The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-10-05
AS TO TIE SOLID NORTl
Republican Cry About the SOulh Is MOI
Justified.
WHERE THE FRAUD IS MOST RAMPANT
ph,,aaeIpbia Can Always Go Al
Honest Democratic vote So'-
900 Better.
snooi.i to baltimore Sun.


can congressman and newspapers ~
constantly pratlng about and narpins on
tha solid south and bemoaning the naVn
luck OF having to run up against eo
tain massed aggregate of electoral Votes'
/, all the republican forecasts which
have been made during this calnpa'sh "
the probable complexion oil the heN'
house of representatives IL Is dllateu
az a matter for bitter complain. ~
more than a hundred members lroin .n0
South have 10 be put down lol tne -
ocrats as an absolute certainty 30 iiuOAi
has been said on this subject thdI ~
an actual fact there is more or less vi gu
Imnression that this condition Is Ill SUM-
snnse an injustice. Nothing, oil coui 90
could he more remote from the tlutp
Everv Intelligent person knows eNao.'
why the South Is solid, knows ina. ~"
vicious and vlllainous legislation ol tn9
republican party forces II 10 DC SUI
for its own salvation. Every lnleillseII'
person also knows If tne SAINT Tast'
lions prevailed in any State al the Eas.
or the West the white people Oh SUM
state would act precisely as the whl'e
people of the South act
.srbc solid North"
But there is no call TO discuss THIS
nhase OF the question. The great point
to be noted just nova point altogetnei
ignored by the republicans--is mat there
is also a solid North. 1t Is true TINS pc
lltical solid North is not entlrely COM
posed of States OF contiguous territory.
This. however, does not alter lhe rice
that it's electoral votes and It's members
of the house OF representatives can De
and are set down as certain for the re-
publicans as the South is for the demo-
cnats. The number OF electoral votes III
yolyed and the number OF members %
the house OF representatives Is greater
than those winch are assigned 10 ths
democrats from the South. The truth IS
| there have been many more breaks Ia
the solid South than In this solid Norta.
HAYES was declared elected by the votes
OF southern States in 1875. and Mckinley
/ carried four Southern States in 1896
/ Grant received the electoral votes OF
/ Southern States on both of the occasions
when he was a presidential candidate
/ Not one OF the electoral votes or the
solid North has been cast for other than
a republican candidate since and includ-
ing 1860.
Southern Republicans in House.
AS to members or the house Of repre-
sentatives. there has been no congress
since the civil war when republicans
have not sat for the South. In all this
time no democrats have come from The
congressional districts of the solid North
So the republicans put down as sure
without question Just as many or more
electoral votes and Just as many or more
members of the house Of representatives
as do the democrats
The solid North Is composed Of all the
New England States except Connecticut.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota,
Michigan and several others which might
be named. Michigan in 1892 gave CIeve-
land three or four electoral votes. but
they were obtained through the district
system of election. With this exception
all these states are always considere,
as reliably republican as that the sun is
TO shine the next day.
There are at least sixty congressional
districts in the four States of New York
Pennsylvania, OHIO and Illinois which
never send democrats to the house. The
same may be said of two-thirds OF The
New England districts, or Minnesota ant
OF Iowa.
Then there are districts in Indians
= Michigan and Wisconsin where the dem
ocrats know 1t is useless to put up am
fight. II these States concerned have
I right to constitute themselves a soli
> the same privilege?
Talk about the negroes of the Soutl
having no representation-wha repre-
sentatlon have the democrats OF Maine
| They constitute more than one third o
G the voters, and the majority of Their
. have not had man in congress to repre-
i sent them since they were born. TIL
= basis of apportionment in all the Ne
d England States except Massachusetts, {
On eel Cot -.
Z democrats might as well stay at HON
! for any voice they have in public af
t fairs.
q PhiIndeIphia's Outrngcs.
I What show have the 100000 democrat
of Philadelphia? They have been grudg
: ingly conceding one member of the Unite
i States house OF representatives out
i hye. This year the republican ring {
= that city. with Its capacity to manufsC
Is ture $4,000 republican votes. has in pur
n suance of the orders of Mr.. Mckinley an
e Mr.. Hanna determined to carry" Tn
i district for the republican candidate
81 Philadelphia polls as large a vote
al many OF the Southern States. Republ
oAn newspapers of that city, unable
NJ stomach the continued outrages upon III
ct sancdty OF the ballot law, have openl
n engaged in denouncng them. Not Ion
/, slncs tue fhliadelpnla Ledger said ed
@ torially thai II everything stated In r,
~ gard to the registration and election sy.
a. TENS OF the South was correct II was n,
- half so bad as was going on in Philade
a phia all the time
A. The Most "S0Iid."
. The republicans scarcely, If ever NAL
more than a perfunctory National can
- paign in Pennsylvania. 1t has more ele
n toral votes than Virginia, North Carollr
10 and Florida combined. 1t is impossib
~ LOT any State In any section to be mo-
ii Sohd than II is. Even In the almo
p impossible event of the democrats obtail
ing majority ON fair POLL the repu
llcan rings in the cities of Philadelph
and Pittsburg could between them man
iacture, with no great effort, 1000
-, fraudulent votes. Omitting Connectic,
90 the republicans can always count M,
I, twenty-nine solid" electoral votes FRI
p!' New England, as much as the combin,
Is vote OF Delaware, Maryland, West VI
nd gina and Kentucky.
,ta me republican campaign committee
nd making no fight worth mentioning in n,
NJ STATE east OF the Delaware except Ma
iork with little show OF pretense
nd New Jersey. Why? Because Il rs abs
,sn lutey eertain OF the electoral votes
ith an the other States. All of which %
ny 70 snow 1t Is about time TO stop taxi,
ers ABOUT the solid South