The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-08
I. B. REED.
CLARK HOWELL UNCOVERS hin
Still Hates the South.

.New York Herald.
Since the Presidential aspirations Of
Thomas Bracket Reed have passed the
chrysalis state and he has blossOrned into
a full grown republican candidate for
the Presidential nomination, his recent
! Philadelphia speech possesses a deeper
significance than appears on the surface
Indeed, that speech was delivered more
in behalf of Thomas Bracket Reed than
Of that distinguished republicanveteran,
Galusha A. Grow, the republican can
didate for Representative at Large, in
the interest OF whom Mr. Reed took the
stump in Philadelphia.
The keynote of Mr.. Reeds address
was his attack on the South. He has
| always been South hater, and his DO
lltlcal career has been characterized,
more than by anything else, by the per-
sistency Of his assaults on Southern in
terests. He is the prince of the rapid
ly diminishing band of South haters-
the unconquered pirate, who yet sails
under the Bloody Shirt, pursued by the
civilized and conservative sentiment of
a generation which looks upon his sec
tional buccaneering pretty much as it
would upon the reappearance of Cap
tain Kidd upon the high seas.
But this savage enemy OF the South,
this sectional desperate, surpassed him
self in the hostility of his warfare on
the South in his Philadelphia speech,
and his wonderful ingenuity was never
more clearly manifested than in the
adroit plan of his campaign, as ap-
The following paragraph of the
speech, which can be taken as the text
of the whole address, is fair sample of
his revised plan of attack on the South
"Are the people no longer the rulers
OF this country? How much longer
are we to have over us set of irrespon-
sible tyrants? Why is it that this coun-
try is in the hands of one-fourth of Its
citizens? I will not be accused of sec
| tiOnalism when l say that the Southern
men are in control of the Democratic
party, for l am simply saying the
Lords truth"
This is misleading from beginning
to end 1t is the most unjust extreme
to which even Mr.. Reed has yet resort
ed in the long series of his Quixotic at
tacks on the South. AS an humble
but devoted Southerner l protest
against it, and the sentiment of every
Southern State will repudiate the charge
that the Southern influence is respon-
sible for the policy which has dominated
the administration since it came into
power year ago. It is quite ingen-
ious in Mr.. Reed to justify his long
warfare against the South by holding
it responsible before the country for
the evils which have resulted, not from
carrying out, but from repudiating the
most salient obligations Of the demo-
cratic platform.
It is true the South played con-
spicuous part in the making of the
platform, but it is equally true that it
is not responsible for the breaking Of
it. And yet it will be hard to convince
the country that the evils which have
visited us like the plaques of Egypt,
III l1lc 11dI1LS VI SUCH stSClllC
can leaders as Mr.. Reed, circumstantial
evidence will be used with powerful ef-
fect before the national jury.
"Look at the Cabinet" they will say
and emphasizing the fact that three
out of eight Of its members are from
the South, they will ask if Southern
sentiment is not largely responsible for
shaping the policy which Is the out
come of Cabinet deliberations, and the
voice of the dissatisfied ana the discon-
tented throughout the North, unfa-
miliar with the facts, may be inclined
to affirmative response. For when the
pinch comes will those democratic
Representatives who have repudiated
democratic obligations and by cooper
alton with the republican minority in
Congress have succeeded in outnum-