The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-24
SOUTHERN MAN
FOR PRESIDENT.
Laps. ID. McCOrd of Tennessee Gives
Reasons for Selecting One.

almost exclusively constituted out OF
everybody else except Southern men. The
states furnish pro rata number of ca
diets TO the military academy. and it
would seem that here. at least. things
would be equal, but they manage some
how to make the Southern fellow show
up small, and they fall into the habit.
like all their brethren South, of getting
left. 1t is not so bad in the single mat
ter of subordinate officers. but they see
to it that they remain subordinate. and
the very fewest number of them show up
In the higher responsible places. From
the Year Book of 1899 find that South
ern men were accorded, Of
Major Generals, o out of 3.
Brigadier Generals. 0 out of 8.
Assistant Adjutant Generals, out of
| 10.
Assistant Inspector Generals, out of Q.
Colonies of regiments, / out of AZ.
Lieutenant Colonels of regiments, out
of 60.
Majors of regiments, 10 out of 1876
The South's pro rata part of all these
would have been IS. whereas she had been
accorded only 2S-less than a third of her
share.
In the Office of the headquarters of the
army, not one single person halls from
south of Virginia.
is 1t possible that the race of great mil-
itary chieftans has run out in the South
and that there are not now to be found
men capable of leading men to battle and
to glory? That South that has furnished
warriors second to none in all the annals
of all the ages in which men achieved
glory and renown with the sword is now
so poorly off in valor as to have not
man fitted for leading even a regiment.
and few found worthy even to clerk in
The offices where headers abide?
In the Office of the War Department
the same partial disparity is shown in
the matter of clerks that exist elsewhere.
| The South gets
In Paymaster Geenrars office, out
of u.s.
In Inspector Generals Office, out of
90
In Judge Advocate Generals Office. 7
out of q.
In Secretary of Wars Office, Is out of
no.
In Adjutant Generals office, IS out of
32S
In Commissary Generals office. 16 out
of So.
In Surgeon Generals office, 40 out OF
1884,
The souths pro rata part of all these
would have been 295 whereas she is ac-
corded with 1a-about one-half her share.
We find the same swindling processes in
operation here also. Out of It's persons
charged to the South in the offices of the
Adjutant General the Comissary Cen
eral, and the Surgeon General, Al were
born North.
There are So Generals on the retired
| list living in elegance and comfortable
ease on half pay-only one of them from
the South.
There are 40 Rear Admirals also retired
in sumptuous ease-O from the South.
In view of the recent swing of the Pres
ident and the sweet and tender senti-
ments he expressed, it is well to look into
another branch of the service, but ] have
found accurate data hard to get. The
question that most interests US is, IL we
yield to the siren, break up our own par
| ty and fall in with the party of grab,
win we get anything out of it? Is the
President going to give any good thing
South? Nay, verify! The President has
appointed many commissions for various
purposes and it is the very rarest thing
to find Southern man among them. The
South had
IN ti,s f.rst Philippine Commission, 0
out of g..
In the Isthmian Canal Commission,
| out of 10.
In tn eofficdals of the Paris Commits
sion, 0.
In the Joint High Commission, 1 out
of 6.
one sinister fact appears: Whenever a
Southern man is named 1t is usually done
for the purpose of seducing him. He is
picked from a disgruntled faction, and it
is done to foment strife and make 1T ap-
pear that deserters will be awarded. LOOK
| over in South Carolina this minute. The
| history of such appointments Is OFTEN
| fraught with shame, and it is so intended.
Who for one moment imagines that the
hi adv
amend any of these abuses and inequah-
ties? Is there any other possible hope for
| reformation and for justice to the south
| except through her own officials Inc
man who imagines 1t deceives himself.
There is something vital and true in
the expression, 'the cohesive power OF
nuhlic plunder." outside of that mean
ing which is held reprehensible. There
| are rewards and honors and emoluments'
| and digntties and opportunities, besides
the thunder to which honorable men may
asnire and which are worthy of ambitious
| effort They are the allurements ana en-
| Elements that spur men to reach hlsner'
the laurel wreaths of ambition, ana they
have much to do with the success ana
advancement of those who seek these
| mathis to glory and greatness. The with
| drowal of these enticements operates IN
| sone degree to repress effort and to dwarf
| Genius WHY qualify themselves as states
mon ~ they are never to use such knowl-
| edge? .
II Is exceedingly discounaging TO young
men of high aspirations, particularly anu
n hos gotten down to the point wnere
some are surrendering, and the most SIN
ister designs are even now In process OF
anpllcation that threaten to undermine
the Democratic party. BY steadily WIN
holding her just proportion OF patron
age. and bestowing 1t all upon more Ia
vored sections. II is made to appear that
the Republican party Is the sole owner
and dispenser OF all such things ana
whenever a Southern Democrat can be
found who will lend himself TO 1t they
| give him something and send him out TO
! nreach the doctrine of submission. The
most alluring offers and enticements are
now being held out by the administra-
ton to Democrats South to forsake their
! party. The washington Star, the adj
ministration organ, has been singing
siren songs. prodigal in promises, and
rich in most opulent predictions OF com
merciaI prosperity at the South If IL VIII
only disorganize itself and give the Re
publican party perpetual lease. 1t is eX-
ceedingly enticing, and looks rich and
beautiful. and promising. Democrats are
growing sore with waiting for party sue
cess with a Northern man leading them
and they are longing to get In the swim