Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-28
TUESDAY AUGUST %, 1894
The Presidency-Mr. Reed

Ex-Sneaker Reed is not only cahdi-
date for the nomination of the RepnDh-
con National Convention for the next
presidency Of the United States Dut APP
pcars as such whenever occasion oheiS
to him the opportunity so to appear his
interview Of SOM months ago with an
American correspondent OF brl'iSh
pauer afforded abundant evidence thd'
no was willing TO run for President
standing upon any platform whatever II
this be not an Irish bun.
Recollect that it was this newborn sii-
verite or blme;alllst who had the ifi'pu-
dcnce to declare at Old Orchard III M'l"e'
last Saturday that the Democratic parry
had been a failure because IL hau "o
underlying principle on which It's mem
hers could be united. This latter state
,oopt f. the reverse OF the truth. 1t is
the Democratic party which has great
underlying principles. not the Kepuph-
can party. The Democratic party Cou'u
not have lived through the war between
the States and then through recon-
struction days If there had not been some
great underlying principle which 1t repre-
scented in the minds OF the people. That
principle was and is the rights of the
States. For IL all the friends of good
government ought at all times To DE
ready TO do battle. For this principle the
Democrats stood up when to DO so was
almost TO subject themselves to Insult.
Tariffs for revenue only may come ana CO.
protection may divide the voters. the
silver problem may defy solution, and
the income-tax monopolize for time the
thoughts of the people. but emerging
from battle on any or all these subjects
will be seen that party which stands for
a strict constructor of the Constitution
of the United States.
Mr. Reed, of course, took occasion last
Saturday to refer to the sectional ques-
ton. He said the principle difficulty with
the Democratic party to-day was. as 1t
had been in the past that its great ma
iority resided in the South. 1t did not
occur TO him that in saying this he was
saving at the same time that the principal
difficulty with the Republican party now
WAS. as il had been in the past,
that its great majority resided IN the
North. Yet, If there is any sectionalism
I'm the South, ii is a sectionalism that was
imposed upon her people by the outra-
geous legislation of the Republican party
in the dark days of reconstruction. On
the other hand, the sectionalism In the
North owes its existence TO the willing
ness of the northern people TO ride INTO
office upon the troubles Of the country.
The southern Democratic sectionalists
were forced into sectionalism by measures
which may well be designated as crimes;
whereas, the northern Republican sec
tionaIists chose sectionalism of their own
free will and accord. The former may
have been sectionalists. but, If so, were
forced TO be sectionalsts; but the latter
deliberately resorted to sectional appeals
and sectional measures as means OF per-
petuating the rule OF the Republican
party--a party which ought to have been
buried as soon as the war between the
States ended-a war which owed its ex-
istence TO the Republican party.
Mr.. Reed said at Old Orchard that "these
people the SOulHtlh pSoPiS- "iO nv"
pable of approaching the prosperity which
has come TO the North and to the country
through Republican government" Yes.
the prosperity that now prevails In the
North and in the country Is of a kind
which the southern people are incapable
of appreciating.
Mr.. Reed will strive in vain to secure
the nomination Of the next Republican
National Convention. lie lives where ideas
prevail which are not acceptable to the
large-mnded people of the South and the
West. He dwells in world of his own.
AS 1.-THE situation presents itself to US
now, Mckinley has the inside track in
the race for the nomination aforesaid.
Maine will never have President Of the
United States so long as her leading men
are dominated b. down-east notions.
LET Reed retire.