The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-20
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make any attempt to re-enter the field
OF South Carolina politics; he knew it was
useless; he is too old and he belongs to the
defeated Conservative Democracy of the
Palmetto state. The only practical result
OF the Farmers Alliance or Popuiist craze
At the South has been to replace intelligent,
conservative men like Hampton and
Hemphiil with demagogues anxious to
boot early and often for the sub-treasury
scheme in congress. The day OF the ''war"
senator's, congressman aud governors is
over, South as well as North. The
reaction is natural and inevitable,
but the .'war record" was safe political
banking capital longer at the South than
at the North, because the military profess
sion and war service have always stood
higher in popular esteem at the South
than the North, and the South is more
provincial and cIannish people than the
North. There are more farmers at the
South, and farmers are more patriotic
than traders. The North was too COM
merclal in its genius to long sentimental
ize over its returning brave.
There is SO strong reaction against
military records as a recommendation for
political honors that today such q record
would not materially strengthen a candi-
date. North or South. Within two years
county conventions in both Georgia
and South Carolina have passed res
olutions expressive of contempt for
ex-Confederate candidates. In the South
even more than the North the gen.
Grafton coming into power is not likely to
be captured by military picture books. So
far has this reaction gone that it is doubt
full whether so eminent a soldier as Gen.
Beauregard, who opened fire on Fort
Sumter could, if eligible. be elected United
States senator from South Carolina over
Gov Tillman or Senator Irby, who never
wore Confederate gray. Gordon. in Geor-
gia, owes his last election to the United
States senate chiefly to his powers as a
popular orator and to his influence with
the clergy of the great church of which he
has long been an elder.
The day of sentimental memories is
over but the meaner and more dfreful day
of selfish, ignorant, corrupt and malig-
nant warfare between classes has taken it's
place. The leaders of the ruling faction
in South Carolina have given that state a
far more lawless and discreditable govern
ment than she ever had under Wade
Hampton or any of his conservative sue
cessors. The Populist faction in Georgia
does not include leader of high inteli-
genee and ability unless we consider Gov.
| Northern Populst. which he is not in the
| sense of indorsing the sub-treasury
scheme. kolb, the leader of the
pepulists in Alabama, is corrpu.
| man who, if he had his dues. would be in
| the penitentiary Tor acts involving gross
| financial fraud. buchanan, the Populist
| governor of Tennessee, was very poor
| creature. There is not a man of superior
| ability or worth of character among the
| Popnlisss of either branch Of congress
| PETER is a political fakir, weak-ninded
/ demaeogue who has finally come to be
/ l;eye in his own arrant nonsense. Jerry
/ Simpson is q vulgar political knave of con.
/ siderable acuteness and low cunning
| Where creatures of this sort, North and
/ South, have not taken the place Of mer
/ nth .yar records" we have nothing bet
/ ter than money bags.
/ Ia the change South and North for shs
/ better Certainly not at the South; fol
her ahiest, wisest, most conservative ant
| .onxiderate men were her eminent ex
| Confederate soldiers, who were as rul'
| man of education. intelligence, moderation
and yeraeity. In their places We have
either vulgar. stupid, weak men, or vicious
violent men of the type OF Gov. Tiilman
,s South Carolina. AT the North We hav
made nothing by replacing men Of III
] TYNE of Logan. oglesby and Hovey witt
men who have no war record, and 70
that matter with no peace record" 0
! consequence. The day OF sentiment va
bound TO go, bat with its departure Ia
u,ns much that WAS eieysting. We a.
down at last to that Iog political phase c
.aar eat dog" and the devil take tn
,,.smost," where the veteran asked b
his child, Papa. what made you so {
xarea bushes, II anybody Is present, an
uh.zners: MY child. do no; know"
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