The Portland daily press., 1901-01-11
SION
(Bangor Commercially

1t is understood that a bill IL to be
brought before the present legislature,
the design of which is to "Droader the
work OF the board of agriculture by es-
teblishing dairy bureau" In connection
with that Department..
This new movement, 1t Is eaid, origi-
mated With the present Maine dairymen's
association at its meeting lately held In
Augusta. ana was further endorsed by
the state grange at Its late annual session
e sbs crsasSb n tSs
Office OF dairy commissioner TO serve for
three years at salary OF 81 500 psr an
mum, ana an APPROPRIATION OF $500 per
year to be used for the purposes OF the
proposed bureau.
We cannot see good reason for the
creation of a new dairy bureau as is pro-
poEed, nor are We in favor of establishing
a new state officer with q salary OF u, $40
attached, in connection with any exist
ing department OF the state administra-
ton, whatsoever.
There is already appropriated by the
legislature, annually, about S24 800 for
the interests of Maine agriculture, as
represented by the state board and the
various stats and local societies. In ad
dition to this there Was appropriated by
the last legislature the sum OF S3,6S5 for
a deficiency in the work or the cattle
commission, making total OF N ore than
and believe there are few state interests
which are so literally provided for as are
those in which the farmers of the state
are especially interested.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE
SOUTH.
(New York Commercial Advertiser
1t is becoming more evident that there
is real ground for reorganizing Southern
Repu blicanism on a white basis The
Democrats have unwittingly helped to
prepare the conditions for 1t. Nothing is
more certain than that the sound busi-
ness sense OF the new South took little
stock In Bryan, and the vote for him, In
so far as 1t included business men, was q
tribute to an old sentimental bond in
which Bryan had no shars. The falling
oil In tine whole Democratic vote in the |
South In the recent election showed q |
great deal more than distrust of Bryan
it was also the advanced stage Of q politi- |
cal breaking up, which had been going |
on more or less steadily during the past |
few years, but which, coinoidinE with |
the collapse of Organism, was more ac-
and noticeable. There Is a |
breach made, and a reorganized Republi- |
canism II. invited to step In and III it. |
Much depends upon whether adherents
of the party in the South can see com
pensations enough for negro disfranchise-
ment. That the latter is q growing
movement destined to embrace the whole
group or southern states in which the
colored vote ia large enough to be
troublesome is admitted by skilIful and
Impartial observers In both parties. 1t
Is equally admitted that southern states
In disfranchising the negro have made
themselves loss ''solid.'' The mora they
persist in eliminating him from politics,
the more they tighten the burden which
the Republican party, though pledged to
carry and endeayoring to keep that
pledge, finds Increasingly difficult by
reason of the political hostility OF the
South to the Negro. In doing this they
are challenging the formation OF new
party lines and giving the Republican
party its opportunity. That the latter
will neglect the opportunity Is hardly
1t is no more an Incident of
politics. but a condition which has rap
oily matured ever since the South began
20 manufacture on large scale.
The NEW South" lie phrase that has
been IN every body's month for a long
tms, but the most interesting dsfinikion
II it could not be given until reawakened
industry there shaped Itself into the APP
political form. That means the
iefiniJe advance OF the Republican party,
and strengthened by a natu-
al alliance between it and the business
men who have the industrial greatness OF
he South largely In their keeping, We
lave had signs OF such an alliance from
more than one source: from industrial
individual OF opinions inn.
'ortanoe and the detection OF many large
business interests in the South from
3ryan during the late campaign. 1t is
IRrdly conceivable that Indications 50
ecisive should not be carried out Into
organization.