The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-11

tiuicu tdStAOuaA appOlutIueutS. Alpo hS AanAC
speech In which, although the appointments
aforesaid had been deliberately made for the pur
pose of disclosing the sympathy OF the admin
istratien, he made the roundly accusing state
ment that it would be better for Republican sue
cess were all Federal Offices in the South filled
with Democrats. Now, with the hope still alive
in his breast, he has just interviewed in another
factional fight in that State to force the election
of Congressman Morehead as State Chairman,
in the hope, presumably, of respectable" party
which shall ride to victory on the reputation of
its chair1nan's name and an alliance with the
liquor forces an aid to the important matter
of securing the "sinews of war;. 1t matters not
that the North Carolina situation is complicated
by the fact that Marion Butler, who has made
profession of a treachery which has included all
parties and every political associate is the power
behind the respectable Morehead nor did it mat
ter in 1906 that the disreputable Adams was the
figure head of this same treacherous Butler, who
now gives him the knife President Taft has
made reputation for being easy which is
vastly broadened by the facility with which But
Ter, acting through Morehead, induced him to
'fal for" the ever-dangling and never plucked
ambition of smashing the soldid South.
It must be conceded that Republican hopes in
Tennessee are more firmly grounded than they
are in North Carolina. Pettersonlsm IN that
State has made Democratic success in the Fall
elections seemingly almost impossible. Tennessee
Republicans are Fastening to Beverly for a con-
ference Yet it will be interesting to note that
whereas the fight in North Carolina is to be
waged upon platform of liquor, in Tennessee
the Republican pose is in aid of the perpetuation
and enforcement of the States prohibition law
The law itself was passed by legislative ma
jority composed of anti-Patterson Democrats and
Republicans. Now the lure is that anti-Patter-
Democrats shall as a return support a Re
publican ticket.
However this may be-and Tennessee politics
are SO badly mixed that no man can tell the
head of the situation from its tail-the contrast
in attitude shows clearly the value of Republican
ideals respecting the South. Attacked hip and
thigh in the middle West on the run, with the
Insurgent element swapping at its heels, the Re-
publican party is adding desperation TO its long
hopes of the South 1t will be noted that all
Southern Republicans are regular. That Is
the one chief desideratum. In order TO win in
North Carolina, the administration lends itself
to propaganda of liquor; p order to wan in
Tennessee, it pitches its hopes upon hypocriti-
cal support for political purposes of the desire
for moral reform. In North Carolina, the folly
of the endorsement by Mr.. Taft of Butler,
through the medium of Morehead, denies the
hope with certainty absolute; in Tennessee, what
ever may be the resentment of the people against
the Patterson method, it is not without the proba
bilities that, even before next Fall, it will oc-
cur to Democrats that they have within them
selves the power to control themselves, and the
power to purge the party of its internal dis
tempers without adopting the ruin of a surrender
to Jesuitical party seeking power at the price
of the pelf of office.