Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-11-11
baltimore and the Sonth.

Baltimore has been always looked
upon as a southern city. There has
been feeling of kindred between its
people and those who suffered the
of the war and the pangs of
defeat at it's close. No greater pleas
ure has been known to many of them
and especially the merchants and bust
ness men of that section. than to visit
that city and enjoy the hospitality,
and congenial society of it's merchants
and business men.
But the city has changed, the whole
atmosphere has undergone transit
ton, transition little looked for ten
years ago, but which has changed it
from warm congeniality. to cold I'M
friendliness. The city has become a
republican city. Like Philadelphia it
ceases to attract, it has left it's friends
in their hour of need, and has joined
its foes, despoilers and huniliators.
It left the South and what the South
ern people believe to have been their
interests, at time when they were
borne down by business depression.
and ground into poverty by malad
ministration, and partisan legislation,
at time when friend would have
been friend indeed.
The reasons for so doing may seem
to be the best to those who helped turn
the city republican. This branch we
will not discuss. But the South be-
Iieved in low tariff. yet Baltimore as
sisted in foisting upon her the Dingley
bill, the south believed that there
should be an increase in the volume Of
currency, yet Baltimore helped make
this impossible for four years. The
south wanted president. who was not
its implacable enemy. and who would
not delight in humiliating her by, the
appointment of negroes and the most
disreputable whites over her people.
Yet Baltimore assisted in foisting upon
her such conditions. These injuries
were inflicted last fall, and at the time
; of the infection the consequences
might not have been sufficiently ap
parent, to convict the perpetrators of
having done it with malice afore-
thought. But another election has
taken place and again Baltimore is
found in the Republican column. The
people of the South discredit the mo-
tives of any man who has been demo-
GRAFT and changes to republican. He
can never regain their confidence or
esteem, the mark is set upon, him as it
was set upon Cain, indelibly and for
ever.
The conduct of Baltimore has es
tranged the people of this section. they
are heard daily to declare they intend
to cease their relations with that
city. they are Disguised with her pol
itics, and the increasing injury she is
attempting to inflict on them. This is
especially poignant to them since the
recent campaign when it was sincerely
hoped that she like many Grant ones,
would return to the fold and help re-
pair the injury she had helped bring
about.
The sacrifice Baltimore made by this
conduct she will never fully realize.
1t comes at time when she could have
avoided it, but it comes at time when
those who have determined to retaliate
can do SO with an ease that will make
it remarkably pleasant. They will pass
her by and go to New York which is in
sympathy with the South, on almost
every question, and which now when
Baltimore has again shown her cloven
foot, comes with banners and music to
welcome Southern people, and rejoice
with them in democratic victory, and
the maintenance of democratic princi-
Piles.
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