The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-21
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 The Brookayn<Eagi can nearly al- ways bs depended on to take . fair view of southsrn afEairs and can just as certainly bs relied on to express itsslf fescfbiy. plainly and interesting iy. In recent article on The South. and Rspubitsanism There" 1t shows the folly of any Republican aspirant for the Presidency depending on sOuthern help. adding.
 John sherman. when Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. re- cewed more Southern support than any other Presidential asplrant but had have been nominated. The convention would not allow the Carpet Baggers and the scalawags to name . candidate
 In this there was justice. Under Reconstruction. the Republican party outlawed character, dispensed with fairnsss. narn degraded d:csncy; e,systsd ig- covered s M the sns fact sarf of Srissndsss % % TSs 1a fHs not soSa ss ns be s mase s gp legislation and by the bayonet. though Hepublicanism long made. such an eff Civilization came out right end up. the foundations of security and of in- enea and the south came shn into % control S Sf her natural iesders since then. ,,. nn- in Republican National Conventions, but their presence has been blight, Qllnnnrf has haan ranr0qcA and their existence has been due to.-tiie pernic- ious activity of Federal officers foist ed on the people from Washington.
 If the South was first the victim of Republica nism under Reconstruction, 1t has become the Nemesis of every Republican aspirant for the Presidency it's delegates in lis favor. This Is as it should be.
 The Eagle is certainly well posted
 regarding the conditions which exist ed down here something like forty years ago. and what the Southern peo- pie endured at a period when even the horrors of the then recent war were swallowed up by the more hideous hor- TOTS of reconstruction. That period passed forever, but it cannot be for gotten by those who passed through tr and endured r.
 And yet. as The Eagle well knows, there are yet many persons in the North who blame tho fscuthern peo- pie for remembering these things and for not taking kindly to Republican ism.
 There are many good men and cit- izens down here who are Republicans. The Carpet Baggers and Scalawags" are practically beings rof the past. and if there are any among us who could be so denominated they no longer have influence or power in the direction of our affairs. For all that the Southern men cannot forge, that the Republ- can party was responsible for Recon struction and all that it meant. all that it accomplished and all that 1t tried to accomplish. We have no longer the same bitterness of feeling toward the Republicans of the North that we once felt, but we have no desire Go turn our part of the Union over to them.
 There is yet to be found in the North an occasional Republican Bour- ben who appears to have learned noth- ing and forgotten nothing; men of the Keller brand, who are still anxious to impose some sort of punishment on the South and it's people. Speaking of them and their efforts, The New York Sun, in one of its siucid moments, said;
 NO one expects that the South will be punished for it's disfranchisement of the negro. The folly of Reconstruction that put the ballot into the hands Of untrained ex-slaVes .s recognized more and more generally as years pass"
 The Sun goes a bit too fnr when it says that no ono expects the South to be punished for shutting out the ig. norant negro vote. There are still a few Refers and Crumpackers who would be glad to punish and humiliate us, but they'll never succeed. That is one consoling fact to rememper.