The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-03

/ cent in life. as men unmIpdfuf OF the erea,
past OF tnelr section, and ms persons who
Dringlng their land under lreproach in the
S SSrs. OF u, imhoderats and good men in all
against Mr.. Cochran the Dispatch does
MN injustice: 1t quotes only a part OF
said of the South. We quote. therefore. the
"m0ie passage, us follows.
There was Populistic delegation from
states that were Democratic, but Il is a
Sssniiicant fact that every Northern State
In which there was u chance of e!ecting
Democratic electors, with the exception
OF missouri and Indiana, stood boldly and
firmly for the gold standard at Chicago,
Populism from the South
MY friends, there has been n great
change in the Democratic organization of
the Southern States. The men who, from
q mistaken sense of loyalty. followed
II, their States out Of the Union, whose gal
won the admiration OF the civilized world
the men whose virtues commanded the
attempt 10 overtu,ir carpet bag govern
ments in the Southern States the men
, who led their people through all the trou-
Died period OF reconstruction back into a.
full union with the sister States-these
men. like Hampton. in South Carolina. and
Caffrey. in Louisiana-have been swept
from power a new set has got into the
saddle: a set OF which Tillman is the expo-
nlent, who. boldly unfurled tine sectional
Populist movement is direct movement
against the prosperity OF. the East.
Men Men Of New York, toilers of America.
allow your rate of wages to be affected
tCries of Never! neverr) by any man
get out of it? viii You Submit ne to c9 this
farmers. the farmers who cultivate isi'' the
labor with their jaws, Populist agitators
OF the West, and the unreconciled slave
.This is a conspiracy between profess
sional farmers who want to pay low wages
and the unreconciled stakeholder Who
Here is the root of ali this conspiracy.
Here is the explanation of this Populist
moyement. Mr.. Bryan did not create
this. The forces that created it are &C
tive and have been working in thousand
seninE this tSeory is but k ksa dr TspFef
water on tho crest of n wave, more con-
spicuous. but no more important than the
Populistic movement is the attempt of
these professional farmers, of these men
who are unwilling to share with the labor
or. to appeal TO their greed In support of
their movement. He Is an enemy of public
order, he is an obstacle to progress, he is
consplrator against the peace and pros
perlty of the industrial masses of the coun-
try"
Now. it is perfectly plain that Mr..
South, of whom such men as Gen. Hamp-
ton is representative, I'm his mind He
before his mind. Mr.. Cochran shows in
this passage, that he has rs high an admi-
ration for the true Southerner as any man
in the world can have. II Is the Popuist
of tl,e South. thouSh-thc man who would
set class against class, degrade the MEM
DRY of the country. and bleed the workman
by that drgradation-that his remarks
were intended to be applied to.
Mr.. Cochran is n Democrat TO be honor
ed and admired, and he IS true friend OF
the South. who shows his true friendship
for her by trying to save her from the con-
sequences of such horrible doctrines as her
TillmanS preach.