The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-12-02

Ive verify Ioliove that the Apprehension
50 many Of our people labor under Oh an
other force bill for the South, when the
r,.nublican party comes into power
.,tirolv aroundless. The intelligent ana
leading Republicans of the Norm per
co.ye now that the policy OF recohs'iuc-
lion and its lcgatee force bills was
hinder. That policy turned thousands
of eoutbcrners from the Republican party
who had a strong leaning towards its
protective theories ana that TACT mas a'
! last dawned upon the Republican nina oil
| the North They now see that 10y
policy of Cancellation they might before
this time have built up healthy party
Of white men in the South, instead OF
solidifving the whites in the ranks OF me
Democratic party. The New YORK Al
vertiser is one Of the NEST stalwart OF the
stalwart Republican journals but 1t dis
cusses the subject Of another force Dill
| thus. II says:
"The Southern editors who are shrek
! ing that Bryans defeat means the enact
/ ucut of a force bill Icy the kclupil'il
party are guilty of willful ialsehood'
| Their MALIGNANT mendacity should lot ne
| ceive a single enc Of their readers. Every
man who is gifted with common sense
! North or South, knows that the hepuo-
| lcan party has no more INTENTION Vi
/ resurrocting the force bill than 1t has
of restoring the Mosaic dispensation. No
candidate for the presidency ever spoke
| of Southern voters with greater kindness
| and respect tlan Major Mckinley The
! splendid vote which ne recciN ed IN Dcla-
/ ware Maryland. West Virginia, Ken
! tucxy and Tennessee showed that I'VE,
! progressive Southefners cOrdia.iy RESPOND
| TO his patriotic sentiments. 1t Is lament
| able that so many Southern States should
| have voted for Bryan, reputation, ana
! anarchy. in defiant opposition TO the time
| honored principles Of jefferson and jack
son. but that is their own affair Ihey
| have only injured their own credit ana
| prosperity 10y their folly. Eventually most
Of the South will become Republican, but
| 1t will be through the influence OF the
! school-hOuses. not of Federal legislation.
| We believe this truly expresses the
| opinion Of those who control Republican
| politics in the North. The frauds in Ten
nessee and Virginia in the recent election
have shocked these people very seriously.
and have disposed some Of them 10 turn
their minds towards a force bill as the
correction of them in the future. But
these are people who lose their temper
| and allow sentiment TO control reason.
! The thinking Republicans of the North
have TIE sense TO Understand that mat
tcrs Of this sort are to be left TO the pco-
pie of the Vicinage for correction No
people will remain permanently liable to
the reproach OF fraudulent elections If
/ outsiders let them alone and leave the
moral forces of the people themselves 70
| fight it out with the agencies Of evil. The
good people OF Virginia and Tennessee
have now learned definitely that their
elections are tempered with. and. if left
to themselves. they will continue their
protest against them until the evil is cor
rected.
We do not believe. with the Advertiser,
| that the South will ever become Repub-
Hcan even under this treatment, but the
Republican party will bec,me very diff
ferent one under it in the South from
what it has heretofore been.