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ut is unquestionable that the power
of shaping the course of the Democratic
party belongs today, as it belonged be-
fore the war, to the Southern States"
-Ne,1 York Sun, (Dem.)
Fourteen years ago Roscoe Conkling
said in the United States Senate, The
south has thirty-two senators, and needs
only seven at any time to make majori-
ty of that body; and it will never fail to
have these if there are seven northern
Democrats there" This biting truth
suggests one of the strangest facts in the
history of American politics-The sub
serYience, the abject cowardice of the
northern Democrat in the presence of a
southerner. The one is always the mas
ter, the other always the slave. To wit
ness the pitiful cringing of the northern
Democrats at the arrogant behests of the
representatives of the lost cause, one can
almost imagine the crack of the slave
whip which thirty-tive years ago scourged
free state Democrats into submission.
Why this is thus Republicans cannot un-
derstand. The average northern man is
not by nature a coward. He does not
enjoy servitude. Born and reared amid
northern civilization, he knows the value
of freedom and independence. Why,
then. should the northern Democrat in
variably submit to the dictation of a
southarner? Why is it that he never has
policy nor belief which he dare ad-
vocate or attempt to enforce in the face
of southern opposition? The history of
the Democratic party for the last fifty
years is simply record of southern
domination over the northern Demo-
cratic mind, and history is repeating it
self at Washington today. The southern
ers tariff bill, income tax and all, is be-
ing rammed down the throats of northern
Democrats, and in spite of their wry
faces and piteous appeals of the Sun to
the magnanimity of the triumphant
Bourbons it will receive the support of
northern Democrats with hardly a dis
senting vote, yet they will receive in
return nothing but scOrn and contempt.
Brice and Nc Pherson and Palmer and
| Voorhees, and Villas are today patterning
after James Buchanan, the typical north
ern Democrat, crying and wringing their
hands in their impotent attempts to free
themselves from their southern masters,
but begging the smallest crumb of local
protection from the southern tariff
schedules. One afternoon in 1858, SEN
ator Bigler of Pennsylvania, fair speci-
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resolution for the appropriation of some
money for the purchase and distribution
of garden seeds among the states in pro-
portion of their farming population. As
soon as he had taken his seat fiery old
Senator Iverson of Georgia, sprang to
his feet and violently opposed the meas
ure. When he closed Senator John p.
Hale, with that peculiar, quizzical ex-
preston he always wore when about to
strike blow under the fifth rib of dem
ocracy, rose and said: "Mr. President, l
am deeply grieved. Truly, republics are
ungrateful Here is my distinguished
friend from Pennsylvania, who has ever
faithfully striven to carry out the wishes
of the south. He has risen early and
worked late to do their every behest,
and now when he comes for his pay and
meekly asks only little onion seed and
few cabbages, his humble request is in
dignantly refused" The galleries roar
ed, the senator's laughed and even the
dignified president of the senate was
convulsed. But Senator Bigler? oh, he
was only northern Democrat. He sat
still and smiled Mail and Express,