The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-06-10
a REPUBLICAN, oELusloN.
What the Corruptionists Expect of the
Insulted South.

The Philadelphia Press, referring cas-
ually TO the rumored detection from the
the democratic party in South Carolina,
makes these remarks among others:
''If the time has come when the business
south sees that it must aid to maintain tho pro
tective system-which the political south has
sought to destroy-then u light has broken over
that section which will have the ihUst useful
results. Pennsylvania has no more need of the
wise tariff roiicy Of the republican party than
has Alabama, or South Carolina, or Georgia,
or any other state of the soath. 1t certainly
could not be long before the business interests
OF the south appreciated this. If the South
Carolina movement means that this time has
come, the politicians Tho have misreprcsented
the material interests of their constituents
will be retired
We have seen something like this be-
fore. 1t is in the nature of too cor
dial invitation to soreheads to walk in
to the republican apothecary shop and
get their wounds dressed free of
charge 1t is the old and ever new de-
fusion that the negro party of the
south is to be built up and recruited
by disgruntled southern democrats.
This time it is the business men Of
the south who are to rush into the re-
publican ranks in order to save the
protective system" Of the republicans.
1t is delusion that would be less
absurd if the republican party had
made any effort during the past
twenty-five years to commend
itself to the sympathies of the
white people of the south. No such
effort has been made. On the contrary,
the whole policy of the republican par
ty, all its machinery, and the remark
able ingenuity of the corruptionists at
| the head of the organization, have been
directed against the south. The white
people here have been made the victims
of the bitterest sectionalism, and even
the honest and sincere people of the
north have been taught to regard the
southerne-s as aliens, traitors and con
spirators. This has been the consistent
and persistent policy of the republicans
To what extent this action of the re-
publican party and it's organs has re-
tarded the progress of the south il
would be impossible to say, but there
can be no doubt that millions of dollars
of American and foreign capital have
been diverted from this section by the
slanderous advertisements which have
emanated from the organs, and which
have been spread to the four winds by
the republican campaign speakers.
The white people of the south have
been described as barbarians and as
sassins, and the keynote of every re
publican campaign since the war hi'
been to charge that life is not safe il
the south, and that newcomers ar
ostracised for opinions sake. The in
furious effect of these attacks on tn
business and industrial interests Of tn
south is incalculable. The republican
editors and organs have had the ear O
the civilized world, SO to speak, an
their slanderous advertisements hay
unquestionably had a tremendous Ell
feet in keeping immigration and capi
tai away from the south.
No element of the south has keene
appreciation of this result of republic
anism than the business men, an
now the Philadelphia Press, which ha
been the most rampant among tn
organs, affects to believe that its COZ
rupt organization is to be recruite
from the very element which has sui
fered most severely. The effrontery @
such suggestion is unreasonable
Atlanta Constitution.