Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-14
SOLID SOUTH AND SOLID NORTH.

SOLID SOUTH AND
 SOLID NORTH.
 Not since the south became the solid scuth has it's soIidity been the subject ot so msch discussion ana comment ss at the present time. Whether 1t is becs4se of Mir. Taft's announcement of his great desire to break up the close amendment of the southern states, whether il be made more acute for his now sojourning in Atlanta and his expected visits throughout the various southern states. or whether ic is but an in. sistently recurring echo of the cam paign. it is difficult to say. The cause Of the agitation at this particular time is not readily determined. but the fact remains that in the eyes of many republicans the. solidity of the south is a matter of as gTievous as rect as the difHcuities of tarin revis- ion.
 In the current issue Of the North American Review Mir. Hannis Taylor discusses the matter in this wise:
 ".rhe solid soutb has ceased 10 be of any value to anybody. The time has arrived when the duIlest and most bigoted mind must perceive that DO liticaI readjustment and realignnent are for the south an imperious neces- sity The soIidity of the south. sec tional lines. is calamity to the us- ton as a whole. because it prevents ! the reincorporation or a section, once in revolt, in such g way as to wipe out the last vestige Of the civil war The solidity of the south. on sectional lines. is a calamity to the south her Sobs uAotf DStdu1F f- AAdheS po4-AANdl success on that basis impossible; sec ond. because 1t keeps her in the atti. tude of a conquerei province, so far as the eligibility of her leading states men for Che supreme offices is con cerned; third, because it dwarfs her political genius through abnormal con ditions that prevent that kind of com petition out Of which her great men arose in the past While the south stiI has many very able men at Wasbington, the comment in general that the one-psrty system is thinning their ranks every years"
 To this the Fort Worth Record says:
 "And that is aboqt in line with the greater part Of Whet is said and writ ten concerning the soIidity of the south. MT. Taylor says that the time has arrived when the duilest and most bigoted mind must perceive that polit- ical readjustment end realignment are for the south an imperative ne cessity.' and that uthern solidity is a calamity to the nation as whole and a calamity to the south herself
 ~One marTels at the narrowness of such a viewpoint h the frs. place. l for the moment diT .ussing the aIlega- tion of Mr. Taylor that the south is stin in revolt, and leaving out of the question why the soGth is solid. one is brought to ask of Mir. Taylor and all critics of bIs I1nd the pertinent question, as to whether Texas or Miss issIppi or the Caroiinas or any other of the southern statss is any more sol | idly democratic thaa Pennsylvania or Maine are soIidly republican? If so- Iidity as solidity Is Erong in principle and effect, why shoulJ all these nber- ators of the nation turn their atten- ton scuthward ansI cave northern states in the derths of their awful benigbted and calamitous condition?
 ssNow. for the matter of the souths { soIidity being based upon recoileetions of the late var. Or eing for such req sons as prevent the south being rel