Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-02

o.,frgSQ - J'ii ~S- 49,
= me Of tie terms OF the eN-eoh-
n, psn. ,to states restoration to repre-
Pu''1 -. il #ar].talass and forced negro
mirage. .,.o.. ao,,1;t;..n.
! epppbIeaas controlled several OF
J Dc ~ ~ Confederate states. In 1856
AF ,a-9 Grant carried away many q
pDa . Have wen several Of them IN
w. w. The conditions were abnormal
. lo ''~ .rsr IS 1876 Republican power
sors l't tss few southern states which the
.ty held vas dependent on tae TED
did wlzfr.T Was given to the Re
4 8, ,lioon stat governments by the use
=. +bo arm Wren TIE work Of r.
ling tfs=4eay rom the South was
! mnlete3 6y Hayes soon after he
. .s+ared o.f.ee n 1871 the Republican
.o+o governments became supreme
rbon beginning with Garfeld's elec-
.oo in 1880. the South became solidly
"A~> nonocratic in presidential years and
,lso in mos 0f The state elections un
81 i,vt before the presidential canvass
Of 1896. For time, it is true, the
ponuhlicans polled large vote III
most Of the Southern states and eX
WI nocted 10 regain control of some OF
w them. bit this hope was vain.
The Whole Of the eX-slaFe
statps fell into the control OF
the Democrats and the Repub-
lican party became practically
:. although not literally, almost as much
WIN of sectione.. organization as it was
in 1856 and 1860. 1t retained. indeed,
"' in the South many more votes than
hd it had al the time of Lincoln first
hing election, bit the electoral vote or
ID !, every one Of the states of that section
~; was far Out Of its reach
Then, before the close of Mr.
Cleveland's second term, came the be-
- ginning of swing in the Republican
'' direction in the South. For several
reasons-the panic of 1893, which last.
''J ed for several years the factlonal
fight among the Democrats on silver;
the diseord in that party in the fight
hcs between the House and the Senate.
Il both of which were Democratic, on the
-, tariff act of 1894, and the opposition
Day,
work in hauling down the flag in Haw-
ali in 1993-Weakened the Democrats
all over the country. In the congress
na sonal elections of 1894 the Republi.
cans Won many seats in the South and
carried Delaware for governor. The
M Republicans won Maryland and Ken
s, lucky for governor in 1895. They car
rled Delaware, Maryland, West Vlr-
: gnia and Kentucky for president in
1896, and held all those states in 1900,
except Kentucky. The revival of the
negro issue recently has changed the
j situation in some of the southern
states, to the disadvantage Of the Re
publlcans, and will destroy, for the
ume at any rate, such hopes as any
Republicans may have had for further
gains by their party below the Poto
mac and the Ohio. The Republican
detection IN Louisiana and some of the
other gulf states makes no practical
difference in that tier of states, be-
cause the Republican vote, even in
l9Vo, was small in all of them, but it
portenE drift which may possibly
take Maryland away from the Repub-
means III 1904. It's election in 1903, in
winch Senator Germans future as a
presidential possibility is involved, will
teil the story of that states probable
dnghinent next year. In any case, for
lew m2re years at least, the pendu-
lanl III 5he South is likely to swing
aSay I'm The Republican party
CHARLES NJ. HARVEY.