The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-09

had almost all joined the Republican
party. and under the lead Of 3 Gxztx
Brown and the younger Francis p
Eiair. rolled up = vote 81 17.nee "a
Missouri for LSncogr IN 1860 e con-
pared wfth Albert z11e thousand IN
The four o<AeF slave states fn con-
Mnatiun--Delavzre 1faryland. vsr-
gEzfa and Eentucky had Re-
publican tickets The bulk Of the
Missouri Republican vote in 1883 vas
cast in ST Louis
OF course. after the var the Re
publican party gained ! footh0ld n
the South. but except during the al.
normal conditions In the reconstrue-
ton days Ii never carried any South
many years after Appoznatfox Repub-
Iican Presidents stunned the South.
to some extent. in their tours. though
nearly all of them visited some of
the Southern states at one time and
another during their service. Many
persons in the South had a high re-
gard for Grant. on account OF the
liberal terms which he gave TO Lee
and OF the sympathy he expressed for
the condition Of Lees soldiers Grant
often left the capital during his eight
years service He was away from
Washington so often, in fact, that
the Democratic House of Represen-
tatiyes in 1875 passed resolution
asking him how many days Presl-
dents had been away from the capt.
tai. and what public work had been
done by them while absent. TO which
he made answer in q special mes
sage. Grants travels while Presi-
dent, however, with few exceptions.
were in the North and West. Ar
thur visited the South once or twice,
and so did Harrison. and although
Arthur was personally one OF the
most popular men ever in the White
House. his appearance below Mason
and Dixon's line never called out de
monstrations OF cordially anything
like so general and so enthusiastic
as were aroused by the visits OF
President Mckinley, especially the
one which has just taken place.
The Improvement between the
two great sections has been many
years in progress. but more has been
accomplished in this direction in the
past four or FIVE years than was done
| In all the previous time since APP
pomattox. Grant held out the olive
branch TO the South in the favora-
BILE terms. which, as the commander
of the army in the field, he made to
Lee at the end of the war. and also.
as President. by his appointment of
Longstreet and other ex-Confeder-
ates to Office. Hayes, by his selec-
ton Of the ex-Confederate. Davis III.
Key. to be Postmaster General, and
his appointment OF Mosby to Office.
followed Grants example. and in
other ways he and his Republican
successors endeayored to placate the
South. The rise of a generation in
the South which. born since Apo
mattox. knew nothing from person
al experience of the passions of the
war and reconstruction era, together
with the creation of manufactures
in the South and the general diversi-
| fication of industries, coupled also
with the gradual effacement of the
negro as voting quantity, relaxed
the old hostility to the Republican
party in the region below Mason and
Dixon's line. The Spanish war of
1898, which put Southern soldiers be-
side Northern for the first time since
the conflict with. Mexico, half a GEN.
fury earlier, and the development of
the territorial expansion policy by
the Republicans, which had been the
peculiar property of the Democratic
South before the civil war, have been
among the solvents which have de-
stroyed the. solid South, and have
banished. or is about to Danish, the
geographical line from politics for
the first time in the history of the
country. Thus there has grown up
national spirit which has abolished
the particularism that melted the
Hartford convention disunionism of
a section of New England of 1914.
the South Carolina notification of
1882. and the secession rupture in
| 1876. and render vain the attempts
to array the West against the East
At the present time in far greater
and more direct degree than in Mon
roe's days in the presidency there
is an era of good feeling for the
United States