The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-09-13
'9EH IN OLD North STHIE.
Browning Takes Nearby Peep at the South
at Home.
&c Listens to the Prophecy Of the Fore
most Ds1sOeEatie Editor of North Csrc-
lima AMI Reports It In Full-Time to
weigh ygsll What the Enemy has to Say.
Especial Correspondence

Eiggers skinned the land, the white men
skinned the niggers. and then the Jews
and Yankees skinned the white men.
Now, if Johnnie Bull and the bond
holders generally can skin the rest Of
the white men, it's all right, I s'pose.
Pears to me it's dog eat dog all the way
round anyhow. And I reckon people
sort @ like to be skinned, or if they
don't why do they vote for it,"
Now that I have written this state
ment just as heard It from an old Car
Gilman, I confess I see nothing funny in
it, yet it made me laugh most heartily.
He was explaining why there was so
much wornout land in this section and
why SO many of the fine old families"
had disappeared, and to appreciate it
one would need to have his drawing
tones and the scenes around US, the red
clay hillsides quilted by the rains Of so
years, the chimneys standing without
houses and the general features of the
landscape which make the eloquence Of
decay. As q matter Of actual fact, how
ever, much Of the neglect of the old
fields is due to an improved system Of
farming the new, and it is a painful
fact that the general progress Of the
south has gone along with the decay of
large sections. 1t is the same story here
as elsewhere. The purely agricultural
regions have lost on the whole almost
as much as the manufacturing cities
and mining regions have gained. In the
south generally, and in North Carolina
most of all, wealth and culture seem al
most entirely confined to the cities, and
from the beautiful suburbs Of Charlotte
one passes in ten minutes walk to Il
country district which would give an
enterprising Yankee the sore eyes.
Among the many with whom / have
talked on these topics is Mr.. J. P. Cald-
well, editor of the Charlotte Observer.
Of course we soon ran it into politics,
and with much else he said "Of the
Democratic papers in this state which
have declared themselves certainly not
more than a third Or fourth are for
sound money. (Mr. Caldwell is a gold
bug and speaks the shibboleth.) Some
of these are so only because the presi-
dent is, for I take it there is no other
state more generally for the free coinage
of silver than North Carolina. The Pop
ulist papers, of course, are for their own
kind of money, and the Republican pa
pers are sofew-not half a dozen in the
state, I think-and of so little force
that their advocacy does not amount to
anything They have, in fact, but one
paper that I should call first class, the
Winston Republican That is a great
place, by the way, a live city. Winston
and Salem are now practically one city,
and it has at least Is, 600 people 1t is
great tobacco mart, and so a majority Of
the population is cOlOred, and that
means trouble soon OF late. They had
their fight at Danyille, Va, ten OF
dozen years ago-just had to have it,
they say-and Winston has lately had
her little trouble.
'tBut as to the main fact, should
say that of 200 papers III the state not
more than q fifth are for sound money,
and of the whole lot The Observer takes
the lead. Of the dozen papers which are
outright Populist two are in the lead,
Senator Buffers Caucasian and The
Progressive Farmer, both weeklies Of
Raleigh. The Winston Republican, by
the way, is for gold, and the others Of
that party follow the lead Of the party
in the nation Of course. Just now they
say little about it and hammer away
On state affairs. All this, however, is a
mere temporary skirmish, just as the
slump down here last year was a mere
huke. When the lines are drawn next
year, the whole south will be Democratic,
Just as it was i'll 1892. Anything else
would be unnatural The Republican
party in the south started wrong, and
will never get over it tilall the men Of
reconstruction times are dead OF super
animated. The way it started it lost all
the men of commanding talent and or
ganizing ability, leaving out Malone
and a few men in Tennessee. I cannot
Just now think of really able Organi-
ger in all the II states. The union Of
Republicans and Populists III this state
was an unnatural thing. Those parties
are the extremes. 1t could only be done
on basis of state affairs, and that is
temporary. No, set it down in your pre-
liction book that southern Democrats
viii fight out their differences On the
silver question this year and next year
Will present a solid front to the common
enemy. There's too much at stake for
us to divide Just yet. White supremacy
is still worth keeping. We are not quite
done with the darky yet
So far Mr.. Caldwell of The Observer.
How far his diagnosis is correct every
one must judge for himself, but it is
worth studying, as it is the opinion Of
the old Democratic south generally. Ono
important fact is also to be noted. There
is unceasing iteration of the faith that
a revival of trade and general resump-
ton Of labor Will end the silver discus
sion, the Populist party and all attempts
at monetary REFORM. Cotton has gone
up several points such is the phrase
which the typical Democrat down here
thinks should settle the matter. 1t is as
gumed, as if it were a matter needing
no demonstration, that Americans viii
think of reform no longer than the iron
OF adversely is iabbed into their souls
This opinion the south holds in common
with many in the north. Another she
holds as a specialty-namely, that tbs
negro viii never bother his head about
e.onomie questions q hold any opin-
tins as an individual man; that the
whole race viii vote or be voted as the
bosses direct, and that without regard TO
party platforms. is taken, like the axi-
oms Of geometry, as something which
need not be proved and cannot be dis
1uted. To suggest that the negro EtusY