San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-30
THE UPPER SOUTH.

| The attention of the republican
party is being directed to the promis-
, ing cond ition Of the old border states
as missionary ground for republican
| efforts. The steady decrease of dem
| Ocratic strength in those states, as set
forth in yesterdays LIGHT, has for
some time been grsvely considered by
eastern republicans, who are nearer
the seat of action and necessarily
more Immediately interested in politi-
cal affairs in that section. The article
OF Col. Griffin, so widely copied and so
conclusive in statement, is heartily
commended to the managers of the
campaign of 1892 as atfording good
grounds TOR more earnest and con-
centrated effort on the part of the re-
publican party to carry one or more OF
those states, which have been so
clearly drifting toward republicauism
since the year 1876. The democrats
are making determined efforts
to carry the war into the
northwest. Let republicans carry
the war as determinedly into Mary
land and the Virginias, and all that
can possibly be lost in the west will
be regained In the east. Speaking OF
the possibilities of success tor repub-
licans in these border states the Globe
Democrat remarks, referring to the
conditions of things set forth in Col.
Griffins article:
The natural deduction to be drawn
from this condition of things is that
il the Republican National Com
mittee had given little attention to
these states in recent presidential
canvass es some of them would have
been wrested from the Bourbons. The
two Virginias for years past have
been fair fighting ground for the
repu blicans, yet the managers of the
national canvass somehow could not
see their way clear toward making
serious attempt TO bring them over
into the republican line. The proba-
bility, however, is that there will be
no change next year in the
programme in this. particular.
There will he less incentive to
canvass the South in 1892 than there
was in some presidential years of the
past If the Republicans carry the
states in the north which they con-
trolled in 1888, they Will have heav-
Ter majority than they gained IN that
year, for all the new States, with the
possible exception of Montana, are
reasonably certain to choose Republi-
can electors whether any especial ef-
fort be made to keep them in the
party column or not. We can lose
one or two of the old dou btful
States and Montana and still win
the presidency. There is pOssibili-
ty to he sure, that the war may be
carr ed into Africa, in political
sense. next year by the republican
campaign committee, but the chances
are that the battle-ground will be in
the north as usual, and that New
York, Indiana and one or two other
states in strategic points in the polit-
ical line will again receive especial at
tention from the party potentates ON
each side"
None the less would it be wise for the
republican party to make q deter
effort to carry one or mole of
these doubtful southern states. 1t
W OuId encourage the republicans
locally to greater effort and show
t hem that the national committee
duly recOgniz lied their heroic struggle
to enter the republican column. 1t
would serve to distract attention from
other states on the part of the demOcra
Cy and necessitate the closing in
their forces, for the democracy would
sacrifice much to save the "solid
SOUTH" There are many causes COM
bine to make this carrying of the war
int the democratic territory a great
desideratum, and it is not without the
hope of seeing 1t done that so general
attention is being directed to this
subject.
THE Southern Mercury Is not sus
tanned by the rural press of the state
in its declaration that cotton IS the
real paying crop and should be made
the dependence of the Texas farmer.
1t will be remembered that the Mer
curry rose to fever heat not long ago
and denounced the LIGHT as fool
in things agricultural because it adj
vOcated corn and q diversity of crops