New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-04
NORTHERN CAPITAL IN TIE SOUTH

NORTHERN CAPITAL N TIE SOUTH.
1T MIGHT BE ASKED FOR WITH BETTER GRACE
If PROPERLY PROTECTED.
To the Editor ~ The Tribune.
sir The southern Convention recently held in
Ne,y-York has not and ought not to receive any
ENCOURAGEMENT from the native people Of the North.
Hoke Smith and his crowd cannot tell the truth
AID tell intelligent Northern Republicans who might
see m - move south and invest their money in
southern enterprises that they and their property
will have that due protection they have IN the
states from whence they came. Hoke Smith can
not gay % a Northern Republican that he can NOV"
- any portion II Georgia and live there and give
free ana honest expression % his p3itca! s,ntI-
ments and he and his family not be more or less
ostracsed ~ their Democratic neighbors Hoke
smith cannot say - Northern Republicans that
hostile taxation and hostile legislation VIII not be
IMPOSED and enacted In the South by Communists
AMI Democratic legislatures In such manner a. to
crush out any public or prvai" enterprise IN Whca
cannot tell the truth ana tell a Northern RepubN-
can that ANYTHING Ike free onl fair Elections are
held In n single ~ what are known aS the
C,ron states OF the south IIoke Smith cannot tell
the truth and tell Northern Republican that
majority - the men now in Congress from these
-, ,b~ right(nl voters In the districts which they
claim ~ represent either not allowed 10 vote or
Uoke smith cannot tel the truth and tell North
ern Republican that In nearly every state OF the
South State constitutions have not been - changed
or restrictive election Laws 90 enacted or other
fraudulent means provided thai what they call
the ruling classes" may carry every state and
National election In such manner as to elect their
mon ~ All Offices. Whenever Hoke Smith and MS
allies tell the truth and say 20 Northern Repuoh-
cans. Come DOWN 70 the south anu brnx your
money and buy homes In the South and live here.
and give full and free expression 10 your political
sentiments and you and your family shall not be
ostracisrd''; whenever they can truthfully say =
Northern Republicans that business enterprises In
which they may invest their money shall nor be
crushed 10 death by hostile legislation and offensive
t,xaflon. whenever H0ke Smith 4 CO. truth
fully say 10 Northern Republicans that these south
arn States viii remove all these unjust and Unfair re-
s,rctions from the ballot and give 70 all voters
In the South the same chances To- vote which are
enioved hy the people OF the North. then. and not
until then ought Hoke Smith ~ 60. 20 be encour,
aged I'm their efforts to induce Northern men ana
Northern capital TO como South. The writer - a
southern man-Southern born and southern bred.
He would hall with delight the influx Or Northern
men and Northern capital 20 our beautiful south
nnd hut ne knows and fully realizes the barriers
that stand IN the way. and would be reioced T. see
,hern removed Hence he Is frank 20 say 70 Hoke
smith & Co. Remedy these matters. and Northern
men and Northern women. Northern capital ana
Northern thrift and enterprise VIII at once come
Ia our beloved Southland and help rs 70 make i
what IL ought to be-the garden spot OF the world
JanesborO. Tenn. June p. 1871 SbNEA'