The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-10-08
nARRi OIL AND TIE souTH.
KepubIicanisn1 Killed BY tho Present Adj
fnsnfstration.

RepubIicanism Killed BY the Present Adj
naturalization.
Taking the figures of 1883, an able
statistician in Kansas has figured out
. surprising increase of republican
strength in the southern states, and
his statistics are finding wide circu-
lation in our republican scontempora-
riess who find comfort in graveya ard
whistling.
The figures are all right. but It is .
characteristic republican habit to go
wrong on right figures
The trouble in this case is that the
statistics are compiled from the re-
Turns Of the election Of 1853 The coun-
try then knew little or nothing about
Mr.. Harrison and did not dream Of
such revival OF the radicalism of the
reconstruction epoch as II has seen
under his administration in the plutoc-
racy Of the Mckinley bill; or tho
shameless fraud of the bullion pur-
chase swindle for the decentralization
OF silver, and. in the bitter malignancy
of the force bill, using sectional hate
against the southern stateslas a pretext
for putting the control of congressional
elections in the hands of clique Of
politicians in office in the District of
Columbia.
the reconstruction epoch made it inn
possible for any disinterested and in
telligent person residing in the south
to be republican. With the lapse Of
years this was beginning to change.
The people of the southern states are
attached to the theory of rotation in of
ice. They grew restless under the
long-continucd control of one party in
their state affairs. They wished "a
change. Under the Cleveland adminstra-
ton they began to believe they could
risk change without danger. With a
democrat like Cleveland or such a re-
publican as Arthur in the white house,
they were in danger of concluding that,
mere ly for the sake of change, they
could venture on putting republicans in
Office without the. danger of having
them kept there indefinitely by repub-
lican force and fraud.
The Harrison administration has
shown them how gravely they were
IL
the republican party can never be safe
" trusted with such power as will al
low it to follow its bent and demon
strate its real meaning. Under the
Harrison administration, the prosper
ity of the south has been attacked; the
attempt has been made to violently
subject it politically, and its agricul-
tural interests, in common with those
of the west, have been ruthlessly sac
rificed to the plutocracy. As a result
republicanism in the south is dead.
There may be some few white repub-
licans left, the majority of them in the
Businesses of the mountains and in re-
mote backwoods. where little or moth
ing is known of the outside world. But
there are not enough Of them anywhere
to make even the nucleus Of an effective
republican organization in support OF
such republication as that of Reed and
Harrison, Dudley and Quay, Wanna
maker and Bardsley, Chandler and
| Lodge.
The entire country has reacted
strongly against the radicaIism and
plutocracy of the republican party un-
der Harrison, and as the southern
states have been most fiercely attacked,
most seriously threatened by it, the re-
action has naturally been strongest
there. If the democratic party were to
disband tomorrow the republican par
| ty would still be unable to carry a
single southern state in 1892. st.
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