The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-04-21
THE PRESIDENT IN TIE SOUTH.

We are glad that the President is max
ing a tonr of the South and we only re-
gret that be caLnot make stop in North
Carolua and let our people show him the
objects of attraction We would ike to
see him IN Raleigh, and we would have
been glad if he could have heard the
eulogy of REv.J STHoMPsoN, (col upon
the late GOVERNOR FowLE last Sunday.
1t would have opeIe his eyes upon the
race problem and given him al insight
into the amlcabe relations now existing
between the white and c)iored people
in the State that would have com pletely
overturned all bis theories about that
''odd hobgoblin known as the Elections
bill, nicknamed the Bayonet bill"
We would have been glad If he
could have stopped in Durham
and gone through the immense tobacco
factories there and seen that the people
are as successful in manufacturing IN
that little town as any where else in tie
world. He might have been startled by
the screams of the Durham Ball whistle
and thronght it was the screech of the
ku Klux KlaD, but when assured that it
WAS only the believing of harmless
bull that bas quit chewing the cud and
gone to chewing tobacco, his fears would
doubtless have been allayed. We would
have been glad to have him visit Winston
and Reidsville and enjoy the exhilarat-
ing sight of seeing industrious men make
the finest plug tobacco made in the world.
No doubt the proprietors would have
given him plug to carry back home to
chew upon when pestered by Office seekers
and whole armsful of chrcmos and pretty
pictures to carry home to BABY MCKEE
They would have amused the baby
nightly, for they have consoled and
pleased many North Carolina brat and
kept him from crying. 1t would have
been revelation to the President to
have attended a sale at Henderson or
Oxford or Wilson or Rocky Mount or
any other of our tobacco towns. It
would have given him more excitement
than a Republican convention, and there
is great deal more fun, as we'll as profit,
in it. 1t would have been pleasant to
take the President down on the Roanoke
fisheries and seen his astonishment
when the huge seines hauled in three
thousand shad and fifty thousand her
rings at haul. No doubt he would
have envied men who could make such
huge catches and longed to have such
political fishermen to go with him in his
boat. Taking a fast train it would
have done the presidential heart good
to have been carried to the pinnacle
of Mt Mitchell and given chance to
look out over the loveiiest mountain
scenery this country boasts. He would
have seen dotted here and there Luno' q
homes in which industry and content
ment bring happiness, and where,
though the Mckinley bill added fifteen
per cent to the cost of their frugal fare,
he would be welcome to the best that
| could b. provided. But whether in the
East, or the Centre, or the West, he
| would have found in North Carolina a
people who, in hospitality and patriot
ism, have no superiors in the world. We
| could promise to give him the electoral
vote Of the State in 1892, but
| as the President Of our great
country he could have had anything else
he wanted : even to regiment of SOL
diers to whip the Italians with if they
should decide to go to war.
| But, though he couldn't come to North
Carolina, We are glad that PRESIDENT
HARRISON is making Southern and
Western tour. If he will meet the every
day people and find out what they really
think, he will go home wiser nun. He
will find that they are tired of political
vassalage to New England, that they
want reduction of the tariff, an in
crease in the volume of the currency,
an end to extravagant pension leg
islation, and a cessation of waving the
bloody shirt. PRESIDENT HARRISON is q
Western man and his sympathies ought
to be with the agricultural com
munities which have been TO,
twenty five years Disseminated
against by the legislation of the country
But if he thinks he can show that SYM
pathy by saying pleasant things and
continuing in sin. Q. advocating the
Protective tariff, the Force bill, and con.
contracted currency-he will find that
the Western and Southern people will not
accept such expressions. l. Is works
and deeds alone By which the President
can win their confidence and support