Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-10
pawnina LIGHT in the South.


cent election was the disposition of thu
South to get back into the Union and
become d factor in national affairs once
more. The solid South is not broker
up, and may not be for several cleo
tions, but it is cracked in several pla-
ces and the fractures are decidedly tc
it's credit and advantage. When Mis-
souri, was carried by Roosevelt, the
Democrats said it was as solidly Dem
ocratic as ever and that Bryan would
carry it overwhelmingly. Yet Taft has
carried it by good margin and the
Republican candidates for state office
by an even larger one. The Republicans
also gain several members of Con-
gress in Missouri.
In the South, excluding the border
states of Missouri, Maryland, West
Virginia and Kentucky, there are now
only three Republican congressman,
two from Tennessee and one from Vir-
Is
be six. two from Tennessee. one from
Virginia and three from North Caro-
lima. In many of the states of that
section, notably North Carolina, Ala
bama and Georgia the Republican vote
was much Increased and many counties
and towns were carried by the Repub-
licans for the first time. We think of
Virginia as pretty solidly Democratic,
yet Bryan carried it last week, by only
1000 votes, majority less than half
the Republican majority here in Maine
though the total vote in Virginia is
twice as large. After every presiden-
tial election for many years it has been
predicted that the South the next time
would no.ionaliZe itself-was not Ion
ger to be frightened by the nightmare
of an impossible negro domination, and
would signalize it's recovered indepen-
dence, would break it's traditional par
ty allegiance This rainbow has been
painted for many Republican chairmen
but SO far they have resisted it's lure
perhaps some time, but not yet"-this
has been their SOLDERING conclusion
Now 1t is no less a person than Clark
Howell. editor of the Atlanta Consttu-
ton and member for Georgia of the
Democratic national committee, who
says "In Tuesdays election the south
ern states began the writing of their
national history of independence. The
result means that the time has passed
when a resident of one of these states
must buy his social security, often
ut the cost of his political
Many business men, the
south over, most of them adherents
of the Democracy all their lives cared
to support openly and hopefully the
of the Republican party be-
cause their convictions led them that
way"
The New South inclines to protec-
ton. Concerning the rights of prop
crty it is more conservative than many
northern states, and thus has no SYM
pathy With Organism. 1t was con-
splcuous!y cXpansionist when Bryan
was seeking to make the oceans our
national borders again. On every con-
spicuous national issue it is out of ac-
cord with the party for which it reg
ularly votes. Has the time at last
come when the logic of these facts is
to prevail over old memories and I'M
reasonable present fears? If it is.
new deal in American politics is upon
us. and we shall have set up a new
buiwark for the safeguarding of stabiI-
ity. Organism would never have dared
show its head except for the fact that
it counted on Il solid block of electoral
votes for reasons that have nothing to
do with Organism. The nationaliza-
aion of the south will mean much to
the south 1t will mean even more to
the nation