The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-03-21
SOMEWHAT SIGNIFICANT.

inosents mou Madison County il
.sp tSp Mississippi Legislature, has
asuubieved sub success In what he rightly
asnards aSr as zone of the most i'm.
aortant .e and far-reaching questions
p0v before the Southern people. "
y nVH i important, not only to the
soutb. but to the North, as the
srst step, and long step, toward
the M Mconsummation Of a great and
vholesome change in notional
rolitics Mr.. McAllister's reso-
iuton. calling for an industrial
and political alliance between the
South and the East, has been
/ adopted by the Mississippi legis-
lature by an almost unanimous
vote, In other words, the Demo-
cracy Of Mississippi, as represented
BY the legislature, cuts itself loose
from Bryanism and reaches out a
friendly hand to Democrats in
..the enemy's country" The
friends of Mr.. Bryan made a
strong effort to prevent the passage
Of the resoluti n, but the tide set
against them with resistless force.
Who is this McAllister who has
50 suddenly become an object of
/ national interest by reason of
having successfully led the move
ment to break the solidlty of the
South in it's adherence to Bryan
and the Populistic Wests He
gives his own political genealogy
and the evolution OF his scheme i'll
recent interview in the jackson
Evening News. He was born un-
der the influences of Calhounism,
he says, aud there was very little
in bis early training to predispose
him to Eastern ideas, policies, or
sympathies. In 1892 he went to
New York at the instance of the
late Mississippi Senators, George
and Walthall and Senator Arthur
P. German, of Maryland, to serve
the Democratic National Committee
in the Presidential campaign Of
that year. This brought Mr.. Nc
Allister into contact and associa-
ton with the leading men of the
North and East and gave him the,
opportunity to study those
economic policies which have /,
enabled those sections to achieve /
an accumulation of wealth which, !
he says, must stand the marvel
and wonder of all time. He be-
came convinced that policies which
accomplish so much for sections
less favored by nature than the
South, if given the same applica-
ton TO that section, would produce
results upon much vaster scale.
There it was, he says, that he con-
ceived the idea that the future, So
,lal and political destiny of the
South lies in alligning herself with
the North and East, and he mod
,stly submits that all reasonings
confirm this view.
That interview was printed a
week or two before the McAllister
'esolution was adopted. Presum-
'oly it had been read by the legls-
ators. In voting for alliance with
ne East, therefore, they must
lave voted for the economic poll
les that have enriched "the enc
ny's country"
1t appears to be not only break
ng away from Organism, but
qually departure from the econo-
nc policies which have generally
btained in the solid South. They
ave seen what that policy has
one, not only for the North, but
'r their political brethren in
'toulslana, the sugar producers
nom the free traders call "Re-
ubllcan-Democrats. ALI things
'nsldered, this Mississippi in
aent is the most significant po-
tical event of recent occurrence.
ne passage of the McAllister reso-
Iuon, as interpreted by its author,
cans more in the line of party
'ilucs than all that has been said
40 done by Democrats in Con-