The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-06
The south Not READY for a Break.

| The South NOT heaoy Tor breek.
The Indications are that there will be no
break in the solid south this year. The de-
scrtions from the Democratic party to the
third party are not nearly so numerous as
the third party would have the country be-
lieve, and before the campaign has adj
vanced very far many Of the deserters will
have returned. Il is being made clearer to
the southern people every day that they
cannot afford TO have the Democratic party
defeated. The democratic alliaucemen who
have been drawn into the third party by
| promises of financial help are beginning to
understand that those promises could not be
! fulfilled even il that party should be sue
cessful and they know they have no ground
for hoping for its success.
| The fact that vote for the third party
! is a vote for the Republican party is being
| impressed upon them 30 strongly that many
Of them are already willing TO acknowledge
that It would be against their own interests
to support the third party. Many of them
see now, and most Of them will see before
the campaign is over, that if the Republican
party should get the presidency and the
House OF Representatives, the force bill
would be passed promptly and that party
would then have the necessary political
machinery for keeping itself in power for
years.
The third party and the Republican party
are doing their utmost to obscure the force
bill issue. The Republican party wants to
keep 1t In the background because it is not
a popular issue in the north, and the third
party attempts to belittle it because it pre-
vents 1t from gaining converts. Neither Of
these parties, however, oan make the peo-
pie believe that they are unnecessarily
alarmed about the force bill. They know
they are not. They had all the experience
they wanted with republican rule during
the carpet-bsg period. That experience is
fresh In their minds. They are satisfied
that il the Republican party is given the
power it will bring about condition Of at
fairs in the south that will virtually check
the development of southern resources.
Some Of the republican papers are point
ing out that the democratic majority In
Alabama is small compared to that Of two
years ago, and they draw from it the infer
enoe that with the right kind Of effort the
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November. II is true that Gov. Jones' ma
jority Is not half what it was two wears
ago, but ID must be remembered that his
opponent then was a republican. In
the election last Monday he was
opposed by an Independent who received
the whole Of the alliance and republican
vote, besides the vote of large faction of
democrats who are not alliancemen. In
November the democrats who voted for
Kolb will vote for MIR. Cleveland, and II
the third party people and the republicans
should combine they would fall far short OF
carrying the state.
II can be predicted with almost absolute
certainty that the electoral vote of every
southern state will be cast for the demo-
cratic candidates. The southern people will
understand, II they do not now, that votes
cast for Gen. Weaver increase the chances
Of Gen. Harrison's election.