The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-10
FOR A SOUTHERNER IN 1895
Suggestions for the Democratic
Preside initial Nominee.
The RIGHT THING TO DO,
The Washington Post Thinks the
South Has Been Too Long Neg
lected by the National Demo-
cratic Party. Senator Hill
Endorses the Nomination.
Why should not the Democrats nomi-


nate southern man next year? Why
wouldn't that be the right thing to do
che courageous, tho consistent, tho equi-
table thing? Why, indeed!
Thirty years have passed since the
close of tho war between the states. In
that time nearly all the mon who
brought Oh that melancholy conflict or
took active part III it have disappeared.
OF the few who still survive and who
occupy public or conspicuous position
it may be truly said that they arc as good
citizens-as loyal, rs patriotic, as truly
devoted to the re-established uuiuu-as
any of their fellow countrymon.
They have served III the cabinet and
in congress, they have held high place
in moments Of emergency, and at no
time or under any circumstances have
they proved delinquent in anything that
goes to make faithful, intelligent and
jealous representatives of tho Union
and its institutions
They have neutrality-suspicious. to mono
In jealous advocacy of the country and
the flag.
AS for the southern people in general
the present generation they know of
the war only by hearsay and tradition
To them the war is nero abstraction,
hardly personal memory.
Saving the pride they take in tho val
or and devotion of their fathers-a sen
'timent which honors thoan-thcy think
and remember nothing of the war.
They have no thought or dream which
does not include tho glory, tho groat-
ness and tho perpetuity of the Union.
how much longer is tho south, the
most distinotivoly American section Of
the country, to be the poor relation i'll
the family of the states? Upon whit
hypothesis does tho Democratic party
propose to exclude from recognition
and from leadership three fourths of its
strength its substance and its brains?
Without the south tho national Democ-
Taoy would be an inconsiderable factor
insnational affairs.
Its potency, its consequence, its
weight, come from the south Take
away tho south, and tho Democratic
party, so far as concerns national af-
fairs, would be poor and Intellectual
thing.
Why, then, does the party hold to the
south's reluctant lips tho bitter cup of
SELF eifacement, and why is it that a
proud, Intelligent and Homogeneous
people bring themselves to drink?
where Is tho justice, tho propriety, tho
wisdom, of the arrangement?
1t is difficult, looking at the matter
nationally, to understand the attitude
of the national party and the acouies-
cepce of the south. Here we have three.
iourths o. an organization quietly sub
uniting to domination by tho other
Fourth and tameiy indorsing stigma
which 1t should by every consideration
of dignity resent.
For two decades andmore it has heen
an accepted theory that a southern can
didate would alarm tho American peo-
pie
And during all that time the southern
democracy have assentod without pro-
TEST, meekly borne the hoat and burden
OF successive campaigns, furnished the
rank and file for all tho great battles
and stood aside in humble deferenoo
while the fruits of their strength and
proves were divided among tho mem
eDers of an insignificant contingent. But
why?
ct most this wassonly an expediont
IL was never essentially q matter Of
principle ana propriety. Southern men
were just as much citizens of the
United States IN 1866 as they are today.
The arrangement is proposterous. 1t
as an arrangement under which the ma
tional Democracy cannot much longer
be held together. The south has sat be.
low the salt for so years, and i'll all that
limo the south has supplied the ban
4aet, not only with tho salt itself, but
with every one of the viands it was used
to SAVIOR. For how many more years will
the south endure this degradation and
the north continue to profit by it?
Why not a southern Democrat for
Washington Post.
Bcnator Hills Opinion.