The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-07
TEE souTH uMpER HARRISON.
lRspublIeanIsIn HlIIea by the Present ADJ
ADMINISTRATION.

lNE~puBlIeanIsra IziIIea BY the Present ADJ
EninIstratiOn.
Taking the figures OF 1888, an able
-s4z4istieiau in Kansas has figured out
a surprising increase of republican
strength in the southern states, and
his statistics are finding wide circu-
xafion ia our republican contemPora-
.Eies, who find comfort in graveyard
vvhistIing.
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 1888 The coun-
try then knew little or nothing about
Mr.. Harrison and did not dream OF
such a revival of the radicalism OF the
reconstruction epoch as 1t has seen
under his administration in the plutOc-
Eacy of the Mckinley bill; or the
shameless fraud of the bullion Pur-
chase svindle for the decentralization
OF silver, aBd.in the bitter maliEnancy
OF the force bill, using sectional hate
against the southern states as a pretext
for putting the control OF congressional
elections in the hands of a clique of
politicians in Office in the District of
CoIum bia-
The carnival of corruption during
the reconstruction epoch made 1t i'm
possible for any disinterested and in
30 be a republican. With the lapse of
wears 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
IonR-continued control of one party in
their state affairs. They wished a
change. Under the Cleveland adninstra-
lion they began to believe they could
risk change without danger. With
democrat like Cleveland or such 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-
1ican force and fraud.
The Harrison administration has
shown them how gravely they were
mistaken. 1t has convinced them that
che repu blican party can never be safe
~ trusted with such power as will al
low it to follow its bent and demon
strnte 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-
Gural interests, in common with those
of the west, have been ruthlessly sac
rificed to the plutOcracy. AS a result
in the south is dead.
ticans left, the majority of them in the
Businesses of the mountains and in re-
mote bacl1woOds, 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 land Bardsley, Chandler and
Lodge.
The entire country has reacted
strongly against the radica1ism and
plutocracy of the republican party IN
der Harrison, and as the southern
states have been most fercely attacked,
most seriously threatened by it, the re-
action has naturally been strongest
there. If the democratic party We're to
~E1isband tomorrow the republican par
ty would still be unable to carry a
single southern state in 1s02.-St.
" .oUis Republic.