The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-08
RADICALISM IN DIME.
NO HOPE OF BUILDING UP A RE-
Spectacle PARTY NOW.

Harrison's Failure to Recognize a
Better Element Knocks Out the Balti-
more Reformers-Maj @. B. West of
Wedegar Writes on the Subject 20
the Manufacturers Record.
WASHINGTON, Jan. THE Manufact-
1trsrs' Record Of Baltimore will publish this
week an article which President Harrison
Senator Hoar and Representative Lodge
would read with profit. It will Ftate that
the New York Tribune, in pursuance of a
plan to get funds from southern protection
lists for the purpose Of a campaign Of educa-
ton, addressed an appeal to Maj. G.. b.
West OF Tredega, Ala, whom it describes
as ''the head Of land and industrial COM
pany that has 81. 100000 capital Born and
educated at the south, and imbued with its
ideas, he has always been a protectionist of
the Henry Clay school and an earnest re-
publican"
COMES TOO LATE.
In an interesting reply which the Record
viii print Maj. W est says: "You will par
don me for expressing the conviction that
the movement is much like locking the
stable door after the horse had been stolen. ~
Three years ago was the time for such a
movement, he says, aud continues: AT
that time l knew q number of southern
business men who were republicans at
heart and who would have come 60 the
front with enthusiasm and force il the
party had offered any guarantee that the
next republican administration would turn
its back upon the Objectionable negro, and
the white people who then had control OF
the party organization In the SOUTH.
CAMPAIGN PROMISES.
"He continues, at the time | write OF
Leading members of the American Protect
i've Tariff League held out the idea that could
the republicans win in the coming presi-
Dental campaign, something not only tangi-
bls but great would be done TO bring out
the latent proteotionism here, and the party
leaders were at the same period profuse in
promises that reorganization of the party
in the mineral southern states would be &C.
complished in such way as to give control
to the respectable elements of society, and
TO make 1t possible for decent people TO take
an active interest in party affairs. Their
prospects and promises encouraged us
greatly, and especially after delegation OF
prominent protectionists visited President
elect Harrison at Indianapolis and received
satisfactory assurances as to what would be
the policy Of his administration of the
matter.
PROTECTIVE LEAGUE.
ga southern protective tariff league was
put in process OF organization. Leading
cultivated and wealthy men In the Virginias,
North Carolina, tennessee, Alabama and
Louisiana were actively engaged in the
movement. A call for q convention at
Chattanooga was printed and ready to send
out The writer, in conjunction with sew.
eral others, commenced the publication OF
the Southern Protecttonist. Then they
appealed to their northern allies for help
He continues: we were told that all the
money of the northern people would be
needed for the congressional elections OF
1891, and that il we wanted to undertake
any southern proposition we must find the
means ourselves
HARRISON NOT A REFORMER.
ut became manifest very soon after the
Inauguration Of Benjamin Harrison that
the party organization in the south was not
to be changed, and that hone of the assur-
ances extended to the southern protection
lists were to be given practical effect. The
clements generally recognized were getting
as bad as ever. The conviction was unf-
versal on these points, and we dissolved our
embrio southern protective tariff league.
We stopped publishing the P-otectiOnist
and suspended the fight. Then the force
bill gave the coup de grace to the whole
thing. Republicans engaged in every de-
partment OF material development, pro-
ductive or trade, everywhere protested
unanimously against the bill. Their protests
have been unheedsd. except as to the
lican party died in the south, with the force
bill.
WHAT THE SOUTH WANTS.
Respectable men Of affairs and family,
miners, manufacturers and merchants Ia
this section OF the south prefer a low tariff
without the force bill to high tariff with
the force bill and consequent race and social
disturbances. You will find that thinking
republicans here, who understand the social
questions Of the sections much better than
tRe eastern doctrinaires can be expected to,
would not be well pleased to have their in
terests and progress attacked by national
party which Is only humanitarian in the
case Of the negro, while it is at the same
moment highly and violently utilitarian by
the oppression Of other colored races, even
to tho extent Of violation Of solemn treaty
obligations.
THE LAST HOPE GONE.
''In short, what with indifference in a time
when action might have been productive OF
good; with the violation Of the promises
and Of the commitment of the party ire
trievably TO policy vastly obnoxious to
every element OF decency in the south, our
northern protectionists and republicans
have at blow murdered protection and re-
spectacle republicanism in all the southern
states with the conditions Of which une
writer is at all familiar. Both elements are
dead beyond the power of first-class mir
aele. You win only waste your money in
trying to work on them or any of the COM
monwealths / have named above"
Moi. Vests letter was dated Dec. 81, 1890.
A PRISON MUTINY RNDED.-
The Rebellious Couvicte Starved Into