Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-07-27
CONFEDS In CONGRESS-
SENT TO LEoisLArE AGAINST
THE NORTH.
They Control the Democratic Majority
Vote and An Congregational Action-The
Democratic Party ~ . Record-Breaker-
TO Manipulate Coming Elections
..colonels" I'M control.

Mr.. Charles Edgeworth Zones, of
Augusta. Ga, writes an interesting
letter to Senator Walsh's newspaper.
the Augusta Chronicle, on the rspi,i
disappearance of prominent Confeler.
ate oEcerS from the arena of national
politics. Mr.. Jone, is the historian of
the Confederate Survivors Associa-
ton. In commenting upon Mr.. Jones'
list the Augusta Chronicle remarks:
They are passius away. lhe charge is
30 frequently made by the Republican
press. or that portion Of 1t which likes to
stir up prejudice and discord. that present.
legislation is rul.d by Confederate briga.
diers. that the facts set forth in Mr. Jones
article are timely and interesting. Our
Republican friends are hut up TO one or
two conclusions. Either they are willfully
.misrepresenting facts. OF else it takes u
very few Sou horn brigadiers to control
the action Of Congress-
The twelve names mentioned by Mr..
Jones do not make a c mplete list of
those "who distingui- he'd themselves
in the military AID civil annals of the
Confeaeracy" and who "remain in ma
tional ha Is unfolding in the present,
as they strove to do in the past, the
Which they are the honored represen-
tat .ves."
Confederate soldiers distinguished
themselves in lower grades of military
ranN than that of Brigadier General.
In Mr.. jones' list WI find no mention
OF Senator George. who was q Briga-
der General of Mississippi troops: of
Senator Daniel, Adlutant General of
Jubal Early's stat; Of Senator Roger
Q. Mills, ful merly Colonel of the Tenth
Texas: of Senator Berry. OF Arkansas,
who got to be q Second Lieutenant,
and lost a leg at Corinth: of Senators
Jones of Arkansas, Blackburn and
Lindsay of Kentucky, and Pasco of
Florida, all of whom distinguished
themselves on the Southern side DUR
ing the a
Nor does the historian of Confede.
rate survivors take account OF the fifty
three Confederate veterans besides
Gen Wheeler, of Alabama, who are
members of the House of Representa-
tives in the Fl ty-third Congress, in
Guiding eight Colonels and Lieutenant
COlonels.
The fact is that from the thirteen
Georgia, kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Caio q. ina, Tennessee, Texas, and Vir-
ginia, not less than seventy-siX of the
present Senators and Repro. entatives
served on the Confederate side during
the war of the rebellion.
The total representation of these
States is only l422, 80 that considerably
more than half of the whole number
are Confederate veterans, survivors of
actual service in the field against the
Union. When we con slider that aim st
thirty years have elapsed since the
end Of the war. and that many South
ern States and districts are now repre-
sented by men who.were babies when
the nighttime WAS on, the pr portion of
Southern military ard naval heroism
yet in Congress is remarkable. 1t con-
tr Is the ST utnern Democratic vote.
the Southern Democratic vote controls
the majority party, and the majority
cont els legislation.-New York Sun.