Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-08
BREEDING SECTIONALIsM
WHO ARE THE BREEDERS AND IN
WHAT SECTIONS is ITFouND9
"a Petty Lawyer from Petty Town In .
Remote Granger State "

tendency to draw sectional lines in q
Presidential contest should manifest
Itself, but that there is tendency and
that It asserts itself with increasing
strength from campaign to campaign
admits ofno question. The Republic
is again dividing in interest and sentl-
ment as il was divided before the war
of the rel ellion, only now it is the west
and south against the east, instead OF
the outhagainst the north. The east
wonders at this hostility, complains OF
1t plaintiVely when it threatens seri-
ously to hurt, and SCOTS at it humor-
,ously wi fen no immediate peril is APP
parent. But in neither state Of mind
does it oG cur to the east that it is in
any meas ure to blame. Advanced as
tine people of the Atlantic are in civil
iization, they are not yet So far ad-
,yanced as to be able to see themselves
from the point of view Of the west and
scutA-at least, not many of them.
What they should appear to others
conceitedI selfish, greedy, ignorant and
brutal in their arrogance. is unthink-
able.
This presidential struggle, whatever
its outcoFn ne at the polls may be, is GER
tain to deepen the sectional feeling,
and for this not the west and south,
but the e st, will be mainly response
ible. If the west and south shall elect
Bryan without the aid of the Atlantic
states, there will be room for magma
nimlty in their exultation. Should
Mckinley get in, there will be among
millions of American citizens an inten-
sifcation of belief that there must
hereafter, be, common cause made
against asregton which has most Of the
wealth of the country and the self-es
TEEN and exclusive devotion to self
interest that generally accompany op-
ulence.
The gold press Of the east as whole
is now exhausting its energies sowing
dragons teeth. It's appeal is made
directly to sectional prejudice. What
was to have been the campaign o.
calm discussion of the financial prob
lem has become a riot of disgracefu
abuse, TheV eastern Republican qs
sumptionsis that the east is too superior
in the wisdom of craftsmanship tC
waste argument on the inferior hordef
of the south and west. Mr.. Bryan il
rom the west. Therefore Shel is, Il
quote the language of leading Re
publican organ, ga petty lawyer from
a petty town in a remote oranges
state" He addresses his countrymer
daily, giving reasons for the faith tina
. lis in him, and putting his cause will
the good temper and courtesy of a gen
tleman. In another eastern daily w,
are told he is merely a grotesque pro
duction of q semi-barbarous region an
advanturer, demagogue, q socialist
an anarchist, scoundrel preaching
Reputation and dishonor. His fol
lowers, the Democratic party of tn,
United States and the great masses OF
whom party ties rest lightly and VIII
hold that not the money but the citi
zenship of the Republic should possess
the government, are insolently scream
ed at as a horde of brainless, character
less zealots, bent, for the most part, Oh
evading the payment of their homes
debts r..r
/; It cannot be but that this ,sustaipe,
hurricane of contemptnous revilinl
should leave a track of hatred behint
it. The men of the west and south be
lieve themselves to be quite as capabl
as the men of the east to form a judg
ment on what policies are best for tn
country, as honest in their Intention
and not subject to the suasion Of self
interest in arriving at their potitica
opinions. Not only do they object t.
being berated as ignoramuses, villain
and fools by fellow citizens who's
license to lecture is self-bestowed; blu
that they should return eastern in
suits in kind is inevitable.
No political contest within a gener
alton has sunk to so low a plane a
this one. The Eatenswill Gazette
has been revived and dominates on
journalism. Mark Hanna, politica
agent for trusts syndicates and the en-
tire privileged class who is deluginl
the land with corEupting money, ha
made himself managing editor of ia,
press of his rarty, Debate has beef
abandoned for abuse, and the prevail
ing argument in support Of the golc
standard IS 20 call the protagonists o
bimetallism and just money hare
names. A spirit has been raised
which is not the spirit of sane Arheri
can politics, but war. Sectionalism
the worst curse that can afiiict,the re
public, is being sedulously cultivated
and by the very men who are readies
to declnim against'it, when sectional