The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-13
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The South is a small, part OF the Union.
1t feels its weakness, ana realizes that IN
a measure ii is out of the main current or
our national life From il no candidates
for Presiden; or Eice-Presdsnt are now
selected and no orators go there to work
up enthusiasm. In these circumstances
SO long rs the alignment of our national
Parties bears any close relation 10 the
aiigamentS of the great struggle OF 3oTty
years ago, the natural animation OF the
South Will be with toe Democratic party,
just as Virginia ;doi.zes Lee While II aotus
Thomas off at a respectful distance. MS
is why in the ultimate analysis the south
remains solid. II is not the negro: ne
has been eliminated. 1t is not Fedora.
interference with elections: that mas oeea
abandoned 1t is not free trade and state
rights. for those the new South Is last
forgetting. 1t is the Identification OF Re
rCblicanism with the Northern cause IN
the war. as typiiied br Miss Van Lev,
that makes The South solid. And this is
something that Il will take time, and very
large and long-continued doses of time,
greatly to affect.
The Transcript is evidently of the opin-
ion that there Is a lingering hostility in
the Southern mind to the Union That is
what it means when it says that the iden-
tification OF Repubficanisn with the North
ern cause in the war is what makes the
South solid The Transcript never made
a greater mistake in its life. There is no
trace OF hostility in the South to the
Union We Go not believe that even one
sorehead remains in the Southern States
who would consent to a dissolution of the
Union. Slavery and the issues of the
civil war being now put entirely behind
the Southern people, they feel and think
that their interests die in the direction Of
the Union, and nowhere in the Union
would 4 proposition to dissolve it meet
with more determined opposition than IN
the South. The Transcript must get thai
idea clearly and firmly fixed n its mind
if IT would ever come to any proper ap-
probation Of this case.
So, then. the Transcript must also learn
that the negro is not what keeps the
South solid. 1t is the negro and nothing
else The Republican party of the North
insists upon coddIng the negro and keep
ing him banded in the vain hope that they
can make his vote useful to them, and
this holds over the heads Of the Southern
white people q perpetual menace TO their
domestic relations and they are thereby
forced 20 remain in an equally solid body
TO ward off the danger that they see al
ways at their door. II is the negro that
keeps the South solid!
It would under any circumstances be
hard for the oder ones who remember
the evil days CT reconstruction to get
themselves up TO the point OF voting the
Republican ticket, but there are many men
in the South who agree with the Repub-
licans of the North in their views upon
national questions, ana these men would
vote WITH them upon all such questions
if the danger of negro domination were
removed. 1t is very questionable whether
the Southern States would be solidly Dem
ccratic if there Were no negro voters in
them. Many believe that Virginia, for in
stance, would go for Mckinley in the
present election il there were no negro
voters here, and it is probable that Geor-
gia, Alabama and louisiana would do the
same.
read the following significant article in
point from the Mobile Register, a stauncn
Democratic newspaper. We quote:
The working of the Louisiana Consttu-
ton, which has disfranchised the negroes,
is shown in the steady growth of a white
mans Republican party in the State. The
New orleans T;nes-Democrat speaks of
the opposition as formidable. and calls
upon the Democrats to refrain from
..neadstrong and reckless acts of parti-
Sanship. To strengthen the Democratic
party it must command the respect ana
confidence Of the masses. and this can be
done only by strict adherence 10 legiti-
mate procedure and the putting up OF the
best men for office. Honest politics alone,
says the New Orleans paper, will win
under present circumstances. If the party
Goes what is right it VIII be greatly bene-
flied, because the best men VIII be forced
TO the front. and good government will be
assured. ''Hooilum tactics can only bring
disaster concludes the Times-Dsmocrat.
II appears from this that in Louisiana,
as in some States not necessary to name.
practices have been indulsed in that We're
possibly eNcuSable when the white men
had 10 contest with the ignorant blacks
TO maintain decent government, but are
not TO be excused 50 readily when they have
for their object the overcoming Of white.
opposition. Ballot box stuffing. sharp prac-
tee in conventions. and rowdyism dam
ages the party that INDUCES IN them and
builds up the opposition The Times
Democrats rebuke is timely and may be
read with profit by others than Louisiana
Democrats.