The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-11
A FAIR CoNTEMPoRARY.

It is always pleasure 10 ma news paper published in the extreme Nortn- in Connecticut, to be exact-which Is dis posed to look at affairs in the South with an unjaundiced eye. So many of them seem totally unable to appreciate the pe- culiar conditions which have existed m this section since the close Of the CIVIL War that when we read one of an en- t,re,v different kind it is both relief ana a surprise.
 Such A paper is The Hartford Courant' one of the oldest and most conservative newspapers in New England. In recent issue it takes note of the efforts or Needy, crumpacker ano others in Con- Ire ss to reduce southern representation on account of the real or alleged disfran- chlsement of the negroes, first reminding its readers:
 Our older readers remember the recon struction times, the force-bill times all the successive efforts of Congress to con pel Stat ss to be ;.nd to do what the white people of those States were almost unanimously resolved not to be and not to do; they know how Congress's efforts prcepertd. Do they really want any more experiments along that line? Do they really want rekindling, in this new century, of the passionate sectional poll ties that cursed so many years of the dead and buried century?
 The Courant does we'll to remind its readers and others that the white people of the South were fully and firmly deter mined that the inferior race in this sec ton should not rule the superior one. That the efforts of our enemies in Con- gress failed when the South was almost helpless should satisfy any one that no better success awaits present or future legislation directed against the people or the South or against the Southern States. The questions The Courant asks 1t answers, so far as it is concerned, by declaring its endorsement of the position taken by MT. Mckinley that the South ern States and their people-white and bIack-must work out their own salvation and that further Congressional meddling would do harm. and only harm, and that continually. We believe that to reduce the representation of any Southern State at this time would be short-sighted blundering. evil-workng politics-bad foI the country bad for the negroes them selves, and. incidentally. very bad for tht Republican party. We don't want to set that mischief done; we are sorry 1t ha: been proposed"
 That is talking with good sense, ant with just and proper appreciation O. all the circumstances surrounding an' complicating the conditions existing dowI
 here. We are pretty sure that the peopl' of this section. both white and black, wil
 work out their own salvation" so fa as political, social and industrial affair are concerned, and that any meddling b! Congress or anybody else will only mak
 the task more difficult without changini the final result. And, in the same con nection. The Courant asks some question:
 which are both pertinent and timely:l Why don't Crumpacker, Moody, Dicl
 of Ohio and the rest of them employ thei
 surplus energy in reforming the repre-
 sentation in Republican national conven
 tions by passing 1t on the number o votes cast in the several States for tn
 Republican ticket at the last previou
 general election? That would be good an'
 useful work. It would abate nuisance
 and scandals The party and the countr!
 would benefit by 1t.