges from the federal Office holders,
and from the candidates when they are
fortunate enough to get men who have
money to become candidates.
The danger from this system of conduct
ing federal politics in the south is in the
contests which are made for seats to which
democrats have been elected, and which.
as rule, are decided by
republican House in favor of the contest
ants. When southern republicans get into
congress in this manner they have no re-
gard whatever for southern interests. They
are owned by the northern republican
leaders and are forced to do whatever these
leaders want done. 1t is very rarely,
therefore, that self-respecting white men
in the south consent to become
well that they have no chance of getting
into congress by fair means, and that If
they should be admitted on contests they
would have to play the part of enemies to
their section.
How few OF the republican congressman
from the south since the reconstruction
period have been men who were held in
high esteem in their respective communi-
tiesl As one Of the speakers at the mass
meeting said on Saturday night, they were
known by the company they kept, and they
kept mighty bad Company.
This district has had two republican con-
| gressmen since the civil war. One of them
long ago returned to his carpenter shop in
MASSACHUSETTS, and the other was given the
seat to which a democrat was elected.
| Neither would have emerged from we'll
deserved obscurity had be not been a repub-
lican, and both we're wholly unit for the
position they succeeded in reaching. Since
their day the negroes have preferred to
| honor some one of their own
race with the congressional nomination
until the present campaign, when differ.
ences, growing out of the distribution OF
the spoils Of office. opened the way for the
nomination of a white candidates. candi-
| date who has consider BILE wea tn, some OF
which the colored leaders doubtless will
get, if, in fact, they have not already been
satisfied in that respect. This candidate
has no chance of being elected. aud his can
didacy would be only source of amuse-
ment TO the democrats if it were not for the
possibility that the republicans will have a
majority in the next House, and, to in-
crease their majority, will unseat southern
democrats and give their places to republ-
cans, as they did in the present House. In
order to avert danger of that kind, every
democrat iu the district should go to the
polls tomorrow and vote the democratic
| ticket