The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-12
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDr~T.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ADLAl &. STEVENSON.
rs THE NORTH SOLID OR LOOSE 2

The republican cry-one of the
many cries-is tina the south is solid
still. 1t is likely to remain so If
there is to be no better, fairer, just
er government than that of the enemy
of the people now in the presidential
chair. If the south is solid it is for
cause, and not by the policy of fraud.
PapeI3 like the bitter New York Sun
a traitor-denounce and lie against the
south. The Sun wishes to ignore the
south henceforth, not regarding it any
way. When the south desired to get
away from the north and sever forever
all connections, just such papers as the
Sun jumped upon it, and were for fire
and faggot and determination The
Baltimore Suns W%ashigton's cor
respondent writing, of this false cry of
the enemy says that every intelligent
person knows exactly why the south is
solid. knows that the vicious and viii
famous legislation Of the republican
party forces it to be solid for it's own
salvation. Every intelligent person
also knows if the same conditions pre-
vailed in any state of the east or the
west the white people of such state
would act precisely as the white people
Of tn south act" OF course they
would only "a little more So" They
v0uld carry the war into Africa"
But what about the other end of the
empire? Is the north solid or scatter
ed? How does it vote? There are
many states in the north that have
voted every time for the republican
party, giving not n vote to a demo-
cratic candidate. The Baltimore Suns
Washington letter says:
The great point to be noted just
nova point altogether ignored by the
republicans-is that there is also a
solid north. 1t is true this political
solid north is not entirely composed of
states of contiguous territory. This,
however, does not alter the fac that
its electoral votes and it's members of
the house Of representatives can be
n are set down as certain for the
republicans as the south is for the
democrats. The number of electoral
votes involved and the number or
members of the house of representa-.
ltiveS is greater than those which are
assigned to the democrats from the
south. The truth is there have been
many more breaks in the solid south
than in this solid north"
OF course this republican cry as to
the solid south is meant to make more
solid the north by arousing sectional
ism. 1t is the old attempt of more than
thirty years to keep alive the fires that
We're kindled in the war. The south
has haG a along the best reasons for
opposing their enemy, the base, vici-
Gus, depressing republican party. If
it be possible that party is worse now,
more corrupt, p~rofigate and reckless
than ever before. The correspondent
gives this:
There are at least sixty COMPRESSION
al districts in the four states of New
York, Pennsylvania, hio and Illinois
which never sen democrats to the
house. The same may said of two-
thirds of the New England districts, of
Minnesota and Iowa
Then there are districts in Indiana,
Michigan and Wisconsin where the
democrats know it Is useless TO put W
any fight. If these states concerned
have a right to constitute themselves
a solid north, why have not the south
ern states the same privilege?
Omiting Connecticut, the republicans
can always count pon twenty-nine
"solid'electoral votes from New Eng,
land, as much as the combined vote OF
Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia
and Kentucky.
The republicans, scarcely, II ever
make more than a perrunctory nationa
campaign in Pennsylvania. 1t has
more electoral votes than Virginia
North Carolina and Florida combined
It is impossible for any state in any
section TO be more solid" than it is.
To rebuke the south in view. of what
it has suffered from the republican
oppressors is very absurd, another in,
stance of old satan rebuking sin
The oppressor in this case is far more
censurable than the oppressed. The lons
continued outrages upon the south
and the efforts to injure n numiliat'
1t have kept alive the purpose in thu
heart and mind of the true men Of thu
south to fight increasingly such an en-
envy Of true democracy and SOUND
principles. Look at the negro appoint.
ments of Mckinley. Look at the re
publican speakers and newspapers tina
are now urging to cut down southern
representation in the house. 1t is TIL
old enemy bounding and prosecuting
still.