The progress., 1904-12-03
LET the SOUTH RL0NE
says THE NEWS,
TIE LEADING. PAPERS or
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
|fRsDIcrs THAT pREslDENr aoosE--
BELT WILL BE oF GOOD rERxs. !.

A most encouraging feature o
the aftermath Of the presidential
election is the demand Of many oi
leading Republican and independ
ent newspapers that there shall bs
no agitation Of the race question OF
hostile legislation against the South
by the next Congress. These pa.
pers have reason to believe that the
ISolid South xill dissolye If . wise
and concillatory policy is pursued
by the dominant party during the
next four years. They contend
that there are many Republican
principles that are popular in the
ESopth. In several Of the States
where manufactures have developed
the protection sentiment is strong,
and this sentiment if left to itself is
bonnd to tell ip the long
run. Senator Fairbanks' newspa-
per, the Indianapolis News, remarks
that there is only one thing
that keeps the South solid politically
and that is the race question. and
It adds: -
eff the South is made to realize
that it has nothing whatever to fear
from the Republican party there le
certain to be a gradual weakening
of the opposition of the Southern
people to 1t. Of that there can be
no doubt. On the tariff question
itself there is likely to be great
SHIFT. We look to see the protec'
tlonist principle lose support in the
North, and win greater support in
the South. For Northern induss
tries are old and fully established,
and many of them 6nd protection q
restraint rather than a stimulus.
The contrary is true in the South
which is just beginning to develop
its manufacturing interests. For
our part We hope that the South will
break up, for that would be good
thing for. the nation. and for both
the great parties. The Demcrstic
party would cease to be dependent
on the combination OF Tammany
Hall with the solid South. Men
would be protectionists or free trad
ers, expansionists Or anti>expans,on.
lists, not because they lived IN a cer>
tain section, but because they bs-
lieve in certain doctrines."
The Kansas City Journal, one of
the most stalwart Republican papers
in the Southwest, sees that the ap.
pointment Of negroes to federal
positions is offensive and harrasslng
to the South, and is outspoken in
It's opposition to such q policy be.
canse it does more harm than good,
not only to the black race itself, but
10 the whole country and It declares
that it would be better that there be
no negro officeholders in q few
States than that an important sec.
ton of the country should always
remain politically aloof from the
other section. ssIt would be the
part Of WISDOM" says the Journal,
sto show some consideration for
the racial prejudices of the whites,
and il would unauestionably be wise
to give the Southern negroes to un-
that their salvation and
development depend upon study aud
honest work ard that politics and
oficeholding are of secondary inn
portance to these considerations"
The Brooklyn Eagle say . most
hopeful sign in the desire of Pred.
dent Roosevelt to he on good terms
with the South, and 1t expresses the
hope that under the influence Of hieS
overwhelming election be win Se
able TO call off Grosvenon Crum-
packer and other Wild men Who wiB
w, the next Congrsss, 10 raise
the negro suffrage against the South