Graham guardian., 1896-12-04
THE POLITICAL SEGREGATION
OF THE SOUTH.

The following editorial from the
View York tSm is clear demon
stration Of the light in which the
a1istocratic East holds the South
and West, two sections of the
Union which constitute the main
stay of the nation:
"The returns of the election as
now made up give Mckinley 272
electoral votes and Bryan It's.
Of Bryan's votes, 112 came from
the eleven States composing the
old secessionist Confederacy.
They all went for Reputation.
With them went also the border
State of Missouri. The other
border States, Maryland, Ken
tucky, and West Virginia, voted
for Mckinley, though in Ken
lucky a single electoral vote was
lost to him and added to the Bryan
column by one of the frequent ac-
cidents of elections.
Adding this vote to the seven
teen electoral votes of Missouri,
l30 of the total of l75 obtained by
Bryan came from the South ex-
clusively, or about three-quarters.
The five silver-producing States
specifically, Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana, Nevada, and Utah, contribute
ed, all told, 16 electoral votes
only. The remaining 20 Bryan
votes came from Kansas, Ne
braska, South Dakota, Washing
ton and Wyoming; and they are to
be credited almost holly to the
PopulIstic contingent in the Bryan
combination, aided by silver Re
publicans.
The discreditable distinction OF
contributing about three-quartcrs
of the Bryan electoral votes, and
thus making impressive the Re.
pudiation demonstration, other
wise insignificant, belongs alone
to the eleven Southern States in.
cluding in the secession Confeder.
acy, with Missouri added. From
the States Of the North, outside OF
the five mining-camp States, which
went for silver as a matter OF
seeming selfinterest, Bryan car,
ried Kansas, the head center OF
Populism, Nebraska, Bryan's own
State, and the new and little States
of South Dakota, Washington and
Wyoming, the three having only
eleven votes, all told.
Except for the eleven old Con
federate States, therefore, Bryan
would have made pititul show in
the electoral college. He would
have got only about one-tenth o.
the whole number of Presidenta
electors without their help anC
that of Missouri, Kentucky, Mary
land and West Virginia broke away
from the solid South of the pas
and ranged themselves with the
forces of order and civilization
The rest put upon themselves the
lasting stigma of supporting Repu
diation and social disorder.
Moreover, these twelve Bryan
States Of the South are all old com
munities. The few Northern vote.
won by the vile cause, in the trans
Mississippi States exclusively, came
from new and frontier communl.
ties where the enlightening infiuen
ces of civilization have not YET
produced q reasonable conserva
tism. AS time goes on and they
learn the harsh lession of expert
ence, they will do better. But
what hope is there for the old Con
federate South thus practically seq
regated fiom the ripper and more
genuine civilization of the Union!
1t is serious question, and the
Southern people, in the interests
of the larger material development
so much desired by them, should
set themselves to its consideration.
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WHEN the state of Texas was ad-
mitted into the Union, in 1915,
President Jackson (Old Hickory
wrote to Sam Houston, congra-
tulatroy letter, in which he stated